Matt Barton

pretentieloze gekte van Matt Barton

This is the first part of the extreme animalz movie. It is made with animated gifs collected from the Internet and it is about animals going nuts. In the real world there is a wall of road kill, stuffed, and plastic animals collected from thrift stores, the streets and the trash, also going nuts.

Extreme Animalz: the Movie, Part 1, 2005
Time-O-Rama: Electric Infinity with Real Plastic, 2006

Seesaw II, 2005

(Q-time: some clips take 30-60 seconds)

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77 years of déja vu

77 years of déja vu - Lichter Péter (06:30) link

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Gair Dunlop

the tomorrows project
This form of the unconventional also greets the viewer in the architectural online space of Gair Dunlop and Dan Norton's, tomorrow's project, where the seemingly disparate words: machine, decay, cyborg, processing and grotesquery, seductively work together to tempt the viewer into play.

Console: it's about control
The concept of the "Industrial Sublime"- of seeing mighty forces at work in the workplace- is receding from the memory of the present day.We're creating a meta-fable of industrial process using humour, reminiscence, and satire, as well as imagery made in real places in dialogue.This is not in any sense documentary. It's an exploration of a modern sensory environment to re-engage the imagination with what it means to structure the world as process, and to apply to human flow and process the technologies of industrial control.

Gair Dunlop

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akinci : not just

Athanasios Argianas, Braid series I 2006 (detail)

GALERIE AKINCI
not just
April 28 - June 30 2007

Athanasios Argianas, Hadassah Emmerich, Elke Krystufek, Esther Tielemans

Press Release (excerpt)
I am thinking about Harald Szeeman’s much talked-about exhibition of 1983, “Der Hang zum Gesamtkunstwerk”. In this exhibition, he recounted utopian concepts in Europe from 1800 onward. From his preliminary research for this exhibition, it became apparent that many artists do not restrict themselves to a single medium but use a variety of disciplines to achieve a total effect and feeling.

The exhibition not just in Galerie Akinci records a similar type of desire on the part of four young artists. Athanasios Argianas (b. 1976, Athens), Hadassah Emmerich (b. 1974, Heerlen), Elke Krystufek (b. 1970, Vienna) and Esther Tielemans (b. 1976, Helmond) display paintings that cannot be viewed in isolation but have to be seen in relation to objects, murals, music and design. None of these painters restrict themselves to painting alone. They drive beyond the boundaries of painting and thereby bring new dimensions to this medium. The Greek artist Athanasios Argianas see his paintings, executed on paper and canvas, as inseparably connected to his objects, poems and music. Elke Krystufek is also a painter who draws her inspiration from sources such as her performances, her written work and her films. Recently, she has also been designing clothing and furniture.

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25 april,1953: Watson & Crick publish DNA structure

protein synthesis dance (09:21)
orgineel met uitleg: youtube
Directed in 1971 by Robert Alan Weiss
Narrated by Paul Berg, 1980 Nobel prize for Chemistry

men schijnt deze hippieshit (pleit mezelf niet vrij) nog steeds te gebruiken in het onderwijs in kauwgumland.

A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid
J. D. Watson and F. H. C. Crick
This unassuming one-page paper, published in Nature exactly 54 years ago, revolutionized the biological sciences.

wikipedia DNA
wikipedia RNA
via neurophilosophy

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van de schoonheid en de troost

The best place to piss away your time on the Internet

rondstruinen in het pisbakken archief, je kan de penetrante geur van sommige troostschalen bijna proeven!!

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Ruth Gwily

Israeli illustrator and comics-creator Ruth Gwily has a wonderfully understated style with just the right hint of discomfort and creepiness to it.
Drawn! blog

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Metrofarm

The Wall
This downsized version of the Berlin Wall is cast out of steelreinforced concrete - just like the original.

It is delivered in a custom-made cardboard box and can be ordered directly from Metrofarm.

It's dimensions are:
Height 16cm, depth 11cm, width 10cm,weight 550g

The Wall is now being sold at The Guggenheim MuseumsShop and at the shop Berlinomat in Berlin.

Metrofarm

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Cosmolitan Chicken Project

Nav. een bezoek aan de tentoonstelling Genesis in het CM, onder begeleiding van mijn 2 zaailingen ;=D, hier nog maar eens een post over het Cosmolitan Chicken Project (met tevreden kakelende kippetjes) van Koen Vanmechelen.

