Rick Poynor
Posted by Thorbjorn 7 January 2011
The MFA in Design Criticism at the School of Visual Arts is an innovative two-year program trains students to research, analyze, and evaluate design and its social and environmental implications. Shown here is a lecture with Rick Poynor, “Curating ‘Uncanny: Surrealism and Graphic Design”. Rick Poynor is a British writer on design, graphic design, typography and visual culture.
Cinthia Marcelle – Cruzada
Posted by Thorbjorn 4 January 2011
Brazilian artist Cinthia Marcelle makes films, photographs and installations. Her work is strongly performance-related and uses repetition as an artistic strategy.
Christian Falsnaes – Existing Things
Posted by Thorbjorn 20 December 2010
EXISTING THINGS – performance and video, curated by Spike Art Quarterly for Vienna Art Week 2010. Christian Falsnaes (1980) is a Danish artist who studied Philosophy at University of Copenhagen and fine art at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
SYLVIE HUYSMAN
Posted by Fabio 29 October 2010
Sylvie Huysman studied the effects of gravity on human movement. if asked she can reproduce gravity’s pull on a wall making it seem as if she is slowly falling vertically. The effect is so unnerving and so fundamentally wrong that it makes you feel a little nauseous just looking at it.
North Korea’s Military parade in Slow Motion
Posted by Fabio 14 October 2010
The Hermit Kingdom allowed international media to watch its largest ever military parade – part of the campaign to establish Kim Jong-il’s youngest son as the leader-in-waiting. By Dan Chung and Tania Branigan.
Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes
Posted by Thorbjorn 27 September 2010
Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes
1909 – 1929
25 September to 9 January 2011
V&A
Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL
Heart Chamber Orchestra – Pixelache
Posted by Fabio 15 June 2010
The Heart Chamber Orchestra is an audiovisual performance. The orchestra consists of 12 classical musicians and the artist duo Terminalbeach. Using their heartbeats, the musicians control a computer composition and visualization environment. The musical score is generated in real time by the heartbeats of the musicians. They read and play this score from a computer screen placed in front of them.
www.heartchamberorchestra.org
Features
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The list of cities and places recommended by creatives worldwide for Citylikeyou keeps growing: Barcelona, Beijing, Bergen, Berlin, Cape Town, Chicago, Copenhagen...
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Watch in full this issue's film and video content on our online player. Featuring over two hours of short film, interviews and documentaries.
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One of our latest additions to Citylikeyou is Mylinh Trieu Nguyen who is a designer based in Miami. She currently is the Art Director at The Wolfsonian-FIU, a museum of design and art in the heart of Miami Beach.