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On June 10th 1942, the Czechoslovakian village of Lidice, 20km north of Prague, was obliterated by the Nazis following the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich by the Czech resistance. Throughout the West, news of the atrocity was met with outrage that was later reflected in poems, novels, symphonies and films.
Slave Pianos is a provocative and highly inventive collective of artists, composers and musicians devoted to the exhibition, collection, analysis, performance and re-composition of sound work by visual artists.
The Strabag Artaward International is an award for the promotion of art in the fields of painting and drawing for artists of up to 40 years of age. From 2009 to 2011 artists from four countries, Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia are eligible to take part in this competition.
Best known as the creator of Wallace & Gromit characters, Nick Park is one of the most successful filmmaker using the techniques of stop motion animation. As one of the animators for Aardman Animations in Bristol, he worked on Peter Gabriel´s Music video "Sledgehammer" considered one of the best music videos ever made.
The central living artwork in the exhibition is a plantimal, a new life form created by Kac, which he calls Edunia, a genetically-engineered flower that is a hybrid of the artist and petunia. The new flower is a petunia strain that the artist invented and produced through molecular biology.
Kurosawa′s films have always been more popular in the West than in his native Japan, where critics have viewed his adaptations of Western genres and authors with suspicion - but he′s revered by American and European film-makers, who remade some of his movies...
In 1982, Burton made his first short, Vincent, a black and white stop motion film based on a poem written by himself. Soon Burton′s personal artistic tastes clashed with the Disney style, and he longed to work on his own projects.
Caterina Davinio is computer artist, writer, curator. She was one of the first poets who realized animated poetry with the computer in Italy, in 1990. Since 1998 her work appeared in Internet with collaborative projects, among them Karenina.it...
Rolf Jacobsen expressed his troubled compassion of the world around him. A new theme was the rough and lonely Norwegian scenery. Jacobsen often expressed ironically his doubts about technology, and praised the blessings of little joys...
Songwriter, producer, performer and DJ Julian Shah-Tayler says about his songwriting, “The feeling when I have finished a song beats anything except the excitement that comes across peoples′ faces when you play something you know has connected on a deep level with them. All I want is people to enjoy the music."
Visitors are also invited to wander the space accompanied by audio guide device, on which are recordings of yet more voices spoken in Slovak. As the viewer listens to these two languages overlapping and talking over one another, moments of dialogue and parallels emerge from the cacophony, only to blur again as the visitor or the recordings move on.
Haque develops both physical spaces and the software and systems. These systems based on the software′s algorithms fulfil several functions: the detection of a position in space, of a sound, of an odour, of the temperature, etc. Architecture is here conceived as an "operating system." He has also created interactive installations, environments, digital interfaces...
In some of his pieces, the viewer is a subject of the artwork. In other works, the viewer takes part, actively and creatively, in the performance of his artwork. Mirrors and self-perception are central themes in his current body of work. Look at some of them...
Regina Spektor, a Russian-born American singer-songwriter and pianist, completed her studies at Purchase College in 2001. The same year she self-released her debut album, 11:11, and since then, all her albums have been a surprise. Her songs shows influences of classical, folk, Russian music and hip hop music, and also of jazz and blues. Spektor has a broad vocal range and also uses unusual musical techniques...
Barney′s epic Cremaster cycle is rife with anatomical allusions to the position of the reproductive organs during the embryonic process of sexual differentiation. The cycle repeatedly returns to those moments during early sexual development in which the outcome of the process is still unknown...
Coldcut is an English electronic (dance) music duo of Matt Black and Jonathan More. Their music is full of samples of hip hop, jazz, breakbeat and spoken word as well as various other types of music. They work also in the field of multimedia art.
"I am slow as an artist, I seem to work on the same subject matter for years, and do different series parallel to each others. Who do I look for with my photographs? I think in the end I work for myself. I want to see how certain things look like. If others enjoy looking at them too, that′s even better..."
