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Green Revolution

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments Off

Haarlem was a city I associated so far with OTT Dutch cuteness and with the novel The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas. Haarlem is just a 20 minute train ride from Amsterdam. I was there a couple ...

Green Revolution

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments Off

Haarlem was a city I associated so far with OTT Dutch cuteness and with the novel The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas. Haarlem is just a 20 minute train ride from Amsterdam. I was there a couple ...

Why Do People Desire Walls?

Monday, June 22nd, 2009 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments Off

The Ceuta-Morocco border fence (image) Wanted to share with you a couple of links that have deeply interested and distressed me today and yesterday. The first one is a lecture that Wendy Brown, a professor of political ...

Why Do People Desire Walls?

Monday, June 22nd, 2009 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments Off

The Ceuta-Morocco border fence (image) Wanted to share with you a couple of links that have deeply interested and distressed me today and yesterday. The first one is a lecture that Wendy Brown, a professor of political ...

Day 1 at the VivoArts School for Transgenic Aesthetics: Seed broadcasting workshop

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments Off

VASTAL, VivoArts School for Transgenic Aesthetics Ltd., is a temporary research and education institute that Adam Zaretsky has created in Amsterdam following an invitation by the Waag Society. Zaretsky, currently artist in residency at Waag, will ...

AUTO. SUEÑO Y MATERIA – Cars And Landscapes

Friday, May 22nd, 2009 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments Off

Panos Kokkinias, Gas Station, 2003 AUTO. SUEÑO Y MATERIA [AUTO. DREAM AND MATERIAL], the new exhibition at Laboral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial analyzes contemporary car culture through the lens of some 100 artworks. Lovely ...

AUTO. SUEÑO Y MATERIA – Artificial traffic jam in the mountains

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments Off

I've stopped counting the number of emails i received about my latest flickr set titled AUTO. SUEÑO Y MATERIA [AUTO. DREAM AND MATERIAL] . Yes, my friends, it's an exhibition about cars. It's quite spectacular, it's ...

Positions In Flux: On The Changing Role Of The Artist And Institution In The Networked Society (Intro)

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments Off

The Netherlands Media Art Institute has re-located part of its brain power to Trouw Amsterdam for the symposium Positions in flux: On the changing role of the artist and institution in the networked society. The symposium ...

Positions in Flux – Panel 1: Art goes politics – Wafaa Bilal

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments Off

Previous post on this panel: Positions in Flux - Panel 1: Art goes politics - Hans Bernhard from UBERMORGEN.COM Geert Lovink, smart and fast as ever, has already blogged the whole panel, so make your way ...

A Visit To UCLA Department Of Design | Media Arts, Part 2

Friday, May 8th, 2009 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments Off

In case you forgot that something like 5 months ago i posted the first part of this story, here's a link to it: A visit to UCLA Department of Design | Media Arts, part 1. The department ...

In Williamsburg

Monday, May 4th, 2009 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments Off

Yesterday i've determinedly coughed my way to Brooklyn and been rewarded by two fantastic exhibitions. The first one, and probably the most photogenic, is Casual Conversations in Brooklyn at Black & White Project Space. The work, created ...

A Visit To UCLA Department Of Design | Media Arts, Part 1

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments Off

While i was in Los Angeles easier this month, i had the opportunity to visit the UCLA Department of Design | Media Arts and chat with some of the students. The department educates responsible designers and ...

KIOSK. Artifacts of a Post-Digital Age

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments Off

(image malicy) One year after the Brussels' exhibition Holy Fire. Art of the Digital Age, Yves Bernard from iMAL and Domenico Quaranta curate a show that, once again, puts a magnifying lens on new media art ...

Tag Ties & Affective Spies, a Critical Approach on the Social Media of our Times

Thursday, April 16th, 2009 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments Off

It might come as a surprise to some of you but it's not everyday that a major contemporary art institution in Europe dedicates some space and energy to look into one of the most prominent characteristics ...

Design that Educates

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments Off

Graphic design students in Los Angeles are working to bring beauty to PSAs asking residents to choose native plants. According to the CalArts Design campaign, "No Green in Los Angeles," more than 60 percent of urban ...

Design that Educates

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments Off

Graphic design students in Los Angeles are working to bring beauty to PSAs asking residents to choose native plants. According to the CalArts Design campaign, "No Green in Los Angeles," more than 60 percent of urban ...

Postopolis Day 5

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments Off

Postopolis Day 5 was the day i realized once more that many people in the audience should have been on the programme too. It was the day i fell in love with stripped trousers and the ...

Postopolis Day 5

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments Off

Postopolis Day 5 was the day i realized once more that many people in the audience should have been on the programme too. It was the day i fell in love with stripped trousers and the ...

Postopolis, Ball-Nogues Studio

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments Off

From Day 3 of Postopolis, the 5-day blogathon of presentations, interviews and panel talks about landscape and the built environment that ended last Saturday, i'm going to write only about the talk of Benjamin Ball from ...

Postopolis, Ball-Nogues Studio

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments Off

From Day 3 of Postopolis, the 5-day blogathon of presentations, interviews and panel talks about landscape and the built environment that ended last Saturday, i'm going to write only about the talk of Benjamin Ball from ...