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Television Review | 'The Philanthropist': How a Very Rich Man Grows a Conscience

Posted: June 24th, 2009, 4:46pm GMT by By ALESSANDRA STANLEY

James Purefoy is a good Samaritan with a flawed personality in “The Philanthropist,” an unusual and exhilarating series beginning Wednesday on NBC.
Ed McMahon, Top Second Banana, Dies at 86

Posted: June 24th, 2009, 4:44pm GMT by By RICHARD SEVERO

Mr. McMahon was Johnny Carson’s affable sidekick on “The Tonight Show” for nearly 30 years.
Abroad: Elgin Marble Argument in a New Light

Posted: June 24th, 2009, 4:28pm GMT by By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN

The new Acropolis Museum in Athens is a $200 million, 226,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art rebuttal to Britain’s argument for keeping the Elgin Marbles.
‘Jon & Kate’ on Break After Stars Split

Posted: June 24th, 2009, 2:17pm GMT by By BRIAN STELTER

TLC is hoping there is happiness — or at least, good ratings — after divorce.
Rethinking Gender Bias in Theater

Posted: June 24th, 2009, 11:20am GMT by By PATRICIA COHEN

A yearlong research project, conducted by a Princeton economics student, both confirms and upends assumptions about bias in the playwriting business.
Buyers Focus on Works Worth the Fight

Posted: June 24th, 2009, 11:05am GMT by By SOUREN MELIKIAN

In Christie's traditional early summer sale of Impressionist and Modern art held on Tuesday in London, desirable paintings were scarce.
Movie Review | 'Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen': Invasion of the Robot Toys, Redux

Posted: June 24th, 2009, 7:08am GMT by By MANOHLA DARGIS

In “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen,” the director Michael Bay’s subject is as blatant and consistent as his cluttered mise-en-scène.
Cheney to Publish His Memoir

Posted: June 24th, 2009, 6:11am GMT by By MOTOKO RICH

The former vice president signed a deal to write about his service in four presidential administrations.
Oscar Winner Is Accused of Raping Young Actresses

Posted: June 24th, 2009, 5:56am GMT by By RALPH BLUMENTHAL

The authorities said the songwriter Joseph Brooks used his Oscar to dazzle aspiring actresses and lure them to his East Side apartment where he raped or sexually assaulted them.
Dance Review | American Ballet Theater: An Evil Sorcerer’s Cruel Tricks and the Heartbreak of a Part-Time Swan

Posted: June 24th, 2009, 5:48am GMT by By CLAUDIA LA ROCCO

Marcelo Gomes had the audience gasping with delight on Monday over his wickedly seductive von Rothbart, the evil sorcerer in “Swan Lake.”
Books of The Times: The Meanderings of an Off-Duty Novelist

Posted: June 24th, 2009, 5:48am GMT by By DWIGHT GARNER

A grab-bag assortment of speeches, occasional essays, interviews, poetry and stray recollections from the British novelist Graham Swift.
Music Review | Signal: Quickly, a Celebration of Steve Reich’s Pulitzer

Posted: June 24th, 2009, 5:47am GMT by By ALLAN KOZINN

Signal, the young, high-energy ensemble led by Brad Lubman, performed Steve Reich’s Pulitzer-Prize winning Double Sextet at Le Poisson Rouge on Monday.
Television: A Marriage Crumbles in Media Glare

Posted: June 24th, 2009, 5:44am GMT by By GINIA BELLAFANTE

On Monday night, Jon and Kate Gosselin announced to a not unsuspecting world that they would be ending the 10-year marriage at the center of “Jon & Kate Plus 8” on TLC.
Cable TV’s Big Worry: Taming the Web

Posted: June 24th, 2009, 5:33am GMT by By TIM ARANGO

The heads of the media conglomerates have made protecting cable TV from the ravages of the Internet a top priority.
Dismal Ratings for Networks in a Coveted Age Group

Posted: June 24th, 2009, 5:25am GMT by By BILL CARTER

Last week, the networks performed abysmally across the board among viewers ages 18 to 49, posting their lowest combined rating in that category ever.
Only a Few Hills in the Valley of Christie’s Season-Opening Art Auction

Posted: June 24th, 2009, 5:23am GMT by By CAROL VOGEL

The summer auction season got off to a tepid start at Christie’s on Tuesday, when only a few paintings drew buyers’ attention.
Opera Review: 'Carmen' Returns to Form at the Opéra Comique

Posted: June 24th, 2009, 2:30am GMT by By GEORGE LOOMIS

Devotees of "Carmen," which is playing in Paris through June 30, insist on the superiority of the opéra comique format, claiming that it gives the opera greater realism and immediacy.

