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TENHAM UM BOM DOMINGO

about luisa ferreira

THE GARDEN OF EDEN !

"The Garden of Eden is the original surveillance state. God creates the heavens and the earth, turns on the lights, inspects everything that he has made and, behold, finds it very good. But then the creation attempts to acquire the surveillant properties of the creator".

Do Paraiso a Thomas More, de Jeremy Bentham a Aldous Huxley e a Blade Runner, este ensaio de Alexis Harley publicado no MC Journal analisa, de uma forma provocatória e inteligente, o tema da vigilância nas sociedades contemporâneas.

Boa leitura.

DAVID DUGAN - 2

about david dougan

SÓ PARA ALGUNS,OS MELHORES!

"It owes an intentional debt to Pollock not only in its palette but in its application and process. Pollock was not a "chance operations" artist, but was very deliberate in his execution. His process was an admixture of chaos and craft, and part of that craft lay in how much chaos to allow into the work, when to allow it in, and how to allow it in. Similarly, Tarbell is not using Flash (as t. whid rightly observes), but Processing which compiles into Java, and then he's going behind and hand-tweaking the compiled java. The piece is generative, but not without Tarbell's particular, intentional visaul aesthetic, not just in the final output, but in the real-time "playing out" of the piece. Whereas Pollock's "hand" in real-time painting led to the production of a static final painting, Tarbell removes this process one step further. Tarbell's "hand" in real-time coding leads to the software's "hand" in real-time "painting," which in turn leads to the output of the static piece. I!
n Pollock's case, the final piece shows evidence of Pollock's energetic "performance," that is, his painting of the piece. In Tarbell's case, the performance (the software's "drawing" of the art) *is* the actual piece. This generative "playing out" in turn shows evindence of Tarbell's coding "performance" which occurs off stage, but which is nevertheless observable by viewing the intentionally open source code.

So it ain't just FlashFormalism. It's "speaking" about art history; about new media's relation to art history; about the nature of time-shiftedness and instruction giving; about the balance between chaos and control; about the continuum of performance, meta-performance (literally "script writing"), and object; about the relationship between process and visual aesthetics; about the relationship between code, hand, line, and dance; about the ability of software-based media to evince an idiosynchratic personal style. Plus it looks so danged pretty. And the beauty of it (literally) is, you don't have to grok the above insights to get something out of the piece".

Só falta mesmo o link

M/C JOURNAL

"A journal of media and culture".

Só mais umas palavras: é este o link.

Divirtam-se !

MERYL TRUETT -1

about meryl truett

TANGENT

Só falta mesmo o link !

TENHAM UM BOM DOMINGO

ANÓNIMA - 1

A NIKE, O "GAMANÇO" E UMA CAMPANHA CORRECTA

"On the left is the cover for Minor Threat’s self-titled 1984 album, on the right is an ad for a new campaign by Nike Skateboarding. Spot the differences? There aren’t many".

Vejam já, aqui, esta denúncia, sem papas na língua, do "gamanço" que a Nike fez de uma foto para uma nova campanha de vendas dos seus "ténis" para o povão do skate.

E de caminho visitem o "site" de um fabricante independente de "ténis", do qual fica a imagem da sua apresentação.

ANDREI TARKOVSKY - 2

about andrei tarkovsky

AS NOITES BRANCAS DE PARIS

"On the panels of the city, fragments of dialog are posted: a man follows a woman, she enters in a cabin.

On the public cabins of the city, the question “Who are you?” and a telephone number on which you can leave a message.

A few weeks later. In the street, ringing of a phone box which resounds in the vacuum, without destination.

A passer by approaches, intrigued. The cabin lights of a sharp light. The passer opens the door, enters, takes down the compound, a little constrained. After one moment he hears a voice, somebody says his name, tells his life, an anecdote, is described, his age, date of birth and other things still. Then the message stops, another voice requires: “Whoare you?”, there is a beep, hecan leave a message now… He speaks.

In an official building his voice is mixed with film extracts: a man is in a cabin, he composes a number or receives a call, the conspiracy must remain anonymous.

A little further the street lights again, palpitates, another cabin sounds, another passer by stops. Will he takes the responsability to answer this message which is not intended to him?"

Ficção ? Realidade !