Nicolò Paganini, one of the greatest violinists of all time, revolutionised the playing of the violin. In his relentless pursuit to master his instrument, he developed some stupendous techniques and skills that, at the time, were thought to be impossible. He experimented in retuning his strings for creating special effects and introduced the bouncing bow techniques as well as left-handed pizzicato plucking.
He′s a filmmaker of evocative imagery and his ability to propel his narratives forward often with no dialogue. In recent years many Korean reviewers have warmed to his films, critical opinion is far from unanimous. Anyway, Kim has by now established himself as one of Korea′s most distinctive directors.
The music of Shostakovich is more traditional and therefore more approachable than much 20th century music. It has therefore found a regular place in the concert hall. Shostakovich like other composers has placed some hidden messages in his music, and it no doubt adds a different perspective to understand what was in the mind of a composer during the creative process...
"...We saw and had admired Heinz Edelmann’s graphic designs in “Twin” magazine. And thought why don’t we even try him. So we got in touch with him, he flew over and we showed him what we were doing and he disappeared for two weeks. I remember this brown envelope arrived with four drawings in it, one of each Beatle. You could see it wasn’t Mickey Mouse, it wasn’t this, it wasn’t that - it was just there!..."
If we look at videoart installation, e.g. found-footage of Douglas Gordon - 24 hour psycho, this should not bother us (anyway, we loose one hour of the visual information). But, if we are on the festival Minimotion watching some of 10-seconds animations, maybe some substantial part of the film material is forever lost.
"They are permanently on the look-out for double meanings, especially those with a sexual twist. Their entire body of work has been created in, and focused on, London′s East End, which they see as a microcosm. Also their imagery is shocking..."
Norstein uses a special technique in his animation, involving multiple glass planes to give his animation a three-dimensional look. The camera is placed at the top looking down on a series of glass planes about a meter deep. The individual glass planes can move horizontally as well as toward and away from the camera.
Considered by many the greatest rock band of all time, the Beatles have influenced many rock artists all over the world. The “Fab Four“, as the Beatles were often called, brought many changes not only in music, but also in hairstyles or fashion. They also appeared in five films, with A Hard Day′s Night beeing the most successful of them.
What all can be depicted, expressed, referred through portrayal of a human face, portrait...? Is it even possible to talk about authenticity, when every attempt at human effigy is only a derivative of reality, distorted incomplete picture, frozen moment or sequence exempt from the flow of time...? Five authors in five rooms of the Nitra underground take their own stance towards the issue of portrait genre...
The life in a contemporary world is complex. Èernušák is an artist being aware of it and his rather demanding visual language reflects the complexities of the world today. In his monumental compositions the artist draws the historical references to the periods of a renaissance and baroque while applying airbrush technique that has its origins in a car industry and advertising...
However she works with video, photo, the so called new media, her world of expression is most likely installation. Since she graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest, she′s been working abroad a lot, enjoying collaboration, using spontanious situations and turning them into her imagination. Kata Huszár.
The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts is the largest greenfield music and performing arts festival in the world. It is popular for its contemporary music, dance, comedy, theatre, circus and many other arts. People gather at the festival also to celebrate summer solstice.
Visitors they can find here the lamps that look like animated rabbit pair Bob & Bobek, militant flower pots and coat hanger, furniture for hip‐hopers, lamps made of plastic forks, magazine holders inspired by the boots of Majka z Gurunu (popular TV show in the 1980s), various chairs, tables, candles and more...
Nitzer Ebb evoked the sequenced basslines and barked commands of Virgin-era DAF in its early days, they created a new aesthetic. As they grew in confidence and ability, they began to develop the Nitzer Ebb sound—a blend of unusual analogue trickery, minimal song structure, heavy drum beats and percussion...
Result of an amazing creativity, together with the right portion of humour, "The Passenger" is a short animation created by Chris Jones. This project developed through the course of 8 years and completed in 2006 has received the Best Animation - 2006 L.A. International Short Film Festival and the Best Australian Film - 2008 Melbourne International Animation Festival awards.