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Ed Piskor - Wizzywig (volume 1, phreak, volume 2, hacker)

Posted: June 23rd, 2009, 6:32pm GMT by Alessandro Ludovico

book, DIY, USA, 2009, English
The first two volumes of Wizzywig are professionally self produced comics on hacker topics. They fictionally retell classic stories on the two topics, but any informed reader can recognize some very well known traits in the characters and events in the narrative. And in the end the reader discovers he was right, because the last few pages contain a careful list of references, citing all the sources of inspiration. So shreds from the hacker's "hall of fame" can be spotted here and there (Mitnick, Poulsen, Jobs&Wozniak, Cap'n Crunch...), but always flawlessly integrated in the storytelling and eventually ringing a bell in the readers' head. Even if they talk about the past, it's something different from talking about a forgotten world, already gone. The tales of an ingenious and active teenager are integrated with basic and easily understandable explanations of technologies, giving them a historical and sometimes even educational perspective. The graphic representation of different posts on a forum as single people’s thoughts placed in single small panels is remarkable. So, stretching the concept, this book should also be seen as an example of a potential form for a popular (and necessarily critical) history of technology. The character's personal experiences, although told in a thrilling and almost filmic type of narrative, are shared by an entire generation of computer entranced kids. The book is online in the format of single pages, so granting access to the whole, but encouraging people to buy the awesome printed version.
links for 2009-06-23

Posted: June 23rd, 2009, 2:21pm GMT by Alessandro Ludovico
- Eyecode (Interactive Eye-Tracking Installation) on Vimeo Eyecode (Golan Levin, 2007) is an interactive installation whose display is wholly constructed from its own history of being viewed. By means of a hidden camera, the system records and replays brief video clips of its viewers' eyes. Each clip is articulated by the duration between two of the viewer's blinks. The unnerving result is a typographic tapestry of recursive observation. (tags: visual video software media interactive)
- YouTube - clover Google street view loop on a road. (tags: visual video net tv art)
links for 2009-06-22

Posted: June 22nd, 2009, 2:21pm GMT by Alessandro Ludovico
- The Architecture Issue - Data Center Overload - NYTimes.com Internet invisble infrastructure (tags: net hacking)
Sound Chaser, running a vinyl rail track

Posted: June 22nd, 2009, 11:34am GMT by Alessandro Ludovico

Almost none of the dozens of interactive music tables have escaped the "abstraction" trap, sticking with similar, familiar "elements" made in perfect geometric shapes that assume the identity of "instruments", "samples", "drums", you name it. Yuri Suzuki's "Sound Chaser" instead tries to exploit a connective system that has already proven to be functional: the rail system. His small but very well designed machine simply follows the tracks of chipped pieces of vinyl records (that the author got at second hand stores) joined together. It's a double process: the records are dissected and broke into pieces, destroying their original published unity. But their pieces, as cells of a new organism, come back into life through the join and the "chaser" running through them in a playful path freely constructible by the user. The manipulation of sounds becomes purely manual, mechanic but seamlessly recombinant.
links for 2009-6-22

Posted: June 22nd, 2009, 10:48am GMT by Alessandro Ludovico
- The Architecture Issue - Data Center Overload - NYTimes.com Internet invisble infrastructure (tags: net hacking)

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Design: What Has 4 Legs, in the Round?

Posted: June 21st, 2009, 12:44pm GMT by By ALICE RAWSTHORN

For its tour, U2 will perform on a circular stage with a runway. Perched above will be a colossus bearing the lighting, the speakers, the cables and a conical screen.

