May 2013
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“We rose up slowly as if we didn’t belong to the outside world any longer…...”
– We Rose Up Slowly, Roy Lichtenstein
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“Our clearest motivations are to seek pleasure and avoid pain. However, daily...”
– The Bad Days Will End, Spectacular Times
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KARBORN
“KARBORN – A prototype young artist of the future-technoid, paradisiacal, neuromantic – an integration of intelligence and an instinctive engagement with visual arts, music, film and machines – informed by his vision of the clarity, beauty and geometry of the real world.”
KARBORN is enigmatic, born of kar; he creates works of astonishing clarity and mystery that draw you into...
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“If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be...”
– Charles Bukowski
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Does The Kindle Spell The End for Books?
Is this the end for books as we know it? Since 2007, when the Amazon Kindle tumbled out into the global market with its first electronic e-book cry, this sort of cyber hearsay has been both muttered and boldly declared as fact by dystopian doomsayers. (Because everyone knows that everything we read on the Internet is true.)
Hark! The apocalyptic D-day for our most archaic form of literary...
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Blueblood
They say blood is thicker than water, as they drown me as a martyr in the shallows of the sea with hands so soft and tenderly. I’m so far from our motherland, scattered by the wind and sand across strange floors and through still plains, still, they sigh the same refrain: Why, they ask, did you have to leave me alone with the belief that one day you would journey back upon the beaten water...
April 2013
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“Mirror is the surface par excellence of late modernism. Its paradoxes confound...”
– Jumping Through the Mirror, Ann Stephen
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“Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.”
– George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
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“It is not modernity that is dead, but its idealistic and teleological version....”
– Relational Aesthetics, Nicolas Bourriaud
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March 2013
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“The love of Western classical music is the mark of China’s burgeoning...”
– Ellen Pearlman, More Radical in China
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Rafaël Rozendaal
Who is Rafaël Rozendaal? A cyber wizard of contemporary times, singing HTML, CSS, javascript, flash and code to his bidding to create new dimensions of possibility? A game designer? An artist? A troll? Perhaps he embodies all and none of these things. Stumbling upon his virtual work was like walking into a thousand different dimensions. Like a metaphysical fish hook, his works are irresistibly...
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Under Old Earth
Livius: They have a god.
The Lord Sto Odin: A god? What do you call a god?
Livius: A person or an idea capable of starting wholly new cultural patterns in motion.
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Cloud Atlas
The Wachowski siblings have been incredibly ambitious in their cinematic vision of what is an unprecedentedly ambitious novel. Rather than being a so-called costumed mishmash of different stories, I was impressed with the film’s visual ability to interweave the different characters in their suggestive reincarnations through simultaneously altered and familiar appearances, and the suggestion...
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WatchHelped Marina create her film performance in Final Cut Pro and we stumbled upon the mirror filter which looked incredibly interesting.
February 2013
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tumblr-art and the nu-consciousness
Hypergeography - a virtual overlapping of geographies by Joe Hamilton, a virtual tumblr-specific experience that creates a “hypergeography” in a holographic hyperreality. It explores the space and the connectivity between manmade and natural environments and their amalgamation in the melting pot of virtual culture as an infinite scrolling loop of what appears to be one seamless...
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Tell Me About Your Mother's Tumblr →
An image or a link can be used anywhere on the web. The idea of ownership is antithetical to the internet. In fact, sharing images is one of the more interesting aspects of the internet. There has been a discussion about the whole notion of gatekeepers and aesthetic filters that has put the high-art curators in an odd position. They have insisted that they (and by extension, the whole art...
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WatchBeyond the Surface, 2010. Egor Kraft: The video is a visual metaphor of existential freedom, predominance of essence over existence, and conditionality of boundaries it also has a sculptural dimension related to the evolution of form. The space as a black absolute presented as an allegory of authentic freedom as well as the narrative links to the discourse of how the consciousness and existence...
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interesting kickstarter projects
Apart from pledging for the 3Doodler, I’ve discovered some interesting works that were funded by Kickstarter.
Put a Dark Man on Your Wall
Bob Jansen, who is “an experimental artist who uses chaos mathematics to conjure mysterious and beautiful abstract art.”
Jung, after collecting thousands of dreams and myths from all over the world, became convinced that there was a...
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“Thus transparency explodes into a thousand pieces, which are like the shattered...”
– Jean Baudrillard, The Ecstasy of Communication
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MAGIC & DIRT
Magic & Dirt first year offsite exhibition at the Old Police Station on Friday the 22nd of February. It was beautifically boppin’, magical and dirty.
Saskia Little (saskialittle.tumblr.com) / Mustafa Choudhry / Teresa Byrne / Joey Phinn / Ruby Law (lawofart.tumblr.com) [[MORE]]
Laura Traynor (lauratraynor.tumblr.com)
Ruby Law / Joey Phinn
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The Sublime Seduction of the Subject
“We have always lived off the splendour of the subject and the poverty of the object. It is the subject that makes history, it’s the subject that totalises the world. […] But everything is inverted if one passes on to the thought of seduction. There, it’s no longer the subject which desires, it’s the object which seduces. Everything comes from the object and...
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“The artificial purification of all milieus, atmospheres, and environments will...”
– The Ecstasy of Communication, Jean Baudrillard 