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But boys and girls, there is no need for dogma, or tell me, would you be among those that booed Bob Dylan for going electric? Would you be there among those who threw tomatoes (even if only verbally)? Its only new equipment,and new equipment will bring new sounds, I mean, it has been over ten years that Radiohead gave in and said "Ok, mr. computer, ok". Sticking to the roots, they say. The roots of what? All I can see is the branches, and they look so exciting. They move in all possible directions, while the roots are stuck there in the ground, immovable. I dig it, I dig it, I do swear by all chuckberriness, but I do prefer the surprises of where the wind and the growth will take these new branches of pop pop pop music. - Ricardo Domeneck

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08-28-06 fibre optics make for smart fabrics A digital technology allows the creation of "smart fabric." An Italian company called Luminex weaves fibre optics into fabrics so that the consumer can actually illuminate a room upon entering it. The fibre optics are lighted by high-efficiency LED's. More in this article from BBC News.
08-28-06 getting paid is a pain for recording artists You nearly need a law degree to understand royalties, advances and contracts if you are a recording artist. A complicated system, made complex by record companies and their lawyers, puts artists at a disadvantage. An article in the Chicago Tribune explains.
08-26-06 reinventing the music business Nettwerk Music Group is planning to release ProTools files on all the tracks of the new Barenaked Ladies album. This means that listeners who have the gear will be able to create their own mixes of the songs. It's like reinventing the music industry, as an article in Wired reports.
08-26-06 emin is british choice for venice biennale Tracey Emin will represent the UK at the next Venice Biennale. The UK pavillion director said Emin's work will be 'in an international context and at a distance from the YBA [Young British Artists] generation with which she came to prominence.'
08-26-06 dylan & white On September 11th, Bob Dylan starts his tour for the new album "Modern Times", the first with brand new songs in 5 years, and has invited Jack White´s The Raconteurs to open for him. A side project from the front man of The White Stripes, The Raconteurs are also Brendan Benson (vocals, guitar, keyboard), Jack Lawrence (bass) e Patrick Keeler (drums).
08-26-06 out of time Opening on August 30th, the Museum of Modern Art in New York presents the exhibition Out of Time: A Contemporary View, with art from the Museum’s collection in groupings that explore the theme of temporality. The works in this exhibition investigate three principal aspects of our contemporary experience of time: the cinematic perception and recording of “real time” and its impact on other forms of art; the projection of an inner dimension of time articulated through fantasy and dreams; and a reconstruction of time that is based on archives, memory, and history. Includes works in a variety of mediums, including video, photography, painting, sculpture, works on paper, and large-scale installations and features a number of significant recent acquisitions that have not previously been exhibited, including works by Cady Noland, Cai Guo-Qiang, Rineke Dijkstra, Mona Hatoum, Luc Tuymans, and Bill Viola.
08-25-06 defining dada The influence of Dada art is far greater than many understand. But origins of the term 'Dada' are still difficult to track down. Marcel Duchamp claimed as late as 1920 that he did not know what Dada was. Some speculate it comes from Russian or Slovak language words for 'yes.' A good article about the subject is now available at The New York Review of Books.
08-25-06 vito acconci in europe and the u.s. Performance-video-artist Vito Acconci will have his exhibition "Into me / Out of me" presented in New York and Berlin in the next few months. Running at the moment and scheduled to end in September 25., the exhibition is at P.S.1 MoMA, Long Island; and opening in November, it will be at KW, in Berlin. Vito Acconci started his career as a writer, but eager to "escape the page", in his own words, turned to video and performance, becoming a pivotal name for multimedia art.
08-24-06 john baldessari He is one of the artists who expanded the horizons of video as a medium. In October, the artist John Baldessari exhibits in New York, at Marian Goodman Gallery. The opening is on October 19th. Exhibition dates: 19 October- 25 November, 2006 mariangoodman.com
08-23-06 why is fame the motive? A film maker may want to make a great movie because he believes in the script. A sculptor may want her concepts to be embedded within a living work of art. By why should fame be the motive for anyone? It's an area that has had little formal study but lots and lots of hype, as an article in the New York Times reports.
08-23-06 new chris cunningham The video artist Chris Cunningham is back in the world of music. He just released on DVD "Sheena is a Parasite" for a band called The Horrors, which he found in the internet. The 1.5-minute clip, narrated by lead singer Faris Badwan, stars Samantha Morton as the song's manic, transmogrifying subject, a punked-up Carrie who whips around like a banshee and spews her intestines at you. Sharply edited and shot on a low budget, the video burns on the bass' running pulse, and provides more fleshy fodder for Cunningham fans. The video's producer was Jim Wilson.
