the importancy of traveling for artists

if you enjoy marcel duchamp's art and want to know more details about his art and life, a book, the _exiles of marcel duchamp_, was just published, were the author t.j. demos try to study the relations and complexity of duchamp's works in connection to his time in exile. t.j. demos starts his investigations from the time that duchamp left paris to the south of france in preparation to go to america. here the author compares thoughtfully walter benjamin and duchamp's valises. he goes on looking at the time that duchamp went to argentina and why he decide to leave america for a while. reading this book we may understand more about marcel duchamp's oeuvre. the book is a detailed research about duchamp's art making and his ideas in this time of traveling. the author tries to states how crucial was this time in exile for duchamp's entire art practices.

another good publication on duchamp and his legacy is the octuber magazine titled the duchamp effect. it is even very informative and amusing, just read the conversation  between benjamin buchloh and andy warhol or the one with robert morris.

we just can't have enough from the internet

here we go again, for some people the net is the new holy grail, for others the real shit. but what impress me the most is the clarety of style which some net users do reach to get their menssage across.

simulator and submedia are rocking hard

if you dont make the media just don't believe on it. submedia.tv is trying to get some more _radicalnews_ out there



if you have to go shopping at big corporations think twice before you buying you may be paying the wrong price.
is great to see how much creativity is involve to get the today world affairs commented in this shoplifting vido

more on artists and music videos

>>playback>> is showing videos from emerging artists and stablished ones from the 80's to today. including videos like "ugly yelp" from olaf breugning. playback is a project by ARC/musée d’art moderne de la ville de paris.

there is no way out, somehow music always played a great role as inspiration material for visuals artist or as pure company to the artists. doesn't matter which media they choose to work with music can always be a perfect partner.

we can just look at the work of rodney graham, he is also taking part in >>playback>>. music is one of the most important componests of his ouvre. all the songs he composed and the videos he made. no to forget his band.

drawings and music videos

somehow again and again we find good drawings to illustrate music and some are even funny.

They Might Be Giants - The Mesopotamians



Young Folks - Peter, Bjorn and John



os seminovos - ao mestre con carinho



JUSTICE _ D.A.N.C.E

remember dont-miss.net

here is some images from dontmiss projects
three artists that andreas zybach, tue greenfort and michael beutler had one of their first solo shows of their careers at dontmiss are part of the "art machines machine art" exhibition at the schirn-kunsthalle in frankfurt, also present in this showe are other great artist like pavel althamer and olafur eliasson but also some not so interesting ones like net artists,
somehow net art out of the net just do not work properly in the white cube.

learning to read the words and the world

how bizarre it can become

exhibition 149 at the portikus

this construction at the portikus in frankfurt, erected by michael beutler, gives us a hint of the whole range of possiblilities we find today to deal or not deal with the current art affairs after the mega european art summer of 2007, which end up becoming a funny story. but actually in this construction we will find more questions then answers to any current discussion on the manufacturing of art and its relevancy for todays life and doings. we will see in this mammute object constructed inside of the portikus referencies to sculpture, paintings and objects. from concrete art to art brut. after seeing it we can attempt to make reflections upon form and composition. we could ponddering about art made in the last few years by artists playing with excessive use of materials. we even can have thoughts on recycling of materials used in art and the recycling of art itself. i am sure works like this will rise question of the
how much art should be more political in its essence and contents or just be art for the sake of art.
do not forget that we are living in the age of _metropolis-like_ urbanity. artist are facing difficulties to filling up the mega art spaces provided by more and more museums or by the bienalles, everywhere, art fairs and huges building complexs from frankfurt to dubai.

michael have very clear said in some interviews that he learned and is inspired by people like buren and he studied with thomas bayrle and george harold. this late work can be seen as a very nice homage to these artists somehow. they sure deserve it.

looking at the a not so distant past i can not forget one of michael's first great series of works, which i saw at michael's studio at the staedel school. it was objects made out of hardning cement inside of jute bags. after tearing the jute off he end up having this brillante drawings revealed through the marks left in the cement. for a project, around 2001, that we did in london he build a machine that transformed alufolie into a hard looking material again turning things around and allowing the material respond to the needs of the work, leting the process do most of the work.

another great piece by michael was the _verputz machine_ ( plastering machine ) a room-specific work he created for the project dontmiss in frankfurt in the summer of 2001.

today he still approching in the same manner his art production but i am quite sure things are turning to more serious adventures here. the portikus contruction and the the contruction at the LAC in frankfurt are taking michael work and the viewers to new hights, literally.

the 2007 filminute festival is back

check this 1min.films. the festival is back and kicking. you will find some cool poetry in haiku style here.

design and art and design as art

is the discussion about desing playing a big active part in art still going strong or is design back to its shelf?
what do you think...?

do you know Gliese 581 C?

this could be our next extra-planetarian biennial destination.

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goodbye CBGB, welcome east village

the new york times just did this piece about the influence that the east village had in the art making in new york.

david lynch as guru

what you think, the world would b a better place if people like david lynch would be a guru, if the answer is yes, you got it.
whatch the video with those 13 year old boys and you will see that we have along way to go before we change anyworld or inner_world here. they try to improve their hair appearences but that was all.
lets give a shot maybe david lynch is not only a good filmmaker after all.

when artists criticise artists and their art

and are they successfull with it and because of it? is the work "He Could Sell Pyrite to..." by dave muller an good example?

daring photographers

when we thought photography was dead here go
some photographers do get up there to the top of places to get the shot of their lives.
the means of getting the images, in this case, is the art. see it all at gtcreattiveblogg or at baumer1781

martin creed and oiticica are back

the tate modern just got its pod_act together and are bringing us its tateshots a video podecast series.

here two good ones parangles by oticicas and martin creed talks.

great stuff on the *ubuweb*

from vito acconci to samuel beckett to william s. borroughs the *ubuweb* does deliver great material for art and film lovers. thanks for the tip lovely maria von hausswolff.

"farewell to faraway friends"

dear theresa and jeremy i do very well understand your decision to drop out of this world. as mentioned by your friend glenn o'brian you were brilliant people. i just started to read you nice notes not too long ago and i find that you try to comprehend what is there to do on this planet. there is too much stuff going on and a lot of it is more of a big contradiction somehow. just read _stop the planet chicken_
in fact today we can not move or do anything without thinking that we are betraying our deepest convictions. it is very difficult to live at this point and time without be part of a big "killing machine" or be honest 100% with ourselves and to others. like a nice artist called carl wrote _right now we're in the total animal soup of time_. i just like to remember that "bas jan ader" also did his move to drift away from the picture when he created his great works like "farewell to faraway friends" in 1971. he disappeared in 1975, in a boat somewhere off the coast of cape cod. he was attempting to cross the atlantic ocean in a 13 foot sailboat. therese and jeremy did make their decision to just go, to leave . i do have great admiration for all three of them.

tokyo limousine bus lady

the monocle magazine is doing a public service for travelers and more.
just listen to this charming tokyo limousine bus lady.

meet mertz the social robot from m_i_t

definitely we will need some humanoide type robots like mertz, around, in the future.



here a good article about mertz,leonardo, autom in the nyt.