It`s July 24th today, a filming day: we are witnesses of a historic global experiment “Life in a day” shot in a single day, by the Youtube users worldwide! An experimental documentary film will be made by a producer Ridley Scott and director Kevin Macdonald. The premiere of a film will be performed at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2011 and 20 luckiest contributors will be the guests!
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A Croatian National Theatre (HNK) ballet dancers from Rijeka will perform at the Italian MittelFest 2010 an astonishing dance “The Trial”, after the Kafka`s famous novel, expressing all the genius of great Croatian choreographer Staša Zurovac and composer Berislav Šipuš, transforming words into energy and muscular explosion, while using different contemporary music styles. (Cividale del Friuli, Piazza Duomo, July 21st).
In the MittelFest 2010 programme, distinguished by some classics of European – and global – genius, pride of place goes to the tribute that the Theatre section will be devoting to Dostoevsky, who more than any other writer has laid bare mankind’s laceration between Good and Evil, which have lost none of their capacity to astonish. The Festival also focuses on geniuses of Music, revealing classical music as the real European genius which has characterised our planet in the last five hundred years, influencing all types of expression from pop to jazz.
From Croatia comes a representation in dance of Kafka’s great novel The Trial, expressing all the genius of great Croatian choreographer Staša Zurovac, transforming words into energy and muscular explosion, while using different contemporary music styles. (Cividale del Friuli, Piazza Duomo, Wednesday July 21st).
Main stars at the Rijeka ballet are Andrei Kötels as Josef K. and Cristina Lukanec as miss Bürstner, while other dancers are Valeri Rasskazov ( Judge), Ludwig Jerkander (painter Titorelli), Vitali Klok (Bloch), Roberto Pereira Barbosa Junior (Priest); Svebor Zgurić, Ludwig Jerkander, Roberto Pereira Barbosa Junior (three inspectors); Camila Izabel Moreira (Leni).
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Scientists and composers have produced a new choral work in which performers sing sequences or parts of their own genetic code as an ultimate genome!
As the BBC News Science correspondent Pallab Ghosh reports a musician Andrew Morley got the idea of assigning a note to each of Human DNA compound! The “proper composer” approached by Dr Morley was Michael Zev Gordon, who was inspired by the idea, and thus has turned a simple idea into a beautiful work of art.
The new piece, Allele, will be performed by the New London Chamber Choir at the Royal Society of Medicine on 13 July. “Each of the 40-strong choir has also had his or her own DNA decoded. At its climax, each member of the choir is singing their own unique genetic code – resulting in everyone singing a subtly different song.”
In such a way the music is a sound of the ultimate human genome. You can hear the sample at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_environment/10581179.stm
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The eminent director Ridley Scott together with Kevin MacDonald is going to make a great movie, a documentary which will be shot by Youtube users from the whole world on a 24 July, 2010 thus leaving a document of life expression of global community to next generations!
McDonald, who made “The Last King of Scotland,” will direct the feature-length documentary and Scott, who helmed Oscar-winning “Gladiator” and a host of hits such as “Blade runner,” “Alien,” and “Thelma & Louise,” will produce it. Creative users will make a sort of archetype recordings of their ordinary life on that day, upload them and MacDonald will compile the best shots. Users of the chosen works will be signed as collaborators, and twenty of them will be invited to come to Sundance film festival, on a „Life in a Day“ premiere.
To participate, YouTube users must upload their footage to YouTube.com/lifeinaday. This is indeed a unique idea and experiment in the history of film industry.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE66611H20100707
This season Shakespeare`s last family drama „Storm“ with the main character Prosper as his autobiographical complement, will be premierely played on 23 July, 2010 on Croatian island Brijuni. Philosophical, yet lightly and very impressively natural in style, Serbedzija`s acting is a performance in natural ambience of Fortress Minor without multimedia devices and effects, a sort of real arte povera.