Since the mid-1990s he has directed a number of music videos, and was named MTV Director of the Year 1997. His work in these areas is often noted for its originality. His work in the music video field includes promos for Massive Attack, Blur, Nick Cave, and the mufti-award winning films for Radiohead and Jamiroquai.
Most of Gilliam′s movies are raising questions about the definition of identity and sanity. He often shows his opposition to dark side of society with an ironic style. A man in his movies usually fights against a bigger power which may be an emotional situation or even the person himself. There are often unusual characters who formerly were normal members of society...
JR owns the biggest art gallery in the world. As he remains anonymous and doesn′t explain his huge full frame portraits of people making faces, he leaves the space empty for an encounter between the subject/protagonist and the passer-by/interpreter...
Jayanta Mahapatra (1923, Cuttack) is one of the best known Indian English poet. His poems have appeared in most of the reputed journals of the world. He is the first Indian poet in English to have received the Central Sahitya A. Award (1981) for his Relationship. His other volumes include Close the Sky, Ten by Ten, A Father′s Hours, A Rain of Rites and many more...
Urban Voices has since brought various national and international greats to grace the Urban Voices stage, and these included artists such as Linton Kwesi Johnson, Saul Williams, The Last Poets, Mutabaruka, Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze, Dr. Don Materra, Staceyann Chin, Prof Willie Kgotsisile, Lebo Mashile and Mak Manaka.
There can be viewed works based on the computer games, as well as the works based on the knowledge of the programming languages pure data and processing. Art project for the web www also presents art computer virus aimed to promote the works of students from Banská Bystrica, which intervened into 69 states and 60 thousand computers...
The objective of the exhibition is to show potential variety of architectural exhibitions. Besides traditional representation of architectural proposal through a model, plans or visualizations, a viewer can look into organization of the project through photos and explaining video to easily understand the idea of the project.
"Vaudeville. So much mashing of cultures and bizarre hybrids. Delta Blues guitarists and Hawaiian artists thrown together resulting in the adoption of the slide guitar as a language we all take for granted as African American. But it was a cross pollination, like most culture..." Interview with Tom Waits.
... it can be seen as an appearance before people in terms of presenting his creations, a kind of disclosure before the audience. But it is also a non‐physical stepping out of oneself, which the author experiences while painting, and which the viewers can experience during the perception...
Green architecture comes in many forms though lately it seems like these forms are stranger than ever. Urban skyscraper farms? Floating eco-cities? Glowing solar towers? With all of these emerging green technologies it seems an appropriate time to take a look at seven of the most amazing real and conceptual designs currently at the forefront of ecological innovation.
Alternative Film/Video is the festival of Yugoslav alternative film and video. The aim of the Festival is to document and define in theory the values and new creative possibilities in the fields of alternative film and video. All authors of alternative film and video are eligible to participate.
“The over 85 thousand users who discovered him on MySpace with the song ‘Liar’ were struck spellbound by the intensity of his voice……fragile, intimate and with a strong emotional impact somewhere between Thom Yorke and Jeff Buckley.”Uomo Vogue
He was said by his contemporaries to have been the most technically advanced pianist of his age. He was also an important and influential composer, a notable piano teacher, a conductor who contributed significantly to the modern development of the art, and a benefactor to other composers and performers, notably Richard Wagner, Hector Berlioz, Camille Saint-Saëns, Edvard Grieg and Alexander Borodin.
City Art Fest connects diverse expressions of contemporary visual art with typical forms of art in urbanspaces as street art and graffiti, and tries to bring them closer to people in their everyday environment in whichthey move and live. Participating artists are inspired by the characteristics of Nitra; they react to specific situations and areas in the city.
“In the West, I have heard only one other music which is as meditative, serene, powerful and yet equally joyful – that of Johann Sebastian Bach” says a leading critic of Subramaniam. “India’s violin icon”, “The Paganini of Indian Classical music”, “the God of Indian Violin”, they are all names for one person, Dr. L. Subramaniam.
