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dm42 — Sun, 15 Sep 2002 08:49:00 GMT

looking for stuff in weblogs elsewhere...

2005-11-25

fotok by axelk

2005-03-31
Ja, ich war's
Best news ever - thanks tobi

2004-09-03
Relatin` Dudes to Jazz

2004-02-17
papagaje i perokety
i have no idea whats going on in this blog - but its definitely worth checking out...

2002-10-07
re::read
Tools for thought / Howard Rheingold ( via p3k )

2002-09-23
The collective intelligence of a mob
Kevin Kelly / Out of Control ( approx. via langreiter )

2002-09-18
Uber-Freak Lego-Films ( via fernsehratgeber )

2002-09-17
quartier21 opening ( via BETA|blogger )

2002-09-16
"Everything comes to an end" ( via Weblog )

2002-09-15
Fiber Art : Following the Thread ( via malorama )
..:: reto camenisch - photography ::.. ( via le sofa blogger )
monochroms türme von hanoi ( via john tokyo land )
international homestories ( via hirn&verbrannt )

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Delettering the public space

dm42 — Tue, 07 Jun 2005 06:39:00 GMT

DELETE!
Delettering the public space

An installation by Christoph Steinbrener & Rainer Dempf
6 – 20 June 2005, Neubaugasse, 1070 Vienna

Summer 2005, Neubaugasse, a Viennese shopping street – For a period of two weeks all advertising signs, slogans, pictograms, company names and logos will be covered in monochrome. Something you might have seen before in the form of two-dimensional representations or photomontage is going to be translated for the first time into three-dimensionality, into the here and now reality of Vienna’s Neubaugasse, by Christoph Steinbrener und Rainer Dempf.
“Delete” will entail a very likely unique cooperation of all resident shopkeepers with a spectacular art project, a cooperation that has been made possible by the shopping street management unit of the Vienna Economic Chamber. For a period of two weeks, the entrepreneurs will renounce their identities to become part of a large-scale installation.

6 – 20 June 2005, Neubaugasse, 1070 Vienna

[/] DELETE!

William Eggleston

dm42 — Fri, 03 Sep 2004 13:55:00 GMT

William Eggleston: Los Alamos

William Eggleston is known for his pioneering work in color photography, which he helped establish as a serious artistic medium. Using a color intense, dye-transfer printing process and working within the seemingly artless snapshot style, Eggleston photographed everyday life, adhering to a philosophy of the "democratic camera" that ignored representational hierarchies. The images in the Los Alamos series were taken between 1965 and 1974 during Eggleston's travels in the American South and West. The 88 prints in the exhibition include the first image in this body, taken in his hometown of Memphis, as well as pictures of the Mississippi Delta, New Orleans, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and more.

August 21, 2004 - January 04, 2005
[/] SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
[/] Getty Museum ExploreArt

Update: 26.1. - 24.4.2005
[/] Albertina Wien

Catalogue
William Eggleston: Los Alamos ISBN-3908247691, Hardcover: $65.00

Lebbeus Woods

dm42 — Sat, 24 Jul 2004 08:30:00 GMT

Lebbeus Woods: Experimental Architecture
July 31, 2004 – January 16, 2005
Heinz Architectural Center

Widely considered one of the most innovative experimental architects working today, Lebbeus Woods (American, b. 1940) combines an extraordinary mastery of drawing with a penetrating analysis of architectural and urban form and social and political conditions that is nourished by his wide knowledge of fields ranging from philosophy to cybernetics. Like many architects engaged in speculation, he has produced no permanent bricks-and-mortar edifices.

[/] Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

Between Past and Future

dm42 — Sun, 20 Jun 2004 13:22:00 GMT

Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China
June 11 - Sept. 5 2004
This exhibition is co-organized by the International Center of Photography, New York and the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago in collaboration with the Asia Society, New York and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

For the past two decades, China has been passing through a remarkable transformation, one whose full extent is only now becoming visible. This exhibition, which brings together 130 works by 60 younger artists from mainland China, comprises a host of highly individual responses to the successive waves of change that have swept through China’s economic, social, and cultural life.

[/] www.asiasociety.org

Faster, Cheaper, Newer, More

dm42 — Sat, 05 Jun 2004 06:16:00 GMT

Book: De la loi du contraste simultané des couleurs By Michel Eugène Chevreuil (1786-1889). Published by Pitois-Levrault et Cie. France, 1839. Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Institution Libraries, ND 1488.C52 1839. PHOTO: Matt Flynn

Faster, Cheaper, Newer, More: Revolutions of 1848
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution
June 4, 2004 - January 9, 2005

[...] an exhibition that draws on artifacts from Cooper-Hewitt's vast permanent collection to explore the rapid political, technological, and social changes which burst forth in and around the pivotal year 1848. The exhibition encompasses objects from all four Cooper-Hewitt curatorial departments— Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design; Product Design and Decorative Arts; Wallcoverings; and Textiles—as well as from the Library and Rare Book Archives at Cooper-Hewitt, and from several collecting departments of other Smithsonian museums.

