The Louvre invites Umberto Eco: “Mille e tre"

Having extended an invitation to Umberto Eco, who chose to work on a theme described as “The Infinity of Lists”, the Louvre presents an exhibition of ancient and contemporary graphic works, as well as around 20 multidisciplinary events in the auditorium and the rooms of the museum.
The exhibition “Mille e tre” traces the evolution of the concept of a list through history and examines how its meaning changes with the passage of time: from its ancient use in funerary traditions to its present-day use in everyday life, via the creative processes of contemporary artists, the list is a vehicle for cultural codes and the bearer of different messages.
Curator(s) : Marie-Laure Bernadac, Curator in Charge, Special Advisor on Contemporary Art, Musée du Louvre

SPIEGEL Interview with Umberto Eco

Nicole Awai

Nicole Awai :
I am focused primarily on two things, multiplicity of perspective (the many at once) and the elasticity of time . . . which stretches and bounces back and forth in our complex, collective human psyche. History dissolves, evaporates, and reconstitutes constantly and all at once, making the postcolonial predicament immediate and ephemeral, distant and perpetual. The shift space, the ooze, the place in between, is where meaning is elucidated and compounded all at once.
source: Artist Statement: brooklynmuseum

nicoleawai.com (no works)

pilotlondon

'Deluxe Paint' animations from the early 1990's

'Deluxe Paint' (02:48)
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De Amiga 500 (ook mijn eerste PC 1990)
De Commodore liefhebbers uit de jaren 80 wilden net als heden te dage natuurlijk steeds meer computerpower. Na verloop van tijd namen zij geen genoegen meer met de 8-bits CPU’s. Helaas was de oorspronkelijke Amiga 1000 bij de introduktie erg duur en wachtten veel mensen in eerste instantie toch nog een tijdje af met een nieuwe aankoop. Gelukkig werd dit wachten beloond en introduceerde Commodore al snel daarna de Amiga 500 als gedoodverfde opvolger van de C64/128 lijn.
source: Ron van Schaik


WWF (01:27)
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Hanco Kolk & Peter de Wit - Mannetje en Mannetje - 1992 (no embed)

via:Rhizome/John Michael Boling ( more animations!!)

Simon Faithfull

Since he was a child, Simon Faithfull has suffered from “a melancholy awareness that I was tethered to this mundane realm. Like many young boys I was annoyed to find out that other things could fly and I couldn’t. Flies could even walk on ceilings! That didn’t seem fair.”
source: telegraph/Helen Brown (Jul 2009)

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Escape Vehicle No 6, Simon Faithfull (2004) youtube

The internationally renowned artist has been commissioned to create art for Reading
(youtube: Manchester news)

Nils Kasiske

Warum man ihn kennen muss: Seine Fähigkeit, die Strukturen des Alltags in der modernen Großstadt herauszuarbeiten, machen ihn zu einem der ernst zu nehmenden zeitgenössischen urbanen Objektkünstler Deutschlands.

Was ihn auszeichnet: Nils Kasiske hält sich nicht mit Konsumkritik auf, sondern schafft dem Betrachter Momente für eigene Reflexionen. Dabei sind seine Kunstwerke stets ambivalent, vielschichtig und konzeptionell klug.
source: hamburg.prinz.de/stadt/report


modartTV interview 2008 (03:14)

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