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links for 2009-06-20

Posted: June 20th, 2009, 2:21pm GMT by Alessandro Ludovico
- WolframTones: An Experiment in a New Kind of Music music from Mathematica (tags: art music sound software science)

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Theater: The Three Sisters of ‘Twelfth Night’

Posted: June 20th, 2009, 4:15am GMT by By PATRICK HEALY

Anne Hathaway, Audra McDonald and Julie White are starring in Shakespeare in the Park’s production of “Twelfth Night.”
Art: This Summer, Some Galleries Are Sweating

Posted: June 20th, 2009, 4:11am GMT by By DOROTHY SPEARS

Slashing budget lines and prices may not save some struggling New York spaces.
Reconsidering Raphael’s Father

Posted: June 20th, 2009, 3:29am GMT by By RODERICK CONWAY MORRIS

An exhibition in Urbino, Italy shows that Giovanni Santi's own talent influenced his son’s work.
The Futurists’ Futile Chase After Motion

Posted: June 20th, 2009, 3:27am GMT by By SOUREN MELIKIAN

‘‘Futurism,’’ the exhibition at Tate Modern until Sept. 20, looks at the movement that began in Paris in 1909 when Filippo Tommaso Marinetti published ‘‘Le Manifeste du Futurisme.’’
Music: New Angles for a Woman of Many Sides

Posted: June 20th, 2009, 3:24am GMT by By ALAN LIGHT

Regina Spektor’s expanding worldview includes beaches, barking and God.
Dance: The Uncertain Future Life of Ashton Ballets

Posted: June 20th, 2009, 3:24am GMT by By ALASTAIR MACAULAY

A wide range of Ashton choreography has endured. But in what shape and in whose hands?
Television: A Comedy to Inspire Premise Envy

Posted: June 20th, 2009, 3:23am GMT by By DAN BARRY

Now that “Hung” has your attention, the creators of the show on HBO want you to get past the title.
Film: The Movie Industry’s New Playthings

Posted: June 20th, 2009, 3:22am GMT by By DAVE ITZKOFF

The new “Transformers” and “G. I. Joe” movies are the payoff of a strategy that the toy company Hasbro has been cultivating for nearly a decade.
Film: An Englishman Returns to the Gallic Boudoir

Posted: June 20th, 2009, 3:20am GMT by By TERRENCE RAFFERTY

The director Stephen Frears and the screenwriter Christopher Hampton adapt the 1920 novel “Chéri” for the big screen.
DVDs: Indelible ’60s Memories

Posted: June 20th, 2009, 3:17am GMT by By DAVE KEHR

The excellent new Criterion edition of “Last Year at Marienbad” reminds us that there was a time when Alain Resnais was a much more controversial figure.
If They’re Together, They Can Ease on Down Any Road

Posted: June 20th, 2009, 3:13am GMT by By PATRICIA COHEN

Thomas Kail, Andy Blankenbuehler and Alex Lacamoire, who collaborated on the musical “In the Heights,” are together again for the summer Encores! production of the “The Wiz.”
Letter: Jessica Stockholder: Crediting a Different Field

Posted: June 20th, 2009, 3:09am GMT

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Letter: Graham Greene: Brighton Rock’s Meaning

Posted: June 20th, 2009, 3:09am GMT

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Letter: Dirty Projectors: Focusing on the Sound

Posted: June 20th, 2009, 3:09am GMT

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Letter: ‘Bruno’: Joke’s Not on the Bigots

Posted: June 20th, 2009, 3:09am GMT

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Art: Headless Bodies From a Bottomless Imagination

Posted: June 20th, 2009, 3:08am GMT by By DEBORAH SONTAG

Yinka Shonibare, the British-Nigerian conceptual artist, continues to challenge assumptions and stereotypes.
Film: Action!

Posted: June 20th, 2009, 3:06am GMT by By MANOHLA DARGIS

Chick flicks? Are you nuts? Kathryn Bigelow makes movies that go right for the gut.
Music: Ensemble Ambitions in a World Divided

Posted: June 20th, 2009, 3:02am GMT by By DANIEL J. WAKIN

For four players from the Middle East, the hard part is finding neutral ground for rehearsals.

