Two Things About Meat

Here are two things about meat, that I am going to introduce into my life in the near future.

1.
Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals, a book on the ethics of eating meat and vegetarianism. I admit that I am partially interested because it's Foer and I liked his books when I read them a while ago. I did read this morning though an unfavourable review by Flavorpill who find Foer's approach underwhelming in its style and also annoying in that I've-just-become-a-parent-and-you-have-to-hear-what-I'm-going-to-tell-you kind of way. I'll see for myself.



2.
I just clicked onto meatpaper. It's a print magazine about meat but they upload selected articles online. There is a range of non-fiction, prose, reviews on art and books involving meat. It seems playful and well thought out; Here is an article on meat cocktails and here, on restaurants who advocate using the whole animal, making their own cuts and minimising wastage.

What do these works have in common?

++Piotr Kowalsi's Cybernetic Light Tower, 1972


++ Olafur Eliasson's Beauty, 1993



++ Thomas Wilfred's Clavilux 1930


++ Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's Pulse Room, 2006




++ Piotr Kowalski's Electra '83 2, 1983


++ Olafur Eliasson's Weather Project, 2003


++ Laszlo Moholy-Nagy's Light Space Modulator, 1930

The Auerglass

I could not be any more in love with anything, than as much as I love this.





other than maybe, a horse

dotting the fields

ooh, here is a video on mapping RFID fields in everyday technology. It's interesting to be able to see this field for the first time, although it'd also be cool to see different ways to visualise and map it. The people in the video are Timo Arnall of the Touch project and Jack Schulze of BERG.

Immaterials: the ghost in the field from timo on Vimeo.

Fluxkompensator

I once made blueprints for a kaleidoscope that would be about 30cm squared, on a tripod or A-frame structure. It'd be operated with a winding handle and the images would be projected onto a wall. This wall would also have sensors on it, so when coloured light would hit different parts, pre-recorded soundscapes would play. There would be a different sound for a different colour, and it's play/distortion would be altered according to the speed the kaleidoscope would be played.

I think that I thought about this because I was particularly obsessed with participation, play for the sake of play, immersive installations and such. In fact, I probably still am now that I think about it.

Anyway, today I came across this installation, the Fluxkompensator. It is a lot better than my imagined kaleidoscope. I'm going to work it into the thesis, most definitely.

Behind the Screen from Brian Steen on Vimeo.

We Are Chopchop if a collective or artists in Berlin. Their site exhibits animations, installations, design projects and media art. To my knowledge, they all work on their own projects and help each other out, rather than the whole collective working on each project.

Soft-Maps

How wonderful! These are emily Fischer's soft maps. They're quilts, pillows and cushions with maps of places and scapes embroidered onto them. You can get them custom made (machine made), but I think that some are hand made. I've been thinking about having a spring sewing group lately and this is enough to put some thread into my needle.

Au Revoir Simone

Girls are pretty awesome, especially Au Revoir Simone

#23.3 - AU REVOIR SIMONE - NIGHT...
by lablogotheque

#23.1 - AU REVOIR SIMONE -STAY GOLDEN
by lablogotheque

Pandamonium

Pandamonium involves a collection of British artists reworking the WWF panda. Included are Tracy Emin, Sir Peter Blake, Rachel Whiteread and others. I like the Troika panda with is laaaaser cub.

p.s Who would have thought that Blake was into wrestling?