Posted in art on Jan 10th, 2010
Thanks to We Make Money Not Art, I discovered this fantastic art project, “Street With A View“, currently exhibited at Manipulating Reality (Florence).
“On May 3rd 2008, artists Robin Hewlett and Ben Kinsley invited the Google Inc. Street View team and residents of Pittsburgh’s Northside to collaborate on a series of tableaux along Sampsonia Way. Neighbors, [...]
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Posted in art on Oct 27th, 2009
Nice video about a virtual building in Second Life called ‘Alexander Beach’. It was built as a place of gathering for students of the Princeton University. Looking at the forms of the building, very similar to what you can find in the state of the art architecture of the real world (e.g. on WAN), I [...]
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Posted in art on Oct 18th, 2009
I love big fairs like the Frieze Art Fair in London. You don’t need to concentrate and to try understanding any piece of art, as you do when you walked a long way to see 5 objects in a remote art gallery, frustrated to not see the obvious beauty in them. No, in the Frieze [...]
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Posted in art on Sep 12th, 2009
Here is a picture of the artificial traffic jam created by Maider López in 2005 (website, original article).
It should remind Week End (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967) to anyone who has seen the movie. Here is a clip.
When in a millennia people will try to understand how the end of the 20th century was like, I hope [...]
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Posted in art on Aug 5th, 2009
After months of intensive work on the Dreams of Progress exhibition, I’m back on my blog and I’m going to change few things. Now that I have started my philanthropic career as a curator, I have plenty of long and theoretical texts to write. I don’t want to publish equally boring texts on this blog, [...]
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