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The Hidden Masterpiece by Balzac, courtesy of Classic Literature.

Separate pages after the jump.

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A great website from the artist who brought us the Best of Blur album cover. I never used Mac os 9 much - I converted from The Darkside™ just as os X came in, but it doesn’t stop me enjoying this site a whole load.

And the art’s not bad either. . . .

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Saw Three Minute Wonder by Emily Dixon on TV a few weeks ago about Mark Titchner. (Can be found here) I hadn’t heard of him before but his use of media references as a found object (”found text and pre-exsistent ideas”), his very overt subversion of the language of modern media and his “Graphic sensibility”, interested me and relates to the work I’ve been trying to do

Turns out he was a Turner prize nominee (2006) this year (Three Minute Wonder was a tate production, & Mel assures me that his nomination was mentioned in the piece).

Anyhoo, more of my thoughts after the jump. . .

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• Whitechapel interview
  
• On music
  
• Wikipedia
  
• In the Guardian
  
• In Bomb magazine
  
• Artist.org
  
• Donald Young Gallery
  

More or less following up from here, my diploma project departed from the sadness of this computer beauty; its easy to create seductive content, but its hard to make it multi sensual, there is an embedded distancing in this medium. The 1 cm thick glass of a CRT screen, is actually quite metaphorical, were you can never touch the pixels, its a very tangible boundary.

Interview with Adam Somlai-Fischer via WE make money not art

FEED - FEED - Anthony Hurd

Interview with Andy Gracie

A sound installation by Maryanne Amacher: Gravity
 
Via We Make Money Not Art

David Lanham creates icons for iconfactory.com. Interview via Applematters

Read the interview here

Magnum

wirescapes | virtual sculpture interface | john vega 2003 found through ALTX.com

I was pleased to receive this email today:

Hi!
I have fell into your blog and find it interesting. In your posts you quote “Dogma 95″. I have an ongoing project more close to technology-cinema-performative arts that is a good showcase. If you want you can check it out at www.cinemasolubile.net.
Is a non-profit enthusiasm driven thing… if you like we can cross link or something, anyway, I would love to see a cinema solubile event in England…

have a nice day

and keep up with good research

federico

Mel and I are going away for 2 weeks now to France so I told Frederico that I’ll look at his work properly when we get back.

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Having a look at what I might enjoy the most about my trip to the RCA, Interaction Design show 2006

• Erico Matsumara


• Joseph Malia


• Eyal Burstein


• George Grinsted


• James King


• Jack Schulze


• Yumiko Tanaka


• Tomoaki Yanagisawa

The work of Alexander Wiethoff who blogs here with a number of other bods from IDII.

I wanna go play! -
Maybe Mel can be talked into living in Italy for a year or two . . . . ?

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Matt, (Not sure why I put the link in there Matt!) found this interview with D. Barenboim on sound, as part of the Reith Lectures. Matthew, I love you.

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UPDATE:

These lectures really are worth looking at or listening to - there are a further four, with one more to follow in May

• 1, In the Beginning was Sound (Same as above link)


• 2, The Neglected Sense


• 3, The Magic of Music


• 4, Meeting in Music


• 5, The Power of Music (No. 5 will be aired in May so may not yet be up)

There is a clear philosophical criticism of slogans, of the language of television, which is that it does not take into account the relation between content and time, and you cannot compress it and you cannot abbreviate it
- Daniel Barenboim

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Mel and I went to the ICA (Institute for Contemporary Arts) over the Easter weekend and caught the Kami-Robo Expo that was linked to the Butterfly-Stroke retrospective that was also showing. Unfortunately we only got to spend five minutes looking at the Beck’s Futures Exhibition. Se la vie.

Michael Golembewski, uses a scanner as the ‘film’ of a home-made camera. Found on the RCA interaction design website, this work pushes a lot of other scanner art forwards.

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A very good article by Banksy, the graf artist from London, about the role of graffiti in light of Melbourne’s decision to white-wash over one of the most diverse areas of ‘public art’ in the world - published in the Guardian on Fri (24/03/06)

Read the Article here.

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