shapeshifters tag feed: art

11th Shanghai Film Festival and Art district

Schou — thu, 19 jun 2008 16:29:07 +0000

If you around in Shanghai I recommend the "International Student Shorts Awards". Markus Beck from Hamburg Media School performed with a fabulous movie named "Farewell Song".
http://www.siff.com/

Also check out Suzhou Creek in Shanghai! The right place if you are interested in Chinese contemporary art.

design indaba contact?

flofo — mon, 01 oct 2007 18:56:57 +0000

hi,

i think the conference desdign indaba in cap town would be a perfect place to present my last photoproject ( http://evolutionlab.net/gods.htm there some of the pictures).
do anyone know somebody there, i could contact?

thanks,
florian

Picking up the stick at the other end.

Philippa — fri, 10 aug 2007 11:40:36 +0000

It seems almost impossible to turn habits around. The struggle of the arts to achieve recognition or be valued, is because they pay lip service to 'art as product' rather than art as process; in that way they buy into the mercantile values, having always to be different, trendy,changing (whether well or badly). The market for artists (audiences, purchasers, sponsors) are evaluating by comparison with 'things'. This comparison is like comparing Shakespeare to cabbages, or Ikea furniture. There must be another way, to demonstrate the distinctions.
If artists of all disciplines embarked on collaborative ventures simply for their own sakes, (and perhaps initially disregarded the 'public') would the 'public' seek them out, and seek to be part of 'process' rather than product? Any ideas?

Bioneers 2007 Conference

CarolineofCabal — fri, 03 aug 2007 10:22:45 +0000

Are there any 'Shapeshifters' planning to attend the Bioneers Conference in California this October 19-21? http://www.bioneers.org If so, I'd be keen to connect there ... "The Bioneers Conference is a dynamic, leading-edge forum, focused on practical and visionary solutions for restoring the Earths imperiled ecosystems and healing our human communities."
Alternatively .. what other great events are happening around the planet in october / november this year ... on the subject of ecological intelligence, creativity and future (collaborative) design paradigms?? Ideas??
cher.

Design Festa :: by nothingGrinder's Aaron

nothingGrinder — sun, 08 jul 2007 00:18:12 +0000

Twice a year a special artists event is held here in Tokyo. It is claimed to be the largest art festival in Asia with over 40,000 visitors and 6,000 exhibitors. I have had the pleasure of working directly with Design Festa's team. During the last event I met many artists from all over the world. Some of them have created a successful business with their art, and that success was all thanks to Design Festa and the opportunities it provided for them. Design Festa is a free and open event with no restrictions on participation provided all work is original. Artists rent a space from Design Festa and display/sell their work from that space. It's like giant Flea market of art. It is certainly an amazing place to build networks and business opportunities in Japan.

Foreign exhibitors usually have difficulty with getting a proper visa from the Japanese government. This creates accessibility issues for foreign exhibitors. Many of those who exhibit are living in Japan.

nothingGrinder participated in Design Festa Vol. 18 were invited to show our video work in Design Festa Vol. 25 ( the most recent ). I promote this event because I have heard some amazing success stories from some of the artists who exhibit. I hope this information is useful. For more information about Design Festa visit http://www.designfesta.com.

Shapeshifters and Weathermakers

storytracker — thu, 28 jun 2007 07:40:17 +0000

ScribeMedia.Org travels the US to capture and deliver speeches, lectures, roundtables and interviews of thoughtleaders across a broad range of subject areas that includes current events, technology, media, business and the arts. ScribeMedia provides a neutral forum for intelligent dialog and debate, uncluttered by soundbytes, instant punditry and shoutfests. The latest headline story is about Shapeshifters - and how social media goes niche.

The interview was recorded in Manhattan early April 2007 while the Shapeshifters World Seeding Tour had a stoppover in New York City. The video gives you a comprehensive 10 minute insight into previous world tour destinations and provides the big picture on what is going on behind the scenes of the website. For the first time ever.

Thank you Damon Berry in Johannesburg for providing and editing the video footage. Thank you Sasha and Michael from ScribeMedia for putting so much efforts into this feature and telling the story in such an amazing way: http://www.scribemedia.org/2007/06/21/weather-report-01/

Rebranding of Africa...

mojisola — thu, 07 jun 2007 15:22:04 +0000

Hi there,

I'm trying to find people/design/companies/orgs/trade shows/events etc who are involved in Africa's contemporary culture and design industries.

I've come accross a couple of new mags (www.bhfmagazine.com) and someone here recommended Design Indaba which was a great find, thanks for that!

Any other recommendations on what's going on in Africa that I should know about?

