We are proud to present for the first time an initial set of new work at Art | Basel 2024 You can see it at Elvira Gonzalez gallery BOOTH F13 | Hall 2.0 JUNE 11 - 16, 2024
As most part of our photographs, these pieces are also inspired by Nihonga, a type of Japanese painting that draws on different styles. Many of them use traditional techniques and materials such as mineral pigments, washi paper, and silk painting.
This new work in particular is an exploration of the intersection between the gestural Western abstraction and the profound symbolism found in the Japanese folding screens ( 屏風 - byōbu) through the medium of photography. Using classical photographic effects such as inversion, sabatier effect, polarization or masking, this body of work seeks to distil the essence of the fleeting beauty of nature, presenting abstract images that evoke a sense of wonder and contemplation and invite viewers on a journey of exploration and discovery.
As part of “The indestructible” series: “Using an image captured with a camera and the possibilities of the photographic medium, we can create photographs that are not a faithful display of reality but an exploration of the limits of reality. The photographic medium, for us, becomes an extension of the human visual capacity. Our goal is to create photographic objects that create in viewers their very own experience of their encounter with the boundary between the real and the unreal.”
The Indestructible #70014, 2016 50 x 74 cm | 19 5⁄8 x 29 in Pigments on gold leaf on paper
This year marks the 10th anniversary of ThingsCon. The first ThingsCon was organized in Betahaus in Berlin in the spring of 2014, and later that year, the first Amsterdam edition took place at the offices of info.nl (see Peter Bihr visiting Amsterdam above).
It deserves a special edition this December, and we are planning a celebrative one. We will send newsletters to our community, but we would like to contact our former speakers and workshop hosts from the last ten years (yes, that is you, too!).
Save the date
We keep this short but want to share the date for our two-day conference: 12 and 13 December. We plan to create the usual mix of inspiring talks, engaging workshops, and connecting exhibitions, including a specially commissioned exhibition connected to our theme. And there will be a party, too!
We hope you will join us!
Our theme: Generative Things
Looking back at the last decade of ThingsCon and where we are now, a look into the next decade will discuss the relationship with things. To initiate a debate, we frame these new things as Generative Things. Find more on the theme on this page.
Invitation to contribute: RIOT
After a couple of years, one of the activities we are shaping is restarting a new collection of articles bundled in the RIOT publication, the State of Responsible IoT. The last edition was published in 2020 and deserves a new one!
Like other years, we invite contributors for articles, aiming for an inspiring mix of academic and practice-rooted articles. Articles can be new works or adapted versions of earlier articles. Check earlier editions to get the feel.
Engage!
We hope you will engage with the theme and think with us to make another memorable edition! You can contact us by replying to this email or connecting directly with one of our team members.
You can also reach out if you have ideas for other collaborations, special tracks, workshops, etc. We are looking forward to a special edition!!!
The history of art is a history of the erasure of labour. Take patronage, the system whereby a wealthy individual, family or institution sponsors an artist. In a patronage system, the main goal of the patron isn’t necessarily to commission a particular piece of artwork, but rather to enhance their own prestige and be seen as a champion of the arts. In many historical cases, the artists themselves were not even the ones executing the actual work, but instead merely served as overseers of workshops of apprentices. While, in practice, patrons could in fact have very restrictive demands for their commissions that far exceed what any illustrator would accept today, our cultural memory of the patronage system is the dream of an artist who gets paid for being instead of doing.
Hey, so–we cooled your boyfriend down to a hundredth of a kelvin above absolute zero. Yeah, it was so cold that all of the chemical reactions in his body ceased. Sorry. We, uh, yeah, we used him as a dielectric material in a tiny qubit. And then we quantum-entangled him with another qubit, just to see if we could. Sorry. Yeah, anyway, we thawed him out after two weeks and apparently he’s doing fine now. Didn’t really teach us anything about how quantum processes work in biological systems, but it sure was, uh, cool. If you’ll pardon the pun.
there are QR code posters here in Melbourne for reporting graffiti to the council - and someone has been printing their own and carefully placing them over the official ones
they lead to a documentary on hip-hop/graffiti culture
it’s perfect because the QR posters are uglier than any bit of street art
So uh, you know those people who insist Russian psy-ops never happened?
Me three years ago being Cassandra as usual
But there are none of these on Tumblr, nooooope, anyone who claims we’ve got Russian bots on tumblr is drinking the Biden kookaid, amirite? No way a single one of those accounts telling you not to vote is running chatgpt under the hood.
I could strip the flesh from a cow in 30 seconds too just give me some 30% peroxide and some sulfuric acid. Piranhas are not special
> tries to one up piranhas
> uses piranha solution
curious
screaming and crying and throwing up because I just wanted to be a hater and I can’t even do that right
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Okay this is extremely funny
also piranhas don’t do that, the reason we think they do is because US president Theodore Roosevelt visited the South America in 1913 and his hosts planned an event to impress him. So they collected an abnormally large number of piranhas from different areas and trapped them in a netted off section of the Amazon river and then
starvedthe fish for like a week. THEN they threw in a whole cow, which the over-crowded and starving fish desperately devoured.
