Sylvère Lotringer writing on Roland Barthes

http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/barthes-after-barthes/

Wafaa Bilal

This artist is doing some fascinating work regarding technology and the body. The aesthetic cyborg.

http://wafaabilal.com/

Facebook Privacy

Here is the interview with the Facebook employee I found. The comments from the readers are interesting too.

Conversations About the Internet

-rachael

Public and Private...

I was just trying to get some inspiration for the project and stumbled across this Danish photographer... I thought you all might find his work as interesting as I do! I especially like "The Thought Project".

http://www.simonhoegsberg.com/

Enjoy!
- Brittany

Link to Frank Gehry exhibition in Copenhagen highlighting the use of BIM (Building Information Models) in contemporary architectural practice.

Frank Gehry and associates video interview at page bottom

Billy Idol's Cyberpunk

Musically, disastrous.  But, I guess you have to give him credit for trying something a little different...

My favorite cyborg.

See Billy morph:

 

 - Bridget

Kodak DC-215

This was the first digital camera to enter my house...

http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/DC215/DC215A.HTM

-rachael

MyWar: Participation in an Age of Conflict exhibition at Queen's University, Kingston

MyWar: Participation in an Age of Conflict

Contemporary Feature and Davies Foundation Galleries
15 January - 10 April

Union Gallery, Stauffer Library
15 January - 12 February

Blog!, participate! and share! are the battle cries of a media culture in which boundaries between private and public have been decisively eroded. In this context, MyWar: Participation in an Age of Conflict attempts to locate the moral implications and accommodations of war in an era of continuous global unrest. The show examines the experience of war through the work of 10 international artists: Joseph DeLappe, Dunne & Raby, Harun Farocki, Harrell Fletcher, Oliver Laric, Renzo Martens, SWAMP, Thomson & Craighead, Milica Tomic and Sarah Vanagt. Their art investigates how we encounter armed conflict and its effects at a time when digital networking has transformed the way we receive and respond to information.

more info here

Thomas Demand interview

from the Monocle

Ron Galella

Paparazzi photographer who was obsessed with Jackie O. and got punched out by Marlon Brando.
The Smash His Camera film details Ron's tricks of the trade in accessing the private moments of his celebrity subjects. One notable aspect of Ron Galella's technique is that he is highly visible at the moment of capture and could be considered a celebrity in his own right. The camera(s) are also obvious and Ron even sports a stitched camera patch on the back of his eccentric 'hunting' jacket.


Introduction to Smash His Camera doc on youtube

camera eyes and intimate spaces

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/268771

Interview with Andreas Gursky

http://www.foto8.com/new/online/blog/903-andreas-gursky-interviewed

Obsolescence

Kodachrome and Nostalgia

Season 5 of the art 21 series (Transformation) features Cindy Sherman along with the aforementioned Paul McCarthy. This is available at the VRC here at NSCAD.

http://guides.nscad.ca/content.php?pid=85345&sid=775726

or you can have a look on the pbs website

http://video.pbs.org/video/1281770054/

abject

Paul McCarthy talks about Heidi in a couple youtube videos