The Cosmopolitan Chicken raakt aan vele actuele maatschappelijke issues: genetische manipulatie, klonen, globalisatie, en multiculturaliteit. The Cosmopolitan Project is een gedurfd en vernieuwend antwoord op één van de meest basale, menselijke vragen: wat is onze identiteit, als individu en als soort? Tegelijk is het een dwingend pleidooi om uit de kooi te breken die ons als individu en soort omklemt en om de barrières te slechten tussen het ik en het andere. De kunstenaar is er van overtuigd dat het ei, als wereld en laboratorium, iets ongelooflijks in zich draagt voor de toekomst. Vandaar zijn samenwerking met onder andere biologen, fertiliteitspecialisten, architecten, filosofen en genetici. Ook wetenschap en technologie stellen met onder andere onderzoek naar genetische manipulatie en kloneren, vragen bij de menselijke identiteit.
Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam 2003

Ikon:Alziend oog (stream dutch) - The Cosmolitan Chicken Project. (wait while loading)
Centraal Museum: Kamervragen Partij voor de Dieren 'Kosmopolitische kippen'

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Ronald Dagonnier

Ronald Dagonnier : Athènes-Istanbul

confronte sur un même écran les images de deux villes, ... alle » Athènes et Istanbul, l’une chrétienne, l’autre musulmane, interrogeant ainsi l’évolution historique et politique d’une région. Une manière de retranscrire les relations, entre tension et proximité, d’une zone géographique

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tricycles

the tricycles of beijing.
a collection of photographs by mac kane

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Atelier Bow-Wow

Founded 15 years ago, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto’s and Momoyo Kaijima’s architectural office Atelier Bow-Wow coined the term of Pet Architecture with utmost pragmatism: in a guidebook they showed buildings that examine the borders of how much you can make out of all those narrow spaces in Tokyo in a very playful way.

PingMag interview : Atelier Bow-Wow - architectural pragmatism

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electroland - urban spectacle

Electroland creates experimental projects that celebrate public space through image culture, spectacle, technology and architecture.

Target Interactive Breezeway

Big Time

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Subodh Gupta

Gupta works in a wide range of mediums from sculpture and painting to installation, photography, video and performance.He elevates the status of found objects from everyday items of rural India to artworks - cow dung, milk buckets, kitchen utensils, scooters, guns and gulal powder.

BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art

guardian unlimited :The Damien Hirst of Delhi

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I was a teenage intellectual

I was a teenage intellectual (16:20) link

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raqs media collective

Location(n) (flash mov.) configures eights clocks, seven computer terminals and a video projection to offer the visitor a meditation on simultaneity, time and emotion.

Raqs Media Collective "There has Been a Change of Plan" (04:58)
link

Some of more interesting art today isn't likely to end up in
museums, because it doesn't act like art, at least as the market
persists in defining the term. It isn't crateable and saleable. It
isn't by the singular artist-artisan. It doesn't have a style or a
''look.'' Instead, it is often collaborative and
multidisciplinary. Its beauty lies, as old-style Conceptualism's
did, in information and ideas that are also metaphors, but also in
a pleasure in technology that may be a generational development.

Raqs Media Collective, based in New Delhi, makes art like this.
The collective's core members -- Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula and
Shuddhabrata Sengupta -- work simultaneously in several media,
including photography, film, publishing and the Internet. Their
projects involve collaborations with many other artists, as well
as with contributors for whom the term artist is restrictive or
irrelevant

New York Times, December 10, 2004

ART IN REVIEW By HOLLAND COTTER

more:
the architecture of rumor / rumor of architecture

and
www.sarai.net

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windows in & out

Soft Machine - I Should Have Known (05:33) link


Peter Greenaway's Windows (1974)(03:34) link

Robert Wyatt
(on 1 June 1973, during a drunken party, Wyatt jumped from a third floor window)
Peter Greenaway

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Chiharu Shiota

The young Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota deals generously with her dreams. Her installations and performances lead into sleep, night and the self-forgetfulness of the dreaming body. Far from Japan, her loss of orientation and her fear of losing the personal and individual have become the leitmotifs of her art. From them arise theatrical images inviting viewers' participation.

Chiharu Shiota

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