Contact: rachel@mojisola.co.uk

Nomadic University > NUROPE

jomaier — wed, 30 may 2007 12:18:46 +0000

http://www.nurope.eu
Nomadic University for Art, Philosophy and Enterprise in Europe
- a mobile philosophical laboratory for reflection on the challenges European leadership is facing in the creative tension between business and art
- exploiting the full potential of the meaning, role and contribution of art in the transformation of society, organizations and enterprises
- built on the conviction that the ethical and aesthetic values are the soul and essence of European societies

The Aim of NUROPE is:
to contribute to the cultivation of the complex formation of identities in a changing transnational Europe where art and culture function as resources both for growth and for identity constructions in open communities
to offer both post graduate students, researchers and leaders within culture and economy a platform to develop and reflect on questions concerning the synergies between art and economy from a glocal European perspective
to offer a multidisciplinary academic course for European postgraduate students
to document every oasis by a series of research reports, publications and media productions for comparative and cumulative learning and research initiation on European leadership
to share experiences and develop creative models for education and research in social and cultural as well as economic entrepreneurship

A humanist hospital

aliceramos — fri, 25 may 2007 02:40:18 +0000

My daughter always have flu cause of allergies, and go to hospital should be not a pleasure visit, but, for her is. The Aliança Hospital has a kids building with a outside park, lots of big animals sculptures, very sweet mosaics and a unbelievable place to play, a cave. Not a nature one, of course, but with law light, water flow, fishes, primitive art on the walls, stones like sit and a tree as a table. A magic place for such difficult time.

looking for crossovers in the arts field

Marijke — thu, 24 may 2007 11:33:01 +0000

I'm looking for crossovers (between different art disciplines, or between an art discipline and another field of work) that have been created within cultural incubators. I would really like to talk to the initiators of these crossovers, and find out what stimulated the creation.
The reason is that I'm doing research on this subject for my Master thesis on Arts Management at the Utrecht School of the Arts.
Also If you are not an initiator yourself but you do know about an interesting/inspiring crossover project, please let me know.

Looking for a job experience in Arts in Asia

wnachbahr — mon, 21 may 2007 15:07:33 +0000

Hi,
I am going to travel to Asia in November 2007 and I would like to gain job experience in the Arts in countries like Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam. I study arts management in Utrecht and I am specially interested in managing performing arts.
Please contact me.

Artist in residence place in California

CecileB — sat, 12 may 2007 02:40:43 +0000

First of all the Shapeshifter meeting was lots of fun, lots of people.
And they all liked to drive up from L.A. to come and hang out at The Compound.

The Compound is a wonderful place, 1hour north of L.A. and it has a guesthouse :

The Guesthouse is a three (bed) room house, plus large living room with a large (work) table, 2 baths, kitchen et all. The set up is flexible.
In the workshop I have metal, woodworking, and painting materials. You can work on you electronics stuff or develop new interfaces etc. I can also make arrangements for a set up in the big studio. It can be used for sets, film or photo shoots. The ceilings are 5 meter high, no pillars. Floor space about 25 x 20 meter.

The Guest House @ The Compound is also a place to come and think, come to rest, listen to the owls and ravens who live in the tower right across the backdoor of the guest house.
It is a place to draw up new plans and ideas, write on your book or new play, or write finally that symphony

If you are into it, it all can inspire you.

This place is connected with the earth, the birds, the honeybees...

And: at the end of the day there is always a glass of wine to share, or a fine meal to enjoy under a starry sky out back the big Studio.

You are welcome

cecile

Pecha kucha -- an inspiring experience!

Nicola — fri, 20 apr 2007 01:46:55 +0000

Looking for a little architectural/design/photographic/artistic inspiration or interaction?

I recommend a visit to a pecha kucha night -- I had my first taste when one was held in Auckland recently and found a packed room of various creative worlds happily colliding, sharing and mixing.

The pre-arranged participants in pecha kucha were given the chance to tell the crowd about their design, new building, piece of furniture, photographs or thoughts they wished to share.

They did this with twenty images, and each image was shown for 20 seconds. People talked along with their slides, one guy played some music.

Presenters (and much of the audience) were from the design, architecture, photography, art and creative fields.

It was a fantastic way to see what was happening Auckland, and meet other creative people.

These events, orginally started in Tokyo by a British architect, are run around the world, and participation is encouraged by anyone who has something to show or say.

I'm sure there would be plenty of shapeshifters who would enjoy an outing to one of these!

Check out their international homepage : http://www.pecha-kucha.org/

gulli art

smi — mon, 26 mar 2007 07:20:21 +0000

What a nice way of making things more beautiful. [via c3o]

Fiabesque

ericpoe — wed, 21 feb 2007 08:52:09 +0000

Ever heard of Fiabesque, the animated fairytale festival in Italy?
Have a look at www.fiabesque.it (Italian language only!)
(Thank you for this great link, Jillian).