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KIVA.ORG: How to use the web to change the world – one micro loan at a time
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This year’s People’s Voice Webby Award winner KIVA.ORG is a truly remarkable website. With its innovative use of Web2.0 social networking and other technologies, KIVA.ORG provides a platform that connects people through lending for the sake of alleviating poverty.
The well-designed and thought-out website provides a data-rich, transparent lending platform that enables individuals to lend directly to unique entrepreneurs in the developing world.
KIVA.ORG allows visitors to browse entrepreneurs’ profiles, choose someone to lend to, and then make a loan, helping a real person make great strides towards economic independence and improve life for themselves, their family, and their community.
Throughout the course of the loan (usually 6-12 months), the lender can receive email journal updates and track repayments. By leveraging web2.0 social networking technologies, KIVA.ORG is able to facilitate one-to-one connections that were previously prohibitively expensive.
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Posted by HRay on Tuesday, June 03 @ 19:34:59 EDT (230 reads)
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Knocking On Bricks: Artists vs. Institutions
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writes "
"Part of the spirit of this project is mean-spirited. Like the girls of the cult film, Heathers, curators Shoshana Brand and xtine created false correspondence that taunted the unsuspecting. Imagine writing to institutions and large corporations with absurd, yet socially engaged proposals, and understanding from the start that rejection is the center of the concept. Brand and xtine's idea begins as a prank percolated through an understanding of bureaucratic systems, and the way art institutions, governments, and corporations function."
-- Kim Abeles 2007 | excerpt from Introduction to Knocking On Bricks
In the initial phase of KNOCKING ON BRICKS, ARTISTS VS. INSTITUTIONS, artists and curators Shoshana Brand and xtine composed absurd proposal letters and mailed them to different national institutions and well-known public personas. Shortly after the expected rejection letters arrived, they extended themselves into an individual creation of two-dimensional artwork, by mentoring, curating and promoting an international group of visual artists to create artwork addressing the absurd proposals, which had already been rejected. The final step includes essays written by well-known visual artists, commenting on the topic of rejection and personal success in the art arena.
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Posted by HRay on Tuesday, May 06 @ 19:33:44 EDT (398 reads)
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Archidemo - Architecture in Metaverse
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"Archidemo" is experimental demonstration and research for the possibility of the architecture and environmental design in Metaverse(=the virtual-world). developed by Hidenori Watanave and project member. All the activities are done on NikkeiBP and NikkeiBP way SIM in Second Life(Aug.01/2007~Jan.09/2008). In addition, "Archidemo" is Pre-event of "Digital design competition 2007" (Nikkei Architecture sponsoring).
To expand the possibility of "Architecture in Metaverse" that was the concept besides "Imitation of the Physical world", various demonstrations that used LSL (Linden Script Language) were developed by a large number of creators.
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Posted by hray on Friday, February 15 @ 00:25:43 EST (828 reads)
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NanoArt 2007: Open for Public Vote
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writes "NanoArt is a new art discipline at the intersections of Art, Science and Technology, and relates to the micro or nanosculptures (atomic and molecular sculptures) created by artists or scientists through chemical or physical processes and visualized with powerful research tools like scanning electron or atomic force microscopes. The scientific images of these structures are captured and further processed using different artistic techniques to convert them into artworks showcased for large audiences.
For NanoArt 2007, 37 nanoartists from 13 countries and 4 continents sent 121 NanoArt works to this second edition of the international competition. Public online voting is now open through March 31, 2008. Judging is via the Internet and decided by the site visitors.
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Untitled
(Eigler's Eyes)
Chris Robinson
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Global
Warming by
Aruna D.
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Untitled
(Liver Enzyme)
Johnson K. Gao
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VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE WORK
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Posted by hray on Tuesday, February 05 @ 00:57:54 EST (717 reads)
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TRANSART OPEN HOUSE NEW YORK AND BERLIN JANUARY 2008
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Meet faculty, students and directors, ask questions about this low-residency MFA in New Media Program in public and individually, and join us for a reception followed by artist talks.