08-22-06 science of sleep Michel Gondry was already a well-known videoartist, who made some exciting videos for The White Stripes, Massive Attack and Bjork, when he turned to cinema and filmed his "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind", with Jim Carey and Kate Winslet. He is back and releases this month the film "Science of Sleep" with Gael Garcia Bernal and Charlotte Gainsbourg, who is about to release a new album: "5:55".
08-22-06 art market soars, but who wins? The auction houses report record sales. Sotheby's says its Russian affiliate alone did $100 million in sales in the first half of this year, compared to $8 million for all of 2000. But who benefits from the sales? Certainly not the artists whose work is being auctioned off to the highest bidder. The auction houses form a secondary market in which artists see no financial gain. Flasher is looking at the situation to see whether a better system can be developed, one that would benefit artists.
08-21-06 graphic designer wins prince claus prize Iranian graphic designer Reza Abedini has won this year's Prince Claus prize. Abedini is the author of New Visual Culture of Modern Iran. It is a rare event that a graphic designer wins a prestigious award. Abedini will receive 100,000 Euros as part of his prize.
08-21-06 bat for lashes tour Bat For Lashes announced a UK tour in September to celebrate the release of the debut album Fur And Gold on 11 September. Natasha Khan and her band will play headline dates in Brighton, London and Colchester, as well as appearing at Green Man Festival (Aug. 19) and Bestival (Sep. 10) this summer. There's also a Manchester date with New York band, Gang Gang Dance (Sep. 01). ‘Trophy’ will be the next single, released on Monday 30 October. Bat For Lashes European live dates: 16 Sept Bazar Curieux, Rotterdam //// 23 Sept Marsatac Festival, Marseilles //// 10 Nov Aeronef, Lille (Les Inrockuptibles Festival) //// 11 Nov Cigale, Paris (Les Inrockuptibles Festival) //// 12 Nov Olympic, Nantes (Les Inrockuptibles Festival) //// 14 Nov Theatre Barbey, Bordeaux (Les Inrockuptibles Festival)////
08-21-06 viewers pay for movie before it's made Startup film makers may be onto something, thanks to a former venture capitalist with a new idea. Jim Gilliam wants the audience to pay for a movie before it gets made. Gilliam wanted to finance a new film and decided to turn to the Internet in order to get finance. And so he has, as this report in the Washington Post explains.
08-21-06 susanne buerner´s lessons on going missing Artist Susanne Buerner has compiled and edited a series of entries on "how to go missing." Published by Revolver Books/Archiv fuer Aktuelle Kunst (Germany) and also ToastinK Press (France), the booklet is called "Vanishing Point: How to disappear in America without a trace", and with a cover ironically resembling J.D. Salinger´s "Catcher in the rye", carries sections such as "Understand who or what you are hiding from" or "Throw away youself and build a new you" or "Keeping yourself hidden". A new intervention from an amazing photographer and videoartist.
08-20-06 turkish bath On October 5th, Tetine will perform their Turkish Bath live at Monkey Town. This is a rare opportunity to see Tetine's Turkish Bath installation performed live in New York. Turkish Bath (2004) was originally conceived for Sonarama - an exhibit of sound art as part of Sonar Festival. This is a large scale installation made up of four projections of 16 men of different backgrounds in bathing situations - all of them captured and interviewed in real time by Eliete Mejorado. London based duo Tetine will be touring the United States in September and October.
08-20-06 broadcast calls for collaboration The band Broadcast has always kept their ears tuned to experimentation. It was no surprise when they named their last album "Tender Buttons", after Gertrude Stein´s 1914 beautiful book. They just released a compilation on Warp Records, called "The Future Crayon", with B-sides collected over the past years. Now they call for an interesting collaboration on collective songwriting. Broadcast Song Collaboration: "Please contribute to our let's-write-a-song project. We would like you to send us a sentence, any sentence, from anywhere: a snippet from a piece of junk mail, an overheard conversation, manual instructions or your thoughts as they connect now. Your contributions will be arranged by chance and set to music. We think writing songs in this way will have some fun results. Stay tuned-trish." When you buy the new Broadcast album ‘The Future Crayon’ from Warpmart you receive an exclusive postcard with a pull-off addressed card to add your sentence to, and mail back to Warp, people who will be rewarded with a special edition of the track in a format which will be decided when the project is complete.