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v4w.enko - Harmonic Ratio

Posted: June 19th, 2009, 5:09pm GMT by Alessandro Ludovico

cd+, 2009, Kvitnu
This could be defined as "black and white music": the usual minimal experimental conventions are taken for granted, but then impeccably made consistent in both sound and visual forms. Consistency, in fact, is one of the preponderant virtues that Eugene Vashchenko (a.k.a. v4w.enko) has been endowed with. The aesthetics of minimal signs and sounds have been often misused or abused for their striking contrasts and their intrinsic attention-grabbing effect. But v4w.enko is not just playing with aesthetic sensibility and perception; rather he's pursuing substantial research. The author develops specific algorithms for his graphic animations. They can be enjoyed in the collection of javascript-based scripts coming with this CD as bonus content, where black and white forms and lines, limited to a small part of the screen, are generated in perfect synch with the essential but still "harmonic" sounds. In the live dimension, the author manipulates all of these elements creating a video flow that renders the whole alternation of a binary approach. The lightness and darkness, indeed, are constantly balanced in a manner suggested by the title. The goal, accomplished here, is to maintain harmony through a scientific ratio of black and white video and sound "quantities" that mark this production. It's a dynamic sequence, playing persistently on the retina, with a balance that is alternatively shifting without insisting on a single side, as an abstract slow metronome out of synch that imperceptibly mesmerizes the senses.
links for 2009-06-19

Posted: June 19th, 2009, 2:21pm GMT by Alessandro Ludovico
- Why We Protest - IRAN - Powered by vBulletin This forum aims to be a secure and reliable way of communication for Iranians and friends. Use it to discuss what is happening in Iran. Post in the forum either anonymously as a guest, as a registered user, or login with your facebook-account. We are not a government agency, nor are we Iranian. We are simply the internet and we believe in free speech. (tags: hacktivism hacking net)
Internet-avgift, a torrent of payments

Posted: June 18th, 2009, 2:31pm GMT by Alessandro Ludovico

Pirate Bay owners Gottfrid Svartholm (aka anakata), Peter Sunde (aka brokep), Fredrik Neij (aka TiAMO), and Carl Lundstrom recently were given prison sentences for their roles in running a BitTorrent torrent aggregator that centralises free music, film and software trading. Ordered to pay 30 million Swedish kronor (SEK), Anakata has instead launched a campaign dubbed "internet-avgift", or "internet fee", a play on Sweden's television licence fee, the tv-avgift. Using a website modelled on the one run by Sweden's television licensing body, Pirate Bay founders are encouraging their fans to assist them in sending money to Danowsky & Partners, the law firm that represented the music industry at their trial. The internet-avgift in fact consists of a "DDO$" attack, a reference to DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks. While a standard DDOS attack encourages a flood of e-traffic to knock a website offline, the so-called DDO$ encourages a shower of payments to overload the victim. Receiving no more than one Swedish kronor at a time, the Danowsky firm will be forced to spend a huge amount of money processing little more than pocket change, as the bank account to which the payments are directed has only 1000 free transfers, after which any transfers have a surcharge of 2 SEK for the account holder. Pirate Bay's captains are some of the world's sneakiest filesharers and their last mischievous act could end up ruining the law firm. Will the ill-equipped lawyers succumb to a torrent of payments? Or will they end up on top? The trial continues.
Valentina Culatti

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Talk to the Newsroom: Entertainment Editor Lorne Manly

Posted: June 18th, 2009, 2:28pm GMT

Lorne Manly, who oversees coverage of movies, television and videogames, answered questions from readers.
Women Take On Sexist Image in Italian Media

Posted: June 18th, 2009, 6:47am GMT by By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO

On television, showgirls are everywhere, but Italian women are beginning to say enough is enough.
So Many Flat-Panel TVs. Which Is Right for You?

Posted: June 18th, 2009, 5:50am GMT by By ERIC A. TAUB

Consumers shopping for the latest TVs must consider a range of technical questions before committing to a purchase.
Video Game Review | Infamous: Wake to Magic Powers and a City at Your Feet

Posted: June 18th, 2009, 5:45am GMT by By SETH SCHIESEL

Many games try to make you feel like a superhero. Infamous, the new action-adventure romp from Sony for the PlayStation 3, is one of the few that actually deliver.
Dance Review | New York City Ballet: At Night, the Music Enhances the Mood

Posted: June 18th, 2009, 5:44am GMT by By ALASTAIR MACAULAY

It is from the music that Balanchine achieves the astonishing contrasts of scale, speed and tone that occur throughout “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”
Books of The Times: The Sky Is Falling Soon! (And Junior Is Agitated)