Rade Serbedzija (Croatia, 1946) has played in more than 50 films abroad and in about 100 in his native Croatia and previous Yougoslavia. He is famous for his roles in Hollywood films: Eyes Wide Shut (1999), Space Cowboys (2000), Mission: Impossible II (2000), Batman Begins (2005), Love Life (2007), as well as in TV series like “CSI: Miami” ( Seeing Red (2009) and Sink or Swim (2009)) His last roles are in David Yates films:
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I (2010) and II (2011).
Some very famous actors are his close family friends and partners like Vanessa Redgrave and Tom Cruise.
Serbedzija is highly respected for his theater Ullysses on the Croatian island Brijuni, premierely opened with Shakespeare`s King Lear in 2001, directed by his wife Lenka Udovicki, and therefore has lasted a decade suprising thousands of spectators with masterworks each year: Medey (2002), Marat-Sade (2003), Play Beckett (2004), Hamlet (2005), Tesla Electric Company (2006), Krleza today (2007), Romeo and Juliet `68 (2008), Kaligula (2008), Don Juan (2009). This season Shakesperae`s last family drama „Storm“ with the main character Prosper as his autobiographical complement, will be premierely played on 23 July, 2010.
While healing his traumas by natural elements, Prosper reaches clear consciousness, leaving some poisonous aspects of the past behind and opening the future by emphasising the Reality of Now.
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God particle signal is simulated as a sign! BBC reports that the scientists have simulated the sounds set to be made by sub-atomic particles such as the Higgs boson when they are produced at the Large Hadron Collider.
At the “LHC sound” web page http://lhcsound.hep.ucl.ac.uk/ we can be informed about a creative project of sonification LHC data from CERN, done by a group of particle physicists, composers, software developers and artists. The project started in earnest in January 2010 thanks to funding from the science & technology facilities council in the form of a small award for public outreach. You can find out more about them here. The aim of the project is threefold:
To attract people to the results of the LHC experiments in a way that is novel, exciting and accessible.
To establish mutually beneficial communication between the usually disparate fields of music and science and provide composers with access to LHC data.
To introduce particle physicists to the possibility of using sonification as an analysis technique and to begin to establish the methods available for doing this.
Listen to some sounds at:
http://lhcsound.hep.ucl.ac.uk/sounds/HiggsJetEnergyGate.mp3
http://lhcsound.hep.ucl.ac.uk/sounds/HiggsJetSimple.mp3
http://lhcsound.hep.ucl.ac.uk/page_library/SoundsLibrary.html
http://lhcsound.hep.ucl.ac.uk/page_sounds_higgs/MoreHiggs.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdaF4WuD_Js
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BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_environment/10385675.stm
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The gratest Croatian performer Tomislav Gotovac, a film director with huge charisma and energy died in 74th year in Zagreb.
Several yea
rs ago he changed his name into Antonio Lauer after mothers second name, but he stayed well known for his previous name and work of art as well. He has used his body a lot in his performances. He was famous for his performance “Zagreb, I love you” performed in 1981th where he walked through the capital`s main street Ilica naked while kissing the asphalt
occasionally.
He had been born in Vojvodina (Serbia, ex Yougoslavia), he has finished the Film Academy in Belgrade and has moved to live in Croatia. As the leader to many artists, for example to Marina Abramovic, he had a lot of art works in important galleries, such as the Cetre George Pompidou in Paris, and Venice Biennale. Although he was shortly ill and suffered in poor conditions, he will stay famous for his films “Glenn Miller 2000” and performances like “Foxy Mister”as well as his well known sentence: “Sve je movie-All is Movie”.
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NEW YORK – A new video-art biennial that will be called YouTube Play is the online international search for new creative video. Everyone is invited to submit their best works, which people can do until July 31st. Anything goes, from straight-up art to animation, music videos, motion graphics, narrative and non-narrative work, or even entirely new art forms.
Videos must be shorter than 10 minutes and created in the last two years. A jury of experts comprising people from the worlds of art, design, film, and entertainment will select up to 20 videos to be presented at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum on October 21, 2010, with simultaneous presentations at the Guggenheim museums in Berlin, Bilbao, and Venice. The works will also be available to a worldwide audience on the YouTube Play channel.
