Archives > Janvier 2005

"Since the beginning of 2001, I draw in small notebooks 11 cm X 15 cm (approximately), always with a ball point pen, always on same paper, always in black. I contrained myself never to tear a page off, what is done... is done. I put the date at the beginning and the end of each notebook. Each day (or almost) I spend one hour or two drawing in these notebooks. At this day, I made approximately 450 pages distributed in 12 notebooks". Carnets de digestion, great diary !
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"We are placing the "Thank you, Poland!" banner at the top of the main page to thank the Polish Undersecretary of State at the Polish Ministry of Science and Technology, Wlodzimierz Marcinski. This is in response to him blocking the European software patent vote on 21, Dec 2004, making him single-handedly responsible for keeping Europe software patent-free." That's what our friend Piotr Krajewski, from WRO Foundation (Wroclaw, Poland), wrote us. We decided to do the same, because we French guys are more and more aware, prouder and prouder, to share a broader common legal space with our Polish friends.
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Nuke, a new bilingual print magazine, delivers his first issue this month in Paris. Check online his rich illustrated pagination and read the complete Nuke by Nuke Interview (extract below).
NUKE : What is nuke ?
nuke: It's a self-made portrait of a generation.
N : A portrait of a polluted generation ?
n : Polluted generation is the emotion we're questioning, analyzing and expressing.
N : Why make it a printed matter ?
n : Because we believe that it's important to crystallize things we worry about. There are things we fear in life, there are things that make us happy. No big news. Words that evoke anxiety.
« Media brainwash. Individualism. Consumerism. Religion. Obsession. Sexuality. Phobia. Insomnia. Addiction. Money. Marriage. Disease. Family. Truth. Drugs. Television. Reality. Greenhouse effect. Power. Love. Nuclear proliferation. »
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New work from Young-Hae Chang "Heavy Industries" (ychang.com), the South-Corean net artist who combines jazz and typography with poetry. This work is an introduction to french / belgium publication Ecritures, which will put the question : quoi maintenant ? (work in progress / release : october 2005). Anything ?
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The latest project of Jacques Perconte is an awesome way to celebrate love, language... and code. Jacques should be guest-blogging on Aeiou in a short time. Here's the description of his new work :
"iloveyou is the second degree of a book and photography project. Here takes place a film exposed on the internet via a process system that show separately each 9 picture sequence (each frame is a 1/25 sec shot). The flow of the film is reconstructed through this picture movement: nine by nine, one after the other. Each image code is opened and modified relating to the unique moment at the location and time of the connection on the website. Images are modified - their architecture is disturbed by the writing of “I love you” as the replacement of a portion of code. The web browser interprets the code and tries to display the picture. This action leads it to artifacting, pixelating, not drawing complete image, displaying broken icon..."
Introducing the work is this quote taken from Roland Barthes : "Wanting to write on love, is facing the mess of language: this panic area where language is both not enough yet too excessive [...] and poor [...] " (in A Lover's Discourse: Fragments).
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Bonne année, bonne santé, et tutti quanti as we mix it up ! We'll try to do a bit better this year : more posts, better english, pure itching powder. Stay tuned, and have a good - good time.

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