Entries Tagged 'Out there' ↓

artifacial

is a PhD project in Holland “fighting for freedom of facial expression“.

making it easier: automatism

Search the very austere IAAA (the Institute of Artificial Art Amsterdam). Their goal is the “complete automatization of art production”. Hmmm.

P.A.N.D.O.R.A.

Heard of Pandora? Australia’s Virtual Archive? Librarians love acronyms. Transit Lane is now being archived as we go… Here’s what they say:

The National Library of Australia aims to build a comprehensive collection of Australian publications to ensure that Australians have access to their documentary heritage now and in the future.  The Library has traditionally collected items in print, but it is also committed to preserving electronic publications of lasting research or cultural value. PANDORA, Australia’s Web Archive, was set up by the Library in 1996 to enable the archiving and provision of long-term access to online Australian publications.   Since then we have been identifying online publications and archiving those that we consider have national significance.

Side by Side Gallery hosts photographic works by Refugia Guzmán Pérez

Side by Side Gallery (curated by Maya Havilland) is proud to present the online exhibition “From the Rural Community to the City- The Chol ethnic group in Chiapas, Mexico” -photographic works by Refugia Guzmán Pérez, a Ch’ol photographer from the Chiapas Photography Project (CPP) and the Archivo Fotográfico Indígena (AFI) – Chiapas, Mexico.

Read an introduction to the exhibition by CPP/AFI founder and director Carlota Duarte below, and visit Side by Side Gallery – Refugia Guzmán Pérez to view the online exhibition (or follow links to Project Galleries on the Side By Side blog).

how was the world supposed to be

under communism? Go to Robert Bonnett’s blog to see this review of an exhibition of visions of the future from behind the Iron Curtain.

sitting on secrets

mel_chair_668Here’s a work Now they are again no secret, 2009, from the Art & Language (Michael Baldwin and Mel Ramsden) latest show at Lisson Gallery. The late Charles Harrison speaks about the back-to-the-wall “ghostly devotee” who inhabits these “chairs”… Read the press release (if you wish) on ArtDaily… The specific origins of such “secrecy” is to be found here and here

Gladwell, Afghanistan, abstraction

“My interest was really the experience of the soldier as a thinking and feeling subject. I’m interested in how bodies move through space and the capacity of bodies to perform in certain situations. Particularly how it relates to landscape. These are issues I’m always interested in. That informed the way I was dealing with that experience in Afghanistan.” Read the full story in The Art Newspaper, and…

Relax! (it’s all you can do)

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see the story about this Frank Lloyd Wright suite on ArtDaily, and drool…

over the moon

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Jan Hogan, PhD, in relaxation mode… Congratulations!

glass meets LED

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