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Sarzana 3-4-5-settembre.
Una piccola cittadina ligure che per alcuni giorni diventa sede di uno dei più importanti festival europei dedicati alla creatività.
Per tutti coloro che vogliono risvegliare la loro mente dal torpore estivo, per gli intellettuali stanchi di sagre e film americani horror, per i curiosi e per chi semplicemente non ha niente da fare l’appuntamento è da non perdere.
Per tre giorni scrittori, artisti, attori, storici, filosofi e scienziati si interrogheranno attraverso interventi, performance, lectio, dibattiti e workshop sui processi creativi, su come nascono su come si sviluppano.
Il programma prevede oltre 70 eventi, che avranno luogo nel centro storico della città di Sarzana, e 250 relatori. Una sezione di laboratori sarà dedicata a bambini e ragazzi.
Ad aprire questa edizione, la settima, sarà Salvatore Settis con una lectio magistralis intitolata “Paesaggio come bene comune, bellezza e potere”.
Tra gli altri protagonisti Francesco Tullio Altan e Sergio Staino; gli Avion Travel, il critico Ranieri Polese, il critico d’arte Achille Bonito Oliva, lo scrittore Gianni Celati, lo scrittore e attore Vincenzo Cerami, l’attrice e regista Licia Maglietta, lo scrittore e viaggiatore Paolo Rumiz e molti ancora.
Se non potete partecipare non preoccupatevi, in libreria troverete I Libri Del Festival Della Mente, pubblicati da Laterza.
http://www.festivaldellamente.it
http://twitter.com/FestdellaMente
http://www.laterza.it
In rosso
Se mi chiedessero di descrivere Cristiano Baricelli attraverso un colore, sicuramente non avrei dubbi nel rispondere il rosso, come la passione che ha per la sua arte, come il mondo spesso un po’ inquietante delle sue opere e come l’ultima sua fatica artistica, Blood serie due.
L’ho incontrato per la prima volta in un caldo pomeriggio estivo. Maglietta nera e scarpe All Star, non un capello fuori posto, con la sua borsa a tracolla, Cristiano sembra uscito da un fumetto manga giapponese.
Genovese di nascita e per scelta, classe 1977. Artista per “scelta” e non per lavoro come ha tenuto subito a specificare. “Voglio sentirmi libero di esprimermi, di creare senza dover sottostare alle richieste di una committenza e senza l’urgenza di dover per forza guadagnare con la mia arte”.
La penna bic nera è la sua migliore amica, con essa da vita ai personaggi delle sue opere. Uomini, donne, bambini, animali emergono dai fogli bianchi con ossessiva precisione, creature quasi infantili che sembrano scaturire da un mondo onirico parallelo. Ogni tratto è minuziosamente tracciato, nulla è lasciato al caso, centinai e centinaia di segni compongono le sue figure.
Si definisce un catalogatore Cristiano, un classificatore ed un archivista e l’impressione che si ha è esattamente questa. Una ricerca che indaga un mondo spesso horrorifico ed inquietante, territorio della paura e del disagio.
La sua formazione come le sue opere hanno un che di anticonvenzionale. Autodidatta, fin dall’adolescenza si nutre dei film di Cronenberg, David Lynch, Peter Greenaway , Stanley Kubrick ed Alfred Hitchcock. Fonte d’ispirazione diviene l’artista surrealista H.R.Giger, creatore del personaggio di Alien. Legge fumetti della casa editrice Bonelli, primo fra tutti Dylan Dog. Si appassiona all’opera di Leonardo Da Vinci e Francis Bacon.
Il 2006 segna una svolta nella sua produzione artistica con la nascita della prima serie di Blood. Il tratto purista della sua penna bic viene contaminato dal sangue del donatore/spettatore che, pungendosi il dito, utilizza il proprio sangue per colorare a piacimento il quadro. “ Ho notato che la maggior parte dei donatori che non si occupano di arte, prova gusto nel bucarsi il dito. Sapere che il disegno macchiato con il proprio sangue, verrà esposto, tocca corde di egocentrismo, vanità e masochismo nel donatore”. Del donatore Cristiano ruba anche il nome con il quale intitola l’opera corredandola con foto e gruppo sanguigno.
