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Fresh Stuff From stinkfish* in Mexico CIty

Wooster Collective — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 12:28:09 +0000

"This piece was realized in a downtown neighborhood of Mexico City called Doctores (Doctors). The image with which I worked is a girl from the Choco, a from the pacific region of Colombia"... stinkfish*

Food and Architecture – Lunch Box Talks

Rhizome.org Announcements — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 16:02:11 +0000

Architecture Centre Network presents an exciting series of three Lunch Box Talks, as part of the London Festival of Architecture 2010.

Discussions will explore the significant, and sometimes controversial relationship between food and the built environment across the UK – from healthy fast food to edible towns.

Book now at www.lfa2010.org.

Pre-booked tickets include a lunch box from the Farm Collective, who are committed to providing the best UK farm sourced food.

Fruit, vegetables and livestock in London’s Square Mile
24 June, 1 – 1.50pm (please arrive at 1pm prompt), £6
Mitchell Taylor Workshop’s proposal for a temporary use of the ‘cheese grater’ development site (in the City’s Leadenhall Street), offered an innovative and cost-effective solution for keeping a large, empty site vibrant. This exciting proposal could be adopted as a model for other disused sites across the UK. This session involves a presentation by Piers Taylor of Mitchell Taylor Workshop, in conversation with Gill Fearnyough, director of The Architecture Centre, Bristol.

Get your hands dirty! Food, passion and place
29 June, 1 – 1.50pm (please arrive at 1pm prompt), £6
Can we experience food with all of our senses once it has been through a “process” or do we need to be part of the process ourselves? Has our love of food been stifled? Heather Hilburn, director of Shape East will talk with Richard Morris from the National Trust about the Wimpole Estate farm in Cambridgeshire, on reconnecting with the land and our senses.

Do places make you fat?
1 July, 1 – 1.50pm (please arrive at 1pm prompt), £6
Can fast food be healthy? How far can increased obesity be attributed to diet or sedentary lifestyle? How can the planning and design of the built environment influence how and what we eat when we’re on the move? Julia Ellis, director of Architecture Centre MADE*, presents key findings from ‘Lessons to Take-Away’ – their recent conference on planning, health and fast food lifestyles – with Alan Goodman, senior planner at Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council.

What do you think?
Engage further with these issues on the Debate and Innovate section of our website. What is the value of growing food in schools, derelict and unused land? Should unsold food be distributed to the homeless? Have we become too reliant on air freight for importing food? Should UK farmers be planning crops to cope with climate change? Tell us what you think!

Event partners: London Festival of Architecture and the National Trust

Topographies of the Insignificant:

Rhizome.org Announcements — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:37:18 +0000

Topographies of the Insignificant: Seeking contributors for a collaborative internet project.
Please forward to anyone you think may find it relevant.

In early 2009 we, Anders Bojen & Kristoffer Ørum, initiated a collaborative project in which a team of architects, artists, designers, engineers and musicians created an alternative vision of Copenhagen, an imaginary future as a reaction to present day. All the contributors shared an interest in alternative realities and how these, through the internet and other media, play an increasing important role in our common understanding of the world. Using Google maps and Wiki technologies, together we strived to rethink Copenhagen in both dystopian and utopian terms on www.radiant-copenhagen.net.

Continuing on from the project Radiant Copenhagen, we are working on the fictionalization of ultra local spaces in a series of different cities rather than one whole city. The project is envisioned as a contemporary version of An Anecdoted Topography of Chance by Daniel Spoerri (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Spoerri), set in the globalized media saturated world of 2010. Topographies of the Insignificant will connect local micro-topographies of Rome, Berlin, Vienna, Bratislava, Paris, Luxembourg and Moscow in a network of fiction and fact. We are seeking a selected number of collaborators based in, with connection to or are simply knowledgeable about these cities.

