Aug 31, 2010

Around the city of Lublin, Poland, on empty buildings as well as inhabited ones, in the alleys of the old city and on streets of the newer parts, Ronen posted photos of different examples of Jewish people who lived on these streets in these houses of the center of Lublin in between in the nineteen twenties ’till 1941.
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Aug 29, 2010

From October 21st to 26th, Graz’s Elevate Festival once again stimulates new ways of thinking and listening through an extraordinary combination of electronic music, art and political discourse. Elevate highlights the role and importance of social movements as well as progressive initiatives in civil society and the importance of generating positive change in our society as a whole. At the same time, Elevate presents many live acts that offer fascinating odysseys into innovative worlds of sound far off the beaten path.
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Aug 9, 2010
Dutch designer Tomáš Gabzdil Libertiny built a glass vitrine and suspended this martyred figure in the middle. He then released 40,000 worker bees over the course of the event to create a wax honeycomb structure over the figure.
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Aug 9, 2010
Sun Boxes is a solar powered sound installation by Craig Colorusso.
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Aug 6, 2010

Quote: ‘When I first came to the U.S, I had a communication problem as English was not my native language. Observing people’s faces and gestures helped my understanding, and I started to inquire and develop a project about non-verbal communication. In “Mirror Mask”, I focused on the concept, where I questioned how we are universally able to communicate with our body regardless of race or language. This mirror shows more angles of the face so that it helps communicate and exaggerate our facial expressions to one another.’
Source: bohyunyoon.com
Via: eyeteeth.blogspot.com
Jul 28, 2010
By Eliot Van Buskirk

In a never-ending race to react to minute fluctuations in stock prices faster than anyone else in the world, financial firms have gone to extraordinary lengths to build the fastest possible networks, processors and software.
They measure their success by the nanosecond, which is the amount of time it takes light to travel a scant eight inches through a fiber-optic cable. While that might seem absurd to those of us still stuck on sluggish and overpriced consumer net connections, their obsession will, one day, likely become our gain.
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Jul 2, 2010
By Greg Tate

Once upon a time in the Bronx, before HipHop had a name, or came to be defined by the Five Elements of MCing, breakdancing, B-boying, turntabling and the painting known as graffiti, it had Writers. These scribes wrote on the trains of New York’s subway system. Mostly they wrote their names: a host of colourful noms de plume.
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Jul 1, 2010

Memorizing patterns in random, confused noise is easier than it sounds. According to a new study, repeated listens alone are enough to teach the brain 100 percent accurate recognition.
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Jun 13, 2010
For Electrified02, the young artist Roberta Gigante decided to ‘hack’ the harbour of Ghent with a sound installation that turned twelve rusty, gigantic metal pipes stored there into didgeridoo-like sound cylinders.
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Jun 13, 2010

E. V. Day (born 1967, New York) is a New York based installation artist and sculptor. Day’s work explores themes of feminism and sexuality, while employing various suspension techniques and reflecting upon popular culture.
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