"I have always felt like a stranger in almost every society, a true misfit", Kira Skov once stated in an interview with one of Denmarks leading news-papers. At the age of 17 travelling with her Rock′n′roll band Butterfly Species, she moved back to Denmark in 2002 and formed the band Kira & the Kindred Spirits. In 2007 she received a Grammy for “Best female Vocalist”, as well as receiving an award from Denmark’s largest music-magazine Gaffa, voted by their readers.
Contemporary culture does not involve elements of truth, instead of that; the visual quality is what matters. To please visually is the most important task, honesty and sincerity is being taken over. It would be discussable to try to answer the question of actuality. How can we understand it? In the fashionable way, or by the shock from something new, or maybe aesthetically?
The 34th annual cultural marathon full of music, dance, theatre, visual arts and other forms of art takes place from June 18 till September 6, 2009. The main dramaturg and producer of the festival, the Bratislava Culture and Information Centre, prepared an extraordinary “opening week“ and is looking forward to meeting you at the following events.
At the age of 36, David Fonseca is the most popular pop-rock alternative singer in Portugal. He is a writer, composer, performer and plays several musical instruments, like acoustic guitar and organ. He is the author of almost all of his lyrics and also the graphic designs on his album covers.
It‘s hard to say what was in the very beginning...in particular, there were many ideas, many absurd ideas, when among other events 1st CARNIVAL cropped up out of the blue at Vojtovce meadow (Vojtovská lúka) in May 1997. It was spontaneous crazy entertainment in masks at a forest glade. CARNIVAL successfully lived until its 5th anniversary and then RACHOT was born on Carnival’s 3rd anniversary.
A significant Russian composer of the Romantic era. He wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the current classical repertoire, including the ballets Swan Lake and The Nutcracker, the 1812 Overture, his First Piano Concerto, several symphonies, and the opera Eugene Onegin.
Czes³aw Mi³osz (1911-2004) was a Polish poet, writer and translator. From 1961 he was a professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1980 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He is widely considered one of the greatest polish poets of the 20th century.
Aesop (620-560 B.C.), known only for the genre of fables ascribed to him, was by tradition a slave in ancient Greece. Most of his fables is a compilation of tales from various sources, many of which originated with authors who lived long before him. Many additional fables were included, and the collection was in turn translated to Arabic and Hebrew, further enriched by these cultures...
At night in a desert oasis, the narrator, traveling with an Arab caravan, tries to get to sleep. The distant howling of jackals causes him to sit up again, and in no time the pack is swarming around him. One of them presses close against his body, then stands before him and speaks. It is the oldest in the pack, and it assures the narrator that his arrival here has been awaited for a long time...
Yiannis Ritsos is one of the four great Greek poets of the twentieth century together with Odysseus Elytis, Kostis Palamas and Giorgos Seferis. His poetry was banned at times in Greece for its left wing content. Notable works by Ritsos include Tractor (1934), Pyramids (1935), Epitaph (1936), and Vigil (1941–1953).
The annually held national and international competitions do not distinguish between genres. Instead, all cinematic forms are invited to participate in the categories International Competition, NoBudget, German Competition and the Three Minute Quickie...
"Our mother was the hero of the family. She was from Kiev. I don′t ever remember her other than without makeup, gray hair pulled back in a bun. She worked a sixteen-hour day: cooking and washing and cleaning for her family, then after supper taking out her Singer sewing machine, which she set up on the kitchen table, doing piecework for Hart, Shaffner & Marx..."
"... as full of life as a horse / that doesn′t feel its rider a stranger / but its own thought... Rejoicing, shouting, / they have been a year together without regrets, / they have a sure remedy for anything that′s not a miracle - / all stains are only mud-stains / on a new dress and can soon be washed off... / Children! They have found the true names, we have only to / pronounce them!"
