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“A teacher of Latin and Ancient Greek, a TV travel magazine presenter, a documentary filmmaker, a radio reporter and an advisor to the EU Commission on its “MEDIA” programme: Régine Debatty was once all this and more, [...]. In any case she was all of these things before starting her blog called we make money not art”
Voor hem (of voor haar, het is maar hoe je het bekijkt.)
Voor hem (of voor haar, het is maar hoe je het bekijkt.)
“I then found out about a phenomenon called gamer widowhood where men essentially abandoned their wives to play video games night and day. I wanted to create a type of video game play that would center around a couple’s intimacy and where two people would touch each other in order to play the game.”
“realfakewatches are wristwatches that only work for one minute every day. [...] the watches are laser cut from three pieces of genuine leather and manually assembled.”
“[...] actually there will be less interactive installations unless they propose something more than “images that change shapes and colours when you wave your hand/jump around/sing La Macarena.” No more interactive entertainment but only interactive art. I’m still an awfully incompetent new media art expert but gone are the days when i’d post anything just because it could be activated remotely by a mobile phone.”
“[...] because new media art has rekindled my interest for contemporary art in general, there will be more art of the “traditional” kind. [...] as time passes it matters less to me whether there’s electronics or bio-reactors involved in the creative process. That said, my focus and passion will still be “artists messing around with technology.
“Untitled” (Lover Boys), 355 pounds of candies, the equivalent of the combined weight of the artist and his partner (Link)
“Gonzalez-Torres’s candy pieces are [...] sweet and sad eulogies that consist of piles of individually wrapped chocolates or hard candies that exactly match the artist’s or his lover’s body weight and which are gradually consumed by the gallery’s visitors.”
A computer program continuously scans the headlines of 4,500 news sources, looking for people who have been reported killed. Each time it finds an article, an algorithm determines the number of deaths, and instructs a ceiling-mounted mechanism built from Legos to drop one yellow BB per person. (Link)
Candy-kunst van Caleb M. Larsen, The SnackFax van Christopher Kucinski, Britta Riley en Tikva Morowati en Edible Interface van Erin Elliott bij: we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/008891.php
“Das Einzimmerhotel für zwei Personen bietet ein exklusives Erlebnis: Eine Concierge sorgt sich um das Wohl der Gäste, das Frühstück wird aufs Zimmer geliefert, die Minibar ist im Preis inbegriffen und die bestickten Handtücher dürfen geklaut werden.”
Een project van Lang en Baumann, heden op het dak van de kunstgalerette für Zeitgenössische Kunst in Leipzig.