Links for 2009-06-22 [del.icio.us]
Venice Biennale 2009: prize collector’s leap of faith - Telegraph
Teresa Margolles’s multi-part installation uses caked, dried and liquefied gor
- Venice Biennale 2009: prize collector’s leap of faith - Telegraph
Teresa Margolles’s multi-part installation uses caked, dried and liquefied gore collected at the sites of murders committed during the ongoing drug wars in Northern Mexico to drench the building in blood. Shootings and decapitations have claimed the lives of more than 7,000 people in the past 18 months alone, so she had plenty of material to work with. This work is dreadful in the real meaning of the word – horrible, real, and unforgettable – and a great work of art. - New Songdo City: Atlantis of the Far East - Asia, World - The Independent
On land reclaimed from the sea, South Korea is building a new city that aims to banish the problems of the modern world. David McNeill reports - MOTHERBOARD | Stelarc: The Man with Three Ears | VBS.TV
VBS tv dropped in to get Stelarc thoughts on the present state of transhumanism and see what abominations of biological science he’s been working on lately. - Vodafone | receiver » Blog Archive » The rise of the sensor citizen – community mapping projects and locative media
close look at community mapping and sensing projects, and points out both the opportunities and challenges for activism made possible by locative technologies. - Taking the war in Iraq to the American people
A British conceptual artist, an Iraqi artist and a US soldier who served in Iraq travelled from New York to Los Angeles with the remains of a car destroyed in a Baghdad bomb attack in tow - How FBI sought to block Deep Throat the movie | World news | The Guardian
Now it has emerged that Deep Throat the Fed may have come across Deep Throat the movie during his time with the FBI. According to FBI files released following a freedom of information request by the Associated Press, the bureau worked furiously to try to thwart the 1972 movie. - Jezebel - Abandoned Embryos And The Complexities Of Reproductive Technology - Embryos
What do you do with 2,000 abandoned embryos? Dr. Robert Anderson's answer to this question highlights how the simple combination of sperm and egg has become complicated in the age of reproductive technology. - Cartografiando Gaza
just received the material from the "Gaza Cartographies" workshop i curated for the University of Architecture in Alicante with hackitectura, I'm fucking proud of their work! you are awesome guys! - Boran Burchhardt - Hamburger Moschee - "Darf ich ihr Minarett bemalen?" - Szene - art-magazin.de
Der junge Künstler Boran Burchhardt verschönt zusammen mit Gemeindemitgliedern die beiden Minarette einer Hamburger Moschee im Stadtteil St. Georg. - Academic women fight back against 'sexist' Silvio Berlusconi - Times Online
Wives of the world leaders due to attend next month’s G8 summit in Italy should boycott the meeting because of Silvio Berlusconi’s “sexist” and “offensive” attitude to women, a group of Italian female academics has said. - Ryue Nishizawa and Kazuyo Sejima's Serpentine Pavilion: now you see it, now you don’t - Times Online
This year’s pavilion will be like a clearing between the trees, says its architects, Ryue Nishizawa and Kazuyo Sejima
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