Them
by Danny Treacy

2002 - Present
178 cm x 215 cm
Editioned Lambda Print



"... They are us and they are Them..."



"... They are made from recovered clothes, collected from those lonely places - the woods, the wasteland, the car-parks..."



"... They are re-stitched and re-fashioned: re-modelled into junk monsters..."



"... They are the figments of his imagination and desire..."



"... They are nightmares of the catwalk, prowling around the outskirts of style's dumb extravagance...”

said David Chandler ©

Via Lisa Katayama @tokyomango BoingBoing

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Sex Slaves, Polls, and Ethics
Mike Treder

— Ethical Technology —
Dec 2, 2009

"So if you never read OUT OF CONTROL, here is a user-generated remix that shortens and focuses the book. You can read it on Lloyd's website or even download the PDF. (And here on kk.org as well.)

"However, if you liked BOOTSTRAPPING COMPLEXITY, you may also want to try my "long-winded" original version with lots more stuff. It is available as web text and a free PDF as well."

Kevin Kelly's book Out of Control is a fascinating book full of fascinating ideas reaching across the board from artificial intelligence, evolution, biology, ecology, robotics and more to explore complexity, cybernetics and self-organising systems in an accessible and engaging way.
Lloyd

Via CT2

It’s being so long since I was thinking about to show you those 3 guys...



Then yesterday I found in an old box a precious Chelpa Ferro CD, so that's the time.

Chelpa Ferro is an art group created in 1995 by the artists Jorge Barrão, Luiz Zerbini and Sergio Mekler.

Hermano Vianna - anthropologist - wrote a release for Chelpa Ferro CD, 1997

“Chelpa Ferro is a band from Rio de Janeiro, formed by a nucleus of fine artists. Barrão is known for his sculptures where machines copulate with each other, and are transformed into Deleuzian-slum creatures. Sérgio Mekler is one of the most sought after editors of video and cinema in Brazil, winner of several awards for best editing of music videos at the MTV Brazil Music Video Awards. Luis Zerbini is one of the most recognized Brazilian painters to come out of the 1980’s. His paintings also edit images from various sources creating pleasantly unbalanced tonalities.
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"Other members are invited to collaborate on specific projects such as albuns, videos, exhibitions and performances. All of them exclude their previous artistic identities and the work is signed simply by Chelpa Ferro.
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Chelpa’s first project was a musical CD, which included an interactive track.
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"As a perverse parody of a rock show, a stand sold Chelpa Ferro Products: shirts, pens, granola, and even a homemade cachaça with the label Chelpinha da Roça.”
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“In the context of Brazil, Chelpa Ferro acts as a strange agent in the field of visual art as well as in the environment of pop music. Maybe this is their role: not to be limited to any area, inventing escape routes from or between conventional categories.”




Totoro - 2009 - Pinacoteca de São Paulo


Jungle Jam - 2008 - Galeria Vermelho São Paulo


picture by LED :)


meskalito gallery, Londres

For me, they are totally in the fine arts field, not only because of all galleries exhibitions but I really don't believe that sophisticated work should be included into Brazilian pop music weak concept. Check their website and also subscribe their YouTube channel.

I would love to attach a track...
Good night!

˙˙˙ɐɥ ɐɥ ɐɥ ˙ddɐ ʞooqǝɔɐɟ ǝlqɐuoıɥsɐɟ sıɥʇ ɟo ʍoɹɹoɯoʇ pǝɹnɔ ǝq oʇ ǝdoɥ ˙sɹǝƃuıɟ puɐ pɐǝɥ ʎɯ uı pɹoʍ ǝlƃuıs ʎɹǝʌǝ dılɟ oʇ doʇs ʇ,uɐɔ ı

ʇxǝʇʎɯdılɟ

Sorry everyone! I promisse this will be my last post about MJ. This time I'll save you from pictures.

Next Nature

"Using childhood photo’s of Michael and knowledge on basic aging trends, forensic artists constructed a portrait of how Michael would have looked at age 50, had he never undergone plastic surgery. The difference between the portraits is striking. But which is the real Michael? The man of flesh and blood, sculpted by plastic surgeons or the highly speculative forensic image? Both Michaels are virtual in their own right."

First time that I was not allowed to use a website because I live in Brazil was with my Pandora radio account. Such a shame...

Last year exchanging info about human and robot relationships here on SC I had more problems to access some links beacuse of the same reason.
Of course is not that critical as Chinese web access situation, for exemple...

But now I'm so excited to spread TOR.
Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships.
"Hundreds of thousands of people around the world use Tor for a wide variety of reasons: journalists and bloggers, human rights workers, law enforcement officers, soldiers, corporations, citizens of repressive regimes, and just ordinary citizens."

I didn't try those links again yet. Will do right now.
:)



Thank you Mauro!

Does anyone else see Michael Jackson as a transhumanist artist?

by Style Captain

Everything is amazing and nobody is happy…



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