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Titanic

Posted December 31st, 2008 by Lindsay
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Lindsay


Queen Scallop

Posted December 27th, 2008 by Lindsay
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Queen Scallop

One of my better attempts at underwater photography whilst diving. The Queen Scallop is a beautiful creature whose colours really light up with the camera flash, making the opening between the two shells seem like diamond encrusted teeth. Any slight touch or sharp movement will send the teeth chattering, opening and shutting in an attempt to swim away; the first time I saw this I could not stop laughing as the movement really is like cartoon false teeth.

Interface

Posted December 11th, 2008 by Lindsay
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Professor Kerstin Mey from the School of Art and Design at the University of Ulster will be giving a talk the Interface: Research in Technologies and Design project that she convenes (see http://interface.rehabstudio.co.uk/ ). The title of her talk is , `Art, Archives and Publics. INTERFACE explores two key processes that underlie innovative research practice in art and design. One is the investigation and redefinition of inherited categories of value and the other is the impact of digital media and new technologies on the production, distribution and mediation of art and design.

Compromising Electromagnetic Emanations of Keyboards Experiment 1/2

Posted November 23rd, 2008 by Lindsay
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Where the Radio Stops, the Music Begins

Posted November 22nd, 2008 by Lindsay
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Where the Radio Stops,

In 1895, Breuer and Freud published Studies on Hysteria, a seminal account of the development of the first scientific method for analysing the realities of the human mind, which suggested a new way of making inferences from the symbolic forms created in dreams using techniques such as free-association. This same year also saw the development of one of the first motion picture cameras by the Lumiere Brothers. The Cinematograph, a device that acted as a camera, developer and a projector, had its first public demonstration in the form of a twelve-film screening in Paris. The Cinematograph not only pipped Thomas Edison’s Kinetoscope to the post as the first publicised machine to enable a ‘cinematic’ event, but also hailed the start of an era of innovative communication, story telling and recording of realities.

The Ultimate Avant-garde: New Tendencies and Bit International

Posted September 11th, 2008 by Armin Medosch
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Works by Bonacic
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Armin Medosch

Since more than 10 years the Croatian media artist Darko Fritz has been researching the archives of the Museum for Contemporary Arts Zagreb to gather material about the New Tendencies series of exhibitions and events in Zagreb, Ex-Yugoslavia, now Croatia, from 1961 to 1973 and the Bit International journal published by that same art movement. An exhibition in 2007 at Neue Galerie Graz and now at ZKM Karlsruhe shows the works of this important but almost lost art movement, were it not for the effort of Darko Fritz. For the Graz exhibition a little catalogue came out with contributions by Peter Weibel, Jesa Denegri and Margit Rosen. I have data mined those articles and present this material in the manner of a literature review for other researchers to study it and draw their own conclusions. All translations from German are my translations.

Burning Water with Radio

Posted August 9th, 2008 by Lindsay
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Old news perhaps, but new to me and one for the notebook.

The Weaver Birds 8 | 8 | 8

Posted August 9th, 2008 by doll_yoko
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The Weaver Birds 8 | 8 | 8

Whilst Olympic spectaculars concentrate on tired tropes of nation, other ways of collectively being, living and working together continue to bubble up from the underground wellsprings. TAA - There are alternatives! We can, as Zapatista spokesperson Subcomandante Marcos suggested at the First Intercontinental Encuentro in August 1996, "tear off the clothes that resignation has woven for us and cynicism has dyed grey".1

This image of a weaver bird nest is placed at TNL as an invitation to enter the nest of dyne.org, and read their latest inspiring + poetic + liberatory missive entitled 'The Weaver Birds' published on the auspicious date of 8 / 8 / 8.

http://dyne.org/first_dharma_dyne.pdf

  1. 1. http://www.eco.utexas.edu/~archive/chiapas95/1996.08/msg00229.html

“A Hush Descended on the City…”: Hidden Histories and Radio Remembrance

Posted August 8th, 2008 by admin
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Author/s: 
Ieuan Franklin

Is Hidden Histories a micro-FM station, a sound installation, an audio tour, or a local history trail? Perhaps it is none of the above, or perhaps all four. The existence of such a project in some ways exposes the lack of a critical sound-based vocabulary, especially when attempting to portray particular instances of the convergence of oral history and electronic media in their distinctiveness and social context.

Tales from the Flexitariat: the sadness of the scientific lamp maker

Posted August 6th, 2008 by doll_yoko
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tools of a cog worker
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doll_yoko

My current flexi-job in the Land of Cog involves research on an arts project. It's a good gig – my colleagues/managers are old friends, the hourly rate is better than normal here (AUS $27 per hour), and the work interesting. The core of my work is interviewing artists and tradespeople who have been partnered in a professional exchange project.


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