Dopo aver parlato a lungo tira fuori dalla sua borsa tre grandi raccoglitori dove con estrema cura conserva una copia fedele dei suoi disegni. Sposto i bicchieri per paura di macchiarli e lui mi dice “non ti preoccupare ne ho altri identici a casa”. La cosa mi incuriosisce e scopro che quella vena ossessiva presente nelle sue opere in realtà non appartiene solo al Cristiano artista. Cristiano è maniacale anche nella vita, raccoglie e cataloga, fanno un doppione di tutto. Mi confessa anche di avere una sana vena di sadismo “Spesso intitolo i miei quadri con i nomi di amici o persone che conosco e mi diverto ad osservare le loro reazioni di fronte ai miei personaggi”.
Mi rendo conto di quanto in realtà il gioco faccia parte di lui e delle sue creazioni. Cristiano gioca con i suoi personaggi, li maltratta e li deturpa, forse un po’ sadicamente ma sempre con un affetto genitoriale. D’altronde chi di noi non ha mai subito le angherie dei giovani genitori?
Prima di salutarci mi lascia una dedica su un libricino. A 007 scrive…ma questa è un’altra storia.
from Mormons series
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2007
Reed Young
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The Longest Bench, Littlehampton
(from studioweave.com)
The longest bench in Britain was opened to the the public in Littlehampton, West Sussex on the 30th July 2010. The bench seats over 300 people along Littlehampton’s promenade, overlooking the town’s award-winning Blue Flag beach.
This project began as an idea to create a very long bench down the spine of the promenade at Littlehampton, potentially the longest bench in the UK or perhaps eventually the world. The structure sinuously travels along the promenade, meandering around lampposts, bending behind bins, and ducking down into the ground to allow access between the beach and the Green
Like a seaside boardwalk the Longest Bench rests gently on its habitat and adapts to its surroundings while like a charm bracelet it connects and defines the promenade as a whole, underlining it as a collection of special places that can be added to throughout its lifetime.
Littlehampton, West Sussex is a town on the South Coast at the mouth of the River Arun. The promenade runs from the harbour eastwards towards Worthing and beyond. The site follows a redbrick wall which accompanies the promenade for over half a kilometre, terminating at the East Beach Cafe.
The Longest Bench is made from thousands of hardwood bars reclaimed from sources including old seaside groynes (including Littlehampton’s!) and rescued from landfill. This simple component is arrayed to accommodate the complex shapes called for by the form of the wall and the activities which take place along it. The variety of reclaimed timbers are interspersed with splashes of bright colour wherever the bench wriggles, bends or dips.
To inspire and develop the Longest Bench, Studio Weave worked with Connaught Junior School. The children showed Studio Weave how they use the promenade, what they think of it, and what it means to them, giving us insights into the site we would never otherwise have. Two important incidents along the length of the site are the two shelters. The children told Studio Weave they felt these were dirty and unsafe. They were dividing rather than connecting the green and the beach.
The old shelters have been replaced with new Shelter Charms, each made of a strip which forms a simple opening by looping around once. The bronze-finished twisted monocoque forms reach out to both sides, making no front or back. The bench stretches as it approaches a loop and then inside goes a bit haywire, bouncing of the walls and ceiling creating seats and openings. The loop contains the haywire stretch of bench and frames the views each way. These two shelters, along with the East Beach Cafe, form the initial charms. The Longest Bench unfolds a series of individual playful spaces and like a charm bracelet, a couple of charms and more can be added as birthday presents later.
This summer Millimetre team developed and built a very long bench designed by Studio Weave
(from millimetre.uk.net)
‘The longest bench in Britain was opened to the public in Littlehampton, West Sussex on the 30th July 2010. The bench seats over 300 people along Littlehampton’s promenade, overlooking the town’s award-winning Blue Flag beach’.
‘This project began as an idea to create a very long bench down the spine of the promenade at Littlehampton, potentially the longest bench in the UK or perhaps eventually the world. The structure sinuously travels along the promenade, meandering around lampposts, bending behind bins, and ducking down into the ground to allow access between the beach and the Green’.
Millimetre team employed the skills of several specialist subcontractors in order to produce this technically challenging piece.
Each ‘movement’ bought about its own technical challenges, Millimetre team tooks time to ensure the process of translation from the drawn to the made was as accurate as possible making every effort to retain the original geometry and resolution of Studio Weave’s original drawings.
The twisted components found both in the ‘squiggle’ and ‘drop downs’ were fabricated from data extracted from our 3D models [laser cutting and spiral rolling]. Millimetre tooks a different approach with the fold downs, the tight twisting movements Millimetre team felt would need to have been hand forged/manipulated and polished.
