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November 2010 - III: Culture and/or Nature in Fashion
Culture/Nature: Men's Style Web/Mobile/
Fashionoffice collected pieces that are fashionably new and much grounded - in culture or nature, or both. Fashion by Adidas SLVR, Giorgio Armani...
Culture: Ari Seputra's new collection Web/Mobile/
... is inspired by traditional Indonesian themes: Borobudur, Wayang, Keraton; such as the gown that refers to 'Keraton' (means 'royal palace')...
Nature/Culture: "It all starts with the body" says Donna Karan Web/Mobile/
in the discussion with Dr. Valerie Steele at Parsons The New School for Design; and continues her thoughts: "What fashion is right now to me, is social consciousness"...
Culture: Dancing through the night Web/Mobile/
Inspired by the culture of the 'Wiener Ball', which is an Austrian contribution to World Heritage, Fashionoffice has collected some pieces for a ball outfit...
Living in India Web/Mobile/
Ayesha Kapur provides with the black/white series 'Bollywood Tinsle Town' a view at the backstage of Bollywood and the life of young people in the Indian film industry...
Traveling global art Web/Mobile/
The large-scale photographs of the Parisian street artist JR show faces of people from their own neighbourhood. On the video, you can see the artist's installations on the wall...
Crossing boundaries Web/Mobile/
Fashionoffice Insight by publisher Karin Sawetz: "Media are filled with reports from the streets where people protested. For sure, nobody should be impressed too much from the agenda of big business media companies! But what makes some of the protests really interesting..."
UPDATE:
Digital media in research, praxis, and education; Media information by Fashionoffice, Nov 2010
'Timeline' and 'memory' are keywords that have been in the center of Fashionoffice.org-studies on human experience of reality and public opinion during the last five years. Now, the summary of the study on 'Memorized Data' will be published in the Annual Multimedia 2011 (release date 7 December 2010).
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SHORT MESSAGES (from the FashionFeeds):
17 Nov 2010 - Catwalk-video: Dahil Olma Projesi FW2010/11 by Bahar Korçan
Turkish designer Bahar Korçan introduces to her FW2010/11 silk, bamboo, cashmere collection with the poem 'Be included project': "The sand castle - Surrounded - The inner circle of old. Unclear..." baharkorcan.org/ENG/index.php?/projects/kabullen-veya-degistir. Bahar Korçan was the first Turkish designer who was shown at Premier Vision Expo (2000-2001 winter collection) and she was the first designer who was selected to the board of directors of TGSD (Turkish Clothing Industry Association). Now, she is one of the speakers at the "Why Design, Why Biennial?": International Istanbul Design Symposium, organised by the Kadir Has University in Istanbul from 2 to 3 December 2010. It's the launch event for the International Istanbul Design Biennial in 2012. Details on iksv.org/tasarimbienali/english/tasarim.asp?cid=1.
16 Nov 2010 - 'Think Contra' view on Betsey Johnson SS2011 show during New York Fashion Week
'Think Contra' provides on its TV channel the magazine's shot/cut video about the fun-loving fashion by Betsey Johnson for princesses with Rihanna's song 'Only Girl in the World'. The online publication 'Think Contra' was launched in 2008 in Toronto (Canada) as a network of artists, photographers, designers, stylists, illustrators, writers and bloggers "who believe controversy and contrast are good, but creative freedom is even better" thinkcontra.com/blog/about.
16 Nov 2010 - Video: 'You Look Like Shit' with Julia Roberts, Susan Sarandon, Bruce Willis, George Clooney...
The 'Megacut' is a funny video-exploration about the various meanings of one line which is often used in Hollywood movies.
16 Nov 2010 - Vintage styling inspired by New York's fashion icons
Fashionoffice just received the hyperlink to the newest 'Rock Paper Vintage'-styling for Nylon Magazine by Karen Perez and Tiffany English; Tiffany is the founder of Rock Paper Vintage shop in New York. The styling is inspired by the styles of New York’s fashion icons; photographed by Alberto Milazzo.
15 Nov 2010 - Fascineshion.com publishes video about 'Skin' from an art-medicine view
The exhibition 'Skin' was held from 10 June to 26 September 2010 at the Wellcome Collection in London. Fascineshion.com provides an insight into the exhibition space such as the 'Skin Lab' with artistic responses to developments in plastic surgery and used therefore Frank Sinatra's song 'I've got you under my skin'. It is even worth to visit the website of the Wellcome Collection where currently the exhibition 'High Society' runs (11 November 2010 - 27 February 2011). This time, the collection has chosen a pharmaceutical approach and mixed it with expressions in art. http://www.wellcomecollection.org/whats-on/exhibitions/high-society.aspx
15 Nov 2010 - Balkan Gypsy dance music 'Bucovina' by Ian Oliver ft. Shantel
Bucovina is a region that was once partly Habsburg and Ottoman Empire. Today, it is Romania and partly Ukraine. The German based musician and DJ Shantel has named the nights when he is making live-dance music 'Bucovina Club'. He is on tour now: 17 Nov İstanbul, Turkey; 26 Nov
Würzburg, Germany; 27 November Turin, Italy...