Com o apoio da France Telecom, este projecto existe.

Aqui !

SCARLET JAMES - 3

about scarlet james

MEDIATOPIA

"Mediatopia.2 fresh! assembles an exciting mix of recent net-based work by
a diverse group of neoteric artists, creatives and thinkers. Their fresh,
networked interfaces look to a variety of means to utilize the internet,
as playground, platform or paintbrush. Mediatopia.net is a recurring
network mediated culture space for art, technology and writing. We still
believe in networked culture. Mediatopia.net".


O que seria da vossa vida sem o Jeremias de Polaroid ao Ombro ?

Sejam honestos e comentem. O Jeremias não morde ! (só quando não calha...)

JESSECA FERGUSON - 2

about jesseca ferguson

SOFT CINEMA

"What kind of cinema is appropriate for the age of Google and blogging? Automatic surveillance and self-guided missiles? Consumer profiling and CNN? To investigate answers to this question Lev Manovich - one of today’s most influential thinkers in the fields of media arts and digital culture – has paired with award-winning new media artist and designer Andreas Kratky to create the Soft Cinema project. They have also invited contributions from leaders in other cultural fields: DJ Spooky, Scanner, George Lewis and Jóhann Jóhannsson (music), servo and Andreas Angelidakis (architecture), Schoenerwissen/Office for Computational Design (data visualization), and Ross Cooper Studios (media design)".


Mais um "serviço" do Jeremias para o "povão da net".

Não necessitam agradecer, mas uns jantaritos seriam bem vindos !

JERI MRAZEK - 1

about jeri mrazek

CONVITE PARA UM PROJECTO

"Este trabalho é um desenvolvimento da exposição Relações de Pertinência, apresentada pela primeira vez em novembro de 2004. Os trabalhos desta exposição eram compostos por fotografias, utilizando como esquema de combinação os diagramas de operações entre conjuntos (união, intersecção, diferença), utilizados nos livros de matemática escolar.

Agora, o que se propõe é que as composições sejam geradas aleatoriamente, a partir de imagens enviadas pelos visitantes. Nosso objetivo é investigar se a sugestão de uma narrativa permanece, e observar as relações entre as imagens que serão sugeridas pelas composições, sem termos controle sobre as imagens de cada composição, especificamente".

Não sejam tímidos, colaborem com o Andrei R.Thomaz e participem neste projecto.

É fácil, não dá milhões mas pode dar alguns momentos muito bem passados.

Divirtam-se.

TENHAM UM MUITO BOM DOMINGO

about kathleen t.carr

JESSECA FERGUSON - 1

about jesseca ferguson

PARA OS MANÍACOS DO iPod

"iPod scrubs is dedicated to the sharing of sequencial image clips for your iPod photo".

Para um fim de semana de calor, aqui vai uma "dica" para todos aqueles que alimentam a paixão iPodmania.

Boa praia e boas iPodphotos !

SCARLETT JAMES - 1

about scarlet james

KISS, KISS, PLEASE KISS

"Jillian McDonald inserts herself as the heroine in Hollywood kissing scenes. She's mainly exploring fan culture, but the work also has the effect of normalizing these spectacular Hollywood moments".

Vá lá, não sejam tímidos.

SCARLET JAMES - 2

about scarlet james

THIS IS HOW YOU WILL DIE

"Your death is a gamble,
your life, random assemblages of stories
your end, vaguely framed by specifics".

Vamos jogar ?

BERNARD KESSLER - 2

about bernard kessler

EXQUISITE COPSE

"A play on the surrealist game, Exquisite Corpse, Exquisite Copse visually rewrites existing works of literature into a forest of word trees, based on seed words entered by visitors. Each branch grows with words that might follow in the original text."

Um jogo fascinante, fascinante, fascinante...

Não percam !

NAGASAKI - 60 ANOS

NAGASAKI - 60 ANOS

HOW BRITAIN HELPED ISRAEL GET THE BOMB

"Robert McNamara, President John F Kennedy's Defence Secretary, has told Newsnight he is "astonished" at the revelation that Britain kept this secret from America".

Link

ANDREI TARKOVSKY - 1

about andrei tarkovsky

RED PEPPER (raising the political temperature)

Red Pepper an independent green, left and radical magazine based in the U.K.

