Friction Research - Investigating ruptures in the art-political grid
europe: americas: china: uk & israel & turkey
Published 02-28-2009
Below our call as sent on October 20th 2008:
"[C]urrently we ask for submissions for our Friction Research Series, to be published in our Winter 2009 issue, related to but not exclusively confined to:
by: Ricardo Domínguez
place: Medialab-Prado. Plaza de las Letras, C/ Alameda, 15 · Madrid
Lecture by Ricardo Domínguez within the frame of the Seminario Interactivos'09 Garage Science, an event celebrated at Medialab-Prado January 28 and 29, 2009
NanoGarajes: especulaciones sobre fabbing abierto
Ministry of Culture, Russian Federation
National Center for Contemporary Arts, Ekaterinburg branch in collaboration with International Fine Arts Consortium and Perpetual Art Machine (PAM)
Presents
Walking a Fine Line
Parables of the Sublime and the Subversive in Russian Video Art.
Curated by: Ksenia Fedorova and Alisa Prudnikova
January 9 (Friday), 7:30pm
Monkey Town:
58 N 3rd St. (btw. Kent & Wythe), Williamsburg, Brooklyn 11211
The program showcases the recent Russian video art works that reflect complex and controversial attitude towards the phenomenon of the sublime in Russian culture and mentality. Artists confront mystification and sacralization, engagement and spiritual detachment with strategies ranging from epatage to derision, eccentricity, and radical activism. Whom to blame? What to do? The viewer is invited to ponder upon these and other perennial “Russian” questions and find his/her own “fine line” of authentic response.
Particles of Interest
*particle group*
*an interactive installation of multilingual meditations
on nanotechnology, culture, and property*
Opening Reception: Wednesday, January 14, 5-7pm
Exhibit Dates: January 14 - February 4
CALIFORNIA NanoSystems Institute (CN(S)I) UCLA
As part of the *Scalable Relations* series of networked exhibitions that
Willoughby Sharp (b. January 23, 1936, [New York City], d. December 17, 2008 [New York City]), the co-founder, with writer/filmmaker Liza Bear, of Avalanche magazine (1970-1976), is an internationally known artist, independent curator, gallerist, teacher, author, and telecom activist.
O ZHANG
The World is Yours (But Also Ours)
CRG GALLERY - NEW YORK
DECEMBER 12, 2008 - JANUARY 31, 2009
opening reception: Friday, Dec 12, 6-8pm
For her first solo exhibition in the United States, O Zhang transforms CRG's space with an installation that has at its center images from her latest photographic series: The World is Yours (But Also Ours).
Becoming Dragon - a 365 hour immersive performance in Second Life
December 1-16th
Opening December 1st, 7-9pm
Daily Hours, 11am-7pm
Where: The Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA),
Atkinson Hall, Visiting Artist Lab #1613, UCSD, and in Second Life at
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Seventh%20Eye/186/12/35
Contact: Micha Cárdenas, 619-750-8851, mcardenas@ucsd.edu
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Acción electrónica contra el ICE y la Proposición #8: Una protesta virtual
de tres días para ¡DERECHOS HUMANOS PARA TODOS!
Desde el 20 de noviembre al 23 de noviembre de 2008
¡Alto a la violencia literal y simbólica en contra de familias de
Investigating ruptures in the art poltical grid
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