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Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > Art styles, 1960 - > Conceptual art
This book is a collection of fish and other animals in boxes with a
self-explanatory saying in the art image.These paintings were
painted at the boardwalk on Venice Beach, California from 2007 to
present.Philosophical, political. cultural, scientific, humorous
comments on present day society.
frames per second / frames made from video fly-overs of large
drawings / sequences of repetitions with incremental changes,
edited / musical structures / sound patterns / stutter poems /
comics
FLOSS+Art critically reflects on the growing relationship between
Free Software ideology, open content and digital art. It provides a
view onto the social, political and economic myths and realities
linked to this phenomenon. Topics include: digital art licensing,
copying and distributing under open content models, the influence
of FLOSS on digital art practices, the use of free software to
produce art and the art of producing free software, FLOSS as an
embedded political message in digital art, paradoxes and
limitations of open licenses for digital art, FLOSS as a way to
quote and embed other artworks in the making of new works,
definitions and manifestos for a free software art... With
contributions from: Fabianne Balvedi, Florian Cramer, Sher Doruff,
Nancy Mauro Flude, Olga Goriunova, Dave Griffiths, Ross Harley,
Martin Howse, Shahee Ilyas, Ricardo Lafuente, Ivan Monroy Lopez,
Thor Magnusson, Alex McLean, Rob Myers, Alejandra Maria Perez Nuez,
Eleonora Oreggia, oRx-qX, Julien Ottavi, Michael van Schaik, Femke
Snelting, Pedro Soler, Hans Christoph Steiner, Prodromos Tsiavos,
Simon Yuill. Compiled and edited by Aymeric Mansoux and Marloes de
Valk.
Rejecting the dichotomy of centralism and horizontalism that has
deeply marked millennial politics, Rodrigo Nunes' close analysis of
network systems demonstrates how organising within contemporary
social and political movements exists somewhere between - or beyond
- the two. Rather than the party or chaos, the one or the
multitude, he discovers a 'bestiary' of hybrid organisational forms
and practices that render such disjunctives false. The resulting
picture shows how social and technical networks can and do
facilitate strategic action and fluid distributions of power at the
same time. It is by developing the strategic potentials that are
already immanent to networks, he argues, that contemporary
solutions to the question of organisation can be developed. Part of
the PML Books series. A collaboration between Mute and the
Post-Media Lab. http: //metamute.org/
The white cube, that paragon of minimalist sculpture, has an active
life outside the gallery's walls. Come see what life is like for
this sensible everyman, as he makes his way in the world after
business hours. "Get to know this chill cube" - Seven Days,
Burlington, VT
In less than two decades, digital networks have moved from
providing a macro background environment - actively accessible by
only a small coterie of scientists, experts, and state or corporate
agents - to pervading and augmenting our lives at an increasingly
micrological level. As our world is plugged into the matrix, we
know from direct experience that the pace of change is feverish,
the scope infinite and the effects in need of constant reckoning.
The Post-Media Lab offers a space in which to examine, reflect and
operate upon the networked, mediatised society from an unhurried
perspective. We seek to slow down the machinic pace of 'cybertime'
just enough to allow for a different tempo of thought to engage and
encompass it. Through a programme of four bi-annual residency
cycles spanning 2012 and 2013, the Lab has provided participants
(artists, technologists, film-makers, activists, cultural/media
theorists) with the practical and intellectual support and
resources to build real-world, aesthetic, technical or theoretical
assemblages which operate acutely on the interface between digital
networks and social and political life.
The one true solution in life is that there are no solutions.
Transformation of Consciousness: I have come to an acute
realization how crucial and vital is human to express in life.