Será preciso acrescentar mais?

Boas leituras e recordem-se do que diz o JEREMIAS:

PENSEM PELAS PRÓPRIAS CABEÇAS !

TENHAM UM BOM DOMINGO

HIROSHIMA - 60 ANOS

about nuno cera

HIROSHIMA - NEVER AGAIN ?

Never Again? How the War in Iraq Spurred a New Nuclear Arms Race.

BERNARD KESSLER - 1

about bernard kessler

LET´S PLAY MUSIC

Make your symphonic music (or noise).

É assim, de uma forma provocadora e directa, que este "site" ligado às novas criações na net nos convida a experimentar a nossa vivência com a música.

Divirtam-se !

CHRISTA M. BLATCHFORD - 1

about christa m. blatchford

ALEXANDER SUTULO: A MONUMENTAL MURAL - THE HISTORY OF CHILEAN MINING

"Soon to be inaugurated in August, 2005 is a 3 story high (H: 12.4MT x W: 8.0MT) digital mural at the University of Concepción, Chile, where in an unprecedented manner; the artwork encompasses the history of Chilean mining from pre-Columbian period (c. 2.200 B.C.) to contemporary times. The author, visual artist Alexander Sutulov, based his iconographic study in a thesis of how early metallurgical activity in the Andean world where the oldest evidence of work in copper was Mina Perdida near Lima, Peru during the Initial Period (2.000 – 900 B.C.) had a direct impact in the development of Chile as one of the mayor mining countries in the world. Contrary to common knowledge where gold and silver is usually associated to pre-Columbian cultures, it was not until a more complex metallurgy developed with the use of copper and its alloys allowed pre-Colombian civilization unfold to its full dimension".

Se esta introdução não vos desperta uma vontade incontida de aceder ao texto completo, então tomem cuidado com o que andam a fazer com as vossas vidas !

A reprodução do texto completo está leste link.

DAVID DUGAN - 1

about david dugan

EMPYRE

-empyre- facilitates critical perspectives on contemporary cross-disciplinary issues, practices and events in networked media by inviting guest -key new media artists, curators, theorists, producers and others to participate in thematic discussions.

Para todos aqueles que sabem que há mais vida para além das nossas contas públicas e das nossas pequenas rititi caseiras.

Poucos, mas muito bons !

AMY CONGER - 1

THE ERYK SALVAGGIO MUSEUM OF MODERN LIVING

"Every day, objects are discovered, created, or discarded, side effects of the human condition. The Eryk Salvaggio Museum of Modern Living seeks to document this debris; not as an art museum, but as a museum to the inadvertant, accidental documents we produce in the course of living our modern lives."

Esta é a apresentação de um projecto ambicioso, que pretende (e muitas vezes consegue) transformar o lixo da nossa sociedade em objectos que transcendem uma "leitura" imediata e consumista.

Fica aqui o link.

MARY JO BREZNY - 1

URBANITE

Um exemplo de como uma cidade americana, Baltimore, se promove através de um projecto que engloba uma revista mensal, Urbanite, e um site na net.

Vejamos como se apresentam:

Urbanite is like nothing you have ever seen before. Free, like an alternative weekly, but four-color like a lifestyle magazine, Urbanite leads an emerging trend in media coverage that combines excellence in editorial and design with accessibility. Urbanite provides cultural coverage of Baltimore life for urbanites who take advantage of the vitality found in the city, whether they work, play or live there.

Agora que se aproximam as eleições autárquicas, seria pedir demais aos candidatos por Lisboa (é aqui que o Jeremias pernoita) que nos brindassem com um projecto desta qualidade, nas propostas para a cidade ?

Eu sei que é pedir demais, pelo menos por agora !

JONATHAN POSTAL - 1

BARAK

Um novo jornal mensal com um projecto de vida muito ambicioso.

Aqui fica a apresentação dos próprios, bem como o site na net.

Barōk is a new monthly journal to identify, observe, and understand momentary forms of beauty submerged within a culture defined by information. It also provides subscribers the opportunity to purchase objects through the New Market, including: ideas, information, and things, which may not easily fit into traditional market categories, submitted by an evolving group of artists, designers, scientists and engineers.

SCARLET JAMES