The Homeless Museum

HoMU, the Homeless Museum

The Homeless Museum of Art (HoMu) is an art project created by New York-based artist Filip Noterdaeme. Since its inception in 2002, it has at turns been a live-in museum in a rental apartment in Brooklyn, an activist's initiative, an exhibit in a vacant artist studio, a collection of original artworks, and a mock museum booth embedded in a commercial art fair. Juggling irreverence and sincerity, HoMu seeks to subvert the increasingly impersonal, market-driven art world and expose the sellout of cultural institutions to commerce, cronyism, real estate, and star architects. HoMu exists in a state of perpetual flux and continues to defy the rules of the established art world.

Best pun-ished publish of the day.

Friday, February 12, 2010

Boredom

Experience Without Qualities
Boredom, A Literary History of a State of Mind
A Philosophy of Boredom
Essays on Boredom and Modernity

le sigh. . . .

Iceland Wants to Save Journalism

Iceland aims on becoming haven for Investigative Journalism

To Deceive and Slaughter

Caleb Larsen has created "A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter", a piece of artwork that comments on ownership by powering its own continual exchange via eBay. The black acrylic cube checks every ten minutes if it is currently in an auction; if not it creates a new one, ensuring that owners are only in possession of the device for indeterminate periods of time. By purchasing, buyers agree to a number of terms and conditions, including that the device remains connected online, disconnected only for reasonable transport.

http://artthreat.net/2010/01/rip-remix-manifesto-2/

film on mash-up and re-mix and freedom

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/bonnie_bassler_on_how_bacteria_communicate.html

More humility from the microscopic

I, Virus

Why we're only half human

Open Source Audio from South Africa

Thanks to Jesse for these links to an open source free music project.
Durban Sings, field recordings from South Africa
Medusa Durban Sings Remixes
Rough Radio Durban Sings Remixes
Durban Sings Original Downloads

Evolution of Evolution

Horizontal gene transfer theory revolutionizing evolution theory. In the past few years, a host of genome studies have demonstrated that DNA flows readily between the chromosomes of microbes and the external world. Typically around 10 per cent of the genes in many bacterial genomes seem to have been acquired from other organisms in this way, though the proportion can be several times that (New Scientist, 24 January 2009, p 34). So an individual microbe may have access to the genes found in the entire microbial population around it, including those of other microbe species. "It's natural to wonder if the very concept of an organism in isolation is still valid at this level," says Goldenfeld.

Augusto Boal's Theater of the Oppressed

"This method uses theatre as means of knowledge and transformation of the interior reality in the social and relational field. The public becomes active, so that the "spect-actors" explore, show, analyze and transform the reality in which they are living."
Wikipedia Entry
Organization Website
Google Book
Pedagogy and Theater of the Oppressed Home Page
Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory in NY

Max Neuhaus

Some links to information on Neuhaus' sound installation in Time's Square:
Visitor Information from Dia Art Foundation on Times Square piece
An article discussing the Times Square piece
Max Neuhaus' website
NPR interview with Neuhaus
Neuhaus ongoing project: Auracle: Live Interactive Sound Over the Web
auracle project

60x60 and Bflat

60 compositions each 60 seconds long click here
B flat click here

Duchamp

The door Duchamp kept, which "only goes both ways. is only both open and closed."
Below is an image of "Etant Donne" Duchamp's final masterpiece, viewable only through two peep holes in a closed door. He worked on this piece secretely for twenty years nearly thirty years after he had given up art for chess. It is on view permanently at the Philadelphia Art Museum.


The Private Worlds of Marcel Duchamp. Desire Liberation and the Self in Modern Culture. full text: click here

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