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Monthly Archives: January 2010

PORN WORLD VS. REAL WORLD

Friday, January 15, 2010

Although TED might be known amongst most mono.blog participants, this is definitely worth another if not first visit.
Cindy Gallop (!) gives a lecture not only about porn vs. this thing called love but also introduces to her new web project Make Love Not Porn. It’s not that heard-a-thousand-times-and-999-times-even-better stuff but funny, plain and really real.
So, [...]

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GOING GOING GONE

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Our older issues are selling out very fast these days, such as mono.kultur #06 featuring versatile French director François Ozon. For those of you who missed it, do not fret – because we’re nice, you can download the PDF version for free from our website; just go here, to the bottom of the page. Of [...]

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MONO – LITH: GOOGLE vs CHINA vs WORLD WIDE WEB

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

In 2006 Google traded in their corporate slogan ‘Don’t be evil’ for a more flexible standard of ‘Look at the bright side’ when they accepted the Chinese government’s censorship regime upon their Chinese operation. They suggested that the benefits of increased access for people in China and a more open Internet outweighed the moral problems [...]

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COVER VERSION YOURSELF

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

“This project is not simply about having jazz musicians play rock or pop compositions. From Gabor Szabo to The Thing, this has already produced so many results of the greatest difference in quality that we have enough to do studying the causes of this difference. When Albert Oehlen had the idea that Sven-Åke Johansson’s group [...]

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A ‘GAMECHANGER’

Monday, January 11, 2010

A big storm is brewing in Los Angeles…. the Museum of Contemporary Art, financially battered and in desperate need of fresh blood, has unaminously voted in Jeffrey Deitch as its new director. A SOHO gallery impresario, Harvard MBA, ex-Citibank VP (he created its art advisory business), and current king of the downtown scene (see: Nest), [...]

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Center for Political Beauty

Monday, January 11, 2010

The Berlin-based Center for Political Beauty (Zentrum für Politische Schönheit) describes itself as “a group of performance artists trying to bring along a synthesis of human rights, postwar-societies, poetry, performance art and humanism.” Unfortunately, their website is only in German, and international press has failed to pick it up..
http://politicalbeauty.de

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HELLO THERE

Sunday, January 10, 2010

Look what just arrived on our doorstep these days… I’ve been waiting for this, and I’m not disappointed – on the contrary.

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WHITNEY BIENNIAL ARTISTS

Sunday, January 10, 2010

Francesco Bonami and Gary Carrion-Murayari, curators of the upcoming Whitney Biennial, found quite a charming way to announce the artist list, including names such as David Adamo, Richard Aldrich, Kate Gilmore, Piotr Ukla?ski, Pae White, and Robert Williams. The Biennial is the Whitney’s panoramic survey of the latest trends in American art – don’t miss [...]

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A PICTURE NEEDS MEMORIES TO BE AN IMAGE

Saturday, January 9, 2010

While waiting in anticipation for the arrival of your 2010 mono.kalendar you might be tempted to have a look at the 2010 limited edition calendars at www.found-photographs.com. These calendars are made up of photographs that were either lost, forgotten or thrown away. The images are now nameless, without connection to the people that they show [...]

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BOOKS ON LINE

Friday, January 8, 2010

‘What is the future of the photo book?’ It’s a question everyone is asking in these dark days for print. Should they exist as luxury objects, beautiful behemoths to look at but not touch? Or cheap broadsheets, more The New York Times than The Americans? Or should they even be physical objects anymore – why [...]

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