The project takes the form of a website with an “infinitely” zoom-able map of the world. We will add extra detailed zones that enable the user to zoom down to a micro level and see actual cracks of the pavement as they were great valleys. The extremely detailed map of 7 very limited locations is in close proximity to the physical show where the project also will be presented on one or more computers.

Throughout each of the locations, 100-200 click-able points are located. Each click-able point on the map opens up a small text window featuring fictional or factual information on this specific point, and links to other points and texts. Multiple narratives weave in and out of each other and researched facts about found objects and their history will mix freely with fictional accounts and imagined micro-topologies.

The collaborative writing process itself will take place online on a wiki-page during July, August and some of September, in parallel with the actual programming of the final website. Collectively we will place new points on the maps and write text for them. All texts are open for editing or expansion by other members of the group and our hope is to blur the boundaries on ownership between the participants and make as many connections between the different points as possible.

Through a wilful misunderstanding, we hope to turn the apparently well-known city pavements into a mixture of space operatic visions of the future and histories of the past. The online photographic and narrative portrayal of the website will be supplemented by physical interventions and alterations on the sites of the photographs in each of the cities: The same coffee cup will feature in each city, the splotch of paint etc., further blurring the boundaries of fact and fiction. Through collective and deliberate misunderstanding, over-interpretation and fictive connections between the 7 physical sites, we hope to reflect upon the possibility of radically rethinking the city from the bottom up.

If you are interested in participating, please send us an email containing a brief bio, a couple of lines of text describing how you would approach the project and anything else you may find relevant to the project, before July 1st. You need not be an artist, but you should be fairly proficient in English, have some writing experience and an interest in urbanity.
Please write to: topographies@anders-kristoffer.dk

The project is a part of the European month of photography (http://90plan.ovh.net/~europeandq/)
P.s. There will be a small fee for participants, the size of which depends on whether or not we receive the funding we've sought - It will not make you rich but it might make your life just a little easier.

Living CrossMedia

Rhizome.org Announcements — Mon, 31 May 2010 18:17:57 +0000

Living CrossMedia
the opportunities for new media in Commercial Centers and in the new spaces for culture and social aggregation

more info at:

AOS & FakePress

together with

University of Rome La Sapienza, Faculty of Architecture Ludovico Quaroni, Department of Industrial Design

and with the presence of

Culture and Communication Council of the City of Rome

present:

Living CrossMedia
the opportunities for new media in Commercial Centers and in the new spaces for culture and social aggregation

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
Faculty of Architecture Ludovico Quaroni
University of Rome “La Sapienza”
via Gianturco 2, Rome
room G11

from 9:30 am to 12:00

Marco Torresan, Director of the Commercial Centre “Porta di Roma”

Simona Pantò, Marketing Responsible of the Commercial Centre “Porta di Roma”

Alessandro Ferrante, Culture and Communication Council of the City of Rome

will hold a lecture and debate to investigate the opportunities opening in the contemporary scenario through the adoption of multi and cross medial communication and interaction in the emerging spaces for socialization, culture and aggregation, starting from their experience.

Starting from the analysis of the current transformation of public and commercial spaces in the cities of the new century, and arriving to the suggestions coming from the wide availability of display technologies, of interactions with mobile and ubiquitous devices, of interactive and responsive environments, and of new forms of digital communication enriching our experience of the city, of our relationships with other people, companies and spaces.

The lecture will also explore the possible interactions among scientific research, art, design and marketing, and will be followed by an open dialogue to which everyone attending the event will be invited to contribute.

The event will be coordinated by Salvatore Iaconesi (Art is Open Source, FakePress and professor of Experiments in Multimedia Technologies and Communications at the Faculty of Architecture “Ludovico Quaroni” at Rome’s University “La Sapienza”) and by Oriana Persico (Art is Open Source, FakePress).