He wrote a memoir including this story, and it was published and popular, and that is why everyone knows the “piranhas will strip a cow to the bones” factoid, which was such a manipulated situation as to basically be a lie
under normal circumstances, it is actually safe to go swimming with piranhas, they don’t typically bite or attack mammals unless under acute stress, and their diets consist largely of fruit, plants, seeds, already dead things, and other fish.
Such gates are used to mark the entrance to sacred grounds or gods’ territories. “The tori gate symbolizes the division between the sacred and the profane, and is considered a spiritual gateway between the physical world and the spiritual realm.”
Such gates are used to mark the entrance to sacred grounds or gods territories. “The tori gate symbolizes the division between the sacred and the profane, and is considered a spiritual gateway between the physical world and the spiritual realm.”
A 3,300-year-old ancient sunken ship dating back to the Bronze Age has been discovered in the Mediterranean Sea at a depth where time has “frozen,” the Israel Antiquities Authority announced Thursday.
The agency, which describes the find as the “first and oldest wrecked ship discovered to date in the deep sea in the eastern Mediterranean,” says it was first spotted last year about 56 miles off Israel’s coastline by Energean, a natural gas company that was conducting a survey in the area.
“The ship appears to have been eroded as a result of a distress it got into in a sea storm, or perhaps in the event of an encounter with pirates – a phenomenon known from the Late Bronze Age,” Yaakov Sharavit, the director of the IAA’s Unit of Marine Archaeology, said in a statement.
“This is a world-class, historical-altering discovery,” Sharavit was also quoted by the Jerusalem Post as saying. “This find reveals to us as never before the ancient mariners’ navigational skills – capable of traversing the Mediterranean Sea without a line of sight of any coast.”
The ship’s remnants were found more than a mile below the surface at a depth “where time was frozen in the moment of disaster” and has been untouched by humans or currents that affect shipwrecks found in shallower waters, according to Sharavit. The IAA says it sank sometime between 1400 and 1300 B.C.
Sharavit says only two other Bronze Age shipwrecks have been discovered throughout history, both near Turkey.
Energean Environmental Team Leader Karnit Bachartan said the ship was found during the survey by an “advanced underwater robot.”
“We identified an unusual sight of what seemed to be a large cluster of jugs resting on the ground,” she said.
“Upon reviewing the site and mapping using the robot, it was clear that this was a shipwreck about 12 to 14 meters long, carrying hundreds of jugs that only some of them could be seen on the surface,” she added.
The rest of the ship appears to be buried deep in mud on the seafloor, researchers say.
The IAA says two of the jugs were later pulled from the depths to be examined for research purposes.
It added that the jugs are believed to have held oil, wine and other agricultural products.
In 1850, a farmer found a secret village. It was later determined to be older than the Great Pyramid of Giza. Archaeologists estimated that 100 people lived in this village. The houses were connected to each other by tunnels, and each house could be closed off with a stone door.
Hyperculture produces a singular
here. If heterogeneous contents lie adjacent to one another, there is no need for the ‘trans’. Contemporary culture s marked not by the trans, the multi or the inter but by the
hyper. The cultures between which an inter or a trans would take place are un-bounded, de-sited, and de-distanced: they have been turned into a hyper-culture.
People fail to understand the degree of insane bloodthirst and dehumanization taught to ‘israelis’ like the one in front of this image. She genuinely sees the woman in the back as vermin and finds fun in tormenting her. This is a core tenet of their culture. They will humiliate Palestinians in whichever way they can on any given day ranging from petty to lethal. Their textbooks have caricatures. They draw unibrows on themselves and dream about Disneyland in Gaza on TikTok. They make fun of dead babies by comparing them to food.
This photo is 'israel’. There is no peaceful conversation with people whose heart’s desire is to do this. There is no peace or dignity while the occupation lasts.
there’s always gonna be people upset about committing “crimes” in direct actions. apparently we should only march in circles (and risk getting kettled and arrested by the police anyway,) instead. don’t let people like this get to you!
if it isn’t a crime to colonize, ethnically cleanse a population and target refugee civilians and literal children with nowhere to go, then crime simply doesn’t exist, because justice doesn’t exist either. any system that allows for such things to happen is illegitimate in the first place.
we don’t owe the authorities our submission – its precisely our submission that enabled this genocide. if we aren’t willing to disobey the law, then the law will continue to facilitate the death of us all, starting with the most vulnerable.
keep sabotaging shit. keep breaking windows. keep looting. keep the streets covered in paint and posters and stickers. block traffic. interrupt meetings. torch cop cars. we keep trying the legal “peaceful” approach and it has gotten us nowhere closer to ending this massacre.
that tells you all you need to know about how practical being a docile, law-abiding citizen is.
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