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!

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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…



Via Long Now Blog
Via KK
And via, and via, and...

Mind uploading
(also occasionally referred to by other terms such as mind transfer, whole brain emulation, or whole body emulation) refers to the hypothetical transfer of a human mind to a substrate different from a biological brain, such as a detailed computer simulation of an individual human brain.

This morning I was reading Michael Anissimov's article "What are the Benefits of Mind Uploading?" and was only thinking that sometimes I feel tired, bored, ... So I read this, which made me feel hopeful:

"Greater subjective well-being. Like most other human traits, our happiness set points fall on a bell curve. No matter what happens to us, be it losing our home or winning the lottery, there is a tendency for our innate happiness level to revert back to our natural set point. Some lucky people are innately really happy. Some unlucky people have chronic depression. With uploading, we will be able to see exactly which neural features (”happiness centers”) correspond to high happiness set points and which don’t, by combining prior knowledge with direct experimentation and investigation. This will make it possible for people to reprogram their own brains to raise their happiness set points in a way that biotechnological intervention might find difficult or dangerous. Experimental data and simple observation has shown that high happiness set-point people today don’t have any mysterious handicaps, like inability to recognize when their body is in pain, or inappropriate social behavior. They still experience sadness, it’s just that their happiness returns to a higher level after the sad experience is over. Perennial tropes justifying the value of suffering will lose their appeal when anyone can be happier without any negative side effects."

Would be perfect today...

Radical Strategies for a Conected World

The net is our future.

"Of all the endeavors we humans are now engaged in, perhaps the grandest of them all is the steady weaving together of our lives, minds, and artifacts into a global scale network. This great work has been going on for decades, but recently our ability to connect has accelerated. Two brand-new technological achievements—the silicon chip and the silicate glass fiber—have rammed together with incredible speed. Like nuclear particles crashing together in a cyclotron, the intersection of these two innovations has unleashed a never-before-seen force: the power of a pervasive net. As this grand net spreads, an animated swarm is reticulating the surface of the planet. We are clothing the globe with a network society.

The dynamic of our society, and particularly our new economy, will increasingly obey the logic of networks. Understanding how networks work will be the key to understanding how the economy works."

Via KK
"This is a blog