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Links for 2008-12-04 [del.icio.us]Today

• Frieze Magazine | Archive | The Wrong Note
  How Western pop music is being used as ‘touchless torture’ by the American military
• A toxic legacy | World news | The Guardian
  One of the first problems Barack Obama will have to address when he takes office is Guantánamo. What fate awaits its inmates - and how disastrous are the long-term effects of its very existence, asks Julian Borger
• Thoughts on "New Media Artists vs Artists With Computers"
  "New Media vs Artists With Computers", artist and blogger Tom Moody sees the distinction between conceptual photography and art photography made in the 1970s as a correlate to that between new media artists (i.e. those who exact a high level of mastery over hardware and software) and artists working with computers now (i.e. those who use computers and digital technologies in their art practice, often towards a conceptual end and in a more amateur fashion.)
• Resist - Journal - Leaked BNP list published on the web by Wikileaks.
  You may have heard of the BNP members list that was leaked onto the internet this week by Wikileaks. A few months ago one of the founders of Wikileaks
  

Links for 2008-12-03 [del.icio.us]Yesterday

• Body swap research shows that self is a trick of the mind | Science | The Guardian
  Brain scientists have succeeded in fooling people into thinking they are inside the body of another person or a plastic dummy. The out-of-body experience - which is surprisingly easy to induce - will help researchers to understand how the human brain constructs a sense of physical self. The research may also lead to practical applications such as more intuitive remote control of robots, treatments for phantom limb pain in amputee patients and possible treatments for anorexia.
• News of the Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, actualités de la Galerie
  aaaaaaaaaaarg! Mr is in paris
• "Découvertes : retour de Chine" @ Galerie Albert Benamou - Les cahiers d'Alain Truong
• ZuiPrezi zooming presentation editor
  ZuiPrezi is a zooming presentation editor which allows you to easily create stunning presentations. With the help of ZuiPrezi you can create dynamic and visually structured zooming maps of texts, images, videos, PDFs, drawings. ZuiPrezi has a very intuitive interface and support for online sharing.
• YouTube - Demis Roussos is Rus

Cinema Sim - Narratives and ProjectionsDecember 3

Cinema Sim - Narratives and Projections, currently on view at Itau Cultural in Sao Paulo, is one of those rare exhibitions you exit wearing the silliest smile on your face. You are happy. The selection of the artworks is faultless, each piece gets the space it deserves and needs, and the theme of the exhibition with tis mix of edginess and approachability is particularly appealing.

View of one of the exhibition rooms. Image courtesy of Itau Cultural

Cinema Sim - Narratives and Projections is not an exhibition about cinema, but rather about the idea and concept of cinema and how contemporary artists imbue their works with creative and aesthetic principles that hark back to the cinematic language and its means of expression, wrote Curator Roberto Moreira S. Cruz in the catalog of the exhibition.

The 18 works selected explore three core themes: narrativity, the illusion of visualness and the reference to the kinetic experiences of the pre-cinematic era.

Links for 2008-12-02 [del.icio.us]December 3

• POC
• Frisson of power: blockbusting art shows - Features, Art - The Independent
  Byzantium, Babylon and now the Tsars. The blockbuster shows of the moment all celebrate the art and artefacts of long-lost empires. Tom Lubbock thinks he knows why
• Turner winner Mark Leckey attacks 'shock art' - Times Online
  “I kind of hate the relationship the press in Britain has towards art,” he said. “I hate the way it’s all Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin and Banksy. They expect spectacle and shock. Art is not like that. The art world I know is not like that; it’s a whole other world.”
• Interview with Visual Artist Marnix de Nijs | Aap!Global! Blog!
  Marnix de Nijs is as one of the leading exponents of interactive sculptures, and recently sat down with Aap! to discuss some of his recent artwork that explores the dynamics between the human body, machines and other technology.
• george orwell in the sentient city | varnelis.net
  Yesterday's New York Times reports on something I've been saying all along: that the sentien
  

Links for 2008-12-01 [del.icio.us]December 2

• Murakami animation studio coming to L.A. | Culture Monster | Los Angeles Times
  Murakami already has a studio in New York. But he has decided that Hollywood is the place to expand his filmmaking capabilities. The new studio will operate under the umbrella of Kaikai Kiki, his production and artist-management company.
• Nick Cave’s Soundsuits : Bad at Sports
  Often, Cave’s Soundsuits are assembled by a multigenerational, multicultural group of volunteers in his Chicago neighborhood.
• Pentagon hires British scientist to help build robot soldiers that 'won't commit war crimes' - Telegraph
  By 2010 the US will have invested $4 billion in a research programme into "autonomous systems", the military jargon for robots, on the basis that they would not succumb to fear or the desire for vengeance that afflicts frontline soldiers.
• MAKE: Blog: The Culture Jamming gift guide at MAKE - hack, stick, throw, jam and inspire!
  gift ideas for that mischief maker in your life!
• Artlog /