[/] Cooper-Hewitt, The Nancy and Edwin Marks Collection Gallery

MEXICAN STREET GRAPHICS

dm42 — Fri, 28 May 2004 08:42:00 GMT

Sensacional de Diseño Mexicano
AIGA National Design Center, 164 Fifth Avenue New York
May 28–August 13, 2004

MEXICAN STREET GRAPHICS IN NEW YORK
The hot show in New York for Memorial Day is “Sensacional! Mexican Street Graphics” May 28-Aug. 13, 2004, at the American Institute of Graphic Arts Gallery at 164 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. The exhibition, organized by photographer Juan Carlos Mena, features more than 200 images taken from beauty shops, Aztec and Maya-themed illustrations, Catholic icons, food stands, wrestling, pocket-sized comics, burlesque, taxis and more.

[/] www.aiga.org

Whitney Biennial 2004

dm42 — Fri, 26 Mar 2004 14:43:00 GMT

Whitney Biennial 2004
March 11 - May 30 2004

Reflecting a reinvigoration of contemporary American art, at a moment of profound change in our cultural landscape, the 2004 Whitney Biennial will explore a number of interwoven aesthetic tendencies in works by an exceptional group of intergenerational artists.
The exhibition will present works by 108 artists and collaborative groups...

[/] 2004 Biennial
[/] Whitney Museum of American Art .FLASH

Glen E. Friedman

dm42 — Sun, 07 Mar 2004 09:08:00 GMT

Glen E. Friedman - The Idealist
SIXSPACE
March 6 - April 10, 2004

This collection of photographs from 25 years (1976 - 2001) of Friedman’s work concentrates on his visual aesthetic and is the public introduction to his striking fine-art photography. Though he continues a heavy focus on both imagery and message, only a few of his traditional photographs of legendary people in the hip-hop, punk and skate communities will be recognized. The Idealist traces Friedman's development as a fine-artist as his subject matter includes a breathtaking international scope of landscapes, still life, and documentary. New and old fans of his work will be delighted to see his capacity to capture essential moments of most anything he sets his eyes on, to help us open ours.

[/] sixspace
[/] Glen E. Friedman

Robert Wilson

dm42 — Fri, 27 Feb 2004 19:19:00 GMT

Fables de La Fontaine
La Comédie-Française, Director: Robert Wilson
Jan. 31 - Mid May 2004

As a counterpoint to the vanity of the courtly world, Les Fables, which were hugely successful the moment they appeared, have over the last three centuries become a popular work giving people across the board, from West to East, the possibility of learning something while having fun. Although they may be read to children and often shown as audio-visuals, their apparent simplicity is the fruit of great art and a free and cheerful mind. They are a digest of several forms, including oral tradition, poetical song, conversational art, argumentation, precise visual effect, and animal phantasmagoria. They are a pleasure at every turn, feeding the imagination and strengthening reasoning. They are wonderful pieces for actors to practise on, given that their concise dramatic energy, sharp argumentation, and perfect story flow require versatility, precision and eloquence. In the purest French, La Fontaine gives the power of speech to the whole world: people, animals, plants and gods.

[/] La Comédie-Française

Robert Shlaer

dm42 — Sun, 22 Feb 2004 08:55:00 GMT

Sights Once Seen
Daguerreotyping Frémont's Last Expedition Through the Rockies
Amon Carter Museum
January 31 through May 2, 2004

In 1853, explorer John C. Frémont led an expedition from Missouri to California in an attempt to locate a route for the proposed transcontinental railway. Tragically, the work of the expedition's original photographer, Solomon Nunes Carvalho, was lost to fire not long after the trek's culmination.

In this exhibition, Robert Shlaer, who from 1994 to 1998 retraced Frémont's route, recaptures the journey using one of the most beautiful and demanding of all photographic processes. By referring to engraved illustrations, period maps, and an account of Frémont's expedition written by Carvalho, Shlaer magnificently reconstructed Carvalho's lost work.

