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(‘Short Messages’ from the cover of www.fashionoffice.org)
VIDEO Interactive video
installation about climate change and its effects Mumbai born artist
Shilpa Gupta’s interactive video installation ‘Shadow’ will be shown at the Carter road
promenade in Bandra, Mumbai (India). At the time, Shilpa Gupta is one of the
most requested female artists when it comes to social issues (gender
politics, power of consumerism, politically or ideological terror, desire and
religion, cultural differences etc.). The interactivity of the web has
influenced her view on the world. Bandra is the ‘Queen of Suburbs’ in Mumbai.
It’s the place where Bollywood celebrities live and modern lifestyle happens.
The quarter invites from 14 to 29 November to the annual ‘Celebrate
Bandra’ festival. Each festival has a theme:
Heritage in 2007, Education in 2005, Environment in 2009: “Bandra’s
geographical lines have changed drastically over the years. Vast areas of the
sea surrounding our suburb have been reclaimed. We now have a sea link
spanning the ocean from Bandra to Worli, with aspirations of going even
further.”
VIDEO Lady Gaga's
styling in her new video 'Bad Romance' Lady Gaga sings
'Roma-roma-mamaa! Ga-ga-ooh-la-la! Want your bad romance' in her amusing
video. She is dressed in Alexander McQueen, wears Carrera… Stylist Nicola Formichetti publishes
screenshots from the video for a better orientation. Watch the music-clip!
VIDEO How we are
creating popular culture …questions
the American artist Jordan
Wolfson in his Cartier Award 2009 winning video on the example of
String Theory (combines quantum and gravity theory). A physicist from the Queen Mary University, London, explains that it is about individuals that come together and
project information. “Popular culture is about projection of information;
it’s about knowledge – about how we create things collectively.” The Cartier
Award 2010 calls for entries (performance, film, video, print work; deadline
4 January 2010).
VIDEO What Have You Done
To Your Face? …is a video work on female beauty and societal
images of
perfection by Alex de Campi (visuals) and Marcella Puppini (music). It is one
of 450 individual entries to the Metropolis Art Prize on the web and mobile
video content platform Babelgum. On the website you can vote for the
‘Audience Award’ winner. The voting closes on 6th December. 'Green Porn' video-artist and actress Isabella
Rossellini is heading the judging panel for two other prizes.
VIDEO UK band ‘The
Vanities’ are dressed in the new video in Diesel SS2010 The Italian denim
brand Diesel is producing videos for young emerging artist of the
Diesel:U:Music initiative. Since 3rd November, DieselPlanet publishes the
video (co-created by the Diesel Team) for the track ‘Dolly’ on YouTube and at the same
time a website that shows white dots on black background; in each of the dots
stands a woman or a man wearing the new pieces. You can make them shake to
the new music when you go over with the mouse! www.diesel.com/rockingdots
VIDEO Art gallery under
the Caribbean Sea (video with music from the Ghost Rockers Mio Myo) The
British artist Jason
deCaires Taylor loves
to dive and had the great idea to present his sculptures permanently under
the waves before the coast of Grenada, West Indies. The lifesized figures
will help to re-generate the natural coral reef. In an interview he describes
one sculpture that shows 26 children in a circle how they will become slowly
part of the undersea such as children grow into the upper world. "They
take on the characteristics and personality of where they are."
Talents from the Indonesian fashion industry The Jakarta Fashion Week from 14 to 20
November will present more than sixty of Indonesia's leading designers who
are inspired by the country's rich heritage in different types of traditional
fabrics while keeping the eyes on the present and future.
Modepalast invites designers The sales
exhibition ‘Modepalast’ (23 - 25 April 2010 at the MAK Museum of Applied
Arts/Contemporary Art in Vienna) invites fashion, jewellery and accessories
designers. In celebration of its eighth edition, the event introduces the new
focus ‘Modepalast Green’. Closing date for designers’ applications is 10th
January 2010 www.modepalast.com
Art work about the non-holistic view on the body The Swiss, in
Austria and Egypt living artist Barbara Graf exhibits her sculptured sketches
under the title ‘Körper-Linien’ (‘Body-Lines’) from 18 Nov to 19 Dec at the
Galerie Atrium ed Arte in Vienna. The artist focuses on the limitation of the
body by reducing it to separate parts; her bodies are mostly female and without
heads. The exhibition's leading sculptured
sketch is entitled ‘Skin-Folds’ and makes think of the reduction of the body
in its wholeness – such as it happens in our society today – to the folds of
skin. In some of her sculptures these ‘tracks of life’ look like annual rings
of a tree.
Print in the digital age Parsons The New
School for Design (New York) explores in the exhibition ‘Control Print’ (7
Nov - 14 Dec) the intersection of craft and technology. Works by international
artists extend the idea of ink on paper and showcase how traditional,
digital, and mixed media enter the representational process.
New art forms with online strategies and performance The School of Art at the California
Institute of the Arts (CalArts) announces its new MFA program in Art and Technology and will begin accepting students for the
fall 2010 semester. Involved are faculty and visiting artists whose work engage
computer programming, web based systems, digital image making, digital sound
design, immersive installation, digital video, interactive multimedia and
hybrid performance.
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