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 innovation, strategy on Jan 25th, 2010
Check out the video of the Philosophy and Management Pecha Kucha presentation given by Laurent Ledoux at Recyclart in September 2009. I collaborated with him to prepare the photographs and Polaroids, you can find the details here. I hope it conveys the message and the exciting mission of the Philosophy and Management association.
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 philosophy on Nov 8th, 2009
- - - - Pain-free animals could take suffering out of farming, NewScientist – - - - Our daily bread documentary. Welcome to the world of industrial food production and high-tech farming! – - - - Is this post about art, innovation, governance or philosophy? I let you decide…
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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