art: Adad Hannah. Recast and Reshoot

2007-08-30 until 2007-10-06
Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University
Montreal, QC, CA Canada

October 6, 2007, the Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery presents Adad Hannah. Recast and Reshoot. as part of the 10th edition of Le Mois de la Photo a Montreal: Replaying Narrative, under the direction of Marie Fraser. Starting with Adad Hannah's most recent piece, Burghers of Seoul, this exhibition brings together works by this artist that take as their point of departure narrative models or conventions stemming from the history of art. The idea of replaying and reconsidering conventions in order to recast them began with Museum Stills. Filmed in various museums, these videos form a series of tableaux vivants in which immobile "actors" re-contextualize painterly scenes or behaviours induced by the conventions of the image or the museum context.


This line of study would continue with Burghers of Seoul, which gives us a video reconstruction of Auguste Rodin's The Burghers of Calais (1884-1895). In the Museum Stills series, the camera remained still while the characters held their poses; with this later piece, however, Hannah filmed immobile bodies by making use of the moving image. In a continuous dolly shot, the camera moved around Rodin's sculpture, capturing through its movement the six male bodies sculpted in stone. As the title indicates, the famous sculpture was thereby recast in a series of redistributions of roles and shots, with an initial reconstruction involving performances by motorcycle couriers in Seoul, South Korea. In this way, Hannah filmed something immobile so that it could be perceived in terms of movement. Rodin's sculpture thereby became the point of departure for a narrative and temporal exploration that extended its potential for interpretation. This reconstruction of Rodin's The Burghers of Calais re-actualizes the Modernist myth of the separation of the arts of time and space, and reintroduces the problem of narration posed by modernism. Marie Fraser, Curator

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art: Fragments of Fleeting Thought: Andrea Maguire

2007-08-29 until 2007-09-22
Red Head Gallery
Toronto, ON, CA Canada

In Maguire’s most recent works called Fragments of Fleeting Thought, she explores the nature of images and how they convey meaning. The images she uses are juxtaposed in ritualized, Zen-like compositions to evoke new contexts out of which provoking new dialogues may arise. Andrea Maguire lives and works in Toronto where she has both taught and holds an active studio practice. She has exhibited extensively in both Canada and Internationally including exhibitions in New York, Chicago and Dublin. In 2004 she was invited to Japan to exhibit her installation, Time, Space, Thought, and another installation, In the Presence of Absence was exhibited at the Toronto Art Expo.


She received her MFA from Norwich University and her work is included in the collections of Ernst & Young, Dieckmann & Assoc. (Chicago), Magna International, Nesbitt-Burns and Ontario Hydro. A recent solo exhibition called Between Creation and Chaos was held at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery at the University of Toronto.

Located in downtown Toronto, The Red Head Gallery has been presenting challenging contemporary visual art for over seventeen years.

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art: Call for Artists: Grants for Researchers in Residence

2007-08-30 until 2007-09-30
Daniel Langlois Foundation
Montreal, QC, CA Canada

The deadline for submission of research proposals for the Grants for Researchers in Residence Program is September 30, 2007. The two research components include: CR+D documentary collections and archival fonds and Information architecture and online publishing. As in previous years, the Daniel Langlois Foundation will award two research grants for 2008. The proposals selected will allow researchers to work at the Foundation's Centre for Research and Documentation (CR+D).


An online application form is available on our Web site and must be used by all individuals wishing to apply for this program : http://www.fondation-langlois.org/flash/e/index.php?Lstsrv=200708&NumPage=121

To view the list of researchers supported by the Foundation : http://www.fondation-langlois.org/flash/e/index.php?Lstsrv=200708&NumPage=148

Research Residencies at OBORO: Deadline September 30, 2007

The project proposal submission deadline for Research and Experimentation Residencies in Montreal for Professional Artists from Emerging Countries or Regions is September 30, 2007.

The Daniel Langlois Foundation offers this program in collaboration with OBORO, an artist-run centre in Montreal. Two residency grants will be offered to professional artists from emerging countries. These grants aim to help the successful applicants in their research, experiments and project development, while allowing them to work in a different environment than their region or country of origin.

An online application form is available on our Web site and must be used by all individuals wishing to apply for this program: http://www.fondation-langlois.org/flash/e/index.php?Lstsrv=200708&NumPage=516

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art: Deimantas Narkevicius: The Role of A Lifetime

2007-08-29 until 2007-10-21
Index - Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation
Stockholm, SE

Documentary film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt, in one fashion or another, to "document" reality. Documentary aspects has had an obvious centre of attention within contemporary art besides that it has become important for the way we interpret our surrounding world. During the summer and fall, Index shows Lithuanian artist Deimantas Narkevicius’ The Role of A Lifetime (2003), a film that both broadens and challenges the concept of the documentary. The film intertwine three distinctively different elements: the artist’s interview with British filmmaker Peter Watkins, resident and working in Lithuania since several years: drawings of landscapes in Gruto Park, the place where a lot of post-war socialistic sculpture in Lithuania resides; and films by an amateur filmmaker depicting Brighton, Great Britain. The interview with Watkins joins recorded text with the visual documents that the drawings and films are representing. The Role of A Lifetime is a meta film, a film that, in the words of Andeas Gedin, avoids falling into the pitfalls of documentarism, and makes the viewer become part of the melancholic and matter-of-fact process that recreating the past always will imply.


Issues surrounding the document are recurrent in the works by Deimantas Narkevicius. He has consequently used the media of film to explore complex and personal stories against the background of the political changes that his home country has been exposed to during recent years. The Role of A Lifetime, 17 mins, was produced by Art and Sacred Places for Brighton Parish Church of S:t Peter, Brighton. The film has lately been screened in institutions such as Tate Modern, London, Secession, Vienna and Akademie der Künste, Berlin. Curator is Andreas Gedin, artist, critic and PHD student at Valand Art Academy, Gothenburg. In connection with the opening on 29 August, Deimantas Narkevicius visits Index and discuss his work with Andreas Gedin.

Peter Watkins is well know for his genre-breaking fictive documentary The War Game (1965). His first film, The Forgotten Faces, a fictive mise-en-scene of the Hungarian uprising in 1965, will be screened at Index together with Deimantas Narkevicius’ The Role of a Lifetime, and with a short introduction by Andreas Gedin (26 September, 6 pm).

Filmklubben screens Peter Watkins extensive film project La Commune (1999) with a closing seminar, chaired by Filmklubben (4 October 6–8 pm and 6 October, 12–6 pm).

art: The Subjunctive Mood: Recent work by Cecily Cheo

2007-08-30 until 2007-09-16
Sculpture Square Limited
Singapore, SG Singapore

The Subjunctive Mood: Recent work by Cecily Cheo runs from August 30 until September 16, 2007 at Sculpture Square in Singapore. Cecily Cheo states: "The New Oxford Dictionary of English provides the following neat definition: “The subjunctive is used to express situations which are hypothetical or not yet realized, and is typically used for what is imagined, hoped for, demanded or expected.” Cecily Cheo is a painter, writer and independent curator. Since the early 1980s, Cecily has taught art history and theory as well as studio practice in various art schools and universities in Australia. As a painter, she has exhibited her work in Australia, Singapore and China. She has also initiated and curated exhibitions which relate to issues in contemporary inter-cultural discourse. She co-authored with T.K. Sabapathy, the book Cheo Chai-Hiang: Thoughts and Processes. (Rethinking the Singapore River), published in 2000 by Singapore Art Museum and the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. She has lived and worked in Singapore since 2003. she is currently teaching at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University.


She continues: I first came to know of the subjective verb tense while living and working in Rome and learning the Italian language. I used to try comparing grammatical structures of Italian with those of English. This proved helpful except when I came to the subjunctive. As this tense has only a vestigial presence in English, there was no longer a point of reference that I could work from and I had great difficulty grasping the concept of the subjunctive – why it existed and how it might function.

"The experience of trying to grasp an abstraction, caught and held my imagination.

"Eventually I came to think that there must be something very special about language which has a grammatical structure devoted exclusively to all that is potential, hypothetical, not yet realized modes of thinking, feeling and being. A liminal space!

"The experience of living and working in Singapore informs this work. An intense and prolonged encounter with a culture very different from one's own is complex, unsettled and unsettling. On a daily basis one partakes in provisional transactions in which words, gestures, readings and intentions never quite fully connect with meanings.

