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the ghost in the machine

Immortality through science? Can our ethical and emotional intelligence keep up with technology? Its a highly ambiguous issue. We seem to be on the cusp of a major, and final break from the industrial age; a potential for vastly increased … Continue reading

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guilty by juxtaposition

A peculiar combination of context and coincidence.A new aesthetic discourse in Nazi representation. Is there an aesthetics of fascism? Rudolf Herz is the artist who took the seemingly incongruous combination of Hitler and Marcel Duchamp and combined the two in … Continue reading

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The Death and Resurrection Show: the shaman industry?

A guest blog by Tai Carmen at Parallax. Parallax:Exploring the architecture of human perception.The word parallax is a scientific term denoting a shift in perception upon movement of the perceiver rather than the perceived. Bang a gong, get it on…. … Continue reading

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billboard liberation

The billboard liberation movement. Taking back public space, one board at a time. … Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com): There was an epidemic of altered billboards in the Seattle area back in the early 1980′s. It happened about the time our … Continue reading

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will you stay or will you buy?

Rock the Cashbah.The commodification of punk. Was it all about the look? Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): When these durn kids these days talk about punk bands, they always get all misty-eyed and slobbery over the clash. Yet, they think of the … Continue reading

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subtle slavery: transmsission of property and commodity

Sir Robert Walpole, England’s eighteenth-century prime minister, lived in great splendor, In 1733, his household consumed over a thousand bottles of white Lisbon wine, merely one variety among the scores in the cellar. Every week oysters came in by the … Continue reading

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poet leaks : a hacking of verse

Julian Assange’s recently leaked e-mails to a young lover is a collection of  some awkward attempts at poetic charming. A romantic poet he is not; yet the love letters probably reveal more about him than the headlines do.   Although … Continue reading

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outnet: invited to the party late, but better than not at all

It doesn’t quite fit perfectly; the body it was made for and the desire behind the figure that purchased it may vary slightly. Its an idea that seems to have legs and some sizzle. Take last years very high end … Continue reading

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FAME & Celebrity: Providing a Reliable Supply of Sensations

The quest for fame has always been a central motive for poets and artists; from David’s psalms and Aristophanes plays, the need to transcend has been as evident as the human ego. Celebrity, however, has always been the volatile,unpredictable and … Continue reading

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HATTER'S SHAKES': GOING GAGA FOR ROYALTY'S SAKE

Wearing a hat can make you a bit mad. Or so tradition has it, and British royalty are known to be sticklers for tradition. The felt hat industry has been traced to the mid seventeenth- century in France, and it … Continue reading

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