Postopolis, Day 2
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffImage by Storefront for Art and Architecture Back to my posting about Postopolis, the amazing 5-day blogathon of discussions, interviews and panel talks themed around landscape and the built environment and brought to us, lucky bloggers, by ...
Staff Picks: Green Patriot Posters
Monday, April 6th, 2009 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffIn response to the environmental crises we are facing today, our art-centric allies at The Canary Project recently asked artists to design powerful imagery that could rekindle our collaborative, innovative spirits -- much like what the ...
Staff Picks: Green Patriot Posters
Monday, April 6th, 2009 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffIn response to the environmental crises we are facing today, our art-centric allies at The Canary Project recently asked artists to design powerful imagery that could rekindle our collaborative, innovative spirits -- much like what the ...
Postopolis, Day 1
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffThe first day of Postopolis is over. It went way better than i expected (and expectations were high.) We are on the rooftop of The Standard hotel which means looking at each other with a smug ...
Temporal : The Art of Stephan Doitschinoff
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffThe Scion Space teamed up with Choque Cultural Gallery to set up São Paulo, an exhibition that celebrates the emerging art culture in the Brazilian city. The artists invited are Calma, Carlos Dias, MZK, Ramon Martins, Silvana ...
Temporal : The Art of Stephan Doitschinoff
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffThe Scion Space teamed up with Choque Cultural Gallery to set up São Paulo, an exhibition that celebrates the emerging art culture in the Brazilian city. The artists invited are Calma, Carlos Dias, MZK, Ramon Martins, Silvana ...
“The really important kind of freedom involves attention…”
Friday, March 20th, 2009 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffDavid Foster Wallace left behind this beautiful passage from a commencement speech: Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And an outstanding reason for choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to ...
Best In Show: Solar Clothing
Thursday, March 19th, 2009 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffLast week, researchers at solar firm Konarka Technologies said they'd made a breakthrough in the move to incorporate solar power into clothing. Their finding was a new, more efficient type of photovoltaic wire that could one ...
How to Save the World in 10 Days at Vooruit in Gent
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffPhoto credit Reinout Hiel for Vooruit Setting up an exhibition about today's ecological and economical crisis is a delicate exercise: it seems that everybody has done one such exhibition before you and invited the same artists as ...
How to Save the World in 10 Days at Vooruit in Gent
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffPhoto credit Reinout Hiel for Vooruit Setting up an exhibition about today's ecological and economical crisis is a delicate exercise: it seems that everybody has done one such exhibition before you and invited the same artists as ...
Interview With Jay Yan
Monday, March 16th, 2009 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffI am born chinese, raised american, and now because chinese art is so hot, chinese once more. That's the bio, the very concise bio of Jay Yan. iwanttogoutwithyou.com, 2007 A couple of years ago, Jiacong "jay" Yan completed ...
Interview With Jay Yan
Monday, March 16th, 2009 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffI am born chinese, raised american, and now because chinese art is so hot, chinese once more. That's the bio, the very concise bio of Jay Yan. iwanttogoutwithyou.com, 2007 A couple of years ago, Jiacong "jay" Yan completed ...
Crisálidas, Mental Landscapes in Transformation
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffCrisálidas (Chrysalises), an installation on view until April 6 at LABoral in Gijon (Spain), is a luminous collage of moving images processed from mass media, re-interpreted into an intuitive and sketchy drawing on acetate, and furthermore ...
Crisálidas, Mental Landscapes in Transformation
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffCrisálidas (Chrysalises), an installation on view until April 6 at LABoral in Gijon (Spain), is a luminous collage of moving images processed from mass media, re-interpreted into an intuitive and sketchy drawing on acetate, and furthermore ...
Hip-hop and electoral politics: Democracy in Dakar
Monday, March 9th, 2009 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffMy friends at Nomadic Wax just sent me their brilliant new documentary, Democracy in Dakar. I’m a huge admirer of the compilations of African hiphop the label’s been putting out - African Underground: Hip-Hop Senegal has ...
Hip-hop and electoral politics: Democracy in Dakar
Monday, March 9th, 2009 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffMy friends at Nomadic Wax just sent me their brilliant new documentary, Democracy in Dakar. I’m a huge admirer of the compilations of African hiphop the label’s been putting out - African Underground: Hip-Hop Senegal has ...
Ik R.I.P. Asks ‘What Will Happen to Your Digital Remains’ at Mediamatic Amsterdam
Friday, March 6th, 2009 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffLast weekend, I had the chance to check out the current exhibition called Ik R.I.P. at Mediamatic Amsterdam, which has recently relocated to a very central spot in a former bank on Vijzelstraat, escalators and all. ...
Transmediale 09 – Survival And Utopia
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffThe 2009 edition of Transmediale has been by very far the gloomiest i've ever lived. Nothing to do with the quality of the programme, the works selected for the exhibition or anything that could be blamed ...
The Golden Institute for Energy
Monday, February 23rd, 2009 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffIt's been a bumpy 2 weeks period of non-stop trips and commitments, my reports of several of the events i've attended recently are somewhat chaotic and delayed. Apologies for that. Back to the work in progress ...
Watch This Video: Flooded McDonald’s
Wednesday, February 11th, 2009 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffThe South London Gallery in London is currently showing a brilliant video by Danish collective Superflex. Damn! did i have to walk to find that gallery! (thanks Gunnar for pointing me in the right direction.) Little ...