“ 'The Subjunctive Mood' consists of 19 ‘paintings’ (for want of a better word), each measuring 92cm X 92cm approximately. The work makes use of stills from “The Night Porter’, a film written and directed by Liliana Cavani that was first shown in 1972. I use the phrase ‘make use of ’, as the paintings do not reference the film’s narrative. Rather, the film becomes more like imagined territory in which I have been wandering, thinking, playing and processing ideas/theoretical concerns/reflections/experiences that comprise my living-working-imaging life."


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Streets.to

Planning a visit to Canada's largest city? Look no further than Streets.to, Toronto's visual search engine, to set you up with a personal tour.

Taking you on a simulated 3-D city excursion, Streets.to is touted as "the world's first and only patent-pending virtual cityscape." It's purpose: to turn virtual into reality, giving you a comprehensive visual depiction of what one can expect in and around the Greater Toronto Area (aka GTA).

The site opens onto an animated illustration of the hustle and bustle of Yonge and Dundas, Toronto's busiest intersection. From here you can hail one of the city's infamous green and orange Beck cabs and drive to a host of restaurants, hotels, stores and attractions. Follow the arrows to enter each location and you're instantly morphed into the surroundings of your selected destination, complete with real-life photographs.

If you're entirely in the dark about what Toronto has to offer, there is an additional breakdown of categories including a Visitor Guide, Toronto Hospitality and What To Do Tonight, featuring a "What's Hot" section for an up to the minute guide to night life.

Streets.to has only been online for a couple of months so locality selection is somewhat limited, especially in the shopping department. The site is continually updated, so keep checking back for the latest in boutiques and restaurants. No word on whether other Canadian cities are scheduled to follow.

by Roseanna Roberts

music: mondomedeusah recommends - Tokyo Police Club

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21/09/07 : DIRTY PARTY (PARIS PARIS) + DJ TAKO (CBS)
19/10/07 : DIRTY PARTY (PARIS PARIS) + SIMON LEE (FAZE ACTION)


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music: Compost Records - Germany

soulsearching #514 with michael ruetten

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Google is preparing its own distribution of Linux

Google has confirmed it is working on a desktop linux project called Goobuntu, in a possible bid to take on Microsoft in its core business - desktop software.

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The Pirate Bay: Hollywood's Number One enemy

Operating under the sign of a Jolly Roger, The Pirate Bay website hopes to evoke a buccaneer spirit: swashbuckling swordsmen, or perhaps the pirate radio stations of the 1960s. But as the internet's number one destination for illegal downloads, it has raised the hackles of the entertainment industry and elevated its founders to the top of Hollywood's most wanted list.

With more than two million visitors every day, The Pirate Bay has become one of the sharpest thorns in the side of the media business. Its controversial success has caused havoc in the music, TV and film industries.

Current top downloads include The Bourne Ultimatum, Die Hard 4.0 and Knocked Up — all showing in British cinemas, but available to watch on a computer screen for those willing to take the risk.

The three-year campaign to bring down the website is almost an epic of Hollywood proportions, sprinkled with high-flying lawyers and accusations of political extremism. And yet, so far, the chase has failed to bring the pirates down.

Despite their high profile, however, the men behind The Pirate Bay are not part of an organised crime syndicate. Instead, they are an unlikely trio of Swedish computer geeks who began their war with the media from a small room in Stockholm.

The group, who spoke exclusively to the Guardian, live like students in the suburbs of Sweden's major cities. They wake late and work into the night. The closest thing they have to an official headquarters is a desk on the suburban outskirts of Malmo — and that is simply because it has a working fax machine.

But as the most hated men in Hollywood, they said they have become used to the attention. "We get legal threats every day, or we used to," said Peter Sunde, 28, one of the site's main workers. "But we don't have a problem with them — we're just a search engine."

Fredrik Neij, a 29-year-old IT consultant, has a more prosaic view: "It's nice to be noticed," he smiled.

Chief among those angered by The Pirate Bay's popularity is the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), which represents the US film studios. It is waging war against the site, which it claims is costing billions in lost sales.

John Malcolm, executive vice-president of the MPAA, has railed against the trio, accusing them of cashing in on illegal activity. "The bottom line is that the operators of The Pirate Bay, and others like them, are criminals who profit handsomely by facilitating the distribution of millions of copyrighted creative works," he said.

Mr Sunde insists the site does not profit its founders, and money raised from advertising is used to cover expenses. Instead, he says, the team make their money from a variety of side projects and day jobs.

Filesharing and illegal downloading has been a big issue for media companies since the late 1990s. But while pioneering services such as Napster and Kazaa were closed down by the courts, the campaign against The Pirate Bay has failed to make a breakthrough.

The crux of the defence is that The Pirate Bay operates like any internet search engine: it points to downloads, rather than hosting any illegal content itself. Under Swedish law this has so far made it immune to prosecution.

"I don't like the word untouchable, but we feel pretty safe," said Mr Sunde. He thinks that European enmity towards the Bush administration has bolstered support. "The US government is losing popularity every day in Europe, and people don't want to see us give in to them."

Their apparent invulnerability to prosecution has made them heroes of the internet piracy movement, but not everybody feels the same way.

"I certainly don't see them as romantic pirates: it's out and out theft," says John Kennedy, chief executive of the international music industry body IFPI. "It's pure, ruthless greed — or total naivety."

But the group's supporters around the world say they are vexed with what they see as the "corruption" of the media industry.

"This is already happening — you cannot stop it," says Magnus Eriksson of Piratbyran, the Swedish thinktank which helped start the website in 2003. "But the thing is that the people who download the most are also the ones who spend the most on buying media. Media companies already know that they have to change."

The pirates suspect the cam paign against them is gathering pace. Last year police raided the site and held Gottfried Svartholm, the third member of the group, for questioning. No charges resulted, but the site was offline for two days.

Lately critics have focused on potential political links, including one German failed attempt to link the organisation with far-right extremists.

More recently Swedish police said they were considering blocking the website because of a tip-off that some pages linked to images of child abuse. This, says Mr Sunde, was just an attempt to smear The Pirate Bay's reputation. "There were three files in question, but it turned out that none of them contained child porn," he said.

The group is adamant it is just a search engine, but Mr Kennedy rejects any analogy with traditional internet businesses. "When I sit down with Google they are prepared to talk about copyright issues," he says. "If I thought The Pirate Bay guys were doing something really new and clever, then we'd look at it — but there's no evidence of that."

Mr Sunde remains unmoved. He says piracy is a way of life on the internet. "I started off copying disks on my computer when I was eight or nine," he said. "You should never tell people where they can't go or what they can't do."

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Google's Newest Data Center [Pics]

Massive air-cooling systems rise above two data center buildings, which are so close to The Dalles' dam you can almost hear the water roar. An industrial-strength power grid connects the dam to Google's energy-sucking, heat-spewing Linux servers.

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PICTURE: Ultimate Geek Clock

You will understand quite instantly.

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Why 1/5 of Americans Can't Locate The U.S.

Miss Teen South Carolina educates us

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Hi-Res Pic of NYC from atop the GE Building

This is a really cool picture.....you can almost feel like you are really there...

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iPhone unlocked. AT&T loses iphone exclusivity!

t's high noon, Apple and AT&T -- we really hate to break it to you, but the jig is up. Last night the impossible was made possible: right in front of our very eyes we witnessed a full SIM unlock of our iPhone with a small piece of software. It's all over, guys.

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Hacker accesses a Nuclear plant as easy as opening a can of beans

The first time Scott Lunsford offered to hack into a nuclear power station, he was told it would be impossible. There was no way, the plant's owners claimed, that their critical components could be accessed from the Internet. Lunsford, a researcher for IBM's Internet Security Systems, found otherwise.

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The Woz on Green Design

The Woz thinks we can design our way out without having to give anything up

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Stanley Cup ring found in Gulf of Mexico

A treasure hunter searching in Florida waters came across a true Canadian find - a Stanley Cup ring marking the last time Toronto's Maple Leafs were able to clinch the hockey championship.

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Long Island scrapping ocean wind farm

Long Island's utility company intends to cancel plans to build a $700 million wind energy park in the Atlantic Ocean, a top official said. It is the second offshore wind project to be scrapped in recent months.