Vladimír Holan (1905 - 1980) was a Czech poet famous for employing the poetic language. He is best known in English for his postwar works, especially for his obscure longer poem Noc s Hamletem (A Night with Hamlet, 1964) which became the most often translated Czech poem ever...
Morphine combined jazz and blues with some more traditional rock arrangements. Their very unusual sound was later described as "low rock" style. The band was embraced and promoted by the indie rock community mostly in the US. This year it′s going to be already 10 years from Mark Sandman′s death...
Most recent collections of Wright′s poetry include Walking to Martha′s Vineyard (2003) which received a Pulitzer Prize, The Beforelife (2001), Ill Lit: New and Selected Poems (1998), Rorschach Test (1995), The Night World and the Word Night (1993), and Midnight Postscript (1993). He has also translated poems by René Char, Erica Pedretti, and Rainer Maria Rilke.
The hardness of her life seemed to increase her need to write, and she often worked early in the morning, before the children woke, sometimes finishing a poem a day. In these last poems it is as if some deeper, powerful self has grabbed control; death is given a cruel physical allure and psychic pain becomes almost tactile.
His recent books of poetry include Ancestors (New Directions, 2001), Words Need Love Too (2000), Black + Blues (1995), Roots (1993), and Trenchtown Rock (1993). His poetry traces historical links and events that have contributed to the development of the black population in the Caribbean. He is also the author of two plays and several collections of essays and literary criticism.
The Andy Warhol exhibition in the Municipal Gallery bwa in Bydgoszcz (Poland) is accompanied by presentation of works by young Slovak artists. Martin Kudla and Rado Repický are students of the last year of the Department of Fine Arts and Intermedia at the Faculty of Art in Košice.
In the later 19th century, when Norwegian culture was stronlgy influenced by Danish culture and national consciousness was growing, Norway needed a composer like Edward Hagerup Grieg, who became the most important Norwegian composer of that period. Grieg′s style was based on the German romantic tradition of music but later he felt it necessary to create a typical Norwegian style of music.
For the first time the Rovás association presented the action called The Ring of the Nibelungs in Millenium Park in Budapest during 29th-31st August, 2008. It took place partly within “ART MOZAIK FESTIVAL“, which was a protestation against nationalism, falsification of history, intentional misguidance, and egoism based on the fakes, and partly as an homage in remembrance to R. Wagner.
We are proud to present you some students of art-schools in Kosice and Banska Bystrica together with their interactive works of art which were already exhibited in 2008 at international festival of New media art in Kosice called New Media Point www.nmpoint.com. Enjoy them!
He devotes himself to action art, performance, sound projects, conceptual art, intermedia and new media. He is the head of the Studio of Audiovisual Creation/Digital Media at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Banská Bystrica. He is the co-author of the New Media Explorer project http://www.nmpoint.com as well as many other art-projects.
After death I′ll go to the outskirts of the city I love, Lift my snout to sky, throw back my antlers- Taken by sadness, I′ll trumpet into autumn space What human words could not express. How the barge sailed into the wake of sunsetting day, How iron time on my left wrist sung like a starling, How the secret door was unlocked with a regular key.
The composer and producer Mike Batt says: "Katie is a fantastic discovery for me to have made. I was auditioning to find a singer who could sing jazz and blues in an interesting way, but I never expected to find someone quite so unique ... there are little reminders in her voice, of all sorts of other singers like Eartha Kitt and Edith Piaf, - of whom she has never heard. She exudes a modest confidence, is completely sure of herself and has a maturity far in advance of her age."
Shirin Neshat was born in 1957 in Kazvin, Iran. In 1979, at the age of seventeen, she went to the US where she studied at the University of Berkeley, California. She exhibited her works for the first time during the early 90s in New York. During the years 1993-1997 she created the well-known series of photographs "Women of Allah".
His multifaced work is made up of precise writting. Applying a pointillism style, it is prepared from calculations made by a computer. These are often mixed pieces, wherein the inspiration is drawn from the World of poetry. Multiply shaped pieces, they are more often than not made up of an ensemble of parts wich can be played by each of the musicians in the order they wish.