Posted: June 18th, 2009, 5:36am GMT by By JANET MASLIN

A novel that ponders cosmic doom with a gleeful spirit by a startlingly talented writer who pays no heed to ordinary narrative conventions.
Newly Released Books

Posted: June 18th, 2009, 5:35am GMT by By AMY VIRSHUP

New novels by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan, Monica Ali, Emily St. John Mandel, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Warren Fahy and Kate Walbert
Music Review | Leo Kottke: A Guitarist Who Plays Like Two

Posted: June 18th, 2009, 5:30am GMT by By BEN RATLIFF

Leo Kottke offered a deft and conceptually cross-woven performance at City Winery on Tuesday night.
Music Review | Indigo Girls: Where the Outdoors Are Humming With Melodies and Messages

Posted: June 18th, 2009, 5:29am GMT by By JON CARAMANICA

So soothing are Indigo Girls songs that it’s a relief to remember that profane explosion is never too far away.
Music Review | Institute and Festival for Contemporary Performance: MacBook Makes Music With Schumann

Posted: June 18th, 2009, 5:29am GMT by By ALLAN KOZINN

On Tuesday the pianist Marc Ponthus assembled a multimedia program, in which video and stream-of-consciousness poetry were woven around and sometimes into the music.
Keeping a True Identity Becomes a Battle Online

Posted: June 18th, 2009, 5:27am GMT by By BRAD STONE

Some well-known names find they have to work hard at keeping squatters from claiming similar-sounding Web addresses.
Bridge: A Decision Not to Bid Proves Wise

Posted: June 18th, 2009, 5:20am GMT by By PHILLIP ALDER

The concluding 90-board match to select the U.S.A.-2 team for the Bermuda Bowl world championship was won Monday evening.
City Opera Tries to Hold Off the Ultimate Finale

Posted: June 18th, 2009, 5:19am GMT by By ROBIN POGREBIN

If nonprofit cultural organizations were run like corporations, the chairwoman of New York City Opera might well be out of a job.
At 85, a Brahmin in Blue Jeans Writes of Sex, Masks and Veggies

Posted: June 18th, 2009, 5:16am GMT by By CHARLES McGRATH

Gloria Vanderbilt’s new novel, “Obsession: An Erotic Tale,” which comes out next week, may be the steamiest book ever written by an octogenarian.
Dress the Set With Tears: It’s a Wrap

Posted: June 18th, 2009, 5:15am GMT by By BROOKS BARNES

20th Century Props, which offers a vast inventory of items to be used in film and television productions, became the latest victim of a rapidly changing Hollywood.
Jewelry Born of an Asian Fusion

Posted: June 18th, 2009, 2:35am GMT by By SONIA KOLESNIKOV JESSOP

Peranakans, Straits-born Chinese, developed their own hybrid culture, fusing their Chinese heritage with local Malay influences. This can be seen in the jewelry they wore, now in a Singapore show.

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edited by Fan Di'an and Zhang Ga - Synthetic Times: Media Art China

Posted: June 17th, 2009, 10:45pm GMT by Alessandro Ludovico

National Art Museum of China, The MIT Press, ISBN 978-0262512268, China/USA, 2009, English
During the peak period of global attention on China, before the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, the biggest exhibition of digital art in China took place at the National Art Museum in China. It was not really a local effort, but a joint international one, gathering together most of the major historical institutions in the field. The attempt to synthesize the last decade’s work with western reactions to the new digitally mobilised China and other miscellaneously significant pieces was a goal only partially achieved. The effort was monumental and is unlikely to be repeated soon in any other country. It aimed to look back at all the major cultural issues raised by technologies and machines: the body involvement/dissolution, the shaping of the personal imaginary, biological manipulation, the reconfiguration of space & time, etc. Nevertheless some seminal topics are clearly excluded from the endeavour - just to cite a couple: the de-centralization and self organization of autonomous communities enabled and implemented by networks, and privacy/copyright concepts. The many perceptive and representative (aesthetic) successes here are missing an important sense of cohesion - for understandable social and political reasons that are ultimately embedded in the history and meaning of this exhibition. The book works, then, as an interesting historical document – more so for its partiality than for being omni-comprehensive.