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music: TRICKSKI - Members Of The Trick

With their first couple of releases in 2005 TRICKSKI quickly won the respect of big names such as GILLES PETERSON, MARK PRITCHARD, CARL CRAIG, PETER KRUDER and of course JAZZANOVA.

After having released 8 successful 12“s in a row on the Member Of The Trick series, TRICKSKI prove their talent as A&R’s with this showcase featuring brandnew tracks and fresh edits. The compilation is packed with exclusive tracks and tunes, which are now available for the first time on CD. All the Members of the Trick so far are represented on the compilation.

One special highlight is the bonus track Journeyman by FORSS in its TRICKSKI remix - this marks the first remix YANNICK and DANIEL ever worked together on. Plus tracks by SOLOMUN, the FUTURE BEAT INVESTIGATORS, LEROY & DARNELL and SCHMUTZIG DE MUTZIG aka IRFANE from OUTLINES makes this a really fresh compilation.

Listening to the compilation, one can only hope that it won't be long until the second Members of the Trick series gets going.

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Susan Bijl's colorful tote bags

Rotterdam designer Susan Bijl's colorful tote bags make the trip to the supermarket or department store (or wherever) more eco-friendly and more fashionable.

Weighing in at less than thirty bucks, the rain-resistant nylon bags are available in assorted colors (some more nu-rave than others) and two sizes. Either one conveniently packs down to stow away inside of other bags for on-the-go use.

The 10.5x21.5" version's online at Fred Flare for $28.

And oh yeah, did we mention that the concept's Big in Japan?

H2g Travel Guides

We're digging the Hg2 series of travel books which take in Paris, London, Rome, Buenos Aires and Miami. The series comes in a half dust jacket (which apparently is meant to be removed once you've settled in to your vacation city), sitting over a Moleskin-like journal chock-full of insidery travel tips. It's fun and informal. A bit like the cities they cover. Hmmm. Now there's a slogan for the brand. The next book in the series, Hg2 New York, will be out this October.

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Heat Sensitive Puma kicks

It is made of heat sensitive material that changes color in different temperature and environment.

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mondomedeusah recommends: The World According To Jonesy - Radio Show #10

The World According To Jonesy - Radio Show #10
*THE WORLD ACCORDING TO JONESY

Online
Released: Aug 10, 2007

THE WORLD ACCORDING TO JONESY TRACK LISTING (RADIO SHOW #10)

1. I Remember You - Ponderosa Twins + One - 1971
2. I Could Use Some Loving - Gypsy Lane - 1978
3. I’m A Wonderful Thing, Baby - Kid Creole And The Coconuts - 1982
4. Free Me From My Freedom - Bonnie Pointer - 1978
5. Bad Company - Ullanda McCullough - 1981
6. Wanna Be Where You Are - Zulema - 1975
7. My Music - Bunny Sigler - 1976
8. Fodderstompf - PIL - 1978
9. Machinations - Lalo Schifrin - 1968
10. You Belong To Me - Carly Simon - 1978
11. Rain 2000 - Titanic - 1973
12. Free As The Morning Sun - Santana - 1979
13. Anicanao - Danny Rivera - 1973
14. Toot Ta Boot - Little Nepatiiz
15. Ain’t It Good Feeling Good - Eloise Laws-1977
16. Celestial Blues - Gary Bartz - 1970
17. He Gained The World - Angelo Bond - 1975
18. Live Is Life - Opus - 1984

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Gizmodo on the Moto Q9m: "Seriously, if you buy this phone, you are dumb."

What do you get when you combine Verizon's terrible custom interface with Windows Mobile 6? A phone you should stay the hell away from.

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DIY laser long-distant listening device

Laser Espionage Microphone (how-to) - video powered by Metacafe

No DIY espionage kit is complete without a long-distance listening device, and no DIY long-distance listening device is complete unless it uses a sweet laser in some form or fashion. If you agree with that statement, then you're in luck, because the following project will show how you can use a laser pointer to hear noises from hundreds of feet away (the distance will be relative to the strength of the laser).

As with any tutorial or project that has the potential to be used illegally, we should warn you only to use this new-found knowledge for good, not bad. We won't be held responsible if you get caught eavesdropping on your crazy old neighbor, and wind up being incarcerated for the rest of your life. There's a fine line between good spying (i.e. bird watching, neighborhood watch, etc.) and bad spying (*cough* patriot act *cough*), so please err on the side of caution here.


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Build your own long-distance listening device

... with a laser!

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Cool! Google Earth adds Sky

Now you can stargaze using Google's popular desktop mapping application Google Earth. In the latest version of Google Earth, hit the "Switch between Sky and Earth" button on the toolbar to get a map of the night sky from your current location.

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Pittsburgh blogger Justine Ezarik gets her first iPhone bill

Pittsburgh blogger Justine Ezarik gets her first iPhone bill -- all 300 pages of it, detailing thousands of text messages. Watch her uncut interview with WTAE-TV's Andrew Stockey.

Schedule AM/FM/Webcast Radio Recordings on your PC

SnapTune One is an ad-supported freeware time-shifting application that you can use to schedule web radio recordings -- and if you connect your computer's line-in port to an FM tuner or use a USB/PCI FM tuner, you can record FM channels as well (it also handles AM recording, but can't switch your tuner between AM and FM).

The app lets you view the playlist of any radio station worldwide and purchase any track that piques your curiosity, as well as accessing " information about each song, the albums that contain it, other albums by the same band, how popular it is on the radio, how new it is, whether it’s going up or down in popularity, and detailed reviews for the albums from Amazon.com." Other features let you see what stations are playing before you tune into them, and

SnapTune One (Windows XP only)

- wired

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Coolest Billiards Table Made from a Volkswagen Bus You'll See Today

This amazing pool table was brought to Detroit's Woodward Dream Cruise over the weekend, and it's a fully-functional setup built inside of a first-generation VW bus. It's unclear how many hippies go in for bar room games, but regardless, this is probably some of the coolest automotive furniture you'll ever see.

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SuprNova: The Legend Returns Today

The legendary BitTorrent site “SuprNova” will return today, courtesy of The Pirate Bay. Not surprisingly, the new and improved SuprNova has a special message to the copyright police: “You are the past and the forgotten, we are the Internet and the future”.

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Halo 3: How Microsoft Labs Invented a New Science of Play

Sitting in an office chair and frowning slightly, Randy Pagulayan peers through a one-way mirror. The scene on the other side looks like the game room in a typical suburban house: There's a large flat-panel TV hooked up to an Xbox 360, and a 34-year-old woman is sprawled in a comfy chair, blasting away at huge Sasquatchian aliens.

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NY Times Confirms $150M Pay-off to Paramount for HD DVD Support

The NY Times has confirmed via two Viacom executives, that Paramount has received a $150M pay-off to support HD DVD exclusively for a period of 18 months.

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Google launches embeddable map feature

Google has rolled out a new feature on its mapping service that will allow users to easily embed maps directly into web pages. The feature will operate in much the same way as the embedding feature for YouTube videos.

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Comcast Is Starting The Tiered Internet.. Whether We Like It or Not

I am not surprised that the major ISPs didn't try this sooner. In my opinion, this IS the tiered internet. I'm unsubscribing from Comcast today. This is just a ploy to show that the tiered internet can work. Let's make sure it doesn't!

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Twitter goes to the MTV Video Music Awards

Could this finally be what breaks Twitter out of the early-adopter geek set and into the population at large? The microblogging service has partnered with the inarguably mainstream MTV for its upcoming Video Music Awards.

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mondomedeusah recommends: Jazzmatazz Vol.4

Guru's Jazzmatazz Volume 4 The Hip Hop Jazz Messenger
Artist: Guru
format: CD
Released July 31, 2007
7 Grand Records

Guru is a walking testament to Hip-hop’s spirit, culture and timelessness and his journey in the music industry has been one long ride producing one classic recording after another. From his work with the legendary Gang Starr, to becoming one of the first artists to fuse Hip-hop and Jazz, Guru’s legacy and legend continues as he unleashes the fourth installment of his timeless Jazzmatazz series on his very own 7 Grand label, a venture with business partner & SuperProducer, Solar.

Jazzmatazz Volume 4 The Hip Hop Jazz Messenger: “Back To the Future” features "Stand Up (Some Things'll Never Change)” with guest Damian Marley, one of the joint's stand out tracks that helps to set the whole project ablaze. Always pushing the envelope, Jazzmatazz Vol. 4 is entirely produced by Solar and co-produced by Guru. Gushing over the recording sessions, Guru laments: “Since the inception of Jazzmatazz, one of the main focuses has been that it has something for every generation and music lover. It’s timeless.