"A piece that is essentially the same as a piece made by any of the first conceptual artists, dated two years earlier than the original and signed by somebody else." Taddea Oscuro - (January, 1968) Here, you can read some poems of other conceptual writers.
Kenule Saro-Wiwa / Your breed defeats the creed of the reeds. / Your presence is the shadow of a kite / That sends off the squawking fowls of memorial pains, / Your breed defeats the creed of the reeds. / You are the trouble Poem the bully refuses to read / Because its diction is baked in the ovum of change.
So I pray / to the voices that whisper in my soft curves / for the lionesses of my blood / to hear the songs of the cool reeds / to feel the green blood beat of cataclysm on their / breasts / and to know the embrace of freedom / in nourishing silences...
The logic of the space of postmodernist practice is no longer organized around the definition of a given medium on the grounds of material, or, for that matter, the perception of material. It is organized instead through the universe of terms that are felt to be in opposition within a cultural situation.
Over the last ten years rather surprising things have come to be called sculpture: narrow corridors with TV monitors at the ends; large photographs documenting country hikes; mirrors placed at strange angles in ordinary rooms; temporary lines cut into the floor of the desert. The critical operations that have accompanied postwar American art have largely worked in the service of this manipulation.
Gu Cheng (1956-1993) was a well known Chinese modern poet, essayist, and novelist. He was a member of the "Misty Poets" - group of Chinese modernist poets. In the late 1970s, he became an international art celebrity and travelled around the world accompanied by his wife, Xie Ye. They settled in Auckland, New Zealand in 1987.
(Virtual) city networking as an essential task of the 21st century has a valuable impact on the entire range of human activities associated not only with architecture and design of the environment. Ranging from socio-economic, cultural and ecological spheres, it also mobilizes and protects all significant aspects influencing the final shape of residential units and structures.
The creators originally intended to show the abstraction of a computer. Bassam Kurdali, Director of Elephants Dream: "The story is very simple - it is about how people create ideas and communicate them or impose them on others. It′s a parable of human relationships."
My feet were wet from the cold snow. I saw the horizon crystal clear today. The sight was frozen, just as everything around me. There was a steam coming out of my mouth. Total peak of loneliness I wondered. I was getting frozen. Frost was packing my heart. “I′m dead“ I thought to myself. Everything in my body burned out. My arms, hands, elbows, neck...
I had a dream. Me in the desert; still the same view of the horizon, weather constantly changing. But this time, the sun was shining, burning through my back. And my eyes drank my sweat, firing me thus. My single movement was directed towards the unreachable goal. Victory! I thought to myself. Delusion; it came to me. Then I felt an immense glow, lightning my body through.
We meet a young and perspective poet Kamil Stas on an invisible bridge which arches over his (sur)real world. Known objects and creatures become estranged and more understandable, when walking in this country we become a part of his elaborate but not purposeless game. Try to find your way back...
If you would like to choose from a great variety of beer kinds, gourmet specialities, enjoy various music genres from folklore to hard rock, and take part in some interesting competitions at the same time, then the Junifest Festival is the right thing for you.
We know her for her expressive voice, different look, wearing strange and colourful costumes as well as experimenting with various musical genres. When people ask what kind of music she does, she says „some kind of modern folk music“. At the age of forty-three she has been nominated for thirteen Grammy Awards, one Academy Award and two Golden Globe Awards – including one for acting.
Tangerine Dream′s early "Pink Years" albums had a pivotal role in the development of Krautrock. The founder of the group Edgar Froese was fascinated by technology so he built a few custom-made instruments. His early work with tape loops and other repeating sounds was kind of precursor to the emerging technology of the sequencer.
As a pianist he was famous for his precision, rhythmic drive, clarity of texture and for the broad design of his performances. His compositions and pianism are entrenched in the romantic style of Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky, Johannes Brahms, and Antonín Dvorak. Rachmaninoff had little or no use for contemporary musical trends, preferring to compose and perform in styles he held dearly since birth.
