On friday Devember 19th the TransAgriculture-event takes place at V2_ in Rotterdam. It’s part of the Life & Art program series at V2_ focused on the intertwinement of art and life. Asking whether art can be lived or a life can be art takes on a new meaning in an age of genetic technology, financial crisis and living art.
TransAgriculture is a one-day manifestation featuring penetrating introductions to the field, lectures on guerrilla- and avant-gardening, and bioart forms.
Location: V2_, Eendrachtsstraat 10, Rotterdam
19 December 10:00am–5:30pm
With:
René Boomkens, cultural philosopher
http://www.rug.nl/staff/r.w.boomkens/
Bruce Sterling, author
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Sterling
Natalie Jeremijenko, avant-gardening
http://www.nyu.edu/projects/xdesign
Richard Reynolds, guerrilla gardener
http://www.guerrillagardening.org
Michiko Nitta, Extreme Green Guerrilla
http://myportfolio.me.uk/EGGs.htm
Moderator: Sebastian Olma
LUNCH – The Life & Art audience will enjoy the experience of a special TransAgriculture lunch, designed by Marije Vogelzang from PROEF. http://www.proefrotterdam.nl
Admission: Full program including lunch: €20.00 [stud.: €15.00], without lunch: €15.00 [stud.: €10.00]
Reservations: v2@v2.nl
This year he’s not sending out e-mails to friends, but blogs his reports on http://nynotesnovdec2008.blogspot.com/, mostly art shows (and a few funny spelling errors).
Guess “everybody” has seen this one already. (Blogged to remind myself): http://www.semiconductorfilms.com/root/Magnetic_Movie/Magnetic.htm, Semiconductors Magnetic Movie.
Arjen Mulder & Joke Brouwer’s Interact or Die! has been awarded the media art research award of the Prix Ars Electronica: http://www.aec.at/de/prix/winners_lbi.asp. Nice. Congrats to Arjen and Joke. The descriptions of the artworks in the book were edited/assembled/written by yours truly. So I guess a tiny bit of the light of the award shines on me too…
This friday, May 30th: We Love STEIM Party at the Mediamatic Garagebox. With performances of DJ Sniff, Toktek, music played by your DNK-deejays Andre, Harm and Koen, and much more: http://www.mediamatic.net/artefact-38024-en.html. Come and party to show how much we love STEIM.
This is especially for those of you who enjoy new music and are interested in innovative electronic art: the famous laboratory STEIM in Amsterdam is in great danger. The advice of the most important national public funding body is to give STEIM zero euro’s. Yes: nothing.
For all of us who are interested in new and innovative art and music this is hard to understand.
To help you can send a letter of support:
http://www.steim.org/steim/funding_in_danger/
Online exhibtion: http://www.clubinternet.org/. (Refreshing the page = new work). This first ‘issue’ is carefully curated by Harm van den Dorpel.
Just ordered George Lewis’ history of the AACM, A Power Stronger Than Itself
The AACM and American Experimental Music. Seems to be out, though Amazon still lists it as ‘not yet published’. I have been listening a lot to music from that scene the past year, so I’m craving for some ‘deeper’ information. Also curious what George Lewis has to say. The very first concert of free improv music that I witnessed was George Lewis + Gerry Hemingway and I love his sound on the trombone. Though I am sometimes put off by his writings, he can be heavy-handed (?) when he does theory. Here’s an excerpt: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/476957.html
Another strange little video by Oorbeek: http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=0AT1kBE1ePU
Next week, thursday March 13th I will be doing a presentation in Groningen, at Sign (Winschoterkade 10, 20.00 – 22.30h), as part of Aymeric Mansoux’ and Marloes de Valk’s project Hello Process, in rand() we trust. Also speaking: Florian Cramer, Adger Stokvisch and Dave Griffiths. See: http://no.systmz.goto10.org/.