When we enter into these projects we’re working with artists that are relevant and it provides for that fresh new territory. The tracks Solar and I have laid down are incredible.


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music: Miles Davis - Evolution of the Groove

Release Date: August 21, 2007
Legacy Recordings



In honor of Miles Davis' 81st birthday on Saturday, May 26, the long-awaited release of Evolution Of The Groove Miles Davis Remix EP premieres tracks with Nas, Carlos Santana, Olu Dara and an A-list contemporary music ensemble featuring Miles' nephew Vince Wilburn, Jr., on drums and programming, guitarist Pat Thrall (Pat Travers Band, Meat Loaf) and bassist Charley Drayton (Rolling Stones, Iggy Pop, Divinyls).

Executive produced by Steve Berkowitz and Vince Wilburn, Jr., and co-produced by Wilburn, Jr., Thrall, and Drayton, Evolution Of The Groove was recorded mainly at the Hit Factory in New York City. Nas' vocals on the track "Freedom Jazz Dance," co-produced by jazz funk legend Lenny White (Return To Forever), were recorded at DARP Studios in Atlanta, Georgia. Tracks on Evolution Of The Groove remix EP include "Freddie Freeloader," "Freedom Jazz Dance" featuring Nas, "It's About That Time" featuring Carlos Santana (this is a longer version that the one originally included on 2006's "Cool & Collected"), "Honky Tonk" and "Black Satin." Both an homage to Miles and a continuation of the spirit and intention of his music, Evolution Of The Groove imagines Miles Davis in the 21st century, the lyricism of his horn and the power of his musical vision blending with contemporary hip-hop, jazz and rock in provocative new ways and seductive new grooves.

Miles Davis Official Site

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art: Cosmic Dreams: A Group Exhibition Curated by Friederike Nymphius

Centro Cultural Andratx - Kunsthalle
Mallorca, ES Spain

COSMIC DREAMS is an international group show ideated especially for Kunsthalle Andratx. The show features painting, sculpture, video, film, installation, photography, and new media by some of today's leading artists as well as the most promising work by the up-and-coming generation. The artists’ works are multidimensional and multilayered, what they share are the almost paradoxical references in their exploration of theme. Their subversive, incisive and often humorous commentaries on the subject create a very varied imagery. The idea was born in a summer night while observing the shooting stars over Andratx. The blurring heat of the day, the noise of far away music, the parfume of the lemon trees in the air created a specific and very special cosmic sensation.


Artists in the exhibition are: Sâadane Afif 1970 / F, Haluk Akakce 1970 / Turkey, Tauba Auerbach 1981 / USA, Angela Bulloch 1966 / CAN, Anne-Lise Coste 1973/ FR, Jim Drain 1975 / USA, Sylvie Fleury 1962 / CH, Carsten Fock 1968 / D, Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom 1974 / USA, Lori Hersberger 1963 / CH, Gregor Hildebrandt 1972 / D, Carsten Höller 1961 / B, Bernhard Martin 1966 / D, Francisco da Mata 1968 / CH, P, Gerold Miller 1961 / D, Kristine Roepstorff 1972 / DK, Vincent Szarek 1973 / USA, Meredyth Sparks 1972 / USA, Martin Wöhrl 1974 / D, Johannes Wohnseifer 1967 / D, Heimo Zobernig 1958 / A

The infinite, the transcendental, the unseen and visions of the future — these are the artistic quests of COSMIC DREAMS, an exhibition that gives colourful expression to the mystical yearnings of a new generation. The show develops from cosmos to Cosmopolitan to fetish. It explores trance, “alternative” realities and the psyche, who tap into altered states of consciousness through visionary colour, mind-altering patterns, morphing forms, and visions of the infinite. At the interface of reality and fiction their images and installations extend to spacial floating forms. Formal experiments with futurist materials prove their visual metropolitan background and test sustainable form models. Their work is inspired by nature, by the cosmos, by the vastness of the Western landscape, and yet is rooted in a specific urban sensibility.

CURATOR Friederike Nymphius (*1968) made her PhD about John M Armleder at UdK, Berlin. She is working as a curator to international corporate collections as the European Patent Office. At DaimlerChrysler Contemporary Berlin she was responsible for the “Minimalism and After” and the “Private / Corporate” series. She curated exhibitions as “Principles of Construction” (Kunsthalle Andratx) or the special exhibition “BIG CITY LAB” by the art fair ART FORUM BERLIN 2006. Publications include contributions to various art books and catalogues and the monographic book “John M Armleder. Pudding Overdose”. Friederike Nymphius lives in Berlin.

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film: Michael Bay responds to Paramount's abandonment of Blu-ray No Transformer 2

Michael Bay -- the director behind "Transformers," "Bad Boys," "Pear Harbor," etc. -- just threw down with Paramount in his personal blog. He states, "I want people to see my movies in the best formats possible. For them to deny people who have Blu-ray sucks! They were progressive by having two formats. No Transformers 2 for me!

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music: caninesounds - passion radio - UK

18/08/07 Hour 1 The Spinout Sessions.
18/08/07 Hour 2 The Spinout Sessions. With special Rainer Weichhold (Great Stuff)

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music: forwards backwards

show no. 77 jun 12th, 2007

niks hour

1.theo parish -second chance -sound signature -usa
2.nils krogh -things we do -dnm -sweden
3.hotel new tokyo -tokyo spy -rose -japan
4.sleep walker -wind featuring yukimi nagano -especial/village again- japan
5.jabberloop -6th continent -mukatsuku -uk
6.the rhythmagic orchestra -afrodesia -impossible ark -uk
7.zero db -conga madness -toshio matsuura remix -ninja uk
8.the haggis horns -the traveller-first word -uk
9.hanna + beatr8 -better than nothing -bakura demo mix-mukatsuku -uk
10.brief encounter -get a good feeling -capitol -usa
11.together band -hold me baby-albradella -usa
12.sasso -agua y luz-sick trumpet uk

nigels hour

1.terry callier -martin st martin -electra -usa
2.andy bey-river man -evidence-usa
3.marcina arnold-blues for jean charles menezes-counterpoint -uk
4.moodyman-technologystolemyvinyle-mahogany -usa
5.johnny raducanu-balada -sonar kollektiv -germany
6.clifford nyren-keep running away -soul cal -usa
7.charles earland -murilley-muse-usa
8.7 samurai -bahia -g.a.m.m -sweden
9.mettle music-salsa d club mix-vibes -uk
10.n'dambi -can't change me-ron trent mix-r2
11.sutekh -red eyed-soul jazz -uk
12.heatwave-star of the story-sony -usa

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music: soul searching - the compost radio show

with michael ruetten (soulpatrol, compost, germany

show no. 513 august 20th, 2007


intro
Bugge Wesseltoft - Min By - Jazzland Promo
Mr. Beatnick feat. Ahu - All The Bitches - Test
Common - U Black Maybe - Geffen
Bugge Wesseltoft - Joi - Jazzland Promo
The Detroit Experiment - Highest - Planet E
Moodymann - I'd Rather Be Lonely - KDJ
Return To Forever - Spain - Polydor
Henrik Schwarz - Jazz Book #2 (Music For Little Hands) - !K7

BROKEN REFORM's SUMMER SPA THERAPY MIXTAPE
Voom:Voom - Fish/Broken Reform Mix - CDR
Chymeka - Umbrella/Funk D'Void Mix - Ovum
Adam Beyer - Ask Yourself - Mad Eye
Sven Weisemann - Activity Chain - Mojuba
Rythm & Sound - Ruff Way/Afefe Iku Mix - CDR
Theo Parrish - Fallin Up/Chateau Flight Mix - Sync
Blackstrobe - I'm A Man/Audion Donatation Mix - Playloude
Estroe - Driven - Connaisseur Superior
The Dining Rooms - Etage Noir/Capracara's Ext. Dub - Schema
Horror Inc. I Plead Guilty - In My Garden - Pearl 42
END OF MIX

Elan Mehler - Little Lost - Brownswood Promo
END OF SHOW

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music: Simon Harrison - Nu World Mix no.39