15 Nov 2010 - Art-video: 'Turkish Delight' by Kutluğ Ataman
...is a funny-tragically work about the ideas of the West on Eastern culture. The artist Kutluğ Ataman wears in the video a wig and the costume of a belly dancer. The video is one of 11 major works of the artist which are now on exhibition. The retrospective 'Kutluğ Ataman - The Enemy Inside Me' runs from
10 November 2010 to 6 March 2011 at İstanbul Modern in Turkey www.istanbulmodern.org.
14 Nov 2010 - Free Mp3 and video: 'The Hair Song' by 'Black Mountain'
The video 'The Hair Song' shows a real skateboarding fan of the Canadian psychedelic-classical rock band 'Black Mountain'. It's from the new album 'Wilderness Heart' (released Sept 2010). LA Weekly cites director Zoe Bower: "I wanted real kids, real Black Mountain fans, not professional actors," she says, "[so] I put a casting notice on Craigslist Toronto for a 'Shaggy-haired, skateboarder metal kid.'"
14 Nov 2010 - How are memories indexed, stored and accessed in the computer age?
The 2nd Biennale 'Figures of Interactivity' (17 - 27 Nov, Poitiers, FR), which is produced by the European School of Visual Arts (ÉESI) with support of the University of Poitiers, asks under the title 'Memory (Memories)': "What happens to memory when, after the book, its place seems to be taken by the computer? What is memory? How do we access these memories, these reminiscences? Is episodic memory used more than semantic memory, for example? etc."
13 Nov 2010 - Video: 'The Girl Effect'
'The Girl Effect' is a campaign started by the Nike Foundation in collaboration with partners like the United Nations Foundation and the Coalition for Adolescent Girls. The aim is to support girls in poor countries so they become healthier and educated. More information about the initiative and the ideas behind 'The Girl Effect' and why it shall benefit the whole world on girleffect.org.
13 Nov 2010 - 'Childish Things'
...is the title of the upcoming exhibition with focus on toys, childhood, child development and the cultural conditioning of children with art by
Louise Bourgeois, Susan Hiller, Mike Kelley, Jeff Koons... at The Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh (19 November 2010 – 23 January 2011).
12 Nov 2010 - 'Bag Against Crime'
Fashionoffice just received the hyperlink to the 'Bag Against Crime' - looks like a folded newspaper but is a laptop sleeve or a clutch, by the Spanish design label Mitemite which describes itself as 'unnecessary objects lab'. On their website, they are presenting also the interior object 'Paper Planes' or home textiles like 'Madre Teresa' towels. The objects are available online, in concept stores and museums like the Guggenheim in Venice.
11 Nov 2010 - Eletronic-pop by 'The Real Tuesday Weld' on fashion website
The Berlin based label Firma introduces with the antique cabaret alike song 'The Ugly and the Beautiful' by the UK band 'The Real Tuesday Weld' and morphing images of a man and a woman to the minimalistic fashion of Daniela Biesenbach and Carl Tillessen. Today, Firma has announced 'The Fabulous Baker Bag'. Human rights movement's activist Josephine Baker, who lived from 1925 to 1926 in Berlin, once said: "I wasn’t really naked. I simply didn’t have any clothes on."
11 Nov 2010 - Symposium on research, education and practice in art
The symposium 'As the Academy Turns' explores from 2 to 4 December the potentials of artistic research and the current academization of art education; hosted by Manifesta 8 in Murcia, Spain.
11 Nov 2010 - 'These boots are made for walking' by The Legendary Tigerman feat. Maria De Medeiros
"This time, only women are allowed to stop in the Tigerman's world." is posted on 'The Legendary Tigerman''s website. For his latest album 'Femina' the Portugese musician Paulo Furtago (aka The Legendary Tigerman) worked together with Asia Argento, Phoebee Killdeer, Rita Redshoes, Peaches...
11 Nov 2010 - "Vibrating powermascara!", "Say hello to his compiler."
Sentences that mix the language of engineering and beauty are spreaded by the computer-driven lipstick art-installation with motion detector 'Lipstick Enigma' by Janet Zweig, who has developed it together with Franklyn Berry for the University of Central Florida, Orlando in 2010.
10 Nov 2010 - 'Canta El Río' by Ceci Bastida (Uproot Andy Outernational Remix)
Fashionoffice just received the music tip. The song 'Canta El Rio' of the former member of Tijuana No! band, Latin American ska-punk-Mexican-folk musician Ceci Bastida premiered recently online. The Grammy Award 2010 nominated Ceci Bastida has released her new solo album 'Veo La Marea' on 9 November digitally on iTunes. The music tip came with the words: "Ceci changed the face of Tijuana’s music scene at just 15 years old with her ska/punk band Tijuana NO! Recognized for their heavy political lyrics and hard hitting style, ... In December 2008, she was invited to perform with Venegas at the 2008 Latin Grammys and in Oslo, Norway at the Nobel Peace Prize concert, alongside Jason Mraz, Diana Ross, and others."
