-- please forward widely --

Electronic Sit-in In Solidarity with Iranians Protesting against the Rigged 2009 Presidential Elections

http://iran2009election.opinionware.net/

QUESTION: “Who the fuck’s [artist] Chris Brown?”

The sun blazes down. The sea chops seductively against the walls of the sun-bleached facades of a city built on water. The sun sets and people get dressed up in designer clothes to venture on their networking spree.

TRUE and FALSE
TRUE and FALSE: audio art noise collage cassette released in 1985 on XOX
http://www.archive.org/details/TrueAndFalseXox-001Cassette1985

Wednesday, April 29, 2009, started just like any other day in New York
City. I needed to do an errant and had to go up to the German Consulate on 49th Street to have my signature verified on some legal document my
Berlin notary had sent me. It was a beautiful day and so I decided to
take my old BMW K75 motorcycle for a ride up there. My plan was to

Sleep: Joseph Nechvatal: Sleep: Sound of Pig Music cassette release 1983

Joseph Nechvatal: Sound of Pig Music cassette release 1983
no wave audio art noise collage cassette released in 1983 on Sound of Pig Music (SOP 140)
http://www.archive.org/details/JosephNechvatalSleepSoundOfPigMusicCasset...

Freephone Art Project offers the deported a chance to phone home

LATimes

4:00 PM, May 21, 2009

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/05/freephone-project...

A group of Master of Fine Arts students and recent graduates from UC San
Diego are busy organizing the Freephone Art Project, an unusual art

[Caveat lector – reporter is largely ignorant of recent European history; comments welcome.]

Ernesto Neto
Anthropodino
Seventh Regiment Armory
Park Avenue and 66th Street, New York
May 13 - June 14, 2009

May 14, 2009.

In Brasil, to call someone or something "ginga" (pronounced ZHEEN-ga)

is to offer a high compliment. Ginga connotes an intuitive, mystical quality of movement and attitude that Brasilians like to think is uniquely theirs, permeating the way they walk, talk and dance, part of everything they do. It is a synthesis of mind and body, a state of corporeal grace informed by intelligence, creativity and rhythm. Most frequently applied to the "beautiful game" evinced by the star players of Brasilian fútbol, ginga is also evident in the Escolas de Samba, and in the other athletes, musicians, actors and artists who are the pride of Brasil.

When Ronaldo fakes out a defender with his splendid footwork and executes a somersault kick into the net, this is ginga. When Caetano Veloso sings and plays guitar on "O leãozinho", this is ginga. And now, Ernesto Neto, a true Carioca, an artist who lives, works and takes inspiration from his hometown of Rio de Janeiro, has successfully exported ginga to New York for his month long playground and sculptural installation in the huge Drill Hall of the Seventh Regiment Armory on Park Avenue.