Scuba - Subaqueous [Soul Jazz]
Landslide feat. Ernesto - Solitary (Simple Time Mix) [Wah Wah 45s]
Viktor Vaughn - Raedawn (Remix) [Z5]
Bassclef - Cannot Be Straightened [Black Tapes]
Hedfoniqz - Spectrum (Subdiffusion Remix) [White]
DJ Tisso - Soul Delight [White]
Sam Frank - All I Want Is A Good Time (DJ Sabre Dog Tags Remix) [Institute]
Scienz Culture - Ginsu (Son Of Scientist Bruk Mix) [Sunshine Enterprises]
State of Monc - Dateline (Colonel Red Remix) [White]
Nubian Mindz - Bossa Boogie (Techno Rub) [Rush Hour]
Ashley Thomas - Kept On Runnin’ [Counterpoint]
Janet Lawson Quintet - Sunday Afternoon [Ether]
John Thomas & Lifeforce - Like A Samba [Nabel]
Amp Fiddler - Scared [Genuine]
Marvin Gaye - What’s Going On (Mr Beatnick Reconstruction) [White]

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Amazon leaks Canon EOS 40D

Hot damn kiddies. Amazon just posted the specs and delivery for Canon's EOS 40D. Of course, it's not official 'til it's official but Amazon lists a September 20th availability for the true 30D successor. The specs? They're all there: 10.1 megapixel, APS-C sized, self-cleaning CMOS sensor; 30% faster, 9 point AF; ISO 3200 max sensitivity; improved..

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The secrets of a teen's Internet success

Internet start-ups have a legacy of twenty-something founders. Just look at Microsoft, Yahoo and Google.

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Microsoft deal may lead to free, but "watermarked" music

Microsoft has agreed to license its audio watermarking technology to Activated Content Corp. of Seattle. We all know watermarking's place as a part of the music industry's DRM toolbox, but Activated—already a DRM watermarking player—now wants to use Microsoft's watermarking technology to get into the advertising business. Watermarks... and ads? Yep

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Giant, synchronized reboot (Windows Update) smokes Skype

Skype has finished its sleuthing and is ready to report on the conditions which led to the company discovering a flaw in its P2P networking code. The culprit? It turns out that Skype's code wasn't prepared for a massive restart of PCs caused by the standard Windows patching process.

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Japan aims to replace the Internet

Japanese communications minister Yoshihide Suga said Friday that Japan will start research and development on technology for a new generation of network that would replace the Internet, eyeing bringing the technology into commercial use in 2020.

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Canon EOS EOS-1Ds Mark III 21MP DSLR Officially Announced

Canon have officially announced the 21 megapixel EOS-1Ds Mark III DSLR.

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Black Mirror

Adding a sinister touch to home decor, Canadian designer HXfour's new design called "Who's the Fairest" is a black mirror made using high-gloss acrylic cast into a vintage frame. Custom sizes and shapes are available, check in at mirror [at] hsxfour [dot] com for purchasing details.



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Say Hello to Trey: A Chair for Super Geeks

Ars sits down with the Trey Chair—a piece of furniture that transforms from an office chair to a gaming chair—and its creator.

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Kids sued by RIAA seek to rope KaZaA, AOL into P2P lawsuit

Although Patti Santangelo came out on top in the lawsuit filed against her by the RIAA, two of her children remain embroiled in a legal fight against the music industry. Her kids, Michelle and Robert Santangelo, are now trying to bring Sharman Networks—creators of KaZaA—and AOL, the Santangelos' ISP at the time of the alleged infringement, into the

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mondomedeusah fashion: Injury

Inspired by Fight Club, the "Sabouter" collection by Australian independent label Injury presents 80 pieces of mischievous vests, deep v-neck tees and trousers to arouse the gangster within during Spring/Summer 07/08. Perfect for those who prefer the odd misadventure after the sun goes down.

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garage 416 & milk. present...

garage 416 & milk. present a special party featuring a "surprise" guest from joe claussell's nyc record label - spiritual life music. in true spiritual life fashion, the musical format will be more than just soulful/deep house; it will be a blend of simply "good music". we cannot officially announce the special guest; however, this will be an event you do not want to miss (nudge nudge, wink wink) spiritual life said that they simply wanted to have an intimate & fun party in toronto where people can enjoy the vibe of the night without having to focus on a particular headliner.


milk. & garage 416 present: an evening with spiritual life:
surprise guest (spiritual life, nyc)
+
felix and gani (milk.)
blueprint (garage 416)
moreno (hot stepper, g416)

friday august 17th
the gladstone hotel (1214 queen st. w.)
doors @ 10pm. 19+

$15 at the door.

Primary Role of the Internet shifting from Communications to Content

People are using time spent on the Internet to actually engage themselves in reading content more now than ever before, according to new data presented by the Online Publishers Association and Nielsen/NetRatings.

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How to REALLY Surf as Google (get into those pesky pay-for-access sites)

How to Piggy-back on Google's Own IP Addresses, GoogleBot User-Agent, And Even Mimic GoogleBot's characteristics (no script, no cookie, no referrer, etc)

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Facebook PHP Leaker Revealed: SlashGear Author

"We got an email a few minutes ago from the guy claiming to be the Facebook PHP code “leaker”: Trae McNeely of the SlashGear blog. Based on the link to the forum thread he provided, we were able to confirm with about 90% accuracy the story below."

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How to Give a Kick Ass Presentation with a Hangover

Over 50 excellent tips on how to give a killer presenatation, including how to pull it off with a hangover

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RIAA: Pay as we say, not as we do

Despite the judge's ruling, laid down a month ago, Deborah Foster, who is waiting to receive $68,585.23 for attorney fees and costs, has yet heard back from the inglorious RIAA, much less received any money.

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Talib Kweli has good Karma

There is no falsehood in his name. The renowned seeker of the truth sure knows the truth when it comes to fashion. That's why this past week before stepping on stage for the celebrated Rock The Bells Tour in Boston, MA, he stopped by Karmaloop to show us some love.

BOW TO YOUR SENSEI'S! Greg Selkoe the CEO of Karmaloop and Talib Kweli hold it down!













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Freedom: What it Means to Me.

2007-08-13 until 2007-08-22
Aakriti Art Gallery
Kolkata, WB, IN India

On the occasion of Indiaís 60th independence, Aakriti Art Gallery of Kolkata explores the concept "Freedom: What it means to me", through an exhibition that is participated in by 40 contemporary Indian artists, born after 15th August 1947 from all over the country. The exhibition will showcase the theme in various medium of expression - paintings, sculptures, prints and textile. All the artists in the show have been selected by the curator Shri Pranabranjan Ray. The show begins on Aug 12th 2007 and ends on Aug 22, 2007. Aakriti Art Gallery promotes their artists with a Gallery Portfolio at absolutearts.com.


The spectacular theme of the exhibition will throw light on the perception of the concept of freedom in the artistsí mind. It would also illuminate what motivates him to conceptualize and even incorporate imageries to create a visual memoir of such style. ëFreedom: What it Means to Meí lays priority to individual concept as the prime motivating factor in the contemporary scenario irrespective of whether such a concept is right or wrong. It is therefore for the viewers to judge and carry back a host of interesting analogies besides a lot of food for thought.

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Cosmic Dreams: A Group Exhibition Curated by Friederike Nymphius

2007-08-13 until 2007-10-07
Centro Cultural Andratx - Kunsthalle: www.ccandratx.com
Mallorca, ES Spain

COSMIC DREAMS is an international group show ideated especially for Kunsthalle Andratx. The show features painting, sculpture, video, film, installation, photography, and new media by some of today's leading artists as well as the most promising work by the up-and-coming generation. The artists’ works are multidimensional and multilayered, what they share are the almost paradoxical references in their exploration of theme. Their subversive, incisive and often humorous commentaries on the subject create a very varied imagery. The idea was born in a summer night while observing the shooting stars over Andratx. The blurring heat of the day, the noise of far away music, the parfume of the lemon trees in the air created a specific and very special cosmic sensation.