Paul Rami?rez Jonas, Key to the City

Rhizome.org Announcements — Tue, 25 May 2010 16:09:41 +0000

This summer, Creative Time is pleased to present Key to the City in cooperation with The City of New York. This project by artist Paul Rami?rez Jonas reinvents the civic honor of bestowing keys on luminaries as a master key able to unlock more than 20 sites across New York City?s five boroughs—such as locks within the Brooklyn Museum and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Members of the public will award thousands of these custom-made keys to each other in one-to-one ceremonies. The keys will be distributed from a kiosk in Times Square, open daily from June 3 to 27.

“Key to the City is an innovative public art project that encourages New Yorkers to recognize each other with the quintessential symbol of civic honor—a key to the city,” said Mayor Bloomberg. “Every day, millions of New Yorkers and visitors from around the world interact with one another in every neighborhood—on subways, at coffee shops, in parks—and artist Paul Rami?rez Jonas’ idea celebrates those interactions by helping bring a tradition typically reserved for special occasions to our everyday lives. The keys will unlock sites in all five boroughs and will provide New Yorkers with a new way to experience some of our cultural organizations, city landmarks and small businesses.”

“With Key to the City, Paul Rami?rez Jonas demonstrates, on a civic level, the urban delimitation between private and public. In essence, this simple exchange of a key allows one to gain access to a poetic collage extended across New York City,” says Nato Thompson, Chief Curator of Creative Time.

A traditional key to the city is both an award and a symbol, typically given by the mayor to a local hero or visiting dignitary such as Captain Sully (Chesley Sullenberger), who safely landed a damaged plane in the Hudson River. In Key to the City, Rami?rez Jonas democratizes this ritual, empowering everyday citizens to honor each other. The bestowal ceremonies will take place in an open space that looks like a village lawn designed by the artist in the heart of New York?s busiest common space, Times Square. Participants will also receive a map to sites that the Key to the City unlocks, such as secret public spaces, special opportunities within major landmarks, and small community spaces. “The Key to the City allows everyday people the chance to honor one another, grants access to the city that is already theirs, and celebrates us all,” says Anne Pasternak, President and Artistic Director of Creative Time. “The tradition of the key to the city comes from the age of fortified cities, when a key could open the gates of a city like a home. This new version is a functional sculpture that opens urban spaces to the public and honors everyday citizens.”

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born in California and raised in Honduras, Paul Rami?rez Jonas currently lives, works, and teaches in New York City. In his practice, he challenges the boundaries between artwork and spectator by asking participants to contribute something—such as a penny, wish, or key—in order to fully engage with his projects. Key to the City is not the first time that Rami?rez Jonas has explored the creative possibilities of the key. In Mi Casa Su Casa (2005), he delivered a series of lectures about how space can be defined as either locked or unlocked, before inviting the audience to exchange keys with him and one another. The same year, he created a permanent work of public art, a small park called Taylor Square, for Cambridge, Massachusetts. 5,000 keys to the park’s gate were mailed to the homes closest to the commons, symbolizing a shared sense of ownership. Finally, Rami?rez Jonas’ project Talisman (2008) for the 28th Sa?o Paulo Biennial asked visitors to engage in a public agreement, leaving behind a copy of one of their own keys in exchange for a key to the front door of the iconic Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavillion that housed the biennial. Key to the City expands his longstanding interest in the key not so much as an object, but a vehicle for exploring social contracts as they pertain to trust, access, and belonging. Rami?rez Jonas holds an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and a BA from Brown University. He has received numerous honors, exhibited internationally, and lectured at universities across the country.

Henk Hofstra’s Invasion of the Ants

Wooster Collective — Fri, 21 May 2010 12:36:03 +0000

About 500 red ants are spread in the city of Drachten, The Netherlands. Most of them came together in front of the theatre De Lawei, to celebrate its 50th anniversary. Each ant is three meters in length and two meters wide. The ants on the building are from synthetic material.