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In Lugano, Musicians Gather Around a Celebrated Pianist

Posted: June 17th, 2009, 2:40am GMT by By GEORGE LOOMIS

The Martha Argerich Project features established superstars like Ms. Argerich herself, accomplished musicians who are less well known and young performers identified as having singular promise.
On the London Stage: A Slow-Burning ‘Phèdre,’ and an Agile Mendes

Posted: June 17th, 2009, 2:40am GMT by By MATT WOLF

The National Theatre’s new production of ‘‘Phèdre’’ returns Helen Mirren to the stage, and at the Old Vic, Sam Mendes is back with “The Winter’s Tale” and “The Cherry Orchard.”

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links for 2009-06-15

Posted: June 15th, 2009, 2:21pm GMT by Alessandro Ludovico
- The W. Ross Ashby Digital Archive William Ross Ashby (1903-1972) was a British pioneer in the fields of Cybernetics and Systems Theory. He is best known for the Law of Requisite Variety, for his books Design for a Brain (1952) and An Introduction to Cybernetics (1956), and for building the Homeostat. (tags: preservation science software)

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Design: A Prefab House That Dazzles Still

Posted: June 15th, 2009, 7:04am GMT by By ALICE RAWSTHORN

The Eames House in southwestern California, which turns 60 this month, remains a model of economy and creativity.

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links for 2009-6-15

Posted: June 14th, 2009, 11:51pm GMT by Alessandro Ludovico
- The W. Ross Ashby Digital Archive William Ross Ashby (1903-1972) was a British pioneer in the fields of Cybernetics and Systems Theory. He is best known for the Law of Requisite Variety, for his books Design for a Brain (1952) and An Introduction to Cybernetics (1956), and for building the Homeostat. (tags: preservation science software)
links for 2009-06-09

Posted: June 9th, 2009, 2:21pm GMT by Alessandro Ludovico
- Subtle Technologies 12th Annual Subtle Technologies Festival, June 10 - June 14, 2009, Innis Town Hall, University of Toronto, Canada. The Subtle Technologies Festival is the place where Art and Science meet. (tags: festival science art)
links for 2009-6-9

Posted: June 8th, 2009, 11:28pm GMT by Alessandro Ludovico
- Subtle Technologies 12th Annual Subtle Technologies Festival, June 10 - June 14, 2009, Innis Town Hall, University of Toronto, Canada. The Subtle Technologies Festival is the place where Art and Science meet. (tags: festival science art)
links for 2009-06-08

Posted: June 8th, 2009, 2:22pm GMT by Alessandro Ludovico
- jwm-art.net: Long Trails Long Trails is a 1700 line text. It was generated using a string of unix commands to process a short text file describing an encounter with a cat. (tags: art literature software)
- La Montre Verte The project « green watch / Citypulse » was conceived under the programm Cities 2.0 of Fing (Fondation internet nouvelle génération). The aim is to multiply by 1000 the number of environmental sensors in Paris, while encouraging people’s implication in measuring environmental indices, thus associating them directly to building a sustainable city. (tags: mobile hacktivism science)
links for 2009-6-8

Posted: June 7th, 2009, 11:14pm GMT by Alessandro Ludovico
- jwm-art.net: Long Trails Long Trails is a 1700 line text. It was generated using a string of unix commands to process a short text file describing an encounter with a cat. (tags: art literature software)
- La Montre Verte The project « green watch / Citypulse » was conceived under the programm Cities 2.0 of Fing (Fondation internet nouvelle génération). The aim is to multiply by 1000 the number of environmental sensors in Paris, while encouraging people’s implication in measuring environmental indices, thus associating them directly to building a sustainable city. (tags: mobile hacktivism science)
WikiLeaks, sensitive documents as a common

Posted: June 6th, 2009, 7:31pm GMT by Alessandro Ludovico

WikiLeaks is an astonishing community platform that publishes anonymous submissions and leaks of sensitive documents relating to governmental, corporate, or religious acts, effectively preserving the anonymity and untraceability of its contributors. Actually they claim to host 1.2 million documents sent by dissident communities and anonymous sources. It's an incredibly powerful tool for research, a priceless database for freedom of information and especially investigative journalism, and it should be taken into account that bloggers (especially) still have a different status from journalists. They avoided the trap of free posts, so they now check and edit everything, taking responsibility of what they publish. WikiLeaks mission is just to allow public evaluation of the documents and they have already proven bold enough to reject censorship pressures from giants like the Chinese government or the Scientology religious sect. And that's quite a remarkable attitude.

