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Tuesday, December 30, 2008
And so it goes....
London is sleet white today. It is an unusual combination of weather: blue skies combined with a light so clear one can imagine
seeing the birds' hearts beat. I notice them from morning: first the song (a blackbird's easy listening melody) then two robins
perched on the bush wearing their winter clothing, plump as puddings, bright decked and unmoving. Tonight I skype with other
members of the team working on transmediale: the Deep North theme fits today's weather, the bleak and laser-cutting end of
a year. This morning, I was however forced to consider that in Brasil, where my friend Ricardo was writing from Salvador,
it is the opposite, swelteringly hot and foggy - he sent me some great youtube links to influence my day. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=YSXEdTmpEmU
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=De2XmncutzA and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TdTacizYdA and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TgPWrnkO7I&feature=related In
return, I send him a late draft of the mapping report I have been doing with Felipe Fonseca of digital culture in Brasil,
five months of work now condensed into 45 pages,which has gone into SICA and which is due to be presented to the Dutch Culture
Minister in a few weeks time. It's been a difficult and challenging exercise and like all such time-consuming things I miss
it now its almost finished and am feeling a bit bereft. Ricardo sends some fine grained suggested edits in the flash of an
eye and we think of another mapping exercise, this one to follow lay(mert)lines and to perceive the hidden cosmologies. Now
that would be fun! We're planning an event for Berlin on 1st February - where some of the DesCentro network from Brasil will
be making a House of Happiness within the House of World Cultures. It will be the final event of transmediale 09. Roll
on another year....
7:54 pm est
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| London Calling: by Barry Miles |

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| The front of Maggs Rare Books 50 Berkeley Square |

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| Maggs has some resident ghosts..... |
| Minimaforms |

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| From Memory Cloud |
| New book by Sarah Cook & Beryl Graham |

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| The Heraclitus |

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| More at: http://wiki.bricolabs.net/index.php/WaterLabs |

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| Images from Paralelo workshop led by Conditional Design |

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| Wapke Feenstra & My Villages/Former Farmland |

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| Landelion (The Kitchen Budapest) |
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| Edward Ihnatowicz work at Kinetica |

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| Nadav Kander. Construction Mound, Chongqing, 2006. Nominated for Yangtze, The Long River Series, 200 |

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| (c) Nadav Kander - Mountains and Mist, from 'Yangtze the Long River' |

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| http://www.pearcemarchbank.com/ |
| Nyehaus |

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| http://www.minusspace.com/?s=indica+gallery&x=15&y=12 |
| Henry S. Rzepa |

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| http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/ |
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| Liliane Lijn's party installation |

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| Station House Opera - A Split Second of Paradise |

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| Station House Opera at Salisbury Festival |

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| Kohi Village at Night, credit Allan Kasin) |


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| Ancestral Objects - composition, credit Juan Nieves; |

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| Mamo Luis - Credit Allan Kasin |

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| Tairona Mascaras |
Hiperface Panorama
Greenland credit London Fieldworks
Plans for Outlandia treehouses - London Fieldworks
| Fernando Rabelo |

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| Low Tech VJ Control |
| Magnetic Field |

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| Berenice Abbott |
| Mapping Digital Culture in Brazil |
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| Infinite Cube - Rejane Cantoni & Leonardo Crescentti |
http://www.virtueelplatform.nl/en/#2646
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| Jose Garcia - IDE at RCA, final show |
http://www.thebigbranch.com/
http://www.virtueelplatform.nl/en/#2653
| One of the amazing outdoor works by Usman Haque |

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| Minimaforms: MemoryCloud |

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| Kohnen Base with Diamond Dust (Hannes Grobe, AWI) |

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| INFECTIOUS - STAY AWAY Dublin Science Gallery |



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| http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:West-Indisch_Huis.jpg |

| Stephane Mallarme |
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| ...dissolving form.....pretext hypertext |

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| Edouard Manet - Le Corbeau |
| http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/schema/ |

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| Dan Graham, «Poem Schema», 1966 1969 Schema (March, 1966) | © Dan Graham |
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