Hierbij de schrijfwijze van de aangehaalde filosoof
'Vilém Flusser'
www.flusser-archive.org/index
25.3.10
23.3.10
22.3.10
websites
http://www.artspeakchina.org
(ik heb wel grote moeite om de pagina's te openen...)
ArtSpeak China (ASC) is a bilingual, online resource devoted to contemporary Chinese art. It is comprised of a wiki, a collaboratively authored, encyclopedia of contemporary Chinese art and a timeline of related historical and social events. A complementary website, the ASC archive, is under construction and will function as a repository for primary source material contributed by subjects of ASC entries--scanned images of everything from documents and artworks to photographs and artifacts related to contemporary Chinese art.
Founded in 2009, ASC operates as a non-profit organization established through the financial support of Studio Door China, an online presentation platform for member galleries and advisors worldwide.
avant garde
http://www.artspeakchina.org/mediawiki/index.php/Avant-garde_%E5%89%8D%E5%8D%AB
kitch
http://www.artspeakchina.org/mediawiki/index.php/Kitsch_%E7%B2%97%E5%8A%A3%E4%BD%9C%E5%93%81
Asia Art Archive
http://www.aaa.org.hk/
Asia Art Archive is a young and dynamic organisation initiated in 2000 as a direct response to the increasing number of Asian contemporary art exhibitions and events world wide. Based in Hong Kong, AAA, a non-profit organisation and registered charity, is dedicated to documenting the recent history of visual art from the region within an international context.
Un-invested Investments: Critical Writing and Publishing in Mainland China
Keith Wallace
http://www.aaa.org.hk/newsletter_detail.aspx?newsletter_id=807
http://www.observationsociety.com/
Observation Society
Established in 2009 by artists and practitioners, this independent art space is situated in the local residential district, aiming to promote contemporary art by young emerging artists.
http://www.arrowfactory.org.cn/
Arrow Factory is an independently run alternative storefront space that seeks to advance artistic collaboration, exploration and experimentation across different cultural contexts and viewing publics. Located in a small hutong in Beijing’s city center, Arrow Factory reclaims existing commercial space to present artworks that stimulate dialogue between art and contemporary urban space. Aimed at reaching a diverse public made up of local residents, as well as local and international art audiences, our modestly sized space (approx 10 square meters or 100 square feet) is intended to create new avenues for artistic production in China and further aesthetic relationships between contemporary art and everyday life. Arrow Factory will invite artists living inside and outside of China to create site-specific installations and projects that will be available for view in its storefront location 7 days a week
(ik heb wel grote moeite om de pagina's te openen...)
ArtSpeak China (ASC) is a bilingual, online resource devoted to contemporary Chinese art. It is comprised of a wiki, a collaboratively authored, encyclopedia of contemporary Chinese art and a timeline of related historical and social events. A complementary website, the ASC archive, is under construction and will function as a repository for primary source material contributed by subjects of ASC entries--scanned images of everything from documents and artworks to photographs and artifacts related to contemporary Chinese art.
Founded in 2009, ASC operates as a non-profit organization established through the financial support of Studio Door China, an online presentation platform for member galleries and advisors worldwide.
avant garde
http://www.artspeakchina.org/mediawiki/index.php/Avant-garde_%E5%89%8D%E5%8D%AB
kitch
http://www.artspeakchina.org/mediawiki/index.php/Kitsch_%E7%B2%97%E5%8A%A3%E4%BD%9C%E5%93%81
Asia Art Archive
http://www.aaa.org.hk/
Asia Art Archive is a young and dynamic organisation initiated in 2000 as a direct response to the increasing number of Asian contemporary art exhibitions and events world wide. Based in Hong Kong, AAA, a non-profit organisation and registered charity, is dedicated to documenting the recent history of visual art from the region within an international context.
