Archives > Août 2005

Omid Aladini, 20 years old, living in Tehran, is one of the best mobloggers I've ever met on the web. Have a look.
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For summer 2005, French net-artist platform Incident.net published a gallery in which 30 contemporary artists give their own vision of what it is to be naked. Have a nice look.
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Another interesting cultural event in France this summer : Yang Fudong's "Huo-Si" Bird is probably one of the most exciting pieces shown at the first Biennal of Chinese Contemporary Art in Montpellier (south of France). Go and have a preview here (in english).
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There was a very interesting paper in Libération the other day about Charles François Jeandel's collection of cyanotypes (a special technique for taking photographs). Charles François Jeandel (1859 - 1942) was a honourable member of the Archeological Society of Charente. With his wife Madeleine (left picture), he seemed to have a quiet life in the countryside. Or not (right picture). Charles and Madeleine didn't have any children. It's a miracle that this album didn't get lost or finish in the hands of a private connaisseur... Today, the collection belongs to the Musée d'Orsay. The blue cyanotyped pictures give a touch of morbid mystery to these very special scènes de campagne : no one will ever know who's really dominating / dominated... Notice the solid wooden frame on a lot of the pictures : as in japanese kinbaku, the erotic fantasy has something to do with penal punishment. The french translation could be something like... guillotine ?
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A d-i-r-t-y compilation.
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Reward : 10.000 $. UNESCO Digital Arts Award 2005 just began. This year's thema is great : "City and creativ media". Digi-arts & Nabi art center (Korea) call you this day for submission. Send your art work before the 15th of september.
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The most renowned art festival in Paris takes place each fall, with a new website featuring the forthcoming program in the beginning of summer. Now the very elegant "Festival d'automne"' 2005 website is online (english version available). For a preview of the various exhibitions (Tunga, Marepe...), performances (Mathilde Monnier, Robert Lepage...) and movies (Saburo Teshigawara, Brazil in the 1920's...) shown during the event (beginning on 14th september).
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Our "side-project" Gnomz.com (edited by les éditions hybrides, just like fluctuat.net), has been selected to represent France in the e-Entertainment section of the World Summit Awards, "a global contest for selecting and promoting the World's best e-contents and applications. It sees the bridging of the Digital Divide and narrowing of the Content Gap as its overall goal and - as of today - involves representatives from 168 countries on each continent".
Hurray ! Lets keep our fingerz crossed...
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