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Experiments in Architecture

BALTAN goes NATLAB with Experiments in Architecture.
About
BALTAN Laboratories initiates, supports and disseminates innovative research and development activities in the field of art, technology and culture. A two-year pilot initiative located in the SWA building at Strijp S in Eindhoven, it is a first step towards a broader Art Science Lab in the former NatLab (Philips physics laboratory). BALTAN Laboratories actively pursues new collaborations between disciplines and acts as point of intersection for artists working with technology in Eindhoven and beyond.
Today BALTAN Laboratories hosts the sixth in its series of BALTAN GOES NATLAB presentations at the former Philips NatLab at Strijp-S in Eindhoven. This session is dedicated to new experiments in architecture, specifically focused on the use of light and technology. Speakers include Jerome Decock from Brussels-based LAb[au]: Laboratory for Architecture and Urbanism, who will present some of their recent projects, including the interactive kinetic light sculpture framework f5×5×5; and Marc Maurer (Maurer United Architects [MUA]), who will discuss the Indemann, a 36-metre-high watchtower near Aachen, Germany, with a programmable facade consisting of 40.000 LED lights, designed by MUA-
This session takes place during the 4th edition of Glow - International Forum of Light in Art and Architecture in Eindhoven (November 6-15, 2009).

Experiments in Architecture
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
A celebration of Surrealist Mexican Arts and Culture : Pedro Friedeberg


Dear Readers:
On behalf of Las Bellas Artes and Henanine Fine Art, it is my pleasure to invite you to our Reception “Pedro Friedeberg”. A celebration of Surrealist Mexican Arts and Culture.
This event will take place this Friday November 13th., at Reyna Henaine’s Gallery, 126 W 22nd Street. 5N, New York, NY 10011. from 6 - 8 PM.
Please RSVP to rhenaine@gmail.com in order to be on the guest list. Limited space. We appreciate your punctuality.
Gustavo Ortega-Oyarzun
Kathia Rodríguez
Evangelina Guerra
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Creative Directors Associates
Las Bellas Artes Team Network
The Pigmy Deer Network Project
14 East 60th Street
New York, NY. 10022
http://www.lasbellasartes.org

A celebration of Surrealist Mexican Arts and Culture : Pedro Friedeberg
LABOR Inaugural Show | Mexico City

A contemporary art gallery in Mexico City, presented its inaugural exhibition, "Labor, Labor. 7 | 11 | 2009", a group show by the gallery artists:
Erick Beltrán
Etienne Chambaud
Santiago Cucullu
Irene Kopelman
Teresa Margolles
Pedro Reyes
Jorge Satorre
Pablo Vargas Lugo
Héctor Zamora
LABOR was conceived with the following basic commitments:
LABOR emerges out of the desire to reinvigorate artistic and cultural development in Mexico City, producing work that reflects the multiple relationships between art and life.
LABOR assumes the form of a contemporary art gallery, yet it breaks from archetypal notions of what a commercial gallery should be. It seeks to distance itself from the sphere of consumption and artistic hedonism, with the goal of strengthening a sustainable cultural economy that upholds the essence of contemporary artistic labor.
LABOR represents artists who create critical projects that question and/or reflect our present circumstances, and whose work has a rigorous conceptual foundation. It is committed to showing the unique way that artists see the world, with exhibits that provide, above all else, a life experience.
LABOR also exhibits the work of artists who are not commercially represented by the gallery, but who have nevertheless produced a body of work of seminal importance to contemporary art.
With this as a base, LABOR strives to nurture the market with strategies and tools that will encourage the formation of new collectors and active publics. It will re-circulate a percentage of the income from the gallery’s commercial practice into an active program of residencies and sponsorships for exhibits and artistic projects.
The gallery will feature an open library and a constant program of parallel activities (workshops, lectures, conferences and film screenings) and will produce a range of collectible printed material, to function as physical traces of the importance of artistic labor.Eventually, these practices will benefit those individuals and agents who operate within the art system: artists, institutions, critics, publications, curators, museums, collectors and galleries.
For more information:
T: (+52)(55) 5208.5579
E: info@labor.org.mx

LABOR Inaugural Show | Mexico City
Thursday, November 5, 2009
SOCA ! SOCA ! SOCA ! / From México to the UK, Belgium and Beyond

11/27: London (UK), Plan B
11/28: Utrecht (NE), Guess Who? Fest
12/04: Bruxelles (BE), Recyclart
12/05: Bristol (UK), The Tube
LifeBox Set one of the best mexican music blog has a special thing for you if you wan to see soca canadian blast ! Last Call people !
Artist: Poirier
Title: Wha-La-La-Leng feat. Face-T
Album: Soca Sound System
Label: Ninja Tune
Director: Thibaut Duverneix
Producer: NùFilms - Patrick Chevrier
Director of Photography: Guillaume Simoneau
Assistant Photography: Hajra Waheed
Makeup Artist: Jennifer Dionne
Performers: Face-T, Ilya, Lunice
Post Production: Departement

SOCA ! SOCA ! SOCA ! / From México to the UK, Belgium and Beyond
Friday, October 30, 2009
FIC | Festival Internacional Cervantino at Guanajuato,México presents MODESELEKTOR/Berlin

Modeselektor, the band formed in Berlin, featuring Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary, said to be incredibly amazed by the response of mexican fans, that not only love electronic music, most of the audience know every tune since they started they carrier, and MODERAT ´s , with whom Modeselektor has also been involved in collaborative efforts.