08-19-06 conducting an orchestra There's an outstanding audio-visual piece about conducting orchestras in the current New Yorker . Be sure not to miss it!
08-19-06 grass autobiography sells well An autobiography by Guenter Grass is showing remarkable sales since the author revealed that he was a member of the Waffen SS. Grass has more than redeemed himself since then through outstanding writing. His new book is called Peeling Onions.
08-18-06 file: são paulo, brazil Electronic Language International Festival. Net-art, video-installations, interactive works, robotic performances and beyond at FILE 2006. Launching in August 14th, FILE brings artists from all over the world to São Paulo, Brazil to exhibit a crop of world's electronic arts. Prestigious names such as Zachary Lieberman and Young-hae Chang, already used to hype-exhibitions, share the gallery space with artists that are bravely facing their first bugs, error messages and victories in Art&Technology world. GALERIA DE ARTE DO SESI - AV. PAULISTA, 1313 - SÃO PAULO/ BRAZIL DATE: FROM AUGUST 15TH TO SEPTEMBER 3RD, 2006 HOURS: FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY FROM 10 AM TO 8 PM, SUNDAY FROM 10 AM TO 7 PM.
08-18-06 john bock, wolfgang mueller & others: exhibition in germany Opening on August 20, 2006, the Galerie der Stadt Esslingen brings the exhibition "Fliegende Kuehe und andere Kometen" with contributions of some of the most exciting interventionists around, especially John Bock, Wolfgang Mueller and Zoe Leonhard, but also Peter Jap Lim, Tinka Stock, Franz West, Zilla Leutenegger, Julien Berthier, Gelatin/Gelitin, Christian Jankowski, Corinna Schnitt and Marcus Weber. At Villa Merkel - Galerie der Stadt Esslingen, Pulverwiesen 25, in Esslingen am Neckar, Germany. Till October 15th.
08-17-06 four video artists Artists Janaina Tschäpe, Anri Sala, Su-Mei Tse and Wim Catrysse exhibit videos in Mechelen, Belgium, between July 28 and October 01. In the same space where the Biennial of Video Art takes place, Contour continues to show young video artists from different continents. This summer, however, Contour Mechelen will manifest itself in the public space with four outside projections at two special venues in Mechelen: the garden of the Hof van Busleyden (cosy summer bar included) and the Lamot building, visible from the Vismarkt.
08-17-06 50 years of documenta, kassel In commemoration of the documenta's 50th anniversary, an exhibition will present a comprehensive textual and visual overview of the first ten art shows in Kassel. The artists Hans Peter Feldmann, Olaf Metzel and Ayse Erkmen will supplement the historical material in the exhibition with new pictures, photographs and videos of their own. By combining the documentation with artistic works, even laypeople will appreciate the archive that provides new insights into 50 years of art and contemporary history. The artists involved are Friederike Feldmann, Thomas Huber, Olaf Metzel, Hans Peter Feldmann, Tacita Dean, Maria Eichhorn, Ayse Erkmen, Georg Herold, Jonathan Monk, Alexander Roob, Tyyne Claudia Pollmann and Kai Vöckler.
08-17-06 rosmarie waldrop: a trilogy To be released next month, Rosmarie Waldrop's "Curves to the Apple" brings together three highly influential titles: "The Reproduction of Profiles", "Lawn of Excluded Middle", and "Reluctant Gravities". Though originally published separately, these prose poems have always been intended as a loose trilogy of thought and feeling—or of thought manifested as feeling. The author comments: "Just as the title 'Curves to the Apple' combines the organic and geometry (not to mention myth and history of science) the poems navigate the conflicting, but inextricable claims of body and mind, especially the female body and feelings in a space of logic and physics. The poems could all be called dialogic, reaching out across a synaptic (sometimes humorous) gap to a possible 'you' (though it may be rhetorical, another point of view in the same mind). But while the 'I' dominates the first two volumes, the third gives both voices equal space and chance."
08-17-06 the new novel by dave eggers His first book is called "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" and caused sensation in 2000, turning him into writer for hipsters. It was an interesting memoir of the struggles he went through to raise his young brother after the death of their parents. His first novel "You will know our velocity!" came out two years later, and by then Dave Eggers had already become a cult figure in the literary scene, due to his writing and publishing interventions through his internet platform, 'Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern', a semi-quarterly literary journal published by his McSweeney's publishing house. His new novel, "What is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng" has been announced for the end of this year.