NYT > Arts

David Carradine, Actor, Is Dead at 72

Posted: June 5th, 2009, 4:29pm GMT by By BRUCE WEBER

An enigmatic actor, Mr. Carradine never outran the identity he earned in “Kung Fu,” the 1970s Chinese-western television series that made him an unlikely cult hero.
Sam Butera, Saxophonist for Louis Prima, Dies at 81

Posted: June 5th, 2009, 4:28pm GMT by By PETER KEEPNEWS

Mr. Butera was a bandleader and tenor saxophonist, who provided a raucous counterpoint to Louis Prima’s frenzied “jump, jive and wail” vocals for two decades.
Movie Review | 'Away We Go': Practicing Virtue, and Proud of It

Posted: June 5th, 2009, 4:22pm GMT by By A. O. SCOTT

“Away We Go” is about the flight from adulthood, from engagement, from responsibility, even as it cleverly disguises itself as a search for all those things.
Arts, Briefly: Gordon Parks Photos Heading to College

Posted: June 5th, 2009, 3:33pm GMT by Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF

More than 4,000 prints and 20,000 negatives of the work of the photographer and director Gordon Parks will be housed at the State University New York’s Purchase College.
Shakira’s Children

Posted: June 5th, 2009, 3:03pm GMT by By SCOTT MALCOMSON

Can the Colombian pop sensation make early-childhood education the No. 1 priority in Latin America?
Arts, Briefly: Footnotes

Posted: June 5th, 2009, 2:56pm GMT by Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF

The Neil LaBute play “reasons to be pretty” will revise its schedule after the Tony Awards.

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links for 2009-06-05

Posted: June 5th, 2009, 2:21pm GMT by Alessandro Ludovico
- tom smith: CocoaGL film stills CocoaGL is a bespoke computer program designed to break down a film into its constituent frames. If a short film is made up of 100 frames, CocoaGL will split the screen into 100 vertical/horizontal lines or 100 concentric squares. As the film plays the 1st 100th of the 1st frame will be frozen, then the 2nd 100th of the 2nd frame will be frozen and so on until all 100 100ths have been frozen and the entire film turned into a still image. (tags: video art tv software)
- OVNI OBSERVATORIO DE VIDEO NO IDENTIFICADO Los Archivos del Observatorio tienen un carácter intencional y temático: facilitar una Crítica de la Cultura y las Sociedad Contemporáneas, utilizando diversas estrategias: video arte, documental independiente, arqueología de los mass media. (tags: media video hacktivism festival)

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ArtsBeat: Glenn Beck, Simulcasting Discontent

Posted: June 5th, 2009, 2:18pm GMT by By MIKE HALE

Glenn Beck, the popular Fox News host, spreads his message to Manhattan and elsewhere.
Ending a 60-Year Gig at the N.Y. Philharmonic

Posted: June 5th, 2009, 1:36pm GMT by By DANIEL J. WAKIN

Stanley Drucker, 80, the principal clarinetist for the New York Philharmonic, is retiring after the longest tenure of any player in the orchestra’s existence.
Arts Guide: Briefly

Posted: June 5th, 2009, 1:25pm GMT by By ELISABETH HOPKINS

There are two new galleries now open in Europe: The Magritte Museum in Belgium and the Punta della Dogana in Venice.
A Paradox at the Louvre?

Posted: June 5th, 2009, 10:44am GMT by By SOUREN MELIKIAN

Times are getting tough for the largest art museum in the world. While the astonishing news is that the Louvre is coping, the not-so-good news is that it is in danger of running into trouble by 2010.
Developer Drops Gehry’s Design for Brooklyn Arena

Posted: June 5th, 2009, 10:29am GMT by By CHARLES V. BAGLI

Frank Gehry’s plan for an arena in the troubled Atlantic Yards project will be replaced by a less expensive design.
Festival for New York, That Muslim City

Posted: June 5th, 2009, 4:46am GMT by By FELICIA R. LEE

A 10-day festival of dance, art, theater and music called Muslim Voices: Arts & Ideas begins on Friday night.
The TV Watch: O.K., You Got the Job. Now What?