Un-invested Investments: Critical Writing and Publishing in Mainland China
Keith Wallace
http://www.aaa.org.hk/newsletter_detail.aspx?newsletter_id=807
http://www.observationsociety.com/
Observation Society
Established in 2009 by artists and practitioners, this independent art space is situated in the local residential district, aiming to promote contemporary art by young emerging artists.
http://www.arrowfactory.org.cn/
Arrow Factory is an independently run alternative storefront space that seeks to advance artistic collaboration, exploration and experimentation across different cultural contexts and viewing publics. Located in a small hutong in Beijing’s city center, Arrow Factory reclaims existing commercial space to present artworks that stimulate dialogue between art and contemporary urban space. Aimed at reaching a diverse public made up of local residents, as well as local and international art audiences, our modestly sized space (approx 10 square meters or 100 square feet) is intended to create new avenues for artistic production in China and further aesthetic relationships between contemporary art and everyday life. Arrow Factory will invite artists living inside and outside of China to create site-specific installations and projects that will be available for view in its storefront location 7 days a week
19.3.10
AI WEIWEI interview GUARDIAN
Ai Weiwei: 'I have to speak for people who are afraid'
This autumn, Ai Weiwei, China's most outspoken artist, will take over Tate Modern's Turbine Hall. He talks about how his art and politics are indistinguishable
Zie recent interview door The Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/mar/18/ai-weiwei-turbine-hall-china
This autumn, Ai Weiwei, China's most outspoken artist, will take over Tate Modern's Turbine Hall. He talks about how his art and politics are indistinguishable
Zie recent interview door The Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/mar/18/ai-weiwei-turbine-hall-china
16.3.10
Tentoonstelling Ai Weiwei TURBINE HALL 2010
London
Tate Modern commissions Ai Weiwei
The Guardian reports that artist and activist Ai Weiwei is the 11th artist commissioned to fill Tate Modern’s massive Turbine Hall. The Beijing-based artist’s contribution to the Turbine Hall, one of the UK’s most anticipated public art commissions, follows in a line of such celebrated installations in the past like Olafur Ellasson’s “Weather Project” (2004) and Miroslaw Balka’s “How it is” (2009).
Director of Tate Modern, Vicente Todolí, said Ai's works were "compelling" and "among the most socially engaged works of art being made today […] It will be thrilling to see how he responds to the vast, public environment of the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern this October."
Flash Art has recently covered multiple stories that highlight Ai Weiwei’s political engagement and opposition to actions and policies of the Chinese government, including Ai’s piece in the Wall Street Journal about internet censorship – click here
and a recent attack on an artists’ community on the outskirts of Beijing by real estate developers.
click here
www.aiweiwei.com
Tate Modern commissions Ai Weiwei
The Guardian reports that artist and activist Ai Weiwei is the 11th artist commissioned to fill Tate Modern’s massive Turbine Hall. The Beijing-based artist’s contribution to the Turbine Hall, one of the UK’s most anticipated public art commissions, follows in a line of such celebrated installations in the past like Olafur Ellasson’s “Weather Project” (2004) and Miroslaw Balka’s “How it is” (2009).
Director of Tate Modern, Vicente Todolí, said Ai's works were "compelling" and "among the most socially engaged works of art being made today […] It will be thrilling to see how he responds to the vast, public environment of the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern this October."
Flash Art has recently covered multiple stories that highlight Ai Weiwei’s political engagement and opposition to actions and policies of the Chinese government, including Ai’s piece in the Wall Street Journal about internet censorship – click here
and a recent attack on an artists’ community on the outskirts of Beijing by real estate developers.
click here
www.aiweiwei.com
13.3.10
10.3.10
Artproject Picidae doorbreekt internetcensuur in China
Link Picidae
The artproject picidae
Surfing the Internet and the world shrinks to the size of a village. The farthest regions are just one click away. But taking a closer look, the infinite freedom of a virtual space is just an illusion. Why does not even one single website from North Korea exist? Why isn’t there a website about the Tiananmen Massacre from within China, no right wing extremist propaganda from Germany, not one single Pin-Up girl from Iran, no criticism of Islam from Saudi Arabia, no call for a protest rally from Syria?
