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Seit nunmehr 20 Jahren gestaltet Evol seine Werke vor allem mit Schablonen und Sprühdosen. Evol lässt sich bei seinen Bildern immer von der Stadt anregen und zeigt vor allem Straßenszenen, anonyme Wohnkomplexe und unbebautes Gelände. Pappe, Mülltonnen, Leuchtschilder und Stromkästen sind das Ausgangsmaterial für seine Kunstwerke, mit denen er kleine Stadtgeschichten erzählt. Seine Bilder zeigen häufig auch Häuser, die nach der Wende aufgegeben wurden. Vor allem, um deren Schönheit festzuhalten, die es einmal gegeben habe, wie er sagt.
Dabei verfolgt er weniger einen nostalgischen, sondern einen stark dokumentarischen Ansatz, der auf das Alltägliche, nicht auf das Spektakuläre setzt. Basis sind Fotos, die auf Evols ausgedehnten Erkundungsgängen durch die Stadt entstehen. Mit seiner Kunst will er die Aufmerksamkeit des Betrachters auf das Stadtleben lenken und daran erinnern, dass viele Gebäude einmal ein besseres Leben versprachen.

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His gallery, and his website for more images and videos.

 

During the recent uprising in Egypt, in February 2011,  the order was given to “turn off” the Internet, sending shock-waves around the world. Murmurs were heard of US security agencies and American politicians asking for access to a similar kill switch. These actions force us to look at who owns The Internet? This is where the Choke Point Project comes in mapping the nodes of control in service of the multitude of global citizens under who authoritarian regimes can act upon without their consent. We are in favor of exploring approaches to the decentralization of access in favor of guaranteeing connectivity as a counter-weight to the control of the Internet by nation states and corporate influence. 

A team comprised of web researchers, software developers and data visualization experts aim to gather data from across the web and show the control points, while clearly explaining the issues involved: history of Internet control, current legal situation, choke points, possible strategies for decentralization, reasons for and against kill switches....more >>

 

For those of you who are musically inclined...

The Pure Data convention is an event where users and developers of the open-source programming environment Pure Data meet, discuss and present their research and artworks. 

Where and when

The convention will take place in Weimar, Germany from August 8th to 12th and continue in Berlin the 13th and 14th. More than 140 participants from 26 countries have registered to join us for this convention. The close collaboration between Bauhaus-University and Music Academy Franz Liszt where computer science, music, media-arts and media-culture meet creates the perfect environment. Weimar is a small city with 65.000 inhabitants but many venues and places of interest. It is small enough not to get lost or to loose much time in transportation from one place to another.

FULL INFORMATION HERE : 
http://www.uni-weimar.de/m​edien/wiki/PDCON:Start

more about Pure Data: http://puredata.info/

There are several art events happening in Schöneweide this weekend! I will be doing a projection performance at 22.00 at the Industriesalon on Reinbeckstr. on Saturday, July 23.

http://www.meinschoeneweide.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&...

Program Flyer here: http://www.meinschoeneweide.de/attachments/143_kask2011_flyer_korr.pdf

In this project we wanted to analyse the effect of the recent media scandal on the dangers of eating vegetables.

Even the well-known german Robert-Koch Institut warned publicly to not eat tomatoes, salads, cucumberds and so on:
http://www.morgenpost.de/web-wissen/article1652020/EHEC-steckt-wohl-in-Tomate...

Suddenly the food that was considered healthy had a bad reputation and people did not buy it anymore, with heavy consequences to the farming and agrar industry not only in Germany but in whole Europe.

We felt the impression that this is some kind of media hoax and wanted to check on peoples reaction if we offer them our vegetarian sushi while pretending that we are going to open a new scenic sushi restaurant in the heart of Kreuzkölln.

We interviewed people about their opinion on the topic and recorded it on video.

http://strugar.de/ivo/visu/video.html

This project deals with the question: "What if ... Barbie would be a normal girl?"

First step in the project was to restyle Barbies to make them look like a normal girl.

