Archive for the ‘arts’ Category

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 5 Comments

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 2 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, [...]

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Blown Up! : eventwork around the idea of exploded cinema in Paris

Thursday, November 26, 2009 13:07 No Comments

Event: Blown Up ! Opening Date: 29 November 2009 Location: Mains d’Oeuvres, 1, rue Charles Garnier, 93 400 Saint-Ouen, Paris, France Duration: 29/11/09 – 18/12/09 If you are in – or happen to go to – Paris between November 29 to December 18 we recommend you visit Blown Up ! at Mains d’Oeuvres, Saint-Ouen. Blown [...]

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‘Ghost Forests’ exhibition in Trafalgar Square: forest issues and climate change

Tuesday, November 24, 2009 19:23 No Comments

British politician Ed Miliband talks to Environmental Artist Angela Palmer at her current and powerful exhibition ‘Ghost Forests’ in Trafalgar Square, London. The artist explains how by bringing a rain forest to Trafalgar Square, epicentre of modern industrialization, she seeks to enhance awareness of the mass deforestation currently underway in other parts of the world [...]

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