The World Wide Web, the nervous system of a simultaneous communication and the platform for global data exchange, is quite a diverse heterogeneous formation. Many nations have an active Internet censorship. Government, Internet providers and Internet Services are observing, controlling and even blocking content. Therefore the Internet appears in different forms: tidied up, and in other ways trimmed or fragmented. So what’s about this world that appears on our computer monitors?
Internetcensorship in China
Disposal of language
The criteria of censorship and its technical accomplishment are also clandestine. While continuously eliminating specific content, censorship eradicates criticism as well as discussion, language, and the medium itself.
Automated censorship is unable to make value judgements: targetted words get wiped out arbitrarily. Google China deleted the web site www.bassexperts.com because of the word “sex” in the domainname. The word 屠杀 (massacre) is such a huge problem for the Chinese censorship authorities that all results listed from the search engine www.baidu.cn are immediately replaced by a notification of a network problem. (Baidu search for massacre 屠杀)
Any action of control and censorship influences the handling and meaning of the media itself. The range and conditions beyond our perception and communication are fundamental for our own world view, cognitive ability and expression.
The power of pictures
Because of the fact that information is only detectable automatically in specific encodings and because the bandwith of user Internet connections are already fast enough, we developed the pici-server that generates pictures of websites to access web web pages. We installed the first pici-server in Zurich and started for our self-experiment a journey to the end of the Internet.
Berlin was the starting point of our journey. It was for decades a city divided by the wall, now slowly recovering from the separation. From Berlin we flew to Beijing, a mega city almost exploding by the speed of its development. China is experiencing a massive boom and is still strictly controlled and kept under surveillance by its communist regime.
For three weeks we checked the functions of the Golden Shield, the huge Chinese firewall, in Beijing and Shanghai. For most Chinese the numerous Internet Cafés are their only access to the Internet. Entering the Café everybody is asked for identification, and has to be registered. Like most places within Chinese cities even the rooms are observed by cams. As Europeans it was not possible to avoid being noticed – but even under these aggravating circumstances picidae was running very well. Our server delivered us with all the web sites that are usually only reachable on the other site of the firewall.
With our media art project ZONE*INTERDITE we unveiled some blind spots in our own perception. picidae follows up here and explores our perspective and imagination in relation to the digital information transfer. picidae takes the questions for the image of the world literally. The pici-server delivers images of web pages and uses the image as digital encryption. The power of an image is not calculable.
We have torn a hole in the Chinese firewall.
The first holes in the Berlin wall were torn by so called “Mauerspechte” (engl. wall woodpeckers). The project is named after these first wall breakers: picidae (Latin for woodpecker). The hole in the wall presupposes uncertainty. What is beyond it? A new sight can lead to a new impression or might result in a new notion. Catching sight is a borderline experience: Will I be, will the world be the same afterwards?
pici-server
One way to evade the firewall within China is to install a server or a proxy abroad. Foreign companies in particular benefit from this option. However, people who don’t have such connections abroad, most of them do not even own a computer, are hit by the restrictions even harder. Chinese censorship is disguised as a network problem, or the request is redirected directly to a dummy site. picidae allows us to compare websites from different regions. In this way the amount of censorship appears is exposed openly within China.
picidae allows a glance into another world and opens a new prospective.
The artproject picidae
Surfing the Internet and the world shrinks to the size of a village. The farthest regions are just one click away. But taking a closer look, the infinite freedom of a virtual space is just an illusion. Why does not even one single website from North Korea exist? Why isn’t there a website about the Tiananmen Massacre from within China, no right wing extremist propaganda from Germany, not one single Pin-Up girl from Iran, no criticism of Islam from Saudi Arabia, no call for a protest rally from Syria?