Artists in the exhibition are: Sâadane Afif 1970 / F, Haluk Akakce 1970 / Turkey, Tauba Auerbach 1981 / USA, Angela Bulloch 1966 / CAN, Anne-Lise Coste 1973/ FR, Jim Drain 1975 / USA, Sylvie Fleury 1962 / CH, Carsten Fock 1968 / D, Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom 1974 / USA, Lori Hersberger 1963 / CH, Gregor Hildebrandt 1972 / D, Carsten Höller 1961 / B, Bernhard Martin 1966 / D, Francisco da Mata 1968 / CH, P, Gerold Miller 1961 / D, Kristine Roepstorff 1972 / DK, Vincent Szarek 1973 / USA, Meredyth Sparks 1972 / USA, Martin Wöhrl 1974 / D, Johannes Wohnseifer 1967 / D, Heimo Zobernig 1958 / A

The infinite, the transcendental, the unseen and visions of the future — these are the artistic quests of COSMIC DREAMS, an exhibition that gives colourful expression to the mystical yearnings of a new generation. The show develops from cosmos to Cosmopolitan to fetish. It explores trance, “alternative” realities and the psyche, who tap into altered states of consciousness through visionary colour, mind-altering patterns, morphing forms, and visions of the infinite. At the interface of reality and fiction their images and installations extend to spacial floating forms. Formal experiments with futurist materials prove their visual metropolitan background and test sustainable form models. Their work is inspired by nature, by the cosmos, by the vastness of the Western landscape, and yet is rooted in a specific urban sensibility.

CURATOR Friederike Nymphius (*1968) made her PhD about John M Armleder at UdK, Berlin. She is working as a curator to international corporate collections as the European Patent Office. At DaimlerChrysler Contemporary Berlin she was responsible for the “Minimalism and After” and the “Private / Corporate” series. She curated exhibitions as “Principles of Construction” (Kunsthalle Andratx) or the special exhibition “BIG CITY LAB” by the art fair ART FORUM BERLIN 2006. Publications include contributions to various art books and catalogues and the monographic book “John M Armleder. Pudding Overdose”. Friederike Nymphius lives in Berlin.



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Introductions: Recent Graduates from Leading National and International Art Schools

2007-08-13 until 2007-09-08
Irvine Contemporary: www.irvinecontemporary.com
Washington, DC, USA United States of America

Irvine Contemporary is pleased to announce Introductions3, a selection of recent graduates from leading national and international art schools. This third year of Introductions at Irvine Contemporary is the first gallery exhibition of its kind. Over 250 artists from 60 different art colleges were reviewed for Introductions3, and final selections were made with the advice of a panel of art collectors, rather than curators or gallerists. Introductions3 has grown to an inclusive “MFA annual” that brings the best rising artists to Washington, D.C. Participating artists are listed below with their most recent college or institute affiliation.


Maura Q Brewer (School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Sculpture and Drawings) presents a series of sculptures and drawings that reconcieve the materials of work and authority. In her works, tuxedo shirts or men’s business shirts are appropriated for the way they encode one type of social status or authority, but folding and ironing these materials transform the symbols of men’s culture into a new kind of architecture through traditionally “invisible” women’s work.

Amy Chan (Rhode Island School of Design, Paintings) presents a series of paintings that portray "new ecosystems" created in America by the close crowding of human development and nature . Using patterned motifs and visual fragments from highway scenes, her work re-envisions the landscape coming to terms with suburban sprawl. Amy Chan also has a Fellowship with the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts this year.

Lauren Clay ( Virginia Commonwealth University, Sculpture and Installation) presents sculptures and drawings that move inherited minimalist forms into organic space where they seem to give birth to new self-generating forms. Her sculptures are carefully constructed from cut paper and painted with acrylic, and provide a feminine expansion on minimalist geometry and solidity of objects. Her objects combine ideas from architecture and organic form in innovative ways.

Katie Lewis ( California College of the Arts, San Francisco, Sculpture and Installation) presents three-dimensional works with pins, thread, enamel, and mylar that provide visual maps of sensations, nervous systems, and information networks envisioned as swarms and dense information nodes. Starting as maps for recording sensations and information, her works present new visualizations of the invisible flows of sensation and information we experience every day.

Akemi Maegawa (Cranbrook Institute, Sculptures and Installation) presents both ceramic sculptures and an installation project, both of which transform common objects with new contexts and content. Her “Artist’s Studio,” with each object wrapped in white felt, creates new volumes of space for objects ordinarily unnoticed. The artist studied for her BFA at Corcoran College, and after completing her MFA at Cranbrook, has returned to Washington, D.C. where she now lives and works.

Rocky McCorkle (San Francisco Art Institute, Photographs), presents a series of hyperreal photographs shot with large format negatives that play with the language of film stills and glossy magazine ads. The highly composed images present a narrative about the central characters’ real and imagined lives that mix fact and fantasy, branding and symbolism in a thoroughly captivating fictional world.

Sarah Mizer ( Virginia Commonwealth University, Sculpture and Installation) composes elegant text-based works in glass, using light and shadow to re-envision words, lines, and columns of text. With our common metaphors of writing, texts, and illumination resonating in the background, the artist’s compositions open up a reflective and meditative space around writing and words as sculptural and three-dimensional forms.

Ryan Pierce ( California College of the Arts, San Francisco, Paintings) presents a series of paintings that depict an imagined “ecoregion,” landscapes viewed not by political or national boundaries but by a spectrum of human impact on an environment. The scenes are images of possible post-industrial worlds that may lean at times, or even simultaneously, toward utopian or dystopian states.

Izel Vargas ( University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Paintings) presents paintings that capture the experiences of hybrid border culture in his home region of South Texas. The artist considers his works to be hybrid desmadres, a slang term which can mean “chaos” as well as the more literal “motherless.” His works appropriate and mix images from the pop cultures of both mainstream Americana and the Latino community, creating a new space he calls “a home away from home.”

Erin Colleen Williams ( Virginia Commonwealth University, Sculpture and Installation) creates hybrid objects that draw from imaginary machines and technology both past and present. The artist explores questions of biology, mortality, memory, desire, and the body, and presents works that seem to be impossible machines from the past that also reflect today’s obsessions. As if recovered by a Victorian time machine, the sculptures are both the lost and latest devices for augmenting human organs and enhancing pleasure and perception.

Stephanie Williams & Jesse Thompson (Rhode Island School of Design, Video) present a collaborative video project based on a child’s private mythology and imaginary world created from reading the Bible and a fragment of overheard parents’ conversation. Using sets and animation, the artists create a convincing alternate reality seen from a child’s point of view.


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Art or Not? Artists Who Push the Boundaries of the Definition of Art

2007-08-12 until 2007-08-25
Ovation TV: www.ovationtv.com
Santa Monica, CA, USA United States of America

Continuing its commitment to “Make Life Creative” Ovation TV, the only television network devoted exclusively to art and personal creativity, will present a 14-day programming celebration, “Art or Not?”, Sunday, August 12 through Saturday, August 25. The two-week event commenced with an Ovation TV original special, “Art or Not?”, a one-hour exploration of a question thats entertained, frustrated and inflamed passionate – and even casual -- art lovers forever: “Is ‘it’ art, or is ‘it’ not art?” The special will showcase artists from the edges of the art spectrum to gain insight into what makes people passionate -- and highly opinionated -- about a broad range of visual art. The special was produced for Ovation TV by Triage Entertainment (“Survivor” finale specials, “Iron Chef America”).


In addition to the original special, for the duration of the “Art or Not?” programming event Ovation TV will present 25 programs relevant to the question of “art or not?”, and will involve the audience by providing viewers with opportunities to voice their opinions by voting at www.ovationtv.com. In addition, viewers can vote online on a series of images they believe to be “Art or Not?” and receive an instant tabulation of how their opinions stack up against the rest of the web world.

Included in the “Art or Not?” event will be two World Television Premieres (“Belly Talkers” and “The Art of the Harley”) and three U.S. Television Premieres (“Kombat Opera” from Stewart Lee, creator of Jerry Springer: The Opera; “The Lowdown on Lowbrow” and “Beware Live Art”). The line-up of shows will give viewers a look at artists, musicians, filmmakers, actors, photographers and designers who have broadened the traditional notion of what art can be.

“This ‘Art or Not?’ event will playfully explore the ever-expanding range of what art means in 21st Century America,” said Kris Slava, Senior Vice President, Programming, Ovation TV. “Art is a living thing that engages minds and stirs passions. We want to ignite conversation about what is ‘art’ that will spread across a variety of unique programs and spill onto our website and beyond. This is not about creating a new canon – it’s about engaging and involving viewers, and letting them decide for themselves. Ovation TV will continue to explore virtually everything Americans call art, in a very smart and yet very accessible way.”

