Monday, November 22, 2010

Where I go for music:

Mp3 Blogs

http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/

http://musicformaniacs.blogspot.com/

http://hippy-djkit.blogspot.com/

http://ravensingstheblues.blogspot.com/

http://www.gorillavsbear.net/

http://lysergia.blogspot.com/

http://freealbums.blogsome.com/

http://www.neural.it/sound/ (from the same people who do the wonderful mag; http://www.neural.it/


The Best Radio stations on the web

http://resonancefm.com/ (run by the London Musicians Collective, always excellent)

http://wfmu.org/ (you may know WFMU, amazing station, they run the free music archive; http://freemusicarchive.org/)

http://www.4zzzfm.org.au/ (from hometown Brisbane)

http://www.2ser.com/home (from Sydney)

http://www.rrr.org.au/ (possible the best radio station in Australia)


My recommended downloads

http://www.delicious.com/didgebaba/Download

Take it easy

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Media Places: From the Gardens of Versailles to Spatial Robots




From the gardens of Versailles to interactive architecture. HUMlab will host a conference in December on the interplay between media, technology and location. The conference "Media Places" is about everything from how our homes and culture changed when television came, to research into new forms of dynamic materials and interactive architectures. The conference takes place from noon on Thursday 9th December to Saturday afternoon on December 11th 2010.

Among the international guests will be prominent media scholars Chandra Mukerji (UC San Diego) and Lynn Spigel (Northwestern University) and architect Miles Kemp (co-author of the Interactive Architecture, Princeton University Press), Jesus de Francisco (art director at the company Motion Theory), Carter Emmart (American Museum of Natural History), Erica Robles (New York University) and Molly Steenson (graduate student in architecture at Princeton). From Stanford University Zephyr Frank professor of Latin American history and one of the leaders of their Spatial History Project will be presenting. The conference will be a close collaboration between Umeå University and Stanford University on "media places".

From Umeå University presenters will include Simon Lindgren (Sociology), Anna Johansson (Culture and Media Studies), Michael Frango (postdoctoral researcher HUMlab and Language Studies) and Mikael Wiberg (Design School). Both Umeå University Vice Chanceller Lena Gustafsson and Deputy Vice Chacellor Kjell Jonsson will also participating in the program.

Jennie Olofsson from Luleå University of Technology (formerly Cultural Analysis program and HUMlab), who defends her doctoral thesis on 10 December, will give a luncheon lecture on December 11 at the conference on the thesis entitled "Welding Robots, Space and Gender".

Registration for the conference can be made via its website. Seating is limited. Information about notification procedures and programs can also be found on the website.

Monday, November 08, 2010

Olle Essviks exhibition: "Den store retrospektiven 1984-2010"



On Friday Galleri Maskinen in Umeå opens with Olle Essviks exhibition: "Den store retrospektiven 1984-2010" from 18:00-21:00

Olle Essvik has exhibited in many parts of the world and now he is here in Umeå. His artwork and curating is based in new-media art and he has previously been nominated at Ars Electronica for his work.

Here is an article about him at "konsten.net"



The following is a text about the exhibition in Maskinen:


The Great Retrospective (1984-2110)

This exhibition consists of sculptures and objects that make up a kind of retrospective of the events in my life, but also a prospective with items that were the basis of ideas about what is to come. My works depict everyday existential questions and ruminations about life in a humorous way, but often with a black undertone. In many of the pieces combine computer programming with organic materials such as wood and paper sculptures and books.

Olle Essvik is an artist who is based in Gothenburg and received a Masters of Fine Arts from the Art Academy 2006th He also works under the name JimPalt when he creates video games and artwork for the Internet. For more info see: www.jimpalt.org

Tuesday, November 02, 2010

Damage



Northern Sweden, October 2010.