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CELLULOID PANIC

Sunday, February 16, 2014

The films of Peter Tscherkassky (1958-) hearken back to golden period of experimental cinema.  Despite the capabilities of today’s film editing software, they engender not the uneasy multiple exposures, the interruptions of sprocket holes, and eruptions of grinding sounds populating Tscherkassky’s films.  Since his introduction to the everyman’s Super 8 in 1979, his works, frenetic [...]

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ACCIDENTAL COOL ART

Saturday, February 8, 2014

Should we take a moment to consider the threat of careers in the art world due to the Internet? For instance, what is Richard Wentworth to do now that you can find the real thing on Tumblr, with Accidental Cool Art? (Which is, incidentally, really entertaining.)

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WRONG

Thursday, November 28, 2013

The ubiquity of digital art, variously manifested as prismatic gifs, Google Map collages, interactive apps/music videos, and photomanipulations, has proven itself beyond fact beyond fad as an expressive medium for both ends–grassroots and elite–of the creative world.  It’s not surprising then that a contemporary survey, long in coming, has finally emerged.  Impishly named, The Wrong, organized by [...]

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FESTIVAL OF DANGEROUS IDEAS UPDATE

Monday, November 25, 2013

If you missed out on attending this year’s Festival of Dangerous Ideas you’re still in luck as you can now watch all the talks and discussions here!

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SOME PEOPLE ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS

Sunday, November 3, 2013

Name: David Simon
Age: 52-53
Occupation: Writer/producer/showrunner; former journalist
Status: Dangerous
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Q: What makes an idea ‘dangerous’?
An idea is dangerous when it claims a simple, painless solution to complex, fundamental problems.
Q: Which technological or scientific advancement excites you most?
The notion that the internet’s shared and rapid-fire marketplace of ideas might vanquish fundamentalist religion of all kinds within a [...]

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BEETHOVISION

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

While the craft of classical music courts notoriety for its mathematical complexity, its interpreters often express themselves in literary rambunctiousness and visual cues, relishing in matching timbres with colors, flourishing upon movements hippos and dancing flora a la Fantasia.  Floating above the soup of sentiments, Jorinde Voigt charts soundscapes according to an invented emotional notation, you [...]

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AEON

Friday, October 4, 2013

Aeon Magazine publishes one essay every weekday online under categories such as Living Together and Altered States. Thought-worthy and easily time-consuming.

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IF A TREE FALLS AND NO ONE IS AROUND TO HEAR IT

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Bomba Estero | A Take Away Show | Part 1 from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.
To those who live to scour Berlin’s soundscape, teeming with many a diamond in the rough, Petite Planètes will stand as the ultimate lovesong (excuse the cliché) to music’s overlooked, obscure, or near obliterated.  Uniting documentary, music video, and art [...]

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SILENCE/SOUND

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Evolution of Silence, Matthias Lohscheidt. 2013.
Degeneration of sound to the finer development of listening pleasures.
Might be interesting to read with Luigi Russolo’s Art of Noise.

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FESTIVAL OF DANGEROUS IDEAS

Monday, September 2, 2013

Festival of Dangerous Ideas
2 – 4 November, 2013
Sydney Opera House
Australia

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