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VIDEO: remo rauscher's "the streets of the invisibles" (2012)

 

MANIFESTO: futurism (1909)

 

GAME ART: sebalicious' "slow journey" (2011)

 

A contemplative journey through Need For Speed: The Run by sebalicious 

ART: 9000's tibor kalman r.i.p. (2011)

FETISH: vespa quarantasei

MY FAVORITE ARTIST: anthony mangieri

 

ART: riley harmon's "trace" (2011)

 

"I am interested in parallel and alternate histories. The American Civil War site of Tredegar Iron Works serves as a platform or stage to draw similarities and differences between our past, present, and future. In a sort of stasis, simulation, or eternal rehearsal, the crew and actors play out the same action over and over — the constant rehearsal of a rescue scenario and the team-building exercises." (Riley Harmon)

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INTERFACE: paintshop studio's peckham-on-sea for the ps3 (2011)

 

ART: Doug Rickard (2011)

Doug Rickard from Pier 24 Photography on Vimeo.

 

ART: carlo zanni's my country is a Living Room, 2011 (2011)

" my country is a Living Room is a project by artist Carlo Zanni who made extensive and radical use of Google Scribe to write a short poem on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Italian unification

The poem was written in English using Google Scribe, an online editor that auto-completes suggestions as you type. Only the words and letters printed in bold at the beginning of each sentence have been consciously written.

For instance, in the first sentence the only words written on purpose were: “I wok”, while the rest was automatically suggested by the online software and accepted pressing several times -one for each word- the space bar.

And so on, phrase by phrase, this visionary and dystopian poem wrote itself unveiling -in a constant stream of consciousness feeling- some inconvenient truths framing a sleeping, resigned, happy nation.

The poem has been translated by Google Translate to fifty seven languages with no editing (all the translations are available in the book).

The book is a 150 pages, hard cover with dust jacket Print on Demand book powered by lulu.com.

The back cover hosts an endorsement by Christiane Paul (Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts, Whitney Museum and Associate Professor of Media Studies, The New School)" (Carlo Zanni)