The World Wide Web, the nervous system of a simultaneous communication and the platform for global data exchange, is quite a diverse heterogeneous formation. Many nations have an active Internet censorship. Government, Internet providers and Internet Services are observing, controlling and even blocking content. Therefore the Internet appears in different forms: tidied up, and in other ways trimmed or fragmented. So what’s about this world that appears on our computer monitors?
Internetcensorship in China
Disposal of language
The criteria of censorship and its technical accomplishment are also clandestine. While continuously eliminating specific content, censorship eradicates criticism as well as discussion, language, and the medium itself.
Automated censorship is unable to make value judgements: targetted words get wiped out arbitrarily. Google China deleted the web site www.bassexperts.com because of the word “sex” in the domainname. The word 屠杀 (massacre) is such a huge problem for the Chinese censorship authorities that all results listed from the search engine www.baidu.cn are immediately replaced by a notification of a network problem. (Baidu search for massacre 屠杀)
Any action of control and censorship influences the handling and meaning of the media itself. The range and conditions beyond our perception and communication are fundamental for our own world view, cognitive ability and expression.
The power of pictures
Because of the fact that information is only detectable automatically in specific encodings and because the bandwith of user Internet connections are already fast enough, we developed the pici-server that generates pictures of websites to access web web pages. We installed the first pici-server in Zurich and started for our self-experiment a journey to the end of the Internet.
Berlin was the starting point of our journey. It was for decades a city divided by the wall, now slowly recovering from the separation. From Berlin we flew to Beijing, a mega city almost exploding by the speed of its development. China is experiencing a massive boom and is still strictly controlled and kept under surveillance by its communist regime.
For three weeks we checked the functions of the Golden Shield, the huge Chinese firewall, in Beijing and Shanghai. For most Chinese the numerous Internet Cafés are their only access to the Internet. Entering the Café everybody is asked for identification, and has to be registered. Like most places within Chinese cities even the rooms are observed by cams. As Europeans it was not possible to avoid being noticed – but even under these aggravating circumstances picidae was running very well. Our server delivered us with all the web sites that are usually only reachable on the other site of the firewall.
With our media art project ZONE*INTERDITE we unveiled some blind spots in our own perception. picidae follows up here and explores our perspective and imagination in relation to the digital information transfer. picidae takes the questions for the image of the world literally. The pici-server delivers images of web pages and uses the image as digital encryption. The power of an image is not calculable.
We have torn a hole in the Chinese firewall.
The first holes in the Berlin wall were torn by so called “Mauerspechte” (engl. wall woodpeckers). The project is named after these first wall breakers: picidae (Latin for woodpecker). The hole in the wall presupposes uncertainty. What is beyond it? A new sight can lead to a new impression or might result in a new notion. Catching sight is a borderline experience: Will I be, will the world be the same afterwards?
pici-server
One way to evade the firewall within China is to install a server or a proxy abroad. Foreign companies in particular benefit from this option. However, people who don’t have such connections abroad, most of them do not even own a computer, are hit by the restrictions even harder. Chinese censorship is disguised as a network problem, or the request is redirected directly to a dummy site. picidae allows us to compare websites from different regions. In this way the amount of censorship appears is exposed openly within China.
picidae allows a glance into another world and opens a new prospective.
8.3.10
Descending Light vs The Blind Leading the Blind
Selectie uitspraak Mao uit het Rode Boekje
Selectie uitspraak Ai Weiwei op webblog
Bron:
Ai Weiwei, Phaidon
ISBN-13: 9780714848891
ISBN-10: 0714848891
4.3.10
2.3.10
Ai over Wu Wei
Wu Wei is het niets doen of loslaten. Een taoïst probeert zich niet te verzetten tegen de loop der dingen, maar daar spontaan in mee te gaan.
“I think I am more of a Daoist. Confucianism is about the knowledge of how to structure society. Daoism is more about the wisdom of personal accomplishments. Which means to enjoy. In a way it’s a kind of hedonism - it promotes a kind of effortlessness. You are more detached and invest less effort in managing society’s problems. There are various ways to see “Wu Wei”: sometimes you take action, but at the same time you step aside, you try to liberate yourself from your own mental state. I don’t know if it is possible, but still, its concept of liberation is important.”
