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FEATURE: Support for VICTIMS of Cyclone Nargis

New Media Fix - 5 hours 35 min ago
22,464 Dead(official); 100,000 Dead(estimated); 41,054 Missing (official);1 million Homeless (estimated) We are NICA - Networking & Initiatives for Culture & the Arts - an independent, artist-run and not-for-profit resource development and cultural organisation, the first to work inside Burma (Myanmar) since 2003, with a history of researching and networking inside Burma dating back to [...]
Categories: Zines

Open Ear in Cardiff - Final Call for Works, deadline Friday 16/05/08

New Media Fix - 5 hours 52 min ago
:: Open Ear :: Open Ear (http://openear.wordpress.com/) is a loose collaborative group formed in 2006 by Paul Adams, Garrett Lynch and Matt Wright with the purpose of creating audio-visual art and organising live events within club, gallery, open air or site-specific venues. :: Open Ear - Cardiff 13/06/08, open call for works :: On June 13th 2008, Open [...]
Categories: Zines

Oslo Screen Festival - Call for entries

New Media Fix - 5 hours 59 min ago
http://www.screenfestival.no/ Oslo Screen Festival is an event organized in the year of Cultural Diversity 2008 in Norway. Screen focuses on innovative and experimental works within the field of video art, and this year encourages artists and filmmakers to approach the theme of alterity / identity in their works. Identity and alterity are usually defined in terms of [...]
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Logo_Wiki, who's that Wikipedia editor?

Neural Media Culture - Sat, 05/10/2008 - 17:23
The "Logo_Wiki" project by Wayne Clements catalogs some of the institutions (companies and government agencies) involved in editing Wikipedia pages in order to expose how these... Alessandro Ludovico http://www.neural.it
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NTC0804B 0015 Norwegicana

Marius Watz at Flickr - Sat, 05/10/2008 - 17:19

watz posted a photo:

Culture shock: I came across these by accident in NYC, not sure if they're "authentic" Norwegian artifacts or reproductions Made in the USA. I know that the rosemaling decorative technique is popular among American Norwegians, so I'm tempted to think they might be remakes.

The dragon cup looks a bit strange, but the rose painted bowl looks like the real deal. In any case it's strange to see objects with such traditional implications in a context you wouldn't expect to find them, i.e. in Williamsburg, New York...

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NTC0804B 0027 Norwegicana

Marius Watz at Flickr - Sat, 05/10/2008 - 17:16

watz posted a photo:

Culture shock: I came across these by accident in NYC, not sure if they're "authentic" Norwegian artifacts or reproductions Made in the USA. I know that the rosemaling decorative technique is popular among American Norwegians, so I'm tempted to think they might be remakes.

The dragon cup looks a bit strange, but the rose painted bowl looks like the real deal. In any case it's strange to see objects with such traditional implications in a context you wouldn't expect to find them, i.e. in Williamsburg, New York...

Categories: Images

NTC0804B 0023 Norwegicana

Marius Watz at Flickr - Sat, 05/10/2008 - 17:14

watz posted a photo:

Culture shock: I came across these by accident in NYC, not sure if they're "authentic" Norwegian artifacts or reproductions Made in the USA. I know that the rosemaling decorative technique is popular among American Norwegians, so I'm tempted to think they might be remakes.

The dragon cup looks a bit strange, but the rose painted bowl looks like the real deal. In any case it's strange to see objects with such traditional implications in a context you wouldn't expect to find them, i.e. in Williamsburg, New York...

Categories: Images

NTC0804B 0007 Norwegicana

Marius Watz at Flickr - Sat, 05/10/2008 - 17:12

watz posted a photo:

Culture shock: I came across these by accident in NYC, not sure if they're "authentic" Norwegian artifacts or reproductions Made in the USA. I know that the rosemaling decorative technique is popular among American Norwegians, so I'm tempted to think they might be remakes.

The dragon cup looks a bit strange, but the rose painted bowl looks like the real deal. In any case it's strange to see objects with such traditional implications in a context you wouldn't expect to find them, i.e. in Williamsburg, New York...

Categories: Images

NTC0804B 0010 Norwegicana

Marius Watz at Flickr - Sat, 05/10/2008 - 17:10

watz posted a photo:

Culture shock: I came across these by accident in NYC, not sure if they're "authentic" Norwegian artifacts or reproductions Made in the USA. I know that the rosemaling decorative technique is popular among American Norwegians, so I'm tempted to think they might be remakes.