Multiple Intelligences

Shannah Burton — Thu, 20 May 2010 12:00:13 +0000

I teach art at a school where the subject is not just a once-a-week occurrence. New City School is a Multiple Intelligences school where art (using spatial intelligence) is used daily by teachers in every subject to help students explore, process, learn, share, and demonstrate. Howard Gardner developed the Multiple Intelligences (MI) Theory in 1983 [...]

ArtTrail 2010 /// Multiple Endings ///

Rhizome.org Announcements — Wed, 19 May 2010 19:07:50 +0000

"REMINDER ArtTrail 2010 /// Multiple Endings /// CALL FOR PROPOSALS

ArtTrail Festival 2010: Multiple Endings, are inviting proposals for this years festival. ArtTrail is an annual festival of contemporary artistic practice, facilitates and supports site-specific and site-responsive projects in the Cork City area. It offers the context and support for artists of all disciplines to develop and present work outside their normal studio practice; and brings the audience into direct contact with the work, the artists and the making process. The festival aims to be aware of and responsive to its location, without being solely defined by it.

Following from 2009's theme of "Rediscovering Locality", in 2010 ArtTrail is working with a theme of "Multiple Endings".

Closing Date: 28th May 2010
For futher information and application form see: or contact arttrail.cork@gmail.com"
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ArtTrail Festival 2010:

2010 Festival theme - Multiple Endings
(Provisional dates) November 19th - December 5th 2010
Cork City, Ireland

OPEN CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Proposals will be accepted up to: Friday 28th May 2010, 5pm
Proposal form included below.

ArtTrail, an annual festival of contemporary artistic practice, facilitates and supports site-specific and site-responsive projects in the Cork City area. It offers the context and support for artists of all disciplines to develop and present work outside their normal studio practice; and brings the audience into direct contact with the work, the artists and the making process. The festival aims to be aware of and responsive to its location, without being solely defined by it.

Following from 2009's theme of "Rediscovering Locality", in 2010 ArtTrail is working with a theme of "Multiple Endings".

ArtTrail invites proposals for projects relating to this theme in these or other ways:
- the non-linear development of human society and culture
- the infinite variables affecting each individual's life.
- Individual evolution, and the effect of context on development (the 'Nature v. Nurture' argument)
- Urban planning - balance between overt control and devolution of choice/responsibility to inhabitants (overt control implies a fear or expectation of chaos?)
- Artistic processes and the relationship between means, methods, and desired learning outcomes
- Development of society, how this is influenced/controlled by individuals and groups
- Abdicating from or grasping personal and collective responsibility for the direction and content of society.
- Evolution, e.g. of species, climates, humans, habitats.
- Peer pressure and effects on choice
- Random actions, games, chance
- Reliance on 'order' and fear of 'chaos'
- Implication of the negative aspects of chaos, the 'un-planned'
- Anarchy
- the ability to assess potential outcomes and choose which one/s to aim for
- responsibility for and awareness of choices
- Fiction and real life
- The mathematics of chance, permutations and combinations
- Statistics and interpretation of data
- Lucid dreaming
- Parallel universes, time warps, time travel, Terminator
- Computer games and interactive technology, and their effects on an expectation of a fixed outcome.
- Sport as an exploration of potential outcomes
- Role of the arts in exploring and expressing this/these themes

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Projects can take the form of but are not limited to:

* Exhibitions
* Installations
* Performances
* Interventions
* Curatorial projects
* Talks
* Presentations (of work, research, theses, papers, etc)
* Workshops
* Events
* Articles, texts for publication
* Publications
* Psychogeographic walks
* Tours

We are particularly interested in projects that would be developed both before and during the festival.

Projects will be hosted in a number of City centre locations, indoor and outdoor, depending on the requirements of the selected projects and the suitability and availability of locations.

