Tim Miller has devised 101 ways to use a trailer. Yes, a trailer, that mundane, strictly utilitarian object no one would ever waste a glance on. The designer, however, sees the trailer as a blank canvas that has the potential to become a tool for the realization of collective as well as individual dreams. You can use trailers for anything, you can reinterpret them, you can use them to manipulate the world around you or better said you can 'pervert' trailers according to your desires and needs continue
The Kinetica Art Fair (part 2)
Posted: 27-February-2012, 3:35pm CET by Regine
Some of the works on show at Kinetica this year are candidly whimsical, others explore responsive architecture, pay homage to Jean Tinguely or to Newton's third law, take the form of small models of celestial mechanics, or of experimental music gigs on modified Fisher Price Turntables continue
The Kinetica Art Fair (part 1)
Posted: 26-February-2012, 9:06am CET by Regine
The Kinetica Art Fair brings together independent galleries, art organisations and curatorial groups who focus on kinetic, electronic, robotic, sound, light, time-based and multi-disciplinary new media art, science and technology. The art fair features installations, robots and small sculptures but also live performances, artists presentations, demos and a cheerful atmosphere that makes it easy to talk to the 'exhibitors' continue
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Posted: 26-February-2012, 9:00am CET
- The Man Who Prints Houses Trailer on Vimeo
Enrico Dini is a robotics expert. He is also a self-styled ?stone alchemist?: able to mimic the process of how rock forms under the seabed. Combining these two skills, he has developed a groundbreaking new construction technique based on the principle of 3D-printing. Enrico?s dream is to one day see houses of any shape and size printed robotically in solid stone ? but as we all know, dreams can come at a price?
Dedicated to the Workers and Unemployed
Posted: 22-February-2012, 9:51am CET by Regine
Black, illegal street vendors in Venice are paid to get their hair bleached blond. Couples are geometrically arranged according to the colour of their skin and asked to have sexual intercourse. Junkies have a line shaved on their head in exchange of a shot of heroin. Drug addicted prostitutes have a black line tattooed across their back. Asylum seekers spend hours inside cardboard boxes. Veterans of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq face a corner. Others are paid to remain tied down to a block of wood, stay in a ditch, block a museum entrance, hold an object against a wall, etc. continue
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Posted: 22-February-2012, 9:00am CET
- Fukushima: Return to the disaster zone
A year since the Fukushima nuclear plant was destroyed, the fight to prevent disaster goes on. In an exclusive dispatch from the reactors, David McNeill becomes the first European journalist to revisit Japan's ground zero
Book Review: Design Act - Socially and Politically Engaged Design Today. Critical Roles and Emerging Tactics
Posted: 21-February-2012, 1:35pm CET by Regine
he book is thus putting the spotlight on 'Socially and Politically Engaged Design'. Design! With a bit of architecture thrown in. If you're into activist, socially engaged art, you might find that many of the projects presented in this book are very reasonable and appropriate. They have less bite than the work of, say, Santiago Sierra (more about him tomorrow) but that shouldn't be held against them. Because these designers are smart. And levelheaded enough to look for practical, witty solutions to very circumscribed issues. There's no 'Design will save the world!' here continue
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Posted: 21-February-2012, 9:00am CET
- The street views Google wasn't expecting you to see – in pictures | Art and design | guardian.co.uk
Artist Jon Rafman's photo project The Nine Eyes of Google Street View, named after the nine lenses mounted on a Google Street View car, collects the strange and beautiful images they capture by accident from around the world
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Posted: 19-February-2012, 9:00am CET
- Everything Must Go! The Great European Fire Sale
All over Europe, nations have been looking for a quick, innovative way out of the debt trap. Unfortunately, they've all had the same idea. Tom Bawden explains, while Charlie Cooper anatomises the great European fire sale
Interview with Kultivator, an experimental cooperation of organic farming and visual art practice
Posted: 17-February-2012, 2:41pm CET by Regine
KULTIVATOR was founded in 2005 by 3 artists and 2 organic farmers in the village Dyestad, on the Swedish island of Öland. This cooperation of farming and visual art practice involves an organic farm with where pigs are raised, cows are milked, potatoes are harvested and linseed oil is pressed. But Kutltivator is also a space for artist residencies, exhibitions, performances, installations and screenings. And in between are activities that draw in both the artist and the farming community. The result looks both experimental and remarkably productive continue
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