The dragon cup looks a bit strange, but the rose painted bowl looks like the real deal. In any case it's strange to see objects with such traditional implications in a context you wouldn't expect to find them, i.e. in Williamsburg, New York...

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links for 2008-05-10

Neural Media Culture - Sat, 05/10/2008 - 14:30
cre.ations.net - Creation: Tap Tap Revolution: the fast-tapping iPhone music game Dance Dance Revolution for fingers and iPhone. (tags: mobile music media videogame) DVICE: Go Amish with the Hand-Crank USB Power Charger Charging with muscles activity instead of electricity.... Alessandro Ludovico http://www.neural.it
Categories: Zines

A special kind of nerd

Keimform - Fri, 05/09/2008 - 23:12

Sorry Leute, dass ich still war die letzten Monate, der Kampf geht weiter, ich bin weiterhin dabei!

Categories: Tech Pol

Still Busy

Rob Myers - Fri, 05/09/2008 - 21:06

I’m still working on various projects, notably Like That and an artworld social network data visualisation project that may be called “Information”. And I may have some good news regarding my criticism and design work as well soon.

I’ll post when I have something to show…

Categories: Blogs

When Travesty Becomes Form

Mute Magazine - Fri, 05/09/2008 - 17:10
ByAlberto Duman

The problem with critiques of curatorship is that they usually end up reinforcing the central importance of the curator. Alberto Duman contemplates a recent addition to the field and suggests ways to break the cycle of self-affirmation

Categories: Zines

*My [public] space* at the Netherlands Media Art Institute

New Media Fix - Fri, 05/09/2008 - 16:15
May 24 – June 21, 2008 opening May 23, 5:00 p.m. Netherlands Media Art Institute Aram Bartholl, Hasan Elahi, Martijn Engelbregt, Kota Ezawa, Dora García, Susan Härtig, Jill Magid, Eva and Franco Mattes a.k.a. **0100101110101101.ORG**, Eduardo Navas, Guy Ben-Ner, Marisa Olson The exhibition ‘My [public] space’ is a follow-up to the exhibition ‘Territorial Phantom’. In the previous exhibition the [...]
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International Touring Exhibition: A New Vernacular Terrain

New Media Fix - Fri, 05/09/2008 - 16:07
VT2 is the title of a new exhibition that presents vibrant, innovative screen-based and photo-media works from international and Indigenous Australian new-media artists, building on 2007’s Vernacular Terrain exhibition. For the first time a group of Aboriginal New Media Artists are included in the annual tour of International Digital Arts courtesy of Artist / Curator Jenny [...]
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Citizens Banned?

Mute Magazine - Fri, 05/09/2008 - 12:07
ByAnthony Iles and Josephine Berry Slater

Is a rabble run media becoming a possibility? And are artists in the vanguard or blocking the way? The AV media arts festival in the North-East of England last month suggested the ambivalence of artistic interventions into state and corporate broadcasting. Report by Anthony Iles and Josephine Berry Slater

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Drupal Austria Meetup May

Drupal Group Austria - Fri, 05/09/2008 - 01:23

Main topic: Drupal for beginners

Presentations:
-- Drupalcon Szeged (Drupalcon Organizors)
-- Theming in Drupal 5 and 6 or Installation Profiles (Drupalcon Organizors)
-- Practical example FILMTIKI.com
-- Maybe one more...

Location: WerkzeugH. -> http://www.werkzeugh.at/blog/where/

Presentations will start at 18:00.
Afterwards drinking some beer and socializing.

Many thx to Manfred from WerkzeugH for hosting us and to the Drupalcon Szeged guys for coming to Vienna!

The purpose of the meeting is to convince people/companies that have been thinking about adopting Drupal but never made the step that this is the moment to join Drupal and come to Szeged Drupalcon.

Please click on "Sign Up" if you are attending!

Austria
Categories: Drupal

Grid Distortion 03 [lo]- Laser cut

Marius Watz at Flickr - Thu, 05/08/2008 - 20:18

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Grid Distortion 02 [lo] - Laser cut

Marius Watz at Flickr - Thu, 05/08/2008 - 20:18

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