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KARIMANIFESTO
Today poetic design is based on a plethora of complex criteria: human experience, social behaviors, global, economic and political issues, physical and mental interaction, form, vision, and a rigorous understanding and desire for contemporary culture. Manufacturing is based on another collective group of criteria: capital investment, market share, production ease, dissemination, growth, distribution, maintenance, service, performance, quality, ecological issues and sustainability. The combination of these factors shape our objects, inform our forms, our physical space, visual culture and our contemporary human experience. These quantitative constructs shape business, identity, brand and value. This is the business of beauty. Every business should be completely concerned with beauty - it is after all a collective human need.

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The Mode Breakers

LACMA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Breaking the Mode: Contemporary Fashion from the Permanent Collection
Yohji Yamamoto (Japan, b. 1943), Woman's Two-Piece Suit (detail), autumn/winter 1993-94, wool gabardine with wool and goat hair canvas trim, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, gift of Mrs. H. Grant Theis, © Yohji Yamamoto.
Creating clothing, for protection, profession, or spectacle, has undergone dramatic change over the past twenty-five years. A number of designers have introduced subversive elements into the fashion system, examining and deconstructing its entrenched conventions and changing the rules about what is aesthetically pleasing and fashionable. Breaking the Mode: Contemporary Fashion from the Permanent Collection will present designers who found traditional criteria and solutions obsolete – designers who challenged the canons of the body’s fashionable silhouette, revolutionized methods of garment construction, rejected the formulaic use of materials and techniques, and exploited new technology in textile production.
The recent dynamic changes in the forms and surfaces of fashionable dress will be featured in this comprehensive exhibition, which will include over 100 examples of contemporary dress drawn exclusively from LACMA’s collection. Among the contemporary designers whose work will be exhibited are Jean-Paul Gaultier, Rei Kawakubo, Martin Margiela, Issey Miyake, Thierry Mugler, and Yohji Yamamoto, with historical examples by Gilbert Adrian, Christian Dior, and Charles James.
This exhibition was organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and was supported by the museum's Costume Council. In kind support was provided by Neiman Marcus.
Curators: Kaye Spilker and Sharon Takeda, Costume and Textiles.
The Mode Breakers
Works from theExhibition

http://www.lacma.org/art/ModeIndex.aspx

Self-Portraiture

Masquerade: Role Playing in Self-Portraiture — Photographs from the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection
Cindy Sherman (United States, b. 1954), Untitled Film Still #5 [Woman opening letter], 1977, gelatin-silver print,6 3/4 x 9 1/2 in., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection, © Cindy Sherman.
The performance aspect of self-portraiture takes on a slightly different cast when the person portrayed is playing a role, in disguise, or otherwise fictionalized. Ultimately of course, every self-portrait is a fiction, a portrait of someone else, and an arena in which another is confronted or an alter-ego encountered.Robert Sobieszek in “Other Selves in Photographic Self-Portraiture,” The Camera I.
That “slightly different cast,” the pretending, the partial or complete transformation of a person, becomes a visual game when applied to photographic self-portraiture. We want to see the photographer behind the mask, the make-up, the uniform or costume … the truth of the medium behind the fiction of the situation. When does the masquerade tell another kind of truth?
Consisting of some thirty works drawn from LACMA’s permanent collection, Masquerade: Role Playing in Self-Portraiture will explore the way in which photographers – costumed, masked, wigged, made-up or transformed through technique or situation – present their fictional, or “Other Selves.”
Photographers whose work will be featured include Cindy Sherman, Yasumasa Morimura, Claude Cahun and Pierre Molinier, as well as nineteenth-century photographers Roger Fenton and Francis Frith, who dressed in authentic clothing from faraway places to associate visually with the places where they practiced their “documentary” photography.
This exhibition was organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Photographs in the exhibition are from the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection.
Curator: Deborah Irmas, Guest Curator.

http://www.lacma.org/art/ExhibPast2007.aspx

Tagging • Interactive Paintings

Aram Bartholl


http://placebokatz.blogspot.com/2007/01/tagging-interactive-paintings.html

Aram Bartholl, previously featured with his public installation SPEED and the "do it yourself set" First Person Shooter, created three interactive paintings "Static", "Dynamic" and "Centric". Each image shows an individual black and white pattern, handpainted with Edding on PVC foam board, which can be decoded by using a standard camera phone.
Each image shows an individual black and white pattern which has been painted manually with an edding 850. These patterns have been created by a special software on a computer. It is possible for any visitor to decode each "Semacode" by using a standard camera phone. Similar to the generic Barcodes the technology of Semacode makes it posssible to encode a specific amount of data within the pixel pattern. This string of data can be decoded from an image taken by the camera phone afterwards. The technology of Semacode is used in serveral industries for improved logistics. For the users it serves as a tool to get simple access to websites on a mobile phone. Equiped with the software the user navigates to websites by just taking a photo of a semacode which has the specific webadress encoded.Tagging (Static - Dynamic - Centric)Interactive Paintings 2007, Edding 850 on PVC Foam Board 150x150 cm 3 timesThe three interactive paintings "Static", "Dynamic" and "Centric"are a commissioned work by the Institut for Electronic Business IEB.A citation of Joseph Weizenbaum is encoded in the first image named "Static"."Knowledge does NOT become unnecessary by the Internet!"more works by Aram Bartholi
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Multi-Player Game with Avatars of Flesh and Blood

The Girlfriend Experience: Multi-player game with avatars of flesh and blood 26 :: Jan 07-9 Mar :: Opening: Friday 26 January at 20:00 :: Mediamatic: Oosterdokskade 5, Amsterdam :: T 020 638 9901.
Martin Butler presents four human avatars to play with. Log in at home with your character of choice. Direct the avatar, explore the space and challenge him or her. The avatars can also be observed live in their Analog Villa. The avatars of The Girlfriend Experience will be available every Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 20:00- 23:00. They can also be observed live in the Analog Villa, the Mediamatic Exhibition space.
The rampant growth of online avatar communities such as Second Life and World of Warcraft has enabled the creation of a personal online social and economic existence. Simultaneously this triggers inherent questions about this existence, as it questions what the consequences will be for first life, or reality.

Cooparoca

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Cooparoca

Ernesto Neto

Instalação "Cabeluda"
Dimensão 27 x 14 x 14 cms, tecido de poliamida, poliestireno, técnica "nozinho".
The Fabric Work Shop Museum, Philadelphia, USA
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, NY, USA

http://www.coopa-roca.org.br/parceiros_arte_er.html#