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Street With a View: manipulating and reflecting reality

Friday, January 15, 2010 17:30 No Comments

Street With A View, 2008, image taken from CCCS, Florence, Courtesy Ben Kinsley & Robin Hewlett ©Google, Inc.
Manipulating Reality: How Images Redefine the World
If you visit the Street View section of Google Maps and type in “Sampsonia Way, Pittsburgh” you’re in for a big surprise, because who would have guessed that this one-way alley [...]

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Playlist. Playing Games, Music, Art

Friday, December 18, 2009 17:40 No Comments

Playlist, an exhibition on the relation between videogames, music and art kicks off this afternoon at LABoral, Centro de Arte y Creaciòn Industrial in Asturias, Spain. The exhibition will run through to May 17 2009.

Images from PLAYLIST courtesy LABoral
Playlist traces a paths through the works of those creators that, during the 90s, worked with obsolete [...]

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NomadicMILK posts from Nigeria

Thursday, December 3, 2009 17:40 1 Comment

New media artist Esther Polak continues her journey across Nigeria executing her locative media art project Nomadic Milk that uses GPS technology to track the routes of a primary source of nutrition: milk. It is now possible to follow the project’s progress daily (or almost, depending on internet connection) from Nigeria at the blog space [...]

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Cities On Speed: a film series on megacities

Tuesday, December 1, 2009 18:25 1 Comment

The emergence of megacities over the last two decades has made it necessary to radically rethink the urbanization process. Vast urban agglomerations, the majority in developing countries and advancing economies, now home to over 50% of the world’s population, face immense economical, social and environmental challenges, but equally they generate opportunities in the these spheres [...]

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Upcoming events at the 4th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam: IABR

Thursday, November 26, 2009 18:27 No Comments

Images courtesy IABR from www.iabr.nl
Upcoming at the 4th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam which began on September 25 and runs through until January 2010 are a series of films, talks, tours and exhibits worth a mention.
Screenings
Sunday 29 November 2009 screening of documentary entitled Bogotá Change by the Danish filmmaker Andreas M. Dalsgaard (Denmark, 2009, 55 min.)
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