9 Nov 2010 - Creatively inspired by the troublemaker Peter Pan; seen at Espace culturel Louis Vuitton
The exhibition 'Qui es-tu Peter?' (Who are you, Peter?) presents the work of 13 artists who explore and sketch "a portrait of the troublemaker" Peter Pan, the boy who refuses to grow. 'Qui es-tu Peter?' runs until
9 January 2011. "What if Peter Pan represented the creative side in each of us, the side that, in the words of the
psychoanalyst D. W. Winnicott, “gives the feeling that life is worth living”? ... Peter Pan certainly inhabited the soul of Christopher
Columbus and Leonardo da Vinci, whose drawings of planes prove to what extent the utopia of one age becomes
commonplace in another." http://www.louisvuitton.com/espaceculturel/
9 Nov 2010 - New video 'In For the Kill' by synth-pop duo La Roux
The video is directed by Legs (Goldfrapp’s 'Alive') and shot at the legendary Hotel Chelsea in NYC, wellknown for the artists and musicians who lived there like Sid Vicious, Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, etc. La Roux singer Elly Jackson plays the part of the night porter in the dark hotel... La Roux is on tour: 9 Nov Philadelphia, 10 Nov Washington, DC,... 15 Nov Boston, 17 Nov New York... www.larouxonline.com.
9 Nov 2010 - Synth-dance-pop 'Boadicea' by Mason ft. Roisin Murphy
Amsterdam based producers and DJs Mason alias Iason Chronis and Coen Berrier have released the single 'Boadicea' feat. singer Roisin Murphy in October 2010. The track is from the new album ‘They Are Among Us’ (announced for 2011).
8 Nov 2010 - The Body as Archive/The Archive as Body
...is the title of the lecture by Amelia Jones (art historian, curator, and professor for Visual Culture from the McGill University in Montreal), which will be hold on 19 Nov on occasion of the symposium about research and teaching in performance art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Amelia Jones will speak about the case study 'Live Art in Los Angeles 1970-75' and the consequences of the time dimensions 'live' and 'archive' on our perception of performance art. Amelia Jones will discuss questions like "Is it enough to ask an artist to explain past works and contexts? Is it enough to look at photographs, albums, sketches, flyers, and ticket stubs in local archives? Where does the “truth” of these past performance practices lie?"
7 Nov 2010 - Illustrated dolls by Anne Brunet between fashion by Miu Miu, Balmain, Louis Vuitton
...at the department store Printemps Haussmann in Paris (8 Nov to 31 Dec). The exhibition in the store windows will open on 10 Nov. You can view the French artist Anne Brunet in a video as part of the performance-painter group 'Ame Sans Cible' making a fresco for the 20th anniversary of Adobe Photoshop http://vimeo.com/12572240.
7 Nov 2010 - Video and performance pioneer Joan Jonas at MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology
US artist Joan Jonas - she has recently received the Guggenheim Lifetime Achievement Award for extraordinary contributions to contemporary art, is one of the instructors of the MIT Program (Masters of Science in Visual Studies), which calls now for applications for the 2011-2012 academic year. The laboratory a-like organised program focuses on artistic research, advanced visual studies, and transdisciplinary collaboration within the context of MIT's technological community for the exploration of the role of art, culture, and technology in society and artistic practice in production. Courses like "Networked Culture and Participatory Media" or research clusters such as "The Future of the Body" are part of the program. Application deadline is 15 Dec 2010.
6 Nov 2010 - Free download: 'Procession' by The Duke Spirit
'The Duke Spirit' again in fashion! Singer Liela Moss inspired Alexander McQueen for the 2009 collection for Target, the Londoner group appeared on stage for Y-3 SS2011 in New York, or contributed the music for a DocMartens campaign. This time, it's the jeans label Levi's which provides the stage for 'The Duke Spirit' with a free download of the new song 'Procession' on its website.
5 Nov 2010 - Pioneering art-performance-video interpreted with computer technologies
US artist (video and performance pioneer) Joan Jonas uses in her video 'Vertical Roll' (from 1972) the television set malfunction - the vertical roll, as a metaphor of identity on the screen. The video on Vimeo looks on the first sight like a video from a real life installation in a museum. Fashionoffice has searched for some facts and looked closer on the video; it is very probable that the installation of Joan Jonas 'Vertical Roll'-video on TV sets is made with computer software. Joan Jonas' work is now on exhibition at the Guggenheim Bilbao ('Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance', 9 Nov 2010 - 13 March 2011)
5 Nov 2010 - Thoughts about the internet and the creation of contemporary culture
The video shows Douglas Rushkoff speaking about the internet. He says that it is only possible to understand the modern world if we understand how technology functions and with the acceptance that there exist biases. The video was found on a search for more information about the upcoming exhibition 'Corporate' by Luc Tuymans (runs from 6 November to 21 December at the gallery David Zwirner in New York). Belgian artist Luc Tuymans' work is partly influenced by the thoughts of the American media theorist Douglas Rushkoff, who focuses on the development of contemporary culture.
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