15 september 2010
Wijken voor Kunst, 18 en 19 september 2010
Wijken voor Kunst 2010 weergeven op een grotere kaart
Op 18 en 19 september organiseert Wijken voor Kunst voor de zesde keer een weekend vol kunst en cultuur. De manifestatie vindt plaats in de wijken Klarendal, Sint Marten, Sonsbeekkwartier en Spoorhoek in Arnhem. Tijdens Wijken voor Kunst is van ca. 140 creatieve wijkbewoners, amateur- en professionele kunstenaars werk te zien en horen in exposities, open ateliers, huiskamers, winkels, op straat en op een buitenpodium.
(Bron: Website Wijken voor Kunst 2010)
Don't blame the bytes
The Shallows: How the Internet Is Changing the Way We Think, Read and Remember by Nicholas Carr
Steven Poole on two opposing views of the impact of the digital age
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Like the majority of contemporary books, then, The Shallows does not justify its length: its natural form was always that of a pithy provocation, so as an argument for the superiority of book-length prose it is rather self-defeating. Sometimes, however, it does seem as though the author's memory really has been degraded by his internet abuse. "It's possible to think deeply while surfing the net," Carr admits on page 116, thus momentarily torpedoing the determinism on which his jeremiad is predicated, before he gets back on message a mere three pages later, accusing the net of "preventing our minds from thinking either deeply or creatively". Well, both cannot be true. Either you can think deeply when using the internet, or the internet prevents you from doing so. It is easy to see which version is correct; and which version, conversely, makes for a more polemically enticing sales pitch.
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(Het hele artikel op guardian.co.uk)
Steven Poole on two opposing views of the impact of the digital age
[...]
Like the majority of contemporary books, then, The Shallows does not justify its length: its natural form was always that of a pithy provocation, so as an argument for the superiority of book-length prose it is rather self-defeating. Sometimes, however, it does seem as though the author's memory really has been degraded by his internet abuse. "It's possible to think deeply while surfing the net," Carr admits on page 116, thus momentarily torpedoing the determinism on which his jeremiad is predicated, before he gets back on message a mere three pages later, accusing the net of "preventing our minds from thinking either deeply or creatively". Well, both cannot be true. Either you can think deeply when using the internet, or the internet prevents you from doing so. It is easy to see which version is correct; and which version, conversely, makes for a more polemically enticing sales pitch.
[...]
(Het hele artikel op guardian.co.uk)
14 september 2010
Skin Exobody (2007)
NANO: Technology related to features of nanometer scale: thin films, fine particles, chemical synthesis, advanced microlithography, and so forth.
BIO: The application of science and engineering to the direct or indirect use of living organisms, or parts or products of living organisms, in their natural or modified forms.
INFO: Applied computer systems, both hardware and software, including networking and telecommunications.
COGNO: The study of intelligence and intelligent systems, with particular reference to intelligent behavior as computation.
(bron: Nano-Bio-Info-Cogno: Paradigm for the Future)
Natasha Vita-More, the "first female philosopher of transhumanism"
13 september 2010
iTunes U: Latinos in U.S. popular music
American Sabor: Latinos in U.S. Popular Music is the first interpretive museum exhibition to tell the story of the profound influence and impact of Latinos in American popular music.It focuses on five major centers of Latino popular music production in the post-World War II United States - New York City, Los Angeles, Miami, San Antonio and San Francisco - which represent the diversity of Latino music.
12 september 2010
11 september 2010
Neverporn Community
Performance door de Russische Neverporn Community, winnaars van de Kunstvlaaiprijs 2010. Installatie ontwikkeld door Viavia Oral.
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