Highlights of the programming event include:

WORLD PREMIERE

“Belly Talkers”
Thursday, August 16 – 9:30 – 11:00 PM
Director Sandra Luckow presents a respectful and fun tribute to the art of ventriloquism. The documentary covers the history of ventriloquist performers and takes on a very endearing personal tone as Luckow and her puppet “Juanito” tell their story. Featuring interviews with many other contemporary ventriloquists, “Belly Talkers” is a charming and eccentric love letter to a unique art form.

U.S. PREMIERES

“Beware Live Art”
Wednesday, August 22 – 8:00 – 8:30 PM Live art, aka performance art, tends to involve the unexpected. Beyond that, its hard to define. It may have elements in common with performance arts such as experimental drama or dance, but it moves beyond the conventions and usual boundaries of these other genres. Some acts seem closer to conventional drama performances, while others involve shock tactics and immediate reactions from bystanders/participants.

“The Lowdown on Lowbrow”
Monday, August 19 – 8:00 – 9:00 PM
The “Lowdown On Lowbrow” is a one-hour documentary chronicling the evolution of the lowbrow genre and style including the relatively recent emergence of female artists at the forefront of the movement. As pop culture, surf, music, films and the mechanized culture of the hotrod begins to permeate the mass subconscious, so does the popularity and accessibility of pop or lowbrow” style artwork. Bold, sexy, vibrant, and bright, much of the work of the lowbrow artists juxtaposes the unlikely yet familiar elements of popular culture together in startling new compositions. As the fine art world shuffles conservatively along, with its academic intellectual justifications as to why a piece of work is or is not art”, lowbrow comes along with its bold images, color, and sexuality and grabs its fans. Now in its third decade, a new generation of lowbrow artists is emerging from behind the flame jobs and tiki heads. Working in a wide variety of styles, and largely resentful of being classified at all, lowbrow artists are creating work in the most innovative ways possible and fighting to claim their rightful place in the history of western art.

“Kombat Opera Presents: Spouse Change, and The Applicants”
Monday, August 13 – 8:00 – 9:00 PM
From Stewart Lee, co-writer of Jerry Springer: The Opera come these outrageous half-hour operatic parodies of popular television shows. American audiences will immediately recognize “Spouse Change” as a takeoff on “Wife Swap” and “The Applicants” as “The Apprentice.” And when they stop laughing, they will ask themselves, “was that art or not?”

“Spouse Change,” an operatic interpretation of “Wife Swap,” sees a down-home Alabama wife, Adey Winchester, swapping life in her double-wide trailer for a life of domestic bliss with Roy Gay, a Philadelphia interior designer. Meanwhile, his partner, Darryl Gay, runs the gauntlet of Bible-belt homophobia during his swap in the Mid-West.

“The Applicants” -- Sir Alan Prentice is an entrepreneur, straight-talking businessman and the hirer and firer in reality TV business show, “The Applicants.” The episode sees the contestants pitted against each other to become their mentor’s favorite and claim a position on his board. Their task is set by the short-tempered Knight and, as the axe hangs over the head of one of the contestants, the infamous line “You’re fired!” is heard and another contestant is lost in a spectacular, bloody fashion.

About Ovation TV: Launched in 1997, Ovation TV is focused on entertaining, inspiring and engaging the artist in all of us. The 24-hour channel is the only television network devoted exclusively to art, personal creativity and making the arts more accessible to viewers in their daily lives. The network showcases the world’s greatest artists in theater, dance, opera, literature, film, visual and fine art, music, popular arts, design, photography and architecture. Ovation TV features original programming and a multi-platform content strategy that includes partnerships with leading American cultural and art institutions and educational organizations. After launching nationally on DIRECTV (Channel 274), Ovation TV will reach nearly 15 million subscribers, and has cable distribution in key U.S. markets and master distribution agreements in place with most major cable operators. In August 2006 Ovation TV was acquired by Hubbard Media Group and a group of other private investors which includes Arcadia Investment Partners, Corporate Partners II, Perry Capital, and The Weinstein Company.

For the past several years, Triage Entertainment has produced one of televisions most watched programs,- the live season-finales of the blockbuster CBS series, “Survivor.” Other 2006-2007 series and specials include “Jamie Foxx: Unpredictable” (NBC); the annual “A Home For The Holidays” holiday concert (CBS); the hit series “Iron Chef America” (The Food Network); the first annual “Food Network Awards”; the long-running series “Cowboy U” and “The Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders” (CMT); the annual urban comedy festival “Laffapalooza” (Comedy Central); and the live “Daytime Emmy Pre-Show” (SoapNet).

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Call for Artists: WORLD'S GREATEST EROTIC ART OF TODAY

2007-08-13 until 2007-12-08
Erotic Signature: www.eroticsignature.com
Miami, FL, USA United States of America

Erotic Signature announces its 2007 International search for the World‚s best erotic artworks. This marks the second year that Erotic Signature has launched what has now become one of the world‚s largest and highest prized competitions for erotic art. Dedicated to both artists and art enthusiasts alike, Erotic Signature has put together a distinguished panel of judges consisting of museum curators, academics, collectors, editors and established masters in the field of erotic art to narrow down all submitted entries to a mere 200 winners. Submissions will be accepted under the umbrella of fine art, digital art, photography and sculpture. The Deadline for all entries is set for December 8th, 2007.


The above selected winners will be featured in the Erotic Signature's second-annual bound coffee table book entitled „The World‚s Greatest Erotic Art of Today ˆ Vol. II.‰ This book will be distributed internationally with 100% of profits from sales via high street booksellers, specialty stores, museum retailers, galleries, and the Internet, going to one of four renowned organizations dedicated to finding a cure for the AIDS virus. The members of the Erotic Signature website, including the competing artists will get to vote and pick the winning charity. The organizations up for consideration this year of this cash gift are: AMFAR, International Aids Society, the Aids Healthcare Foundation, and the Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative.

Of the 200 winners, six (6) cash prizes including one (1) $5,000 master winner, four (4) category winners of $1000 each, and one (1) "Viewer's Choice" winner of $1000 will be awarded their accolades following the announcement of winners on December 15th, 2007. In addition, all winners will be invited to feature their winning artworks during the book release event in May 2008, which will be a special ceremony aimed at celebrating the artists and raising additional charitable funds for the chosen AIDS organization. Following the book release will be a six (6) month long traveling exhibition starting in the United States (Miami); continue to Asia (city TBA); and closing in Europe (London); offering the winning artists another opportunity to share their work around the world.

Erotic Signature‚s purpose is not only to encourage erotic art and find and expose new talent but, also, on a global level, contribute to an increased level of reception of this historical art genre. All those interested may obtain further information, entry details, and apply online by visiting www.eroticsignature.com. Artists can also submit their entries via mail. A "mail-in application" can be downloaded and printed from the Erotic Signature Website.

Nature is a Great Magician: Alex Volborth

2007-08-09 until 2007-08-26
State Russian Museum
St. Petersburg, , RU Russian Federation

On August 9, 2007 the State Russian Museum opens the “Nature is a Great Magician!” exhibition of Alex Volborth in the Stroganov Palace. Alex Volborth was born in Finland, where his parents emigrated to in 1920. During the reign of Catherine II his ancestors moved from Germany to Russia, to St Petersburg, where they owned a house on 6 Nevsky Prospect. Since then all the Volborths have been scientists: paleontologists, chemists, mineralogists, professors, members of the Academy of Science and the Mineralogical Society. Many prominent scientists including the academician Ivan Pavlov were among the close friends of the family. The boy got primary knowledge of physics, chemistry, mathematics and foreign languages at home and started to paint in watercolours while very young. Then Alex Volborth studied at the Helsinki University, where he acquired doctorate and grant from the Outokumpu company to continue his education in the universities of Vienna and Heidelberg, as well as in the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.


