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Arc Music, world and folk music

http://www.arcmusic.co.uk/

A very excellent catalogue of titles from over 100 countries.

Remix Theory

http://remixtheory.net/

Remix Theory is an online resource by Eduardo Navas that offers some of his research on Remix. Navas focuses on Remix itself as opposed to Remix Culture. In this site you will find a brief definition of Remix, which is examined more extensively in essays that will be added to this website as they become available. Remix Theory is not meant to function on a daily basis. It is a resource updated periodically, according to the flow of research. It does not focus on the latest information, but on relevant material to the history of Remix, some which may have been published years ago. The site contains material that is obtained from other online sources, with the proper reference. The content of the site consists of reviews, articles, projects and images relevant to Remix. The site also features texts and projects by Eduardo Navas. Remix Theory is designed to move towards a remix of itself, by recombining much of the material that is archived to put to test the possibilities of Remix. This will become transparent as the database grows, and specific projects are developed. The site is designed to host, archive and promote projects which explore the current possibilities of Remix online and offline; it is prepared to become a repository of collaborations with different people and institutions. To learn more about the interdisciplinary practice of Eduardo Navas, Please visit http://navasse.net

Notes Towards Affect Engines

http://vogmae.net.au/drupal/files/IAP...

Notes Towards Affect Engines printable page Wed, 02/07/2008 - 10:48 — Adrian Original Citation: Miles, Adrian. "Notes Towards Affect Engines." International Association of Philosophy and Literature. Melbourne, July 2008. abstract: Contemporary theory in its approach to digital media has largely relied upon traditional notions of story and narrative to understand the similarities and differences afforded by digital media. While this work has been invaluable it has emphasised the ways in which things like hypertext may, or may not be, story like and so has examined the new roles of the reader (Douglas 1994; Douglas 2000), and the implications for multilinearity for story sense. (Bolter 1991; Joyce 1995; Joyce 1995; Joyce 1995; Aarseth 1997; Gaggi 1997; Bernstein 1998; Dovey 2002; Landow 2006) However, emerging dominant digital forms juxtapose highly local content and practices with system wide and global combinatory systems. Traditional approaches which retain assumptions of media as narratively informed run the risk of misreading or ‘missing’ what is peculiar to the possibilities of these digital systems where there are an enormous number of discursive forms available which probably fall outside of what we would ordinarily identify as the subject of the literary or narratological.(Eskelinen 2001; Eskelinen 2004) Many of these forms, while clearly story like (for example blogs) also move away from the regimes of representational narratives, whether fiction or non fiction, and produce work that could be characterised as ambient. For example, a video sharing site such as YouTube, while consisting of millions of micro narratives in the form of televisual fragments, only has the possibility of coherence in any formal narratological sense through theoretical sleight of hand, however is much more amenable to theorisation when considered as an ambient form. When considered in this light it is clear that much contemporary online systems are in fact systems for the production of ambient narrative, and as a consequence are moving away from representative narrative (stories about things) towards affective assemblages — systems for the production, distribution and participation of affects.

F&Art

http://fartguide.blogspot.com/2007/08...

excellent things there. F&A is about fashion art design style music books magazines interviews kritik berlin. magazines another backstage magazine fairytale fashion156 hint iconique indie la couture lula mode depesche Monopol N.E.E.T. Numero Nylon Parabol pretty pretty Purple FASHION push rojo selfservice sleek style.com Texte zur Kunst This is not... Tokion workwerk blogs allure bobble bee cafe mode cherry blossom girl chic looks childhoodflames coacd coco's tea party coutorture diane pernet dolls realm dreamecho elisita enchant and doom FASHION ADDICT DIARY fashion does it better fashion verbatim fashionalities fashionderek fashionologie garance dore girl woman beauty brains blog glamourstylist golden with migraine hello jupiter hope hope inspire the starling into the fray jack and hill jankasphere jaques bagios joanna goddard kingdom of style krisatomic kunst blog la femme made by girl making things martin vallin milk miss at la playa miss dior couture mode et plus mode et utopie montmarte my love for you painfully hip playground imperfection pourporter preik seamsters search and destroy shiny squirrel simply olive So FASH'on style bubble style bytes stylebite stylehive stylekingdom swandiamondrose the artist and his model the coveted the fashioniste the stylophile tschilp we make money not art who what wear

Dance, Dance, Revolution

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?...

Engaging in a practice of permissive exploration, we strove to develop various formats for critical exchange that are both intellectually rigorous and playful. This intuitive and open generation of ideas, coupled with the speed and intensity necessitated by a limited creation period, propelled us towards an approach of decentralization. Not only did we as a Curation/Production group conceptualize and develop events, we also invited other artists to engage in the shaping of the festival. As a group we have nurtured a spirit of irreverence, and encouraged omni-directional experimentation throughout the festival’s framework. We offer a skeleton, a potentiality. We are excited to see where and how it will meet you. With love, Rebecca Brooks, Beth Gill, Erika Hand and Isabel Lewis. Neal Beasley was a member of the Trisha Brown Dance Company from 2003-2007. He is a graduate of Idyllwild Arts Academy and holds a BFA in dance from NYU/Tisch School of the Arts. In his newfound freelance life, he is currently scheduled to work with choreographers Beth Gill, Eleanor Bauer, and Larry Keigwin. He has taught technique and repertory internationally for TBDC, as well as in the New York studios. He directed rehearsals for Ms. Brown's creation for the Paris Opera Ballet, both in its 2004 debut and the revival earlier this year.

Arts Alive

http://www.artsalive.ca/en/dan/dance1...

The aim of ArtsAlive.ca Dance is to enhance your enjoyment of dance by providing the background and knowledge you seek. Maybe you want to learn how to assess and critique a performance; gain greater appreciation for the elements of dance on stage and off; find out who’s who in the world of dance – all this and more is at your fingertips, through ArtsAlive.ca Dance.

Metastable Equilibrium

http://metastableequilibrium.blogspot...

"All our writing - for everyone and if it were ever writing of everyone - would be this: the anxious search for what was never written in the present, but in a past to come." - Maurice Blanchot

The Real Thing: Contemporary Chinese

http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/exhi...

The energy of the Chinese arts world is not contained, codified, and confined like a lot of work elsewhere; there is a plurality of practice and style, none of which can be said to represent Chinese art. Any idea of a unitary or coherent identity, for the country as much as for the art, has collapsed into an open space of possibility and opportunity.

david lachapelle

http://www.designboom.com/eng/intervi...

david lachapelle has evolved his photography into an idiosyncratic and highly personal combination of reportage and surrealism. I love his work and here is a good interview with him. (ml)

Photography at the Bauhaus

http://www.metmuseum.org/TOAH/hd/phbh...

Founded by the architect Walter Gropius (1883–1969) in 1919, the Bauhaus was a utopian haven for avant-garde artists during the period of radical change and tenuous peace in Germany after World War I. A war veteran, Gropius found his battered country badly in need of rejuvenation and believed that the collective of Bauhaus artists could play an important role in that process. Based on the concept of the medieval cooperative of artists and craftsmen combining their talents to build the great Gothic cathedrals, the progressive school of art and design sought to bring together the fine and applied arts, human ingenuity, and modern technology in order to help construct a new rational, egalitarian, and ordered society. read more at this excellent overview from the MET as well as related articles on photography from the same period