08-17-06 bat for lashes: the debut "Fur and Gold", the debut album of BAT FOR LASHES will be released on She Bear/Echo Records on 11th SEPTEMBER.~~~ Bat For Lashes is Natasha Khan, from Brighton, England. More at http://batforlashes.co.uk/
08-13-06 ben wood is architecture in shanghai There are few architects whose work is so dominant that they represent an entire generation in any city. Ben Wood is accomplishing just that in Shanghai. He is designing so many buildings, it's safe to call Wood the architect of a city. A report is found in the New York Times.
08-12-06 dean sameshima in tokyo Los Angeles based artist Dean Sameshima presents his work at Taka Ishii Gallery and gallery.sora. in Tokyo. Presently in Japan on a 6 month US / Japan Creative Artist Residency, Sameshima will spend his final two months working on an exhibition within the space of gallery.sora.. From Thursday, August 3, gallery.sora. will be open to the public during regular gallery hours (2-7pm) ; prior to this time, throughout the month of July, Sameshima will utilize the gallery as a space within which to create work. This working process will continue during August and visitors to the gallery may happen upon the artist at work, may find an installation in progress, or, perhaps, view a completed body of work.
08-11-06 poet writes opera libretto Poet Simon Armitage admits that he was never a great fan of opera. But now he's written the libretto to a new opera by Stuart MacRae. It's an interesting new outlet for poets, described in a dispatch in The Guardian.
08-11-06 london architecture may be led by alsop London is looking for coherence in its architecture, and architect Will Alsop wants to be in charge. Alsop "drew up a design to wall in Barnsley, west Yorkshire, saying he could make it resemble a Tuscan hill town; a draft for a new lake around the town hall in Bradford city centre; and devised plans for a new kind of jail in which every inmate has the key to his cell. He says he would better reflect London's communities with buildings mirroring the capital's diversity," the Guardian reports.
08-10-06 young people flee tv for the net Sixteen to 24 year olds have abanonded TV, radio and newspapers in favor of online services, the UK telecoms regulator reports. Ofcom also shows 1.8 million homes using internet phone calls, according to a BBC News report.
08-09-06 protecting art with copyright Glass artist Dale Chihuly filed copyright infringement lawsuits against two glassblowers. His is a hard-nosed approach to artists' concerns about maintaining the rights to their creativity. More on this in a three-part series from the Seattle Times.
08-09-06 everyone will be an artist? Artist Joseph Beuys declared everyone is an artist. The web may make him right, according to Charlie Gere, author of 'Art, Time and Technology.' Gere gives us examples too, in Times (London) article. He points to those who have mastered Photoshop and others who write blogs as part of the new artistic community. There are some outstanding links in the article. Read it.
08-08-06 tv on a mac? Microsoft and Apple each have systems that allow a living room computer to become a TV set and DVD player. Yet sales figures for living room computers are not being disclosed, an inidication that the public is not yet convinced. The age of that computer-running-your-entertainment seems to be limited to portable solutions, like iPod. Why? There's still no 'killer application' that will send millions out to the shops in search of the long promised dream.
08-07-06 madonna's crucifixion How many artists could pull this one off? Madonna staged a mock crucifixion in Rome, during her concert there. It is in a part of her Confessions show in which she wears a crown of thorns and is raised on a cross. Some religious leaders have condemned the show. BBC
08-07-06 film - the money is outside the u.s. US motion pictures can no longer depend upon the US market to determine their level of success. The Da Vinci Code is an example. It currently has $217 million in US revenue, compared to $528 million outside the US. This could be good news for film makers in Europe and Asia.
08-07-06 van gogh - real or fake? Controversy now surrounds a reported work by Van Gogh that is owned by the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne. The work, Portrait of a Man or Head of a Man, is in dispute according to Sunday Times (UK) art artic Frank Whitford, who claims, 'It lacks the slightly crazy intensity, that obsessive engagement with a subject that you can see in other works.'
08-07-06 guggenheim - paid to mingle Only in NYC, at least for now. The Guggeheim Museum has hired people to mingle with art visitors and get their take on exhibitions. An article in the NY Times says, "Although all of New York's major museums have educational programs, only the Guggenheim hires people to mingle full time in the galleries, interacting with museum patrons in all their quirky diversity."
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