Having restyled the Barbies were normal girls who would do things a normal girl would do. "Marta" was at home, "Sophie" was working a lot and visiting her parents and "M." was supporting a bachelor thesis.
The results could be seen at the flickr website. And it could be followed where each former Barbie was and what she did and what happend to her.

http://www.flickr.com/groups/what_if_barbie_would_be_a_normal_girl/

Behind the project:
Everyone knows Barbie ... and most girls had one. In Germany they are for kids of 3+ years. But is that the right doll? She has a 90-60-90 body and lookes more or less always the same, besides customized versions for different cultures. But shouldn´t she look more like a normal girl? Since, a lot of people complain about the amount of naked skin shown in the media?!

In this public intervention project we basically put some danger signs at particular locations to get the attention of people. We want to make people aware of danger which is not always that obvious.

To realize that we created the following two danger signs:

That one is a danger sign for venomous spiders from a foreign country which has appeared a few times in german supermarket. They were imported through the banana boxes. Here are two Link to that one:
http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/gesellschaft/0,1518,773452,00.html

http://www.bz-berlin.de/bezirk/neukoelln/die-todesspinne-aus-der-bananenkiste-article1186586.html

That sign warns for toxic toy that children are used to play with or even put in their mouths. Here is a link to that:

http://www.morgenpost.de/web-wissen/article1430350/Giftiges-Spielzeug-und-bre...

We set our project in two supermarkets. First was LIDL which is a common supermarket in Germany. We put the spider danger sign directly in the banana box and watched the peoples reaction.

But eventually, there was no reaction at all. Most of the consumers didnt even look at that banana box and some did see the sign but they acted like I dont care and continued their walk through the supermarket. Even a saleswoman didnt realize that sign when she was cleaning up next to it.

Then we were kind of frustrated and tried a bigger supermarket called Kaufland which is way bigger and a great range of products. Again, we put that spider danger sign directly in that banana box which was way bigger than the one in the other store. Here things turned out even worse. Some people ignored it like in the other store but some moved aside to grab some bananas so that sign ended up in another box upside down. We came back to move it back to catch more reactions. But they just didnt react in any kind to that spider danger sign.

That Kaufland store offers some toys so we also placed our toxic toy danger sign next to it. Here we had some little success. Kids who were looking for some new toy found that sign and couldnt get it what is should mean so they asked her parents what that is and they said its not important just keep looking for something.. Thats pretty much it!

People seem only to react when they got bitten or when they child is getting sick. Ignoramuses!

Please, Feel free to participate in this painting!

We assembled a traditional white canvased wooden frame, over two meters high. We set up the blank canvas in front of the Old National Gallery on Museum Island. Using various-colored lacquer paint and brushes that we provided, spectators were free to create their own art. We couldn't have predicated that so many people would be more than willing to transform the blank canvas into their personal artwork.

 

Walter Womacka (Born in 22. December 1925 in the Tschechoslowakei & died in 2010 in Berlin) was a German artist.
He was a paint artist, a graphic designer & he create a lot of building bound works.
From 1968 to 1988 he was the rector of the “Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee”,
from 1959 to 1988 he was the vice-president of the “Verbandes Bildender Künstler”
in the DDR and since 1968 he becomes a member of the “Akademie der Künste” of the DDR.
Walter Womacka was one of the most important represents of the social realism in the DDR.
He was described as a system conform citizen, it means he was loved by the DDR regime.
He does a lot of popular art one of his famous works was a painting named “Am Strand”,
in the DDR it was the most sold reproduction and it was also a stamp.
“Wenn Kommunisten Träumen” was painted for the Palast der Republic.
He created a lot of mosaics one of the famous is in Berlin-Mitte on the “Haus des Lehrers”.  

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We all laughed at the Yes Men project about recycling human waste to make food. Well now, it is a reality! Ugh, makes me sick to just think about it. Is this the world we really live in?

Somehow this feels like a Vonnegut plotline: population boom equals food shortage. Solution? Synthesize food from human waste matter. Absurd yes, but Japanese scientists have actually discovered a way to create edible steaks from human feces...... 

http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/digitaltrends/20110615/tc_digitaltrends/japanesescientistscreatesmeatoutoffeces