Material for thought
Posted in art on Apr 25th, 2010
Few quotes from the book “Issues in curating contemporary art and performance” by Judith Rugg and Michèle Sedgwick: As cultural agents, curators and artists participate in the production of cultural value. Exhibitions are, therefore, contemporary forms of rhetoric, complex expressions of persuasion, whose strategies aim to produce a prescribed set of values and social relations for their [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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