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PHotoEspaña: the best new comers

Great Firewall of China. Yesterday i could still painfully access my blogging platform through a proxy. Today it's over and after having cried on my favourite puppet shoulder, i had to resort to some complicated solution to put this text online. Enough moaning!

Exploded Views - Remapping Firenze

Centre for Contemporary Culture Strozzina.

Marnix de Nijs' latest installation, Exploded Views - Remapping Firenze, spectacularly recreates a visual and dynamic body experience of the city. Minus the added visual layer of the hordes of tourists who walk through its cobbled streets every day.

See for yourself:

Links for 2008-06-17 [del.icio.us]

Social Diagrams. Planning Reconsidered / e-flux
artistic projects and historical material that focus on complex social systems. The dynamics of social interaction and meaning of design practice within the functionality of social relations. What relation do individual needs have to the design of collect The web that time forgot - International Herald Tribune
In 1934, Otlet sketched out plans for a global network of computers (or "electric telescopes," as he called them) that would allow people to search and browse through millions of interlinked documents, images, audio and video files. He described how peopl

Albin Karlsson at Icon Experiment

Albin Karlsson's work at the recent Icon Experiment, an island of interesting projects of an otherwise often ghastly design expo at the ExCeL center in London's uber-gentrified Docklands.

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1g/min spinning a fine web

Links for 2008-06-14 [del.icio.us]

Timothy Fadek « The New Breed of Documentary Photographers
Fadek made several trips to the troubled Mexican border town Juárez, to document a ghastly legacy — the murders of hundreds of women over the past decade. “Once you get into the grips of the Mexican authorities it’s a black hole, and you can simply Morbid Anatomy: Facial Prosthetic, 20th Century
A 20th Century facial prosthetic

Guantanamo museum and other tales of extraordinary rendition at Helga de Alvear gallery in Madrid

Helga de Alvear gallery in Madrid is currently running a (very timely) exhibition on the controversial topic of Extraordinary Rendition. The expression was coined by the Bush administration to define new legal measures designed to sidestep the existing Human Rights system and deprive some individuals from its protection in the name of the fight against terrorism.

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Detainees at Camp X-Ray, at Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

Links for 2008-06-13 [del.icio.us]

Censorship: Time Out Beijing is put in Time Out |
Beijing’s magazine Time Out Beijing has been banned from distribution by China’s censors. The magazine has been targeted by the government as a potential threat to a smooth and safe Olympic games. Supposedly, the ban will be lifted after the Olympics, Flagwavers rally behind the Busches to see off the Belgian beer advance | Business | The Guardian
yeah! so maybe now they'll be able to locate belgium on a map. euh? belgium? isn't that the capital of, like, brussels?

Heart of Gold - Visits to the Mennonite communities in America

Medialab Prado as part of the now illustrious Interactivos? workshop. The theme of this edition is Vision Play, the public presentation is tomorrow June 14 at 6.30 pm and it's going to be extremely good.

Meanwhile the Photo Espana Festival is all over the city. Here's just an appetizer from one of the many exhibitions i've seen today:

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Words, 2008

The Bank of Common Knowledge

Platoniq (aka Susana Noguero, Oliver Schulbaum, Ignacio García and Joan Villa Puig) gained world fame a few years ago when they launched Burn Station, a mobile self-service system for searching, listening to and copying music and audio files with no charge. Legally and under a Copyleft Licence.

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Burn Station

With the motto "taking the Internet to the streets" and inspired by the way the web works, Platoniq explores new models to distribute, shape and share information, knowledge and cultures.