“Ancient mariners had a glorious phrase: ‘We have to sail; we do not have to live’ I want to seize the spirit of this phrase for myself transforming it to personify my way of being It is not necessary to live; what is necessary is to create I do not count on enjoying my life; nor do I think of enjoying it I only wish to make it a grand life Even if it means that my body and my soul serve as the fuel for this fire I just want to make my life a legacy for all humanity Even Read more […]
Since the 90 the media landscape changed completely. In 1994, major media companies, including corporations such as Hearst Corporation, which owned numerous American periodicals and television networks formed for the first time the so called “new media” divisions and trade groups such as the New York New media Association were organised. Around the same time, artists, curators and critics started to use the term “New Media Art” to refer to Works – such interactive multimédia installations, Read more […]
"To date, only a select group of cloud-wielding Internet giants has had the resources to scoop up huge masses of information and build businesses upon it. Our words, pictures, clicks, and searches are the raw material for this industry. Humanity emits the data, and a handful of companies—the likes of Google, Yahoo! (YHOO), or Amazon.com (AMZN)—transform the info into insights, services, and, ultimately, revenue. "http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_52/b4064048925836_page_2.htm Read more […]
Zeitgeist. Civilization of images. Civilization of clichés. Empty banality. Make sensible. Disconnected spaces. Aleatory encounters. Being Sensation. Space of the figural as distinctive from figurative. End Game. Neurological violence into logic. Loss. Absence. Critical judgement. Encounters of the arts with concept, theory, science, knowledge. Aesthetics of the power of the time. Postmodernism = Post media. Incommensurables. “This is beautiful” = “This is art”. Monolithically. Deleuze’s Read more […]
Chiaroscuro, Passion, Gestures Notes on the work of Graça Sarsfield and the exhibition entitled “Mystery” 1. “At that time He would mark the latitude of the stars By lining up marbles On the lawn He didn’t know that poetry Is so tumultuous That it can rock The order of the universe I now believe.” In “A infância de Herberto Hélder” by José Tolentino Mendonça “Six times more wealth has been created Read more […]
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“Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes”, Confucious “Six times more wealth has been created since World War II than in all of previous recorded history”, Hiromo Hosoya and Mark Schaefer, Bran Zobe, in Project on the City 2, p. 156, (Taschen) We are living in an age of emotional (dis) orders. We are living in an age of excesses, an often deadly imbalance in the psychological landscape of global, contemporary human society. The process of Globalisation, that is not new, Read more […]
Landscapes of History Navigating Landscapes inside Personal(s) Memory (ies) and/in History (ies) :: Notes on Maria Lusitano’s artistic work “All great fiction films drift toward documentaries, as all great documentaries drift toward fiction.” Jean Luc Godard “The biotope of humankind is a complex affair, since it cannot be described solely in terms of living space: we live very much within time and, beyond the real present, we live collective stories, which have their roots in the past. Read more […]
“Despite continuing political and economic uncertainty, the Internet's extraordinary stability, resiliency, and ever increasing utility will push the global market for ecommerce spending past $10 trillion by 2010" Carol M. Glasheen, IDC program vice president, Global Market Models and Demand-Side Research. “Localization is the process of creating or adapting a product to a specific locale, i.e., to the language, cultural context, conventions and market requirements Read more […]
this terra incognita that has disappeared from maps ; a paradise with invisible words a broken greek sculpture lost under the sea, near an unknown island, a most powerful wind speaking … hoping that the gods forgive me what I am doing (even i don’t know what i am doing) ; trying to measure of what is measurable, and asking myself how i can make measurable what is not so , in this will to go further the limits, the highway that leads to the unknown … i subject everything Read more […]