__________________________________________________________________________

TO APPLY please fill out the Proposal form and return it by email (as attachments) or post, before the closing date 5.00pm Friday 28th:
1. DESCRIPTION: A description of the project, max 400 words, including
- A brief outline
- More detailed description
- Technical requirements (equipment needed, etc)
- proposed location or type of location
2. BUDGET: An outline budget including all fees. Please note: this is required to verify the financial feasibility of the project only. ArtTrail operates on a limited budget, and cannot guarantee that the full costs for selected projects would be covered by the festival. ArtTrail provides management of the festival, locations/venues, Public Liability insurance, promotion locally and nationally, assistance with installation, and usually offers a set artists fee and a significant portion of the project costs. ArtTrail can assist applicants in applying for additional sponsorship. Please include details of any additional funding partners you feel may be interested in supporting the project.
3. SUPPORT: Up to 5 images/plans/video clips/sound clips supporting this proposal and your written description. See NOTE below.
4. CV: Artists CV (for an individual or group). If a group, please include a short CV of each participant, and a CV of the group's activities.
5. RECENT WORK: Up to 5 examples of recent work. Can include images, short video clips or links to online clips, short audio samples or links to online versions, Documentation and/or reviews of previous work. See NOTE below.

NOTE:
If sending hard-copy, please do not send originals. Please include a stamped self addressed envelope for return of hard-copy material. If sending material on CD or DVD, make sure it is compatible with standard programs.
If sending by email, please include your name in the filename of each file (e.g. johnsmith-pic0078.jpg, johnsmith-arttrailform.doc, etc) This is not essential, but it makes it easier for us to file your material during the selection process. Send files in common formats only - text as .doc or .txt or pdf, images as .jpg or pdf, video as Quicktime or similar, sound as mp3.

SELECTION PROCESS:
The 2010 festival programme will include projects selected from Open Call; Open Studios; Collaborative Projects with organisations based in Cork City; and additional Talks, Workshops, events and projects as decided by the Board.
Selection from the Open Call will be made by the 2010 festival Programming Panel, and the Board of ArtTrail. The Board's decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into after the closing date.

ART TRAIL 2010 /// MULTIPLE ENDINGS /// OPEN CALL

PROPOSAL FORM

CONTACT INFORMATION

Name:

Address:

Tel:

Email:

Website:

_________________________________________________________________

Description of proposal, Max. 400 words :

Description should include identified or proposed location or type of location. ArtTrail will assist selected artists in securing the best available location for their work.

______________________________________________________________________

Outline budget for proposal ** (add further lines as required):

This is to ensure the proposal is viable, and is not a guarantee that all costs for selected proposals will be covered by ArtTrail. Artists may be asked for a detailed budget before final selection is made.

ITEM

COST

** ArtTrail 2010 has a limited budget to contribute to artists project costs. We encourage applicants to identify or suggest potential sponsorship partners. ArtTrail can offer assistance in securing additional funding to selected artists.

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Documentation/ Supporting material for Proposal : Can be submitted by post or attached to email. If applying by email, please include your name in the filename of each attachment

3. SUPPORT: Up to 5 images/plans/video clips/sound clips supporting this proposal and your written description. See NOTE below.
4. CV: Artists CV (for an individual or group). If a group, please include a short CV of each participant, and a CV of the group's activities.
5. RECENT WORK: Up to 5 examples of recent work. Can include images, short video clips or links to online clips, short audio samples or links to online versions, Documentation and/or reviews of previous work. See NOTE below.

NOTE:
If sending hard-copy, please do not send originals. Please include a stamped self addressed envelope for return of hard-copy material. If sending material on CD or DVD, make sure it is compatible with standard programs.
If sending by email, please include your name in the filename of each file (e.g. johnsmith-pic0078.jpg, johnsmith-arttrailform.doc, etc) This is not essential, but it makes it easier for us to file your material during the selection process.

Send files in common formats only - text as .doc or .txt or pdf, images as .jpg or pdf, video as Quicktime or similar, sound as mp3.

