Control, Transparency and Publicity. May look at this blog a little more. It investigates the historical position & relationship of the democratic principles that brought about the modern nation state.

Shirin Neshat  Is her work art or story telling? art or narrative? art or tourism? art as social voyeurism? I am not certain.. Is it not  a case of a society’s ‘cultured’ community (NY) compensating for the militarism of the dominant social group?

CONCRETE POETRY IN ANALOG AND DIGITAL MEDIA:

One of the projects shown at Documenta 2002 in Kassel, Germany, was an over sized empty book. The book was ‘written’ by David Small who entitled it:The Illuminated Manuscript (davidsmall.com). Of course, the 26 pages did not remain empty. If one moved one’s hand over it, sensors wired around the book caused a projector from high above to send down text according to the page the viewer had opened and according to the movement the viewer’s hand undertook at each page. (more).

Suggestive Art Production – suggestive.ru. Suggestive.ru site is information-analytical resource been created for researching suggestive media technologies in different fields: art, PR, political technologies, propaganda, etc.

furthernoise.org issue June 2008.

Audio Art

callinghome – part 1. online performance

FILE – Electronic Language International Festival is a non-profit cultural organization that for eight years has promoted new media in the global context, encouraging and divulging a compilation of artistic productions in the field of electronic and digital arts, through exhibitions, debates, lectures and courses.

In those eight years, several electronic and digital art categories have emerged; many of them were assimilated and others were abandoned along time.

FILE RIO 2008.

BIGFOOT HOAXERS|Australian Paranormal Society.
“The two men who claimed to have found the carcass of Bigfoot have surfaced to say: Hey, it was just a joke.

Not everyone is laughing.” from Australian Paranormal Society an intriguing slant on this story..

Delia Derbyshire has long been considered ahead of her time. One of the earliest creators of electronic music, she is most famous for her work with the BBC’s Radiophonic Workshop in Maida Vale. Here she created the haunting original Dr Who theme, in an age without synthesizers… Thanks to Hicks Design. Linked here for sourcing this Listen with Delia / journal.
The whole musique concrète experiment was strong around then. She worked with others to form white noise

SoDa POP has (apparently) never forgotten the slight. We had .. that is until now. We were the Firstdraft directors in 1997: Gianni Wise, Philipa Veitch, Elvis Richardson, Sarah Goffman and Alex Gawronski rejected their application to show – and look at now! Yes “(they) … will be showing in Primavera at the Museum of Contemporary Art this year” Oh my god! That’ll teach us! 

So who are these sodajerk people? Just a tap away.
Actually I remember going to see this Argentino Latin Pop band frightfully named ‘Soda Hysteria’ while living in downtown Santiago de Chile.. in the football stadium where Pinochet tortured so many.

Check out their latest firstdraft installation titled ‘Eyes Only For You’ (yes someone finally invited them along to show. 

Tks to Sarah G for bringing my attention to the goss…