[/] Amon Carter Museum

[/] amazon.com

John Waters

dm42 — Wed, 18 Feb 2004 08:38:00 GMT

John Waters: Change of Life
February 7 - April 15, 2004
New Museum of Contemporary Art
583 Broadway (between Houston and Prince Streets)
New York, NY 10012

Over four decades, the controversial and celebrated film director John Waters-once crowned "The Pope of Trash" by William Burroughs and more recently hailed as the original voice behind Broadway's smash-hit musical Hairspray-has tested the boundaries that separate the margins of culture from the mainstream. Always eager to raise the issues that polite society works so hard to suppress-such as race, religion, sex, and class-Waters aims to liberate us from the binds of social norms and restrictions. To that end, he has created provocative, hilarious, and important films, and in a more recent change of life, has added photography to his repertoire.

[/] New Museum of Contemporary Art

ANT FARM 1968–1978

dm42 — Sun, 15 Feb 2004 15:44:00 GMT

ANT FARM 1968–1978
WED JAN 21 2004 - SUN APR 25 2004

On July 4, 1975, in the parking lot of San Francisco's Cow Palace, two artists, Curtis Schreier and Doug Michels, outfitted like astronauts, crawled into the Phantom Dream Car—a customized 1959 Cadillac Biarritz complete with interior video communication—and drove it full speed through a pyramid of flaming TVs. Media Burn, a spectacular performance, and later a widely distributed videotape, was a literal collision of two American icons: the car and the television set. It remains one of the most celebrated (and oft-imitated) pieces by the endlessly enterprising collective Ant Farm—radical architects, video, performance, and installation artists, and above all, visionaries and cultural commentators. The first museum retrospective of Ant Farm offers an intriguing look into Conceptual Art and the ethos of the late sixties and seventies, a time that has proved to be seminal for succeeding generations of adventuresome artists.

[/] BAM/PFA Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive

Diane Arbus et al.

dm42 — Fri, 13 Feb 2004 16:07:00 GMT

STREET CREDIBILITY
MOCA AT THE GEFFEN CONTEMPORARY
01.25.04 - 06.07.04

Featuring 200 photographs from the 1940s to the 1970s by Diane Arbus, her peers, and the artists who were inspired by her vision, Street Credibility examines the period in contemporary photography when the boundary between what was real and what was artificially created became increasingly blurred. Included is the work of Larry Clark, Lee Friedlander, Charles Gatewood, Les Krims, Danny Lyon, Sally Mann, Bill Owens, Jeffrey Silverthorne, and Garry Winogrand, as well as a selection of work by Arbus's predecessors, including Lisette Model, August Sander, and Weegee.

[/] MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, LA

Ed Ruscha

dm42 — Thu, 12 Feb 2004 22:23:00 GMT

Ed Ruscha: Mountain Paintings
February 13 - April 11, 2004
Aspen Art Museum, Lower Gallery

This exhibition features recent work by American painter Ed Ruscha, one of the formative artists of Pop Art as it was developed on the West Coast and one of the most celebrated painters working today.

[/] Aspen Art Museum

[/] Edward Ruscha @ National Gallery of Art

Lotte Jacobi (1896-1990)

dm42 — Sat, 07 Feb 2004 18:02:00 GMT

Focus on the Soul: The Photographs of Lotte Jacobi
Jewish Museum, New York
Feb. 6-Apr. 11, 2004

Over eighty vintage prints by the German-American photographer Lotte Jacobi (born in West Prussia in 1896; died in United States in 1990) showcase her contribution to the history of photography.

[/] The Jewish Museum

Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957)

dm42 — Tue, 03 Feb 2004 15:43:00 GMT

constantin brancusi _ the essence of things
29 January - 23 May 2004

Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957) was one of the founding figures of modern sculpture and one of the most original artists of the twentieth-century. His groundbreaking carvings introduced abstraction and primitivism into sculpture for the first time, and were as important as Picasso’s paintings to the development of modern art.

[/] Tate Modern

Chuck Close

dm42 — Fri, 30 Jan 2004 15:49:00 GMT

Emma, 2002
Chuck Close (American, born 1940)

Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration
January 13, 2004 – April 18, 2004

The subjects of the prints by renowned contemporary artist Chuck Close, like those of his large paintings, are the faces of relatives and fellow artists, as well as self-portraits. This retrospective presents more than 100 images, ranging from Close's first print, Keith, a mezzotint made in 1972, to the 120-color Japanese-style ukiyo-e woodcut Emma, completed in 2002. Also displayed are other intaglios and woodcuts, lithographs, silk-screen prints, linoleum cuts, and selected print matrixes, such as woodblocks and etching plates. The exhibition includes a number of progressive proofs and state proofs of certain images to illuminate Close's working methods.

[/] The Metropolitan Museum of Art

CLUI.ORG

dm42 — Sun, 25 Jan 2004 18:50:00 GMT

Dedicated to the increase and diffusion of information about how the nations lands are apportioned, utilized, and perceived.

