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Together, the projects featured in Feedforward create a complex picture of the global political and social forces that drive us forward. The exhibition features both the problematic aspects of the present and future, and the potential for collectivity and responsible action. At the nadir of the current global economic crisis, Feedforward is in effect about cleaning up after the 20th cent...

• As art critics face sudden planetary extinction | Beyond The Beyond
  The digital revolution has profound effects on the status of art criticism. With newspapers and other printed media in decline, the traditional platform for critical reflection on art has shrunk or shifted towards electronic (web-based) media. At the same time the presence of art criticism on the internet is mostly limited to the...

• Life on Mars star's turn in Marks & Spencer ad attacked over 'sexism' | Media | guardian.co.uk
  "Oh come on, it's Christmas," he says. "That girl prancing around in her underwear." The ad ends with M&S's regular lingerie model, Noemie Lenoir, doing twirls in a forest while scantily clad.
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Part of Thomas Demand's show Nationalgalerie, Haltestelle is a large-scale photograph of a paper model resembling a nondescript rural German bus shelter, which happens to be the place just outside of Magdeburg where a teen pop band were waiting for their school bus every morning. continue

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• The Frankenfood that improves you - Times Online
  Wageningen is Europe’s biggest research centre in food science and its Restaurant of the Future is a key laboratory. Opened a year ago, it now has a vast amount of data on the eating habits of its staff and students. This it uses to test products and ideas for food scientists, governments and the food processing industry whose business model is dep...

• Front | Kitchen
  Kitchen Budapest now opens the call for 2010! We are offering guest researcher positions for dedicated professionals, artist, engineers, interested in the convergence of new media and actual spaces, cultural experiences, new communities, interaction design and are highly motivated to create such projects in teams.
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The exhibition addresses the current moment in history where the wreckage of political conflict and economic inequality is piling up, while globalized forces--largely enabled by the "progress" of digital information technologies--inexorably feed us forward continue

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• Pro-Israel lobby group bankrolling Tories, film claims | Politics | The Guardian
  At least half of the shadow cabinet are members of the Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI), according to a Dispatches programme being screened on Channel 4. The programme-makers describe the CFI as "beyond doubt the most well- connected and probably the best funded of all Westminster lobbying groups".
• Chemicals in p...

A comprehensive, timely international survey that addresses the relationship between art and electronic technology, this volume explores the presence and meanings of mechanics, light, graphics, robots, virtual reality and the Web in the art and visual culture of the last hundred years. It also considers the reaction, development and future of artistic practice in the face of new technolog...

• Computational Aesthetics on Graphics, Visualization and Imaging
  Artistic submissions are invited across the broad range of mediums covered by Computational Aesthetics.
• Regretsy - Handmade? It looks like you made it with your feet
  regretsy a site dedicated to the worst items on Etsy.
• BBC NEWS | Technology | Digital cloud plan for city skies
  A giant "digital cloud" that would "float" above London's...

• McDonald's advertises for staff to work at Guantánamo Bay - Telegraph
  McDonald's is advertising for staff to work at Guantánamo Bay, in what might be the perfect opportunity for anyone looking to see out the recession in warmer climes.
• Jerusalem Dispossessed | Activestills
  If Jerusalem is to remain the symbol of peace and tole-rance it cannot be a ghetto for anyone or owned by any particular grou...

Developing projects on the net, filming with mobile phones, remixing common moments and figures of today`s culture in an VJ-like audiovisual rhythm, Amerika redifines the characteristics of today's culture and opens up the possibilities for new interpretations and thoughts from the audience itself continue

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• Volume » Blog Archive » (Un)Comfort zones
  The situation of the Palestinian refugees is delicate. They are denied the return to their homeland in historical Palestine and they neither have rights nor duties in Lebanon, for instance it is illegal for them to own property.
• The graph the record industry doesn’t want you to see – Telegraph Blogs
  It’s record labels and not artists who are losing out to...

• bjartlab：V2people + Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen | We need money not art
• Urban Screens
  Since the first Urban Screens event in 2005 in Amsterdam, related international conferences have taken place in Manchester in 2007 and Melbourne in 2008. The INC and the MediaLAB are proud to present a day-long program dedicated to current Urban Screens research and practice, in Trouw Amsterdam on 4 December 2...

• How Waterstone's killed bookselling | Books | The Guardian
  "The emphasis given to the few is staggering," says Mark Le Fanu, general secretary of the Society of Authors. "It's our mid-list authors, who may not write the most commercial books but who often write the best, who are suffering. The big corporate publishers dominate the shelves and squeeze out smaller publishers."
• Notes on an art crisi...

Burgos expands urban apocalyptic visions which proliferate in daily life. His starting point is a children's storybook, from which he constructs a delirious collage. Anything is possible in his productions. With amazing dexterity he cuts, pastes, digitally photocopies and photocopies again, the result of which he fits into a fascinating stage design. Within these metaphors, there are, min...

The curators approach the topic of collecting, and the psychology behind the practice of expressing oneself through physical objects. Why do we gather items and surround ourselves with them in our every day lives? Which mechanisms of desire trigger our selection? continue

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The exhibition, located in the beautiful but cruelly un-heated Fondazione 107, uses photographic works, videos, installations and sculptures to document a moment of extraordinary transformation for an area that is five times bigger than Europe. The result is bold and exciting with its mix of "globalization", acceleration, pre-soviet and islamic traditions continue...

• Haus proud: The women of Bauhaus | Art and design | The Guardian
  When the Bauhaus art school opened in 1919, more women applied than men - so why have we never heard of them?

• Pictures of first person to undergo plastic surgery released - Telegraph
  The images of a wounded First World War soldier who became the first person to undergo plastic surgery have been released in an attempt to trace his family.

Letizia Battaglia's pictures, because of the corruption, silence, violence and suffering they laid bare, played a crucial role in the anti-mafia campaign. They show anti-mafia Judge Cesare Terranova shot in his car, corpses of mafiosi found by the road, tears of the wives and mothers when they discover the scene of the crime, arrests of the mafia boss, teenagers pretending to be though gu...

• iMAL Organisation
  Chapter I invites us to encounter a mysterious object, an unidentified artificial entity as real than fictional. Félix Luque's installation reformulates some modern philosophical questions about mankind and technology through the use of images associated with science fiction culture and myths around artificial intelligence. Opening on Thursday 12, 18:00.
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• Climate change belief given same legal status as religion - Telegraph
  An executive has won the right to sue his employer on the basis that he was unfairly dismissed for his green views after a judge ruled that environmentalism had the same weight in law as religious and philosophical beliefs.
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Calculating Space is a delicate sculpture made of sticks, strings and little plumbs. The fragility and transparency of its structure reveals as much as it hides the logic and functioning of the machine. Its units operate like a very basic artifical neural network continue

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Calculating Space is a delicate sculpture made of sticks, strings and little plumbs. The fragility and transparency of its structure reveals as much as it hides the logic and functioning of the machine. Its units operate like a very basic artifical neural network continue...