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„A vision how we would all move in dance paradise“ (The New York Times)
The mission of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas is to create an internationally renowned festival in New Haven of the highest quality with world-class artists, thinkers and leaders, attracting and engaging a broad and diverse audience celebrating and building community and advancing economic development.
This year’s International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven, now in its 15th year, certainly cannot be accused of a lack of variety.
A creative collaboration of two inventive minds, Ms. Childs and Mr. Glass, on a minimalist masterwork „Dance“ to invent new ways of reframing experience!
The opening-weekend events centered around the multi-genre Dance: „A powerful and entrancing multi-genre collaboration, Dance brings together three minimalist pioneers in a tightly structured dialogue that conveys the elemental desire to move to music. Choreographer Lucinda Childs’ meticulous, unaffected dancing; composer Philip Glass’ mesmerizingly ethereal soundtrack; and an engrossing visual décor and film of the dancers, created by the late conceptual artist and Connecticut native Sol LeWitt, combine to create a gorgeous and historically important experience.“ (New York Times)
More: http://www.artidea.org/event.php?id=255
Croatian Gallery Zitnjak in Zagreb invites you on June 14, 2010 to a multimedia programme ”More Passive Than Every Passivity” prepared by Božena Končić Badurina.
Project “‘More Passive Than Every Passivity” was realized during Badurina`s two months stay in New York, while residentially involved in EERE (Eastern European Residency Exchange), a non profite organization which promotes contemporary art. A project includes five situations/performances held in Art in General and video documentations of these works. Badurina researches the relation between public and subject, especially in urban social situations – waiting rooms, lifts, subways, breaks etc., while she stresses the structures of power in these relationships.
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If You allow Yourself to lose the Intuition, You better start buying smart clothes…
Created as part of an artistic project called Wearable Absence the clothes are made from textiles woven with different sorts of wireless sensors. This experiment was developed by Barbara Layne from Concordia University in Canada and Janis Jefferies from Goldsmiths College’s Digital Studios, ( the prototype garments were shown at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences held in Montreal from 28 May – 3 June).
The wearers could soon be helped by Smart clothes to cope with the stresses of modern life. The prototype clothes-samples monitor physiological states including temperature and heart rate! The clothes are connected to a web-based database previously created by the wearer, via a smartphone, and analyse the data to work out a person’s emotional state.
Media, including songs, words and images, are then piped to the display and speakers in the clothes to calm a wearer or offer support.
When the wearer is detected as being in a particular emotional state, the database will send media to the clothes to help try to change a person’s mood by scrolling text or simple images and the speakers can replay music, sounds or pre-recorded messages from friends or family.
The BBC reports that to accomplish this, the clothes are fitted with display made of LEDs and have speakers built in to the hood. The display can show scrolling text or simple images and the speakers can replay music, sounds or pre-recorded messages from friends or family.
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Source: BBC (news.bbc.co.uk)
The Vivid Live festival, an annual event bringing music, photography, and performance to the Sydney Opera House, which runs May 27 – June 21, includes distinct acts of number of artists, but always especial is Lou Reed’s all-noise, no-lyrics Metal Machine Trio.
As ArtInfo advises Reed has also curated a digital exhibition of works from the Magnum photo archive, while his artist-wife, famous
Photo: Vivid Sidney
American performer Laurie Anderson will perform a concert only audible to dogs (the dogs will be treated to whale noises and high-pitched sounds ), and she will also offer a retrospective performance of some of her songs and stories as well. “And if you happen to be floating through the harbor at night during the festival’s run, it might appear that the “sails” of Jørn Utzon’s famous building have been vandalized, but no worry — Anderson (like last year’s curator, Brian Eno) has just arranged a psychedelic light show to be projected on the exterior of the opera house”.
They will also play alongside modern New York artists including Holly Miranda, Doveman and My Brightest Diamond, as well as acts from countries including Russia, Japan and Canada.
The program is dominated by experimental and improvised music.
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“New Education Model: Multimedia Art” is an online presentation created by M.A. Vesna Srnic, which was performed at the 4th International Conference on the Arts in Society, held in Venice, 2009, and the papers were published in the American/Australian International Journal of the Arts in Society, (Volume 4, No. 1, 2009)
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