New York: Saturday, January 19th, 2008
at the Chelsea Gallery Space, 526 West 26th Street Gallery 9E, New York, NY 10001
Berlin: Saturday, January 26th and Sunday, January 27th, 2008
at the Wooloo New Life Shop Gallery, Choriner Strasse 85, Mitte, 10119 Berlin, Germany
Event Details
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Posted by hray on Wednesday, January 23 @ 21:18:28 EST (633 reads)
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Urban Screens Manchester (UK) conference & art programme
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Urban Screens Manchester 07
It’s about content!
Manchester Conference: 11 + 12 October 2007
Public arts + events programme: 11 - 14 October 2007
Urban Screens Manchester 07 is a two day international conference taking place at the Cornerhouse, Manchester‘s international centre for contemporary visual arts and film.
From a multitude of perspectives, Urban Screens Manchester 07 explores the conditions for urban screens and their place in contemporary society, making it relevant across disciplines to media specialists, designers, artists, architects, urban planners, broadcasters and public art funders.
Following on from the first groundbreaking conference on urban screens, Urban Screens 2005, Amsterdam, the conference will feature more than 40 inspirational experts on the global phenomenon set to transform our cities. Urban Screens Manchester 07 looks in to the creation of content, commissioning / funding, curatorship and the architectural possibilities of urban screens in the 21st century. "
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Posted by hray on Saturday, September 22 @ 20:33:14 EDT (1001 reads)
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Remembering Nam June Paik
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Posted by hray on Friday, July 20 @ 21:01:16 EDT (1239 reads)
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Personal home pages -- digital identities in virtual communities
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Personal homepages and other online presentations offer a new medium in which to define, construct, and express personal identity. The collections and arrangments of text, image, audio and video files that make up a homepage present a bricolage of bits and pieces that reveals (and hides) various aspects of a person’s identity.
 And, just as any other articulated construction of personal identity, a personal homepage is essentially a construction – the frequent under construction sign is indicative of the ad hoc, improvised nature of a constructed identity presented in an asynchronous medium. It further reflects the constitutive element of a concrete identity as the interplay and tension between change and continuity.
In her article, Karyn Y. Lu offers an innovative and insightful examination of the role and function of visual identity in virtual communities and networked social settings.
Visual identity and virtual community
by Karyn Y. Lu
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Posted by HRay on Tuesday, October 17 @ 18:34:34 EDT (3019 reads)
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AutoGene Robotic umbrella performance
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writes "Installation artist Peter William Holden's latest machine AutoGene puts a new twist on the familiar "Ghost in the Machine" theme. Holden's robotic machine evokes memories of the iconic Gene Kelly performance of "Singing in the rain" while opening and closing an arrangement of eight black umbrellas in a digitally choreographed dance number.
The work seems inspired by a kind of digital nostalgia mixed with the irresistable charm of old-fashioned musical boxes that have little ballerinas on top churning out mechanical pirouettes. However, in Holden's AutoGene a set of flapping umbrellas takes the place of the ballerinas. The work does not explore the possibilities of digital code in control of movements, instead it give the impression as if it could work just as well performing its dance based on the mechanical bumps embedded as coded intructions on an automatic piano wheel.
Read more about AutoGene is Holden's description of the work:
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Posted by hray on Sunday, May 28 @ 18:42:09 EDT (3782 reads)
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Screening Circle by Andy Deck
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Screening Circle is a new collaborative media artwork by Andy Deck. The piece adapts the cultural tradition of the quilting circle and the participative round table into an online format for producing motion graphics.
Visitors to the site can enter a drawing area to compose loops of graphics. Each person affects and edits each other's screens. In the screening areas, the resulting motion graphics and retrospective footage are on view instantaneously and archived for posterity.
Screening Circle, as Deck explains on the site, was inspired by the tradition of the quilting circle: a group of people who make a quilt together, each producing small squares that are later sewn together.
Screening Circle reinterprets this popular craft tradition in the context of interactive electronic media. As you draw in this circle you may notice icons changing, because other people are drawing at the same time.
The title of the work refers to the screen because it is not a material product that people are making with this tool-like artwork. The products are composed of flickering light that can be "screened" in a variety of ways.
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Posted by hray on Thursday, March 30 @ 01:57:54 EST (4042 reads)
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The body and its desires are the only cause of wars and factions and battles; for all wars arise for the sake of gaining money, and we are compelled to gain money for the sake of the body.
Socrates, Phaedo 66 C
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