Ai Weiwei (MONO.KULTUR #22 autumn 2009)
“I think I am more of a Daoist. Confucianism is about the knowledge of how to structure society. Daoism is more about the wisdom of personal accomplishments. Which means to enjoy. In a way it’s a kind of hedonism - it promotes a kind of effortlessness. You are more detached and invest less effort in managing society’s problems. There are various ways to see “Wu Wei”: sometimes you take action, but at the same time you step aside, you try to liberate yourself from your own mental state. I don’t know if it is possible, but still, its concept of liberation is important.”
Ai Weiwei (MONO.KULTUR #22 autumn 2009)
1.3.10
Ai Weiwei in protestmars Beijing
ASIA PACIFIC NEWS : http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/1039258/1/.html
China artists march over Beijing demolition
Posted: 23 February 2010 1245 hrs
BEIJING: A group of about 20 Chinese artists including outspoken activist Ai Weiwei protested in central Beijing over the demolition of an art zone in the east of the capital, state media reported Tuesday.
The protest on Monday came amid simmering anger in China over land seizures, which have often involved corrupt officials keen to secure real estate profits as the country's property market booms.
The artists decried what they called "assaults by thugs hired by local authorities" to force them out of the complex, and said their land contracts were still valid, the state Global Times newspaper reported.
The government and land developers have said the artists need to move out to make way for redevelopment of the area.
An investigation has been launched into nine alleged assaults, the report said. Local officials denied any involvement in the purported beatings.
The artists attempted to reach Tiananmen Square, the heart of political power in China, but were stopped by police about two kilometres away.
They carried posters reading "Civil Rights!" and "Capital Beijing, brutal demolition!” the Global Times said.
The Xinhua news agency said more than 10 police were sent to disperse the small group of demonstrators, naming Ai - who has a popular but often censored blog - as a participant in the march.
Ai leads a group of volunteers investigating the collapse of poorly built schools in the massive May 2008 earthquake in the southwestern province of Sichuan, which left more than 87,000 people dead or missing.
Earlier this month, Ai spoke out in support of US Internet giant Google - currently in a row with China over censorship and cyberattacks - and said in a commentary for The Wall Street Journal that his Gmail accounts had been hacked.
- AFP/sc
China artists march over Beijing demolition
Posted: 23 February 2010 1245 hrs
BEIJING: A group of about 20 Chinese artists including outspoken activist Ai Weiwei protested in central Beijing over the demolition of an art zone in the east of the capital, state media reported Tuesday.
The protest on Monday came amid simmering anger in China over land seizures, which have often involved corrupt officials keen to secure real estate profits as the country's property market booms.
The artists decried what they called "assaults by thugs hired by local authorities" to force them out of the complex, and said their land contracts were still valid, the state Global Times newspaper reported.
The government and land developers have said the artists need to move out to make way for redevelopment of the area.
An investigation has been launched into nine alleged assaults, the report said. Local officials denied any involvement in the purported beatings.
The artists attempted to reach Tiananmen Square, the heart of political power in China, but were stopped by police about two kilometres away.
They carried posters reading "Civil Rights!" and "Capital Beijing, brutal demolition!” the Global Times said.
The Xinhua news agency said more than 10 police were sent to disperse the small group of demonstrators, naming Ai - who has a popular but often censored blog - as a participant in the march.
Ai leads a group of volunteers investigating the collapse of poorly built schools in the massive May 2008 earthquake in the southwestern province of Sichuan, which left more than 87,000 people dead or missing.
Earlier this month, Ai spoke out in support of US Internet giant Google - currently in a row with China over censorship and cyberattacks - and said in a commentary for The Wall Street Journal that his Gmail accounts had been hacked.
- AFP/sc
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