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12-28-2009

Learning from mistakes, Sulki and Min

12-25-2009

We read books but at the same time experience it. The texture of the cover, the weight of it, the subtle smell of pages, the feeling of flicking through pages, and the text flowing through lines. A book designer plans the experience which is sometimes so normal that the reader hardly feel the physicality of it and sometimes special and specific as the concept and the subject.

12-24-2010

12-24-2009

Political performance is not political : on ignorant performing art

12-24-2009

��Art is not political, firstly because of its message regarding the order of the world and emotions. Moreover, art is not political because of the means by which it represents the social structures, conflicts, identities of social groups...��
Jacques Rancière (The Emancipated Spectator)

12-24-2009

YoungJun Lee vs. Christine Takengny

12-24-2009

YoungJun Lee and Christine Takengny discuss how the topic of mapping creates a dialogue in the context of the contemporary art. They discuss the influence of cartagraphy on the artists, the procedures of map making and the process of presenting these events in the artworks as well as the socio-political issues and cultural identities that these map makers discuss.

What is the new institution for contemporary art and will it continue?

12-24-2009

What is the new institution for contemporary art and will it continue? (further translation available soon)

Sound Installation, Jason Kahn

12-24-2009

Jason Kahn`s work includes sound installation, performance and composition. Kahn creates his sound installations for specific spaces. The focus of these primarily non-visual works lies in the perception of space through sound.

D.I.Y Satellite, Hojun Song

12-24-2009

Can Nirvana be reached through Scientific Deduction?

On independent publishing, Mediabus

12-24-2009

Mediabus is an independent publisher based in Seoul, Korea. It was initiated in 2007 by independent curators with the collaboration of designers. Mediabus publishes zines & books, produces and distributes, organizes exhibitions & events, directs a workshop, and carries out project or book commissions for companies & institutions.

Interview with Sean Griffin

12-24-2009

Interview with Sean Griffin, a longtime collaborator with theater artist Catherine Sullivan. He talks about their new work in progress.

Chris Kondek & Christiane Kuehl

12-24-2009

For a long time now media prophets have promised a better world. Radio diminished the immense vastness of space, TV has created the global village, and virtual reality gives us the world we have always longed for. The promise is clear: we can now do anything we want, be everywhere and participate in everything.

Variable Frame Rate: Multimedia Performance at MUTEK 2009

12-23-2009

It is understandable that we sometimes overlook the surge ofinnovation and experimentation that has taken place within live musicalperformance over the last decade. A culture obsessed with emergingchannels of distribution and incremental software upgrades is almostpredisposed to overlook the virtuosity (or lack thereof) that driveslive performance.

Ghost Stories, New Designs from Nendo at MAD

12-23-2009

An exhibition of new work by Japanese designers Nendo is on show at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York.Called Ghost Stories, New Designs from Nendo, the show features new pieces displayed on white plinths.

WTC Logo Preservation Project by Ji Lee

12-23-2009

New York designer Ji Lee has launched a project to collect photographs of logos that show the former World Trade Center in a New York skyline. Lee publishes the photos on the project website; anyone can contribute by uploading their own images.

Virtureal by Jelte van Abbema

12-23-2009

Dutch Design Week: here��s a second project by Jelte van Abbema, winner of the Rado Prize at the Dutch Design Awards in Eindhoven last week, which explores how to express emotion through the digital word.