CHECKLIST

Signed and completed Application form

CV/bio including address, phone & email contacts

Images, Diagrams or Sketches of proposal - jpeg or pdf

Images of previous work

Video samples .mov

Audio samples .mp3

Stamped self-addressed envelope for return of documentation

Other (please specify)

ArtTrail involvement:

• Coordination and management of the Festival

• Assist in negotiating use of spaces.

• Public liability insurance for the locations used.

• Advertising in Cork City and County.

• P.R. representation where relevant.

• Publication of programme/catalogue.

• Publication and maintainance of website

• General documentation of festival

• Facilitate access for the public

• Can offer some technical support for installation of work etc.

Your involvement:

Liaise with the ArtTrail team.

Comply with health and safety regulations.

Meet agreed deadlines for catalogue information, and installation and removal of work.

Be willing to invigilate your project for some of the time, if needed.

Signature:……………………………………….

(Not required for email – a verified email address and phone number will substitute as a signature)

_________________________________________________________________________

DEADLINE: 28th May 2010, 5pm

Submit your proposal form by post or email to :

Email: arttrail.cork@gmail.com with ‘Open Call’ in the Subject Line

DEADLINE: Proposals will be accepted up to Friday 28th May 2010, 5pm

WHERE TO SEND PROPOSALS:

By email:

arttrail.cork@gmail.com , with 'Open Call' in the Subject line

By post:

Open Call

Art Trail

YMCA Building, 11-12 Marlboro Street,

Cork City

IRELAND

Web: www.arttrail.ie

DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF OPEN CALL PROPOSALS: 5.00PM Friday 28th May 2010

ArtTrail will send an acknowledgement of all entries as soon as possible.

Photography and The Practice of Walking

Rhizome.org Announcements — Wed, 19 May 2010 18:02:40 +0000

Photography and The Practice of Walking
An ‘Urban Encounters’ Event
3rd June 2010, 2pm-5pm
Ben Pimlott Lecture Theatre,
Goldsmiths, University of London
New Cross Gate, London SE14 6NW

Walking through the city allows
a particularly unique type of
engagement with the urban space
and permits one to experience the
city at its most personal level.
Traversing the city is crucial to
creating its space. This event
will explore how photographers
combine their photographic
practice with the engagement
of moving through the city.

Speakers:

Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani
(The New School, New York)
Rut Blees-Luxemburg (Royal
College of Art, London)
Ben Gidley (COMPAS,
University of Oxford)
Paul Halliday (Goldsmiths,
University of London)
Rachel Jones (Goldsmiths,
University of London)
David Kendall (Goldsmiths,
University of London)
Lanis Levy (Goldsmiths,
University of London)
Alison Rooke (Goldsmiths,
University of London)

Registration is free, but booking
is essential. Please email or phone:
Centre for Urban and Community
Research. Email: cucr@gold.ac.uk
Tel: 0207 919 7390,
(Mon-Fri 10am to1pm).

Gold junk

Rhizome.org Announcements — Wed, 19 May 2010 11:43:13 +0000

Gold junk
Rebecca Locke

11th -13th June 2010
Private view: June 11th 2010
7.30-9.30pm
Open: 10am-10pm

Bognor Pier Arcade
The Esplanade
Bognor Regis
Sussex PO21 1SY

The site-specific artwork 'Gold junk'
by Rebecca Locke will open on
Friday, 11th June 2010. One hundred
unique, signed pieces of 'Gold junk'
will be placed in slot machines
throughout the amusement arcade
to be won alongside traditional prizes.

This exhibition is part of 'Urban
Encounters: City to Sea'. A weekend
of workshops, presentations and
debate exploring cultural and visual
relationships between cities and
coastal regions. Held on the south
coast of England in Bognor Regis,
Sussex, 11th -13th June 2010.

'Urban Encounters' in partnership
with Centre for Urban and Community
Research, Goldsmiths, University of
London, Tate Britain, London, Arun
District Council and Butlins.

www.urbanencounters.org