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Join us! Too Cool For School Art & Science Exhibition
A Fresh Ground new works Project

November 13, 2010 - January 2, 2011
Opening Friday, November 12, 6-10 pm

Harbourfront Centre
235 Queens Quay West, Toronto


Featuring: Libby Hague, Doug Jarvis, Gareth Lichty, Abigale Miller, Elissa Ross & Patrick Ingram, and Allison Rowe (curated by Patrick Macaulay and Sally McKay)


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Art & Science Exhibition
An exhibition of installations that engage visitors in unique explorations into the intersections of art and science.

Contemporary art and science are both disciplines that sometimes seem unapproachable from the outside. And yet there is a little bit of art and science woven into many aspects of daily life. This playful, interdisciplinary show attempts to break down these boundaries and spark new forms of dialogue for the exhibitors and gallery visitors alike.

The practice of art and the practice of science have many things in common —careful observation, knowledge-sharing, and the processes of perception and understanding are common themes throughout this exhibition. The particpants come from diverse backgrounds — art, science and mathematics. They engage in hybrid combinations of open-minded exploration, a sense of play and rigorous design. Like scientific experiment, art offers a material process through which to learn about the world. Each of these participants has created a unique experiment. The results may be more qualitative than quantitative, but every project has its own specific method. The interpretation of these art & science findings is up to the viewer.

For more information, visit us at www.artandsciencefair.ca


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Too Cool For School is part of Fresh Ground new works, Harbourfront Centre's national commissioning programme. The project has two components. The first was the Art & Science Fair on May 8, 2010 in Harbourfront Centre's Brigantine Room. The second is an exhibition of select projects curated from the fair, to be held in the fall of 2010in Harbourfront Centres York Quay Galleries. For more information about Fresh Ground new works please join us at www.harbourfrontcentre.com/whatson/freshground

- sally mckay 11-02-2010 2:11 pm [link] [1 ref] [add a comment]


Artist Diana Thater writes a rip-roaring report detailing her personal, ongoing battle with a certain group of LA art critics (David Pagel, Christopher Knight and Dave Hickey).

Snippet describing a panel in 1997:
"Artists in the audience came up to the microphone to speak and all took the opportunity to voice their own frustrations with the attitude of the art critics in LA toward the artists. Why was it so mean? So personal? Why was the worst of the curatorial criticism reserved for female curators? Why was any medium other than painting automatically 'conceptual'?"

- sally mckay 11-01-2010 2:00 pm [link] [add a comment]

Scary: Just in time for Hallowein, the incomparable Ms. Gracie Jones:

Corporate Cannibal:



Libertango (Ástor Piazzolla)



Slave to the Rhythm! (Citroën CX Car Advert)




- VB 10-31-2010 2:58 pm [link] [1 comment]


Happy Halloween
barleycorn

fosse2

wheat


- sally mckay 10-30-2010 3:41 pm [link] [2 comments]


crows


- sally mckay 10-29-2010 2:32 pm [link] [2 comments]


death of limewire

In honor of the death of LimeWire we have stolen a "brief history of some of the biggest events in file sharing over the past ten years" from Gearlog. (warning: annoying pop-ups)
LimeWire went dark today, thanks to a court-ordered injunction. The Manhattan-based site is just the latest in a long line of file-sharing sites to rise and fall in the past decade or so.

In honor of the death of LimeWire, here's a brief history of some of the biggest events in file sharing over the past ten years.

1999: Napster Released
An 18-year-old student at Boston's Northeastern University launches a file sharing service, branding it with his childhood nickname. The service catches fire quickly and almost immediately catches the attention of the Recording Industry Association of America and vocal anti-file sharing musicians like Metallica's Lars Ulrich.

2000: Gnutella Launches
This popular peer-to-peer network was initially launched by AOL-owned Nullsoft. AOL shut down the program, thanks to file sharing concerns, but it was too late--the client was already out.

2000: LimeWire Launches
The site is launched by Mark Gorton, a former Wall Street trader with degrees from Harvard, Yale, and Stanford. Like many other P2P creators before and since, Gorton has long insisted that the existence of his site is well within the confines of the law.

2001: Napster Shuts Down
A heated legal battle between Napster and the RIAA ends in March with an injunction against the site. Napster shuts down its network in July, declares bankruptcy, and is later reborn as a legal music subscription service in 2001.

2001: Kazaa Launches
Designed by programmers in Estonia, this service is quickly snapped up by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, the duo who, three years later, will help launch Skype. Kazaa is the target of legal battles in a number of countries and a number of users are subjected to heavy record industry fines.

2001: BitTorrent is Released
This popular file sharing protocol fills in the void for users seeking a Napster replacement, accounting for nearly half of Web traffic at the height of its popularity, and giving rise to a number of popular services: The Pirate Bay, and isoHunt

2003: The Pirate Bay Launch
Swedish anti-copyright organization Piratbyrån (The Piracy Bureau) launched this BitTorrent indexer. It becomes one of the most popular sites on the Internet, and is subsequently subject to various police raids. In 2007, it attempted to by its own tiny island nation to avoid litigation.

2006: Kazaa Fined, Goes Legit
In July, the site is ordered to pay $100 million in damages to the record industry. Like Napster before it, the site is purchased by new owners and re-launched as a legal service.

2010: Court Ordered Pirate Bay Injunction
Once again, Pirate Bay is taken down due to a court-ordered injunction, only to return again shortly after, earning its slogan, "The world's most resilient bittorrent site."

2010: LimeWire Closes
Thanks to a permanent injunction issued by a New York-based federal court, LimeWire becomes the latest P2P casualty.

- sally mckay 10-28-2010 2:21 am [link] [5 comments]