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Storefront for Art and Architecture and ForYourArt have invited 6 bloggers to curate Postopolis! LA, a live five-day event of near-continuous conversation about architecture, art, urbanism, landscape, and design to be held in Los Angeles from 31 March to 4 April 2009. The 6 bloggers are David Basulto of ArchDaily/Plataforma Arquitectura, Geoff Manaugh from BLDGBLOG , Dan Hill of City of Sound, Bryan Finoki of Subtopia , Jace Clayton from Mudd Up!, and me (we-make-money-not-art, in case you had forgotten where you've just landed.) The speakers come by the dozen. They are listed, scheduled right here and all of them are awesomissime. The location is as swanky as it gets, it's the Rooftop Terrace at The Standard, Downtown LA. Entrance is free.
The new media art-y crowd might be particularly interested in the following talks: Postopolis is part of Los Angeles Art Weekend. |
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Hello, hello! It seems that i'll be part of the ars electronica jury this year in the Digital Communities category. As such i'm invited to recommend projects. I might have a couple of ideas but i thought that some of you could help me out with better suggestions. Deadline is soon-ish, it's March 6, 2009. All the details are here. Please do send your tips to my email address, as a comment to this message or as a del.icio.us link ( using /for:regine). Muchas gracias. Photo on the homepage shows the new Ars Electronica Center. Found on magrolino flickr stream. |
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Lucky me! My laptop just crashed. I seem to make an habit of killing my laptops while i'm in London. But lucky me still. I've been invited to be one of the bloggers who will curate and moderate the upcoming edition of Postopolis! The previous one took place in New York almost 2 years and featured Inhabitat, Subtopia, City of Sound, and BLDGBLOG. The next Postopolis will land in Los Angeles from Tuesday, March 31, to Saturday, April 4, 2009, lasting from 5pm to 11pm each day. The location has not been confirmed yet but i'll be sure to update the post as soon as it's clearer.
Postopolis is a 5-day blogathon with discussions, interviews, panels, slideshows, films and parties designed to push the architecture, urbanism and landscape conversation from virtual to reality. It's hosted by bloggers which means that the event will also be an opportunity to reflect on how blogs participate, and sometimes even redefine and lead the architectural discourse. Btw, i'm still not done with the list of people i'd like to invite to join the conversations. If you know of anyone in LA who's engaged in architecture and urbanism and who has a somewhat critical, even activist mind, please let me know! My compañeros for the LA edition will be: -- David Basulto from Plataforma Arquitectura and ArchDaily (Santiago, Chile) Postopolis! LA says thank you to the Storefront for Art and Architecture and ForYourArt. The event will be part of Los Angeles Art Weekend. |
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Happy new year dear readers! 2008 has been a bit of a 'detox' year for wmmna as i've been slowly drifting away from what had made the success (it's all relativity) of my blog: new media art. 6 months ago i didn't think i would write this but here we go: 'i'm starting to miss you, new media art. I still have my doubts and a few issues to settle with you but i would love it if you could give me another try.' Some of you might have noticed that the rss feed of wmmna is severely ill. It's been almost 3 weeks already. We are trying to fix it so bear with us. Let's kick off this year with a top 10 of the stories which you have clicked the most in 2008. Starting with a quick comment on the categories you've most perused: architecture (yes! yes! good choice!), sex (can't pretend i'm much surprised), then design (a category i've been trying to kill for almost 2 years now but it appears to be much stronger than i), art from japan, installation, wearable, art in berlin, art, gadgets and finally my new favourite: activism. Now for the most popular posts:
I couldn't help but think at what my own top 10 would be. I was unable to list my 10 favourite posts of 2008 but i can tell you which exhibition has blown me away like nothing else ever did before. It was the Paul McCarthy retrospective at the S.M.A.K. I wish i could see that one again and again. I wish i could blog it again. |
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I am going to be offline during the 20+ hours of a trip to Brazil for the arte.mov festival (btw any tips on exhibition to do see in Belo Horizonte and Sao Paulo are more than welcome), i'm going to miss the broadband and wonder why no one has fine tuned teletransportation yet. In the meantime, please, do me a favour and broadsurf for me: Art Fag City reported the cancellation of the Chelsea Art Museum's exhibition, Dialectics of Terror, and uploaded online the PDF of the catalog of a show that would have been fascinating. Remember i mentioned the gorgeous catalog of the exhibition Nowhere/Now/Here in the interview i recently did with El Ultimo Grito? The LABoral people have decided to make it available for everyone to download. Scroll down this page and open the PDF. Because they are so generous (or maybe mad?) they distribute another of their latest catalog, Homo Ludens Ludens. Once again, scroll down and enjoy 557 pages about game art, play and contemporary culture. Let me take you back to the '60s with the catalog of the exhibition Cybernetic Serendipity. Yes, madam! Talking of which, María Fernández wrote an essay on Gordon Pask: Cybernetic Polymath. That's one of the many texts you can read on new media art magazine a minima. John Frazer's 1995 book An Evolutionary Architecture can also be yours in a PDF format. The volume traces the experiments in computational architecture going back to the 1960's. For those of you who haven't downloaded it yet, here's a link to the PDF of 'The Internet of Things. A critique of ambient technology and the all-seeing network of RFID' by Rob van Kranenburg. I recently found out that Tate has uploaded on you tube dozens of videos of artist interviews, exhibition tours and other contemporary art niceties. iCI has some charming interviews of artists you might like: Nina Katchadourian, Jim Campbell, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Trevor Paglen, etc. They call it Inside the Studio. I think that's it for today. See you on the other side of the world! |
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Maurizio Cattelan's taxidermic horse which i saw yesterday at the New Museum as part of the After Nature exhibition is the photo pretext i'll use to tell readers and friends that this year, for the first time, i won't be at ars electronica. I asked my friend Jan to post a couple of stories about the festival if he ever feels like it but that should be something very light.
Instead, i'll be at Pictoplasma NYc, then in Korea for Media City Seoul which both have programmes i couldn't resist to. Then back again in New York for the Conflux festival. If any of you plans to be in Seoul next week please do come and say hi at Media City. And if you have any tip about places to check out, exhibitions to see and people to meet over there, i'd love you to share them with me, cuz it's going to be my first visit in South Korea and i'm already feeling a bit lost. Please send your suggestions via the comments on this post or by email. Thanks! Oh! and one last thing, After Nature is a show you should run to. There's the much talked about replica of the Unabomber cabin by Robert Kusmirowski, some sculptures made of skin by Paweł Althamer, photographies by Roger Ballen, Zoe Leonard's amazing Tree but i'd better let you watch the exhibition online. |
