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Department of Reading
The Department of Reading is an online-based project displayed in different spatial configurations and designed to promote new forms of reading. In order to expose the act of reading in its potentiality the Department of Reading investigates, how the disposition of readers to comment and interfere with text can be made public as well as a mode to open texts towards their intricate textures. Thus one of the most crucial questions of the Department of Reading concerns the collectiveness of reading and asks, in how far such a collectivity is always already implied within the very texture of a given text. Examining the mechanisms of reading through reading, the labour reading takes, its time and space, the Department of Reading attempts to redraw the concept of reading and expose textures of predication.
Taryn Simon
Taryn Simon was born in New York in 1975. She is a graduate of Brown University and a Guggenheim Fellow. An exhibition of her most recent series of photographs, An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar opened at the Whitney Museum of American Art in March 2007. The exhibition will travel to the Museum für Modern Kunst, Frankfurt in September 2007. For this project, Simon assumes the dual role of shrewd informant and collector of curiosities, compiling an inventory of what lies hidden and out-of-view within the borders of the United States. She examines a culture through careful documentation of diverse subjects from across the realms of science, government, medicine, entertainment, nature, security, and religion. Transforming the unknown into a seductive and intelligible form, Simon confronts the divide between those with and without the privilege of access. Her sometimes ethereal, sometimes foreboding compositions, shot with a large-format view camera whenever conditions allowed, vary as much as her subject matter, which ranges from radioactive capsules at a nuclear waste storage facility to a black bear in hibernation. Offering visions of the unseen, the photographs of An American Index capture the strange magic at the foundation of a national identity.
Publiversity
Some time ago this blog was started and allready the limitations of the whole blogconcept give rise to some new questions and problems. As stated in the About-page, the aim of this space is to be open and public for everyone, to be free to act and think with the same possibilities for all. Litteraly, this means that actually everybody should be able to be administrator of this site, or nobody should be. But after figuring out how the whole blogging-system works here, there still seems to be an unequal initial position for the current administrator.
Arkyves - Welcome
Arkyves is both a unique database of images and texts and a meeting place for everyone who wants to study and publish about imagery. It offers a fascinating collection of visual and textual sources and a bibliography that focusses on the history of visual culture. All are made accessible with the help of the multilingual vocabulary for cultural content of the ICONCLASS system.
Introduction to CALResCo
CALResCo promotes free world-wide education about Complex Systems
Bureau voor Tele(Communicatie), Historiciteit & Mobiliteit
Since 2000 TEAM TCHM developed an hybrid practice in design, writing and research. Out of an interest for communities, communication and the public domain TEAM TCHM develops strategies, designs information and organizes communication.
ZUS [Zones Urbaines Sensibles] Rotterdam
city, private space, public space, research and thoughts by Elma van Boxel and Kristian Koreman
Satellite Monitoring as a Legal Compliance Tool in the Environment Sector
In October 2005, the Centre for Law and the Environment, Faculty of Laws (UCL) won a major funded research contract from the Arts and Humanities Research Council worth £308,000. This research which will run until December 2008 is concerned with the potential for using new developments in satellite technology for monitoring and enforcing national, European Community and international laws in the environmental sector. The research will be conducted with the co-operation of the Remote Sensing Unit in the Department of Geography (UCL).The project explores the potential and significance of employing satellite monitoring data as a compliance tool, in the context of step-changes in the resolution capabilities, geographical coverage, and costs of the technology that are currently taking place. This research will draw upon national and international experience to date and assess the opportunities that may be provided to address limitations in conventional inspection and enforcement regimes.
The Atlas Group Archives
Society of Control
The Society of Control is an independent organisation whose profits are entirely devoted to research into truth and meaning
Beyond the Beyond - Wired Blogs
I'm Bruce Sterling, author, journalist, editor, critic, blogger. I'm best known for writing science fiction novels, but I like to go mess around with all kinds of weird events, places and issues in order to introduce some useful grit into my compositional process.
IFTF's Future Now
The Institute for the Future is an independent nonprofit research group. We work with organizations of all kinds to help them make better, more informed decisions about the future. We provide the foresight to create insights that lead to action. We take an explicitly global approach to strategic planning, linking macro trends to local issues in such areas as technology and society, health and health care, and global business trends.
TED: Ideas worth spreading
Inspired talks by the world's greatest thinkers and doers
TRANSLOCAL
"collaborations in curating, research and writing to create translocal knowledge and experience" Maja and Reuben Fowkes are curators and art historians who deal with issues of memory, ecology and translocal exchange between UK, Croatia and Hungary. Their work on sustainability and contemporary art has included organising an international conference, exhibitions, film screenings, lectures and publications. They are the curators of Revolution is not a Garden Party and editors of the accompanying publication. Reuben Fowkes is a Research Fellow in Location, Memory and the Visual at Manchester Metropolitan University and organiser of the SocialEast Forum. Their collaborative practice in the fields of curating, research and writing aims to foster translocal knowledge and experience.
Department of Reading
The Department of Reading is designed to promote new ways of reading and to create new textures for already-existing texts. It allows for interventions in and on texts in the form of comments, questions, drawings, diagrams and images.
Latitudes BLOG
Latitudes is an independent curatorial office founded in April 2005 directed by Max Andrews (Bath, United Kingdom, 1975) and Mariana Cánepa Luna (Montevideo, Uruguay, 1977). Latitudes collaborates with artists, institutions and organisations to facilitate and produce temporary and sustained projects such as exhibitions, commissions, editorial and research initiatives and conferences.
Latitudes
Latitudes is an independent curatorial office founded in April 2005 directed by Max Andrews (Bath, United Kingdom, 1975) and Mariana Cánepa Luna (Montevideo, Uruguay, 1977). Latitudes collaborates with artists, institutions and organisations to facilitate and produce temporary and sustained projects such as exhibitions, commissions, editorial and research initiatives and conferences.
Mieke Bal - www.miekebal.org
Mieke Bal, a cultural critic and theorist, holds the position of Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences Professor (KNAW). She is also Professor of the Theory of Literature in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam. Her many books include 'Travelling Concepts in the Humanities: A Rough Guide' (University of Toronto Press, 2002) and 'Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative' (University of Toronto Press, 1997). 'A Mieke Bal Reader' just came out from the University of Chicago Press (May 2006). Mieke Bal is also a video artist.
Union of International Associations (UIA)
Union of International Associations (UIA) is the world’s oldest, biggest and most comprehensive source of information on global civil society. Databases and publications cover many aspects of international organizations – their history, organization and meetings, and the problems and methods with which they work The UIA was founded one hundred years ago, in 1907, by Henri La Fontaine (Nobel Peace Prize laureate of 1913), and Paul Otlet, a founding father of what is now called information science.
http://maaikelauwaert.com/
I am a writer and researcher based in Brussels. This website contains a selection of articles both in English and Dutch that I have written over the last couple of years.
Pages Magazine
Pages began its activities in February 2004 by publishing a bilingual- Farsi/English- periodical pursuing an exchange between Iranian and international authors and artists with critical views on art, culture, urbanism and social issues.
Genetologic Research
Genetology (The Science of First Things) is a self invented science, creating an opposition for the existing Eschatology (The Science of Last Things). How will we look back to the past in the future? What will be left over?
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