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Pecha Kucha Night Lisbon #6

A PechaKucha Night Lisbon vol. 6 está a ganhar a forma e já tem local e dia para acontecer. A Fundação EDP / Museu da Electricidade volta a acolher-nos no dia 13 de Maio. A organização central da PechaKucha, sediada em Tokio, tem estado imparável e já tem online um blog onde é possível acompanhar as pequenas histórias, as grandes apresentações, os cartazes e outras curiosidades das 177 cidades que já aderiram à febre das 20 imagens x 20 segundos. Entretanto o período de recepção de propostas para a próxima edição da PKN Lisbon terminará dia 27 de Março. Quem estiver interessado é só clicar AQUI para saber mais.

Depois do DIY, o SIY.

Do It Yourself, Design It Yourself, Science It Yourself.

"Culture your mother is dedicated to providing the public with an alternative approach to practicing science. together we will explore the possibilities of diyScience. will will abandon the petree dish and white jacket in attempts to develop a new set of tools for citizen scientists.
this site serves to document our experiments, the processes we develop, and the tools we create.


We begin our exploration, now, looking to the past for inspiration for the future. wild yeast has been cultured for ages to assist in bread-making (yeast makes the bread rise). the culture created is often referred to the sourdough mother and is often named after the location in which they are cultured. for example, a sourdough mother cultured in san-fransico would be called the "san-fransico sourdough"

A Can For All Seasons

Alejandro Diaz
A Can For All Seasons

mixed media sculpture in four parts
June 29 - September 29, 2005
Grand Concourse, Bronx
Photo courtesy the artist
An Installation of Four Sculptures on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx

Um trabalho de 2005 que ainda me parece muito bom.

"Alejandro Diaz's A Can for All Seasons, a light-hearted take on public sculpture, celebrates the overlap between art and everyday life. Inspired by the practice in rural households of growing plants in empty grocery-store cans, he has created four sculptural reproductions of brand-name canned goods, each representing a different type of food that is indigenous to Mexico: corn, chiles, chocolate, and tomatoes. Enlarging them to the size of outdoor street planters, Diaz affectionately observes and celebrates the practice of "making do," of using something on hand to create an aesthetic object. By transforming a small, private act of home improvement into a public gesture, he also plays off of the tradition of social sculpture, with its emphasis on using art to reconsider the world we live in.

An artist of incisive and good-natured wit, Diaz works with equal awareness of, and affinity for, contemporary culture's modernist highs and its campy lows. Yet he is less interested in specific notions of "high" or "low" than he is in observing and fueling the fluidity between the two. In his paintings, sculptures and performance pieces, Diaz often refers to American art's greatest hits. He is inspired not so much by the masterpieces themselves but by their populist proliferation through postcards, knickknacks, and other inexpensive souvenirs, as seen in his edible artwork AMOR , a black-and-white cookie based on Robert Indiana's iconic LOVE painting, or in his glitter replica of Jackson Pollock's Number 32 ."

(in the Public Art Fund, NY)

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Next-Door Neighbor

Series de mini-documentários sobre vizinhos em NY. Séries reais de histórias do vizinho do lado (literalmente) em forma de BD. Os autores são a minha querida Nicole Kenney (sempre cheia de ideias, é impressionante) e o Dean Haspiel. Fiquei com vontade de fazer um 'franchising da ideia' (dito assim soa absolutamente arrepiante) para a nossa velha Europa. Mas com filme. Alguém?

'For better, and more often for worse, we all live next to someone. And we all have a Next-Door Neighbor story. With this in mind, I asked some of my favorite storytellers and cartoonists to tell their favorite NDN stories, presented here at SMITH Magazine. New installments appear every other Monday. Enjoy!

— Dean Haspiel, NDN Editor

Techno Tuesday

O Andy Rementer e as suas terças-feiras. Não consigo não rir de cada vez que vejo uma das vinhetas dele. Há pelo menos quatro anos, quando nos cruzámos em Treviso, que faz estes comentários e tem sempre algo de novo para dizer. Retratos urbanos, tecnológicos. Retratos de cada um de nós numa sociedade 'global' que Marshall McLuhan chamou de aldeia nos anos 60/70.

“I don’t think the Earth needs me at all. But I do need it”.

Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time.

Filme documentário, dirigido por Thomas Riedelsheimer, sobre o trabalho site-specific de Goldsworthy. Um olhar sobre 'modificação' em vez de 'criação'.

Mind Architecture

Pode um só homem construir um mundo? Sim.

Na verdade, nesta grande explosão tecnológica que vivemos, será cada vez mais fácil.

Mas a tecnologia, só por si, chega? Não.

A imaginação, a curiosidade, a criatividade e o talento fazem a diferença.

Que o diga Leonardo DaVinci.

São tantos os mundos que conseguimos construir com a nossa mente é só uma questão de querer. É só uma questão de romper com o pré-estabelecido. É só uma questão de sonhar.

Arquitectos, engenheiros, artistas. Podemos ser tudo.

Será que o Renascimento renasceu?

World Builder from Bruce Branit on Vimeo.

100 metros de existência

Esta imagem tem 100 metros de comprimento (por 78 de altura). Estão 178 pessoas na fotografia, todas fotografadas ao longo de 20 dias, sempre no mesmo lugar - na ponte de caminhos-de-ferro da estação Warschauer Starsse - em Berlim, durante oVerão de 2007.
O resultado final está aqui.

Vem aí o carro IKEA

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Já nao era sem tempo.

Já nao era sem tempo que alguém se lembrava de fazer a ligacao entre arte e publicidade. Afinal, estamos todos a querer comunicar em espaco publico. Projecto interessante, no Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, em Berlim.

"An interdisciplinary exhibition with works from the n.b.k. collections Artothek and Video-Forum as well as young artists.

In 1969, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) was founded as an initiative of Berlin residents from Deutsche Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst. The exhibition and outreach project "Kunst und Öffentlichkeit: 40 Jahre Neuer Berliner Kunstverein" (Art and Publicity: 40 Years n.b.k.) does not intend to take a nostalgic look across the past four decades, but rather seeks to show perspectives of art outreach in today's art world and beyond that emerge from redefining the relationship between art and the public.

The result is an urban cartography linking the history of n.b.k. with artistic and cultural developments in both the divided and reunited city. Issues will include the founding of the association, the emergence of the two collections Artothek and Video-Forum, as well as select exhibitions such as "Skulpturenboulevard" (1987). Works from the collections and by students at UdK Berlin will also be on view in this exhibition, complemented by an audio-archive with testimony from eyewitnesses from the period. The exhibition architecture picks up the issue of the archive, and places an "art barricade" in the midst of the exhibition space, an allusion to the political tumult of the institution's founding years. In this mise en scène, the visitors will become part of n.b.k., and thus are confronted with questions that are linked to such an institution today: the meaning of art for society, citizen participation, as well as the activation of publicity."

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Revival [2]

Celebrate Originality, e eu diria mesmo, celebrate people! Um dos anúncios mais caros de sempre, que contou com a participação de DAVID BECKHAM, RUSSELL SIMMONS, YOUNG JEEZY, KATY PERRY, ESTELLE, TAYE DIGGS, MISSY ELLIOT, RUN DMC, THE GAME... e mais uns quantos. Grande música também.