From 1956 he held a post of mineralogist and professor of geochemistry in Nevada, professor of general geology, geochemistry, engineering geology in universities in California, North Dakota, Canada (Halifax) and Washington. Since 1979 Alex Volborth has lived in Montana (USA), where he had taught in the Montana Tech of the University of Montana till 1996. Now he does some student advising and consulting for the representatives of companies and non-government organisations. His house on the shore of Flathead Lake near Dayton is filled with books, paintings and music. Exploring deserts during his geological research, far from roads, in stiff terrains, Alex Volborth often enjoyed beauty beyond the reach of ordinary people. Lecturing in various universities, at the meetings of scientific societies and some organisations he visited numerous museums of art and archeology: the Hermitage, the Russian Museum, the Tretyakov Gallery, the Louvre, the Museo del Prado and the Vatican Museums. The patterns on stone surfaces riminded him of the representations seen in the museums: icons and works of classical and modern art. Alex Volborth was deeply impressed by the showcases in the Feodosy Chernyshev Museum of Geology (VSEGEI) in St Petersburg. The exhibition comprised polished stones depicting various landscapes, cosmic space, sea waves and stone flowers. After the retirement Alex Volborth remembered that there were a lot of interesting views and odd surfaces seen on the rocks, when he worked as a geologist. There are a lot of “sights” in nature that remind him of sculpture, architecture and paintings by Mikhail Vrubel, Marc Chagall, Wassily Kandinsky, Gustav Klimt, Salvador Dalí, Edvard Munch, Andy Warhol, Paul Klee, Pablo Picasso, Peter Paul Rubens, Vincent Willem van Gogh and Henri Matisse. The aim of the exhibition is to reveal the images hidden in nature, a secret fantastic world, rocks, sultry deserts, odd patches of bright minerals and lichens, the beauty, variety and richness of natural “representations” found by the scientist in the caves and on wind-worn rocks in the Mojave desert in southern Nevada.

When travelling for three years (2002-05) he took 6000 digital photographs of those places. Some photographs are given their names in honour of the renowned photographers (Tina Modotti), philosophers (Francis Bacon), writers (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and George Gordon Noel Byron), book characters (Don Quijote de la Mancha) and mythological and folklore scenes.

This is the first ever comprehensive exhibition of Alex Volborth in Russia. It comprises over 70 unique associations- photographs by Alex Volborth, a professor of geology, renowned expert in the field of geochemistry, mineralogy and analitics.

Turbulent Infinity: Ferdinand Ahm Krag

2007-08-09 until 2007-09-08
Bendixen Contemporary Art
Valby, , DK Denmark

This is Ferdinand Ahm Krag’s first solo exhibition at bendixen contemporary art. The show is titled “Turbulent Infinity” and will present a number of drawings. In his formalistic drawings Ahm Krag combines various spaces. Landscapes and architectonic or even musical spaces arise from his expansive compositions. The notion of scale is variable and indefinable. We find ourselves asking the question: is this a macroscopic or microscopic world? The symmetrical composition of these drawings gives quite a few of them an approximate resemblance to masks. Floating and abstract face-like shapes seem to be charged with waves of energy and musical vibrations. Or are we witnessing the splitting of atoms? Or perhaps science fiction architecture from another planet?


In his art, Ahm Krag endeavours to capture motifs and figurations in an abstract, indefinable state of ”translation”. The pictorial space stretches infinitely in all directions, while at the same time pulsating between inner and outer, micro and macro, architecture and music, face and landscape. Occasionally the works display a great formal complexity, but Ahm Krag’s drawings originate in quite basic technique. They simply consist of lines drawn with a ball-point pen and a ruler across printing paper. They may resemble works by Sol LeWitt or Agnes Martin, but only at first glance. For Ahm Krag clearly draws upon numerous sources such as constructivism, futurism, psychedelic art, op-art, science-fiction, textile design and computer-generated visualisations of sound. Ahm Krag has articulated the following about his method of drawing: “These are meditative repetitions of the straight line, of the horizon line. One line under another, under yet a third and fourth line, et cetera. Until the entire piece of paper is covered in straight lines, and nothing but straight lines. The world represented as an accumulation of straight lines. And yet this world is far from perfect, for the lines are not quite straight. The surface reveals little discrepancies and smudged displacements. Chance coincidences. These coincidences are crucial, for they fill the space with possibility. Possibility is energy, and – if they may be said to represent anything – the drawings represent how spatial energies are captured by the psychic apparatus and wrapped up in patterns. A drawing is a device for perception.”

Ferdinand Ahm Krag graduated from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2006. He has been nominated for the Carnegie Art Award 2008 and contributes frequently to the daily newspaper Information as an art critic.

LOOKING TO PARTNER WITH ART ENTITY ABROAD FOR ARTIST EXCHANGE

2007-08-09 until 2007-12-31
Studio 1219, Art Incubator
Port Huron, MI, USA United States of America

Studio 1219 in Port Huron, Michigan, USA is looking to sponsor a young up and coming artist to live, learn and/or work for one month in a gallery or similar art incubator program abroad. In turn, they will house an artist sent to them. Studio 1219 is an art incubator charged with nurturing artists by providing them with the opportunity to practice, display, and sell their work. Studio 1219 provides a physical link between the regions’ growing community of artists and the businesses of downtown Port Huron.


With over 8,000 square feet of total space, Studio 1219 features an educational department, a pottery studio, workshop space, open space for classes and community functions, and opportunities for small arts related businesses. As an incubator, Studio 1219 rents space at below market rates for artists who want to start their own business.

Each month they feature one artist in their Van Gogh gallery and rotate new artwork throughout the various galleries. Every month the studio hosts a free reception for the public to meet their featured artist in the Van Gogh gallery. The visiting artist would have these same opportunities and more.

Contact:
Studio 1219
1219 Military St.
Port Huron
www.studio1219.com
Jody Parmann
Muse Creative Design
www.MuseCreativeDesign.com
5th Street Magazine
www.5thStreetMagazine.com
One Word One Idea
www.OneWordOneIdea.com
810-357-1364 / jody@parmann.com

Undercover NBC Dateline reporter bolts from DEFCON 2007

Undercover reporter Michelle Madigan (Associate Producer of NBC Dateline) got a little more than she bargained for when she tried to sneak in to DEFCON 2007 with hidden cameras to get someone to confess to a felony. When DEFCON staff announced the “spot the undercover reporter” game and told the audience that an undercover reporter was taking video to catch someone confessing to a hacking crime, Madigan bolted from the conference premises followed by a pack of ~150 DEFCON attendees and reporters trying to photograph and video tape her. DEFCON officials never got the chance to bring Madigan on stage to offer her a press badge so that she could cover the rest of the event above board.



DEFCON organizers caught wind of this from undisclosed sources and casually contacted Madigan to see if she wanted official press credentials and a press badge to cover DEFCON. Reporters in the pressroom were then fully briefed on the situation before the “spot the undercover reporter game” so that they could cover the event.


According to Senior DEFCON official “Priest” who works for the Government in his day job, Madigan declined press credentials on four separate occasions (twice on phone and twice at DEFCON). Madigan proceeded to register as a regular DEFCON attendee and even told a DEFCON staffer that she was going to the bathroom to get her hidden camera ready. When a DEFCON goon (staffer) explained to Madigan that secret video taping wasn’t allowed, Madigan not knowing she was speaking to a goon replied that she didn’t think it wasn’t a problem. The staffer then followed Madigan around and watched her as she panned her hidden camera around the entire “Capture the flag” room to get unauthorized video of the members.


Madigan was apparently trying to do a shock piece for NBC Dateline to show middle America how criminal underground hackers had descended on DEFCON Las Vegas to learn tricks of the trade and how Federal Agents were tracking them down. When a DEFCON staffer spoke to Madigan posing as regular attendee, Madigan commented that people in Kansas (reference to middle America) would be very interested in what was “really” going on in DEFCON. DEFCON official “Priest” also had reason to believe that that Madigan was planning to out uncover federal agents attending DEFCON and expressed some serious concern about the safety and privacy of those agents. Because of this, staffers used this to lure Madigan to the room where they planned to out her instead in front of DEFCON attendees in the “spot the undercover reporter” game but Madigan bolted from the scene before her photo was put up on the projector.


The sad part of this story is that Madigan was given every opportunity to get a press pass and get access to any of the speakers and attendees above board. Even after the secret video taping she was offered a chance cover the rest of the conference with an official press badge. This is my second year covering DEFCON and I’ve never had any problems getting photos or video from willing attendees and speakers but that’s not what Madigan was going after. She wanted to paint a picture that would shock “people in Kansas” about DEFCON and that’s not what DEFCON is about. The Feds, Press, and hacker community have built up a level of mutual trust at DEFCON so that we have a place to talk openly and honestly. After taking an unofficial poll in the press room here, not one person appreciated Madigan’s antics.