Moderat is a project between Modeselektor and Apparat, Pfadselektor - a music/visual collaboration between Modeselektor and Pfadfinderei.

México is known for a unique way to connect with electronic music. Its sounds, and rythmn are close to our cultural background.
For every country, Mexico´s unique creativity and capacity to understand the new-comes in cultural and social manifestation matters, make us The IT Scenery to be on.
Today.....ROCK IT, Guanajuato !!!

FIC | Festival Internacional Cervantino at Guanajuato,México presents MODESELEKTOR/Berlin
Friday, July 3, 2009
* IDENSITAT

iD Barri Calaf, és un projecte d’IDENSITAT en col·laboració amb l’Ajuntament de Calaf, Diputació de Barcelona i el Màster en Disseny i Espai Públic (ELISAVA). Compta amb la participació de l'IES Alexandre de Riquer (Calaf), Màster d’Intervenció i Gestió del Paisatge per a l’Ordenació del Territori i del Medi Ambient (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), MBA en Empresas e Instituciones Culturales (Universidad de Salamanca y Grupo Santillana).iD Barri Calaf forma part del projecte ARTWORK'09 de la Diputació de Barcelona que està subvencionat pel programa de Projectes Innovadors d'acord amb l'Ordre TRE/337/2008, patrocinat pel Servei d'Ocupació de Catalunya i cofinançat pel Fons Social Europeu.
iD BARRI CALAF / IDENSITAT HIVERNACLECULTURAL
iD Barri Calaf forma parte del proyecto ARTWORK'09 de la Diputació de Barcelona que está subvencionado por el programa de Projectes Innovadors de acuerdo con el Ordre TRE/337/2008, patrocinado por el Servei d'Ocupació de Catalunya y cofinanciado por el Fons Social Europeu. Este taller es parte del proyecto iD Barri Calaf Hivernaclecultural que Josep-Maria Martín realiza en Calaf para IDENSITAT.
iD BARRI CALAF / IDENSITATHIVERNACLECULTURAL /
This workshop is part of iD Barri Calaf Hivernaclecultural that is carried out in Calaf by Josep-Maria Martín for IDENSITAT.

* IDENSITAT
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Pabellón de Chile en la Bienal de Venecia 2009
La exposición "Threshold" (Umbral) constaba de tres instancias: Death row (Corredor de la muerte) es una instalación de 13 puertas de aluminio, con una luz de neón en su interior de distintos colores, que mediante reflexiones simulan un pasillo interminable. Resistance (Resistencia) es un video que muestra al artista paseando por Nueva York en una bicicleta fabricada con luces de neón. Cuando se pedalea las luces se encienden. Y por último Bed (Cama), de forma circular dispuesta en el piso en cuyo interior está la palabra "bed" escrita con luces que se reflejan hacia dentro simulando un pozo.
"La obra no habla de la muerte de la persona, se refiere más al espacio físico. Son espacios ficticios, de hoyos interiores, la relación metafísica con la idea de la muerte. Con la instalación 'Bed', se está en el "umbral", al borde del precipicio, del vacío, al inicio de algo ambiguo, pese a que la luz fluorescente es la luz de la creación. Un deseo frustrado.
Es la primera vez que Chile tiene su pabellón en la Bienal, y justamente por ser la primera vez, tiene la carga de mostrarse y llamar la atención... creo que sólo países que se muestran hace mucho tiempo pueden darse el lujo que mostrar al artista como su obra única... mucha gente pasó por el pabellón como si fuera un pasillo iluminado por neones, lléndose intocables con la "Obra de Chile".
Watershed Down en BLDGBLOG
Tadao Ando: punta della dogana museum in venice, Designboom
Tomas Saraceno at venice art biennale 09, Designboom
Chen Zhen: back to fullness face to emptiness - venice art bienniale 09, Designboom
Chun Yun: constellation no. 3 at venice art biennale 09, Designboom
Korean pavilion: haegue yang at venice art biennale 09, Designboom
Shaun Gladwell: australian pavilion at venice art biennale 09, Designboom
Wim Delvoye: a gothic tower in venice during art biennale 09, Designboom
Michael Elmgreen & ingar dragset: 'the collectors' at the nordic pavilion, Designboom
michael elmgreen & ingar dragset: 'the collectors' at the danish pavilion, Designboom
Bruce Nauman: 'topological gardens' at the venice art biennale 09, Designboom
Por Daniela Monterrosa M.

Pabellón de Chile en la Bienal de Venecia 2009