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I just decided to join the biggest moment online sensation. It is funny what wikipedia says about what a tweeter (not to be confused with twitter) is: “a loudspeaker designed to produce high frequencies, typically from around 2,000 hertz to 20,000 hertz (generally considered to be the upper limit of the human hearing). A few tweeters can manage response up to an octave or more higher (30 to 45 kHz). The name is derived from the high pitched sounds made by some birds, especially in contrast to Read more […]

Diaspora, Tiresias in an age of voluptuous and blind images

“Ancient mariners had a glorious phrase: ‘We have to sail; we do not have to live’ I want to seize the spirit of this phrase for myself transforming it to personify my way of being It is not necessary to live; what is necessary is to create I do not count on enjoying my life; nor do I think of enjoying it I only wish to make it a grand life Even if it means that my body and my soul serve as the fuel for this fire I just want to make my life a legacy for all humanity Even Read more […]

Imagelisation, image and landscapes

Since the 90 the media landscape changed completely. In 1994, major media companies, including corporations such as Hearst Corporation, which owned numerous American periodicals and television networks formed for the first time the so called “new media” divisions and trade groups such as the New York New media Association were organised. Around the same time, artists, curators and critics started to use the term “New Media Art” to refer to Works – such interactive multimédia installations, Read more […]

WE-WEB – Exploring the social dynamics and challenges of World Wide Web

"To date, only a select group of cloud-wielding Internet giants has had the resources to scoop up huge masses of information and build businesses upon it. Our words, pictures, clicks, and searches are the raw material for this industry. Humanity emits the data, and a handful of companies—the likes of Google, Yahoo! (YHOO), or Amazon.com (AMZN)—transform the info into insights, services, and, ultimately, revenue. "http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_52/b4064048925836_page_2.htm Read more […]

Kaleidoscope Zeitgeist (Life Style Krisis)

Zeitgeist. Civilization of images. Civilization of clichés. Empty banality. Make sensible. Disconnected spaces. Aleatory encounters. Being Sensation. Space of the figural as distinctive from figurative. End Game. Neurological violence into logic. Loss. Absence. Critical judgement. Encounters of the arts with concept, theory, science, knowledge. Aesthetics of the power of the time. Postmodernism = Post media. Incommensurables. “This is beautiful” = “This is art”. Monolithically. Deleuze’s Read more […]

Chiaroscuro, Passion, Gestures

Chiaroscuro, Passion, Gestures Notes on the work of Graça Sarsfield and the exhibition entitled “Mystery” 1. “At that time He would mark the latitude of the stars By lining up marbles On the lawn He didn’t know that poetry Is so tumultuous That it can rock The order of the universe I now believe.” In “A infância de Herberto Hélder” by José Tolentino Mendonça “Six times more wealth has been created Read more […]

Excess, globalisation and emotional (dis)orders

“Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes”, Confucious “Six times more wealth has been created since World War II than in all of previous recorded history”, Hiromo Hosoya and Mark Schaefer, Bran Zobe, in Project on the City 2, p. 156, (Taschen) We are living in an age of emotional (dis) orders. We are living in an age of excesses, an often deadly imbalance in the psychological landscape of global, contemporary human society. The process of Globalisation, that is not new, Read more […]

Landscapes of History: Navigating Landscapes inside Personal(s) Memory (ies) and / in History (ies)

Landscapes of History Navigating Landscapes inside Personal(s) Memory (ies) and/in History (ies) :: Notes on Maria Lusitano’s artistic work “All great fiction films drift toward documentaries, as all great documentaries drift toward fiction.” Jean Luc Godard “The biotope of humankind is a complex affair, since it cannot be described solely in terms of living space: we live very much within time and, beyond the real present, we live collective stories, which have their roots in the past. Read more […]

Global Internet: Localisation and Multilingual Issues in Internet

“Despite continuing political and economic uncertainty, the Internet's extraordinary stability, resiliency, and ever increasing utility will push the global market for ecommerce spending past $10 trillion by 2010" Carol M. Glasheen, IDC program vice president, Global Market Models and Demand-Side Research. “Localization is the process of creating or adapting a product to a specific locale, i.e., to the language, cultural context, conventions and market requirements Read more […]