Being able to communicate using language, a culturally acquired
symbol, is an ability that is unique to humans. Language, however,
by the virtue of its nature, is limited by cultural boundaries; one
has to learn it to communicate. However, unlike language, can
transmit feelings and ideas evoking them through lines, shapes,
texture, arrangement and/or colors, on a two/three dimensional
space. My love for, interest in, and an innate aptitude in the
visual arts inevitably determined the artistic medium by which I am
to "express" my life. It can transcend temporal and spatial
boundaries; it speaks universal human "language." - InSoon -
Manifesto for a Theory of the 'New Aesthetic' - An irreverent
guided tour of the 'New Aesthetic' by Curt Cloninger, The Missing
Factory - John Roberts considers why work remains absent from film
and culture more generally, Barbara Says - Industry Does it Faster
- Roman Vasseur reviews the Artist Placement Group's historic
brokerage of bureaucracy and art, The Ghosts of Participation Past
- Josephine Berry Slater reviews Claire Bishop's recent book,
Artificial Hells, Listener As Operator 3 - Howard Slater finds in
jazz a response to the experience of slavery which preserves and
propels a collective being, Untitled #M001 - #M011 2,325,600
combinations of 16 grays an artist's project by John Houck, Gaming
the Plumbing - Alberto Toscano inspects the gap between financial
fantasies and the muddy realities of the 'robot phase transition',
Destructive Destruction? - How is high frequency trading's drive to
efficiency affecting market dynamics as a whole? Ask Inigo
Wilkinson and Bogan Dragos, Fellowship of the Wrong - A
code-splitting tale of lightspeed trading run by Benedict Seymour,
with illustrations by Rona Tunnadine, The Guest - A short story by
Mira Mattar exploring the annihilating power of luxury, The Garden
of Earthly Delights - Matthew Fuller wades through the Olympic muck
to visit The Crystal World, At the Limit: Self-Organisation in
Greece - Anna O'Lory of Blaumachen identifies some limits to
current struggles in Greece, Whose Rebel City? - Neil Gray
discusses David Harvey's Rebel Cities from the perspective of the
autonomous urban struggles of '70s Italy
'Law Enforcement Slogans' is the book form of an artwork of the
same name which has been exhibited at London's Whitechapel Gallery
as part of The London Open in 2012 and Herzliya Museum of
Contemporary Art in 2013 in the exhibition Other People's Problems:
Conflicts and Paradoxes. When exhibited the work is a floor to
ceiling list of international law enforcement slogans paired with
the respective agency name in order. In book format each double
page spread lists slogans by letter of the alphabet, with slogans
on the left-hand page faced on the right by agency name. The first
pages list slogans beginning with the letter A 'A Commitment To
First Nations - Dakota Ojibway Police Service, Manitoba, Canada' to
the final page which ends with 'Zero Deaths. Everyone Counts' from
Alaska Bureau Of Highway Patrol, USA. Both sets of text, slogan and
agency name, are aligned towards the book gutter where the pages
meet. This references how the work was shown at the Whitechapel
Gallery and Herzliya, as a single column. Law Enforcement Slogans
was first shown in 2011 as a printed spreadsheet, forming part of a
group taking place in a disused London office.
This book Patterns of Consciousness is a collection of five books;
these are Inspired Individuality, Transcendent Emergence, Soul
Mechanics, Astral Projection and Akashic Arwen. Each of the books
in this series contains thirty eight separate pieces of abstract
psychedelic line art, which to those with the gift of imagination
is capable of merging and morphing into many different aspects of
the one central image, it is almost as if the pages can come to
life The pieces of artwork contained within are not simply the
random lines of a faceless abstract chaos. At a fundamental level
each one has within it the subtle design of subliminal meaning
representing and expressing the dynamics of self as you gaze deep
inside its mystic matrix of meaning. Intended to be the next big
thing in the psychology of the personality and of the subconscious
in the same way that the Rorschach 'Ink-Blot Test' took centre
stage in the early development of psychology, these pieces of
abstract line art seek to develop this field further. These
morphogenic drawings can be used to test the depth and nature of
the instinctual and reactionary tendencies at work within the
dynamics of the self. These drawings are different from simple ink
blots though, the difference being that to those who are creative
these pieces of artwork can be worked upon by the individual. By
being elaborated upon, shaded in or coloured to give a more
detailed, vivid and accurate graphic representation of the
constructs of our own identity and self. Perhaps then we will see
how exactly with all people being unique original individuals the
pieces of the self can be similar enough for all human beings to be
able to relate to each other and actually fit together as
individuals and as a society.
Detective Joshua Frank finds himself in a very daunting case.
Widower of a wife that was raped and murdered, he finds himself
tracking a serial killer that's killing sexual predators. The
killer believes that by torturing his victims until they beg
forgiveness and repent for their sins, he is cleansing their souls,
saving them from eternal fire. After the killer sends them on their
way to judgement, he confesses to his priest, whom absorbs him of
his sin. God's Prayer is a whirlwind of twist and turns, that may
provoke many conversations on morality.
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