Many considered him the last connection between late Romanticism in Russian classical music and modern times. In his work we can find influences of such great Russian composers as Tchaikovsky or Rimsky-Korsakov. He stemmed from the Russian tradition in music, where the mission of an artist was to create beauty and to speak the truth from the depths of his heart.
The festival has also got the award for those performing bad taste and kitsch, it is an anti-prize called The Struck Goose. If you want to see really awful art, just visit the Kremnica Museum of Kitsch, where you can see for instance a stuffed fox wielding an axe and smoking a pipe.
Beethoven reportedly didn´t respect authority and social ranking. For instance, if the audience talked to each other during his performance or didn´t pay their full attention to him, he simply stopped playing. At soirées, if he was suddenly called upon to perform, he refused to do so.
One of the most significant figures in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic periods in Western classical music. A German pianist and composer known for his brilliant improvisation as well as enthusiasm and fantasy which can be found in his music.
Jodorowsky created over one hundred theatrical productions. He directed works of his own in addition to those written by Leonora Carrington, Samuel Beckett, Eugen Ionesco, August Strindberg and others, and also organized performances which were acted out in public spaces.
Devo (“de-evolution”) is most often remembered for their late 1970s and early 1980s New Wave sound. Their style has been variously classified as punk, art rock or post-punk. They are best known for their 1980 hit “Whip It” and also for their donning uniforms that mocked industrial culture.
The goal of „Puzzle 4 Peace“ is to support solidarity and to point at global challenges in a creative way. The „building“ component of the project are pieces of puzzle – the eco-design collection „Pieces of Peace“ (P.O.P.) – made of recycled and recyclable materials, which are not only the object for creating works of art, but also the medium for communication and higher quality life especially of the young generation which would be abundant in all respects.
The Mars Volta Group was founded in 2001 (El Paso, Texas) by Rodríguez-López and Bixler-Zavala. It is the progressive rock group that incorporates various influences, including jazz fusion, funk and Latin, into their sound. They are also known for their improvised live shows, and their well concept-based studio albums.
Spectators in Kosice were for the first time able to see the display of best student works of new media studios from Slovakia and the USA. The aim of the festival called „New media explorer“ is to survey and present this new and not very well-known area of fine arts. The exhibition in the East-Slovakian Gallery, which is ending right now, approved the attractiveness of new media.
It may not seem so, but according to the Lifestyle in Slovakia 2008 survey, up to 40 percent of Slovaks like traditional folklore and folk music. It concerns especially people over the age of 40, but young people are also interested.
Not everybody knows they can also actively participate in the ground planning of the country they live in. The architects from the architectonic studio Atrium come with the portal www.uzemneplany.sk, which offers the opportunity of the complex approach to the ground plans of the whole Slovakia in an interactive way. We were talking to Michal Burák about the portal of the future.
... it is very difficult to compare young Chopin with any earlier composer, because of the originality of Chopin´s works composed already in the first half of his life. While Bach, Mozart and Beethoven had been just training at the age comparable to that of Chopin, he was considered a master pointing the path of the coming age.
Although many consider him one of the best composers of the Romantic period, he did not even consider himself a member of this group. He is known as the “Poet of the Piano”, as his music sounds like musical poetry expressing emotions and sentimentality. Music of this Polish composer has long been and will certainly remain the inspiration for many musicians all around the world.
New media, as an independent field of study at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Technical University in Košice (Slovakia), came into existence not long ago, however during this short time the students lead by Anna Tretter, the Head of Department, justified the existence of this department by the quality of their work and their works started to belong among the best that is being created at this faculty.
Interactive poetry can be defined as the poetry created by two or more authors according to certain rules. Internet interactive poetry is understood to be a part of a wider digital and computer poetry group. The authors of Verse Versus Verse challenge everyone to a public on-line discussion on interactive poetry.
