DJ/VJ set for Netherlands Institute for Media Art’s evening of demonstrations and presentations of new interfaces, models of interaction and performance technology. At this evening session the Interface Studies Group will present the ‘interface’ as the centre of technology mediated experience and will reveal trends, notions and tangible prototypes that stretch and challenge the still [...]
Bart Rutten of the Stedelijk invited me to come up with a short film introduction and live visual mix for this upcoming conference on museum as content creator. Thinking of Zabriskie point slow-motion explosions of the Guggenheim, youtube tourist videos from outside the represented museums, postcards and snapshots, classicism and iconography. Free entry, reserve via [...]
Three days in a cinema to pick the brain of Mike Figgis, director, artist and musician. Sugar and cocaine. Digital and celluloid. Grain and focus. Portrait and landscape. Hollywood and independence. Script-writing and score notation. Bullshit and real bullshit. Theatre and self-obsession. Pornography and J.L. Godard. Brilliant, real and inspiring. http://www.mikefiggis.co.uk Thanks to Janine Dijkmeijer at Cinedans.nl
BUSH “BUSHMAN COMETH” DOOF this Saturday night (00:00-02:00) in Amsterdam. Last ever party in the current location of the Service Garage. http://www.deservicegarage.nl http://www.bushdoof.eu REVISIT EXQUISIT Duo-tentoonstelling Kaleb de Groot & Roosje Klap (laatste tentoonstelling op de huidige locatie van de Service Garage) Opening: zaterdag 29 mei, 20:00 uur Muziek: Nathalie Bruys & Emile Zile Geopend: [...]
“From pretty to ugly and back again; mysterious ways of beauty in photography” http://www.tedxamsterdam.com/2009/video-hans-aarsman-on-the-mysterious-ways-of-beauty-in-photography/
Google screenshot painting by Tyler Wilde. A powerful article by Dutch-Australian media theorist Geert Lovink on google, society of the spectacle/query, net criticism and the XXXXXX ‘The society of the query and the Googlization of our lives’ http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2008-09-05-lovink-en.html An excerpt Ever since the rise of search engines in the 1990s we have been living in [...]
a day-long symposium on the changing nature of cultural development, ‘amateurism’ vs. ‘professionalism’, the shifting sands of creative consumption and critical construction… gatekeepers now left with no-one at the gates… playlist curatorial selections and niche/long tail sales techniques… for a long time it has been sensed that artists are the new curators, filters that set [...]
http://www.steim.org/STEIMBLOG/?p=871 the brutal immediacy of the voice, the ability it has to inspire fleeting recollections of forgotten characters it’s animalistic sonic attack, the elemental nature of a cry inherently humorous and intimate both performers began their solo sets with renditions of dada and futurist sound poems from their respective countries, the transportation of voices through [...]
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=95349500794 Wednesday night in Amsterdam, a selection of videos that inspire. Including Biggie Small’s funeral procession, Corey Delaney’s A Current Affair interview, Aum Shinrikyo Anime and John Kilduff’s Let’s Paint TV. Coming Wednesday (the 27th) it’s time for the second Beam club hosted by De Verdieping. This time Special guest Ben Cerveny (one of the [...]
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