The Center for Land Use Interpretation
is a research organization involved in exploring, examining, and understanding land and landscape issues. The Center employs a variety of methods to pursue its mission - engaging in research, classification, extrapolation, and exhibition.

[/] clui.org

Trachtenburgs

dm42 — Fri, 11 Jul 2003 03:54:00 GMT

The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players have been playing all over LA.

We take people's vintage slides that we purchase at estate and yard sales and turn them into pop rock exposes. A concept, that if applied correctly, will change the future of entertainment.

In a feat of pure cultural alchemy, the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players create off-kilter musical magic based on photographic slides acquired at yard sales and estate sales. Featuring Jason Trachtenburg on guitar and keyboard, his wife Tina as the slide projectionist, and their nine-year-old daughter Rachel on drums, the group has taken New York by storm since moving here from Seattle. David now welcomes them to WFMU, where they will adapt their tuneful visual spectacle for the radio airwaves.

I saw them last night at Tangier, and it was a lot of fun. A six-part rock opera based on a set of internal McDonald's advertising strategy slides from the 70s ("Let's Not Have The Same Weight In 1978--Let's Have More") sounds pretty awful, but's not. It's not like the music is that great, but as a show, and as a family, the Trachtenburgs are very entertaining. My favorite bit might have been when nine year-old Rachel, the drummer, called for a do over of a song that started out badly.
-- john wiseman

[/] Trachtenburg Tour Dates

Kamakura: The Art of Zen Buddhism

dm42 — Wed, 02 Jul 2003 18:00:00 GMT

Kamakura: The Art of Zen Buddhism
Tokyo National Museum
Until July 13

For a sect based on finding enlightenment inside one’s self rather than in the trappings of the world, Zen Buddhism and its temples have accumulated some amazing stuff. Not rock gardens, ikebana, or Noh masks. Those Zen-influenced traditional arts were largely formulated and practiced by lay people, not monks. This show, in honor of the 750th anniversary of the founding of Kamakura’s Kenchoji temple, reveals Zen’s focus on quality over quantity in significant works from Japan’s oldest Zen temples. ...
[/] John McGee / Metropolis Tokyo

[/] Tokyo National Museum

The Photography of Charles Sheeler

dm42 — Sun, 08 Jun 2003 04:11:00 GMT

Ford Plant, River Rouge, Criss-Crossed Conveyors, 1927

The Photography of Charles Sheeler
June 3, 2003 - August 17, 2003
Drawings, Prints, and Photographs Galleries, 2nd Floor

The first major exhibition of photographs by the American artist Charles Sheeler (1883–1965), this show includes work from each of the artist's major photographic series, from the rough-hewn surfaces of his Doylestown house to the Manhattan skyline, from the swelling forms of a nude body to the industrial landscape of an automotive works. Also included are a number of Sheeler's little-known late photographs, which were employed in place of traditional sketches as "notes in shorthand" for his paintings of the 1940s and 1950s.

[/] The Metropolian Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York, New York 10028-0198
Phone: 212-535-7710

Brian Eno : Bell Studies for the Clock of the Long Now

dm42 — Sat, 24 May 2003 11:07:00 GMT

January 07003
Bell Studies for the Clock of the Long Now
By Brian Eno

Brian Eno has composed this album of entirely generative music using physically modeled bell sounds of what the Clock may sound like. This record has grown out of the Long Now Foundation's project - the Clock of the Long Now. This is an idea to create a working clock which will mark time for ten thousand years - not really because we need more clocks in the world, but because we need more encouragement to start contemplating the possibility of a distant human future. The Clock of the Long Now is an icon to long-term thinking.

[/] The Long Now

'Bullet Time' to 'Burly Brawl'

dm42 — Sun, 04 May 2003 17:02:00 GMT

How John Gaeta invents digital cinematography - a deep, informing story on creating the visual effects for the MATRIX series by Steve Silberman

[/] wired 11.05

Postwar Japanese Anime/ Manga

dm42 — Mon, 28 Apr 2003 22:47:00 GMT

April 6 - June 1, 2003, Doizaki Gallery
Japanese American Cultural and Community Center
Los Angeles (Little Tokyo)

In the early 1960s American television was flooded with Japanese pop manga and animation. Characters like Astro Boy and GIGANTOR captured the imagination of American audiences and dramatically affected graphic design and visual arts in the United States. The influences of this early anime/manga is clearly visible in today's animation and comic art, and the popularity of contemporary Japanese anime series like Dragon Ball Z, Pokemon and Sailor Moon continues to soar.

The exhibit pays tribute to and contextualize these early anime/ manga works featuring photos,magazines, pictures, classic merchandise and videos. The seminal works of Astro Boy, Kimba, 8 Man and GIGANTOR will be explored in depth.

[/] jaccc.org
[/] janet.org