F. Scott Fitzgerald as a writer is often considered to be one of the writers of the “lost generation”, since in his works, The Great Gatsby included, he expresses the disappointment of his society and his era, following World War I.
The most representative work of Middle English literature is Dame Siriz and the Weeping Bitch regarding the women’s roles and their versatile behavior in marital status.
The main goal is to create an archive for experimental art - to keep history alive as well as provide interesting, integrated ways in which artists and audiences can learn about the work of their predecessors. The Kitchen integrates archival material into its current programming and works...
All the above mentioned films are set in the future, but in their topic they criticize the present.
If you add events like "the Animated Night", the Cartoon d′Or and the Cosplay, Anima has established itself as a must for the thirty thousand spectators that flock to the Flagey Centre. And a special date to mark with a cross this year: we′ll be celebrating thirty years of surprises, fun and discoveries.
The discourse became fragmented, the grimace was exasperated, deformed, contaminated with not verbal elements, producing the visual, sound, performative poetry, ambient/installation-poetry, created by artists, really so different from each other...
In eXistenZ it is clear that people choose virtual reality instead of living in real life. They rather enter a game where they simply lack free will: they are fixed characters with actions and words determined by the game. Minority Report is similar in this sense.
Though the protagonist characters fight against a corporation called PharmaKom, there is no single antagonist in the story. It is the entire system that plays the enemy.
All four films depict a different means of control over society. In eXistenZ Cronenberg creates a game for presenting the rule of technology. It is a direct control of the mind through affecting the neurotic system of the brain.
The literary approach to the new technological inventions of the 20th (and by now 21st) century has developed a substantive genre: science fiction. “Machines and technology are what we most associate with SF; just as we have now grown utterly accustomed to having a wide range of machines and technology surrounding us in our everyday lives” (Roberts 146).
„Deformity, and Diseases both in Body and Mind, smitten with Pride, it immediately breaks all the Measures of my Patience; neither shall I ever be able to comprehend how such an Animal and such a Vice could tally together.“
(Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels)
„Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.“
(George Orwell, 1984)
We can definitely tell that both in literature and in movies every social form of utopia or dystopia take place in an isolated area.
Anna Tretter was born in 1956 in Kirchzell / Odenwald, Germany. She studied at art schools in Bischofsheim / Rhön (Sculpture) and the Stuttgart Academy of Fine Arts and graduated from the Munich Academy of Fine Arts in 1985.
„And there’s always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering.“
(Aldous Huxley, Brave New World)
The main and evident characteristic element of utopian fiction in motion picture is its principal fictional quality. The interesting role of fiction in the creation of such works is that the artists’ utopian or dystopian visions are based rather on their life experiences which become the principles of their fictional work process.
This time I take you to the beautiful city of Vancouver. Located in Canada, British Columbia province, the west coast.It didn′t take long to fall in love with the city. The location, climate, endless opportunities for an outdoor freak like me ;-). The nearby mountains are ideal for mountan biking, skiing and hiking, just to mention a few activities. I shouldn′t leave out the local beaches too.
It all started in 1990 when I discovered Guns N′ Roses. There were few stars in my life whom I was crazy about but if I had to choose one it would have always been Axl Rose. No doubt. And I am proud of it.
The language of the Cirel Karpathian hollow form is marked by central European languages. The differences that we meet with can be found in the expression of various world opinions and in the effect on the subconscious.
If you think that social services are working more effectively in England than in Slovakia, you better prepare yourself for a shock.
Eva Peron would have been proud when Elena Roger opened the new Evita in the West End. The most famous Argentinean is played by a native Argentinean! A genuinely clever idea that brings passion and character to the show. It feels like Eva Peron is performing herself.
It is interesting to watch how London is trying to cope with the flow of Eastern Europeans. While many other West European countries restricted the new fellow of European comers from work, business and other aspects of life, the UK has proven once again its strong belief in true democracy and giving people equal chance to seek the life they are looking for.