Chris Clarke (Warp)

"Bodyriddle! I just like the sound of the words, together, there’s no grand concept behind it. It doesn’t link to the music, the title always comes afterwards for me. It would just be really pretentious for me to pretend I had a clear-cut idea of what it meant, cos I...

Zidane and Albert Camus

"This unique set of events becomes all the more remarkable after watching the film Zidane; Portrait of the 21st Century and seeing his fate foretold: an eerie paratextual premonition of the Zidane’s final footballing moments in Berlin. Before seeing the film, he was a...

Postal Director Uwe Boll

"I think the basic idea behind a film like Postal is to show that we are all going in the wrong direction. It’s not only about George Bush or Osama bin Laden (in our movie the two are good buddies). We show kind of a Team America attitude that it’s all so fucked up and...

THE AESTHETICS OF FAILURE:

" Computers have become the primary tools for creating and performing electronic music, while the Internet has become a logical new distribution medium. For the first time in history, creative output and the means of its distribution have been inextricably linked. Our current...

The 80s are vital for our art

"The 90s and the Naughties in comparison become bland branded times. The energy is lost in a homogenised celebrity obsessed culture. The avant-garde characters that graced the front pages have been replaced by manufactured pop. I think it's due to this lack of substance that...

German critic attacks Turner prize winner 'Wallpaper'

"     German critic attacks Turner prize winner   Luke Harding in Berlin Thursday December 7, 2006 The Guardian  British critics have queued up to praise her work but yesterday Tomma Abts - the German-born winner of the 2006 Turner prize - was...

Gasworks (UK) Presents Electronic Brazilian Artist and Multimedia Palestinian

"LONDON, ENGLAND.- Gasworks presents Open Studio: Shadi Habib (Palestine) and Cao Guimarães (Brazil), on view December 15 – 17, 2006, 12-6pm. This open studio event is an opportunity to see new works by Cao Guimaraes, winner of the Videobrasil Award at the 15th...

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MoMA Launches First a New Series "Focus: Paul Klee"