Posted: June 5th, 2009, 4:42am GMT by By ALESSANDRA STANLEY

Conan O’Brien, in his first week as host of “The Tonight Show,” sought a balance between the antic anti-comedy he did on “Late Night,” and the traditional approach that proved popular for Jay Leno.
Books of The Times: How Baby Snark Grew Up to Be Mr. Curmudgeon (Thanks, Dad)

Posted: June 5th, 2009, 3:52am GMT by By MICHIKO KAKUTANI

Joe Queenan’s lumpy, unsentimental and ultimately very sad memoir traces the roots of his adult anger back to his childhood and his ugly, violent relationship with his alcoholic father.
Antiques: Castle Objects That Say: ‘Wouldn’t You Like One?’

Posted: June 5th, 2009, 3:50am GMT by By WENDY MOONAN

Imagine being invited to Castle Howard, the treasure-filled English country house shown in the film and television series “Brideshead Revisited,” to pick out anything you liked.
Art Review | 'Portraits, Pastels, Prints': Return Appearance by the Gilded Era’s A-Listers

Posted: June 5th, 2009, 3:48am GMT by By KAREN ROSENBERG

The exhibition links two galleries at opposite ends of the Frick’s courtyard: the Oval Room and the Cabinet Room.
Art Review | 'What Was Good Design? MoMA’s Message 1944-56': The Ordinary as Object of Desire

Posted: June 5th, 2009, 3:35am GMT by By ROBERTA SMITH

The Museum of Modern Art is revisiting its role as design arbiter with this selection of more than 100 objects from its collection.
Art Review | 'African and Oceanic Art From the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva': Putting ‘Primitive’ to Rest

Posted: June 5th, 2009, 3:31am GMT by By HOLLAND COTTER

This show, an unabashed masterpiece display, is a gold mine of historical data and a connoisseur’s delight.
Inside Art: Frog in Hand (Worth Two Glances)

Posted: June 5th, 2009, 3:24am GMT by By CAROL VOGEL

Venice’s new landmark is an eight-foot-tall sculpture of a boy holding a frog, by the American artist Charles Ray.
Architecture Review | Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art: The Civic Value of a Bold Statement

Posted: June 5th, 2009, 3:21am GMT by By NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF

Thom Mayne’s design for the new academic building at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art proves that a brash, rebellious attitude can be a legitimate form of civic pride.
Film: The Variety of Life, Real and Imagined, in Movie-Mad India

Posted: June 5th, 2009, 2:58am GMT by By RACHEL SALTZ

In its far-ranging 16-film series The New India, the Museum of Modern Art provides an unusually thoughtful snapshot of the crowded contemporary scene.
Music Review | Mandy Moore: A Pop Singer’s Identity, Undergoing Evolution

Posted: June 5th, 2009, 2:58am GMT by By NATE CHINEN

Mandy Moore’s show at Joe’s Pub on Wendesday night didn’t exactly reveal a clear picture of the self she wants to be.
Movie Review | 'Séraphine': The Vision of an Uncanny Painter

Posted: June 5th, 2009, 2:56am GMT by By A. O. SCOTT

The energies of Séraphine are devoted to examining the alchemy by which perception is transformed into vision.
Movie Review | 'My Life in Ruins': My Big Fat Crowded Athens Tour Bus

Posted: June 5th, 2009, 2:55am GMT by By STEPHEN HOLDEN

“My Life in Ruins,” Nia Vardalos’s first movie in five years, might as well be titled “How Georgia Got Her Kefi Back.”
Movie Review | 'Land of the Lost': Trapped Way Back in Time With a Bunch of Dopey Dinosaurs

Posted: June 5th, 2009, 2:54am GMT by By MANOHLA DARGIS

The only marginally interesting, if unsurprising, thing about “Land of the Lost” is that a lot of money has been spent on yet another cultural throwaway.
Movie Review | '24 City': An Upscale Leap Forward That Leaves Many Behind

Posted: June 5th, 2009, 2:53am GMT by By MANOHLA DARGIS

The actors in “24 City,” an experimental fiction-nonfiction hybrid, bring their own existential realities to their short, touching performances.
Movie Review | 'Tennessee': Pair of Brothers in a Grand Ole Soap Opry

Posted: June 5th, 2009, 2:52am GMT by By STEPHEN HOLDEN

“Tennessee” is an earnest, increasingly preposterous road movie about unhealed family wounds and fraternal bonds.