In the Netherlands, there is a raging debate about a movie nobody ever saw. It seems that images have become so powerful, we don’t even need them anymore to scare the hell out of us.
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Back to the Tribe, Global Image Economy, Hyperreality
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from NextNature.net - Nature changes along with us.
by Hendrik-Jan Grievink
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This impression shows the ambitions of the city of Rotterdam for the coming decade. The city is supposed to have an image problem concerning its greenlife; as a big industrial harbour city in The Netherlands, there are almost no parks in the center. So where space in citycenters is generally built to the max, the roofs should be taking the city’s ecology to the next level. According to environmental psychologist Sjerp de Vries, it is a proven fact that the more green people see, the less stress they experience. Hence they will feel more at home, social contacts improve as well as the air quality. Green roofs improve the quality of life.
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biopolitics, Hypernature, manufactured landscapes, Officegarden, Soft architecture, The map is the territory, utopian suburbia
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by =A=
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“Mr. Ray” [4.8 MB .mp3]
An exploration of the sonata form. A main (allegro) theme, a slower theme, a dance, and return to the allegro. The initial four-note motif is a Reaktor preset and the rest is me. Sonatas are supposed to have some kind of tonal center but this is all timbral and rhythmic. It is a “twelve tone” piece, I suppose, too, at least the fast synthesized string parts. The sound quality is pretty harsh–it’s not very generous in terms of tunes or a groove anyone could sink into. It’s something I had to do and I will now return to mellifluous Tin Pan Alley tunesmithing.
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from tom moody
by tom moody
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Hello, my name is Randall Szott. I am the founder of Dilettante Ventures which was a collective comprised of other collectives - LeisureArts, placekraft, and Studiolo54. All of these collectives had blogs that served as repositories of some activities, but did not serve as complete documentation of their activities. All of the collectives were comprised by myself only with the exception of Studiolo54 which had one other member. Maybe now some of you can understand why most everything written on this blog employed the collective “we” when offering up commentary.
LeisureArts helped me clarify many of my thoughts concerning how art and other forms of creative engagement with the world could lead to “the good life.” My life, for better or worse, has been geared towards thinking about and attempting to embody, a vision of said good life. This blog provided a useful articulation of the theoretical/conceptual underpinnings of this exploration.
It is now time to turn my attention toward living and away from discursive arguments. I am grateful to all those who have taken the time to read and even take seriously the things I’ve written for LeisureArts. Much of the material here is obscure and it is often contrarian, but it is sincere. It is probably obvious that the dramas, protocols, and restrictions of the art world (the professional market/academic one) are of little use to me. Art has never been a vocation for me and probably never will be. In a funny way, I take it much too seriously. To paraphrase Luc Ferry in writing about the Greek view of philosophy - I see it as a mode of life rather than mere discourse. I’ll be around, but Dilettante Ventures, and thus, LeisureArts are no more. I’ve got too much living to do.
P.S. I mentioned before a new curatorial venture outside Chicago called “he said - she said” and my final post here will be an announcement of the launch of its web site you can bookmark it now or wait for the final post.
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by Dilettante Ventures
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he said-she said is an exhibition and event series held in the home of Pamela Fraser and Randall Szott. They will take turns presenting what amounts to an ongoing conversation about art and culture - Ms. Fraser presenting art and artists, and Mr. Szott sharing the activities of people who work in other contexts. Together they hope to offer up a fun and thoughtful take on current ideas in art and life.
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What does it mean to work in the porn industry and what difference does it make if a women wrote the script and stands behind the camera? A panel discussion during the 2.Porn Filmfestival in Berlin with Erika Lust (Barcelona), Jennifer Lynn (Melbourne/Berlin), Julia Ostertag (Berlin), Ovidie (Paris), Petra Joy (Brighton) and Audacia Ray (New York).<!–break–>
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from V2V
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Renaming Machine is a war concept that could be interpreted as a subtle but powerful strategy for erasing ethnic, cultural or gender identity without using any aggression or causing any direct material damage. It functions as a conceptual weapon of destruction, as a kind of wage war or a contest between the old and new identity layer. However, renaming simultaneously adds and multiplies a new layer of identity each time it erases one, because the names could be neither stolen nor completely erased: the best example of accumulation by dispossession in David Harvey’s terms. Moreover, according to Jacques Derrida giving names is also an act of love. RM attempts to point to the arbitrariness and contingency of representation that accompany the use of names and to raise the discussion about the invisible ideological patterns of “desiring renaming machine” standing behind the power regimes of representation while dispossessing and giving names.
In my presentation I want to focus on the exploration of this clandestine ambivalence within the renaming as a juxtaposition of various identities. It is extremely important to reflect the complex entanglements of the political and cultural processes of renaming and the urgent need for questioning how these processes and patterns influenced the construction and destabilisation of national, cultural and personal identity during the last two decades within the Balkan region. I aim to encompass various art and cultural phenomena attached to renaming in order to explore the scale to which renaming affects visual culture and transgresses cultural identities and subjectivities in the Balkans.
Renaming Machine was specifically motivated by the unique and absurd outwitting between Greece and Macedonia about the right to use the name “Macedonia.” This conflict resulted with exhausting processes of negotiations that still trouble the stability of the region. Regardless all paradoxes this “war of names” became an international precedent and the best example that names are overrated as identity insignia and “omen.”
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from V2V
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