If you are interested in supporting the bench and helping Littlehampton make it into the record books in return for your name or message engraved onto the bench,
contact longest.bench[at]arun[dot]gov[dot]uk
Architect: Studio Weave
Client: Arun District Council
Project location: Littlehampton
http://www.studioweave.com
http://www.arun.gov.uk
http://www.eastbeachcafe.co.uk
http://www.akt-uk.com
http://www.jacksoncoles.co.uk
http://www.millimetre.uk.net
All photographs courtesy of studioweave.com, jacksoncoles.co.uk, and millimetre.uk.net
18th Street Arts Center presents
Martin Durazo’s project entitled Pain Management 100 is what he calls a three-month “hands on” laboratory meant to investigate and expose the connection between the illegal drug trade economy and the “legal” pharmaceutical drug economy. In Durazo’s installation, he will arouse the sensation of the popularized rave and drug culture and challenge society’s desensitized attitude toward the drug phenomenon by inspiring dialogue among the public on a local, national and global level. The laboratory’s run will also consist of a series of video interviews with the community along with installations concerned with images of the allure of drugs and other artistic aspects of the project.
Martin Durazo is a multi-media artist and curator whose work is concerned with the intersection between elements of high-design and the grittiness of social subcultures. He is best known for creating large scale installations combining video, sound, light, works on paper, ready made objects and performance. A sense of harmony emerges as the slick technical savvy of video and sound gadgetry is balanced by the raw energy of industrial materials such as clamps and martial arts weapons like thrown ninja stars. The dense web of shifting structural poetry created by his works invites and mesmerizes. He received his M.F.A. from UCLA and B.A. from Pitzer College. Recent exhibitions have included solo shows at the Mark Moore Gallery, Galería MDF in Mexico City, Harris Art Gallery at the University of LaVerne, Bank Gallery in LA, and at Jail Gallery in LA. From 1995 to 2003 Durazo co-owned and directed Miller-Durazo Contemporary Artists Projects and in 2007 created Empathy Design Company as a temporary curatorial/artist project. He has also been a producer for KPFK radio, where he is regularly featured in discussion about art and social issues.
http://martindurazo.typepad.com
“Pain Management 100”
Martin Durazo
July 6 – September 24, 2010
18th Street Arts Center
1639 18th Street
Santa Monica, CA 90404
Mon – Fri, 11am – 6pm
General Information: 310-453-3711
Programs: 310-453-3711 ext. 103
Administration: 310-453-3711 ext. 102
Fax: 310-453-4347
office[at]18thstreet[dot]org
http://www.18thstreet.org
original post by by rlopez @ 18thstreet.org
Nothing found about Roger Peters but this “SCAPES” series where he demostrates sensibility and perfect symmetric approach in the context, sky/land, water/ladder, building/sky…nice work.
http://www.rogerapeters.com
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from evsc.net
Circuit Explorations addresses the questions if any system has the potential to show emergent behavior as long as it follows the guidelines for emergence we learned from studying examples of nature and if the emergence of complex behavior can be made to appear by carefully tuning a systems parameter and setup.
Small electronic circuits made from analog components (resistors, capacitors, transistors, inductors, diodes) serve as building blocks for a larger network of interconnected units. The circuit schematics for the individual units are kept simple in their number of components and are deliberately not designed to forcefully recreate behaviors already found in nature (circuits mimicking neuron behavior). The network consists of many units with similar simple circuit designs that produce predictable behavior in form of oscillation, delay functions or signal inversion. Each unit has input and output connections linked to one or more other units in the network. By linking these simple circuits up into a large network, all the electronic circuits are interconnected, influence each other and cause an overall more complex behavior. The conception of the hardware part of the research in form of a modular kit allows for a more free and exploratory plug-and-play research.
Sensors readings from the circuit are used for a screen-based visualization that reveals linear, random or complex behavior in form of different visual patterns.
Pixel & Tube Visualization
A network of analog electronic circuit units is observed, their activation patterns are visualized. Changes in the circuit behavior are caused by manual tuning of the resistance of the communication wires between the units.
The sonification of the same data is produced with PD.
made with: Processing, PureData, Arduino
Circuit Explorations – Pixel Visualization
Circuit Explorations – Tube Visualization
http://www.evsc.net
http://www.evsc.net/v7/doku.php?id=work:circuitexplorations
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/evsc/sets/72157621973221445/
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