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ENOISMS #02: BLOOM & SCAPE

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

If anything becomes obvious from our new issue with Brian Eno, then it’s that here is a mind endlessly at work detecting and uncoding context, different relationships between people, technology, events. In short, the things accountable for culture.
So it’s not really surprising that Eno, who is probably the most forward-looking, future-embracing person we’ve ever come [...]

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THE SHOWCASE OF THE FEMALE

Sunday, August 25, 2013

Sunday read in The Wire. The article looks at the appearance of female DJs at festivals. The statics proved that there is a massive imbalance. The reaction is a festival dedicated to female DJs. Perspectives is going to take place in Berlin, with workshops, talks, club nights with DJs and live performances. You can find the [...]

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SOCIAL VALUES FIRST

Thursday, June 13, 2013

Fairphone started in 2010 as an awareness project about conflict minerals in electronics and the wars that the sourcing of these minerals is fuelling in the DR Congo. 14 hours left to order the limited first edition of the Fairphone – made of conflict-free, fair resources.

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TRUISM OF THE DAY 20: JOHN GIORNO

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Poetry legend John Giorno’s take on Twitter in the April issue of Interview (where you can also find out about Andy Warhol’s physical endowments, should you be interested…)

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BLACK AND WHITE

Monday, May 13, 2013

Beautiful illustrations by the artist Daehyun Kim a.k.a. Moonassi… His monochromatic drawings are also adorning La Sardinia lomo cameras.

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Berlin Nightlight

Friday, April 19, 2013

Astronaut Chris Hadfield, currently on board International Space Station as Commander of Expedition 35, observed a difference in Berlin lighting at night:
Berlin at night. Amazingly, I think the light bulbs still show the East/West division from orbit.
Christian Fritzkowski (artistic name?) explains: “East Berlin (more yellow on the right) uses more lamps driven by sodium gas, [...]

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CRT MGN

Friday, April 12, 2013

For all long-time readers of mono.kultur who can still remember our issue #1 with Carsten Nicolai from September 2005, don’t miss his installation crt mgn at EIGEN+ART in Berlin, on view until May 18, 2013. (And for all who unfortunately missed this very first issue, you can download a screen version here.)
Information on the installation [...]

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GLITCH FURNITURE

Saturday, March 16, 2013

Look at this distorted image of an antique cupboard. Wrong – try again: look at this image of a distorted cupboard! True. Weird things are happening in the world of product design.

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IMAGE ATLAS

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

The Image Atlas is a recent project by Taryn Simon, and her first venture into the digital realm, but bearing all her signature interests in politics, society, cultural differences and visual representation. Based on a simple premise: if we experience the world more and more through the Internet, and through images in particular, what impact [...]

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Wave Field Weekend

Thursday, January 31, 2013

Don’t forget it’s transmediale time, at least catch some CTM highlights like Robert Henke’s wave field experiment or slightly more catchy Pantha du Prince & the Bell Laboratory (tickets might be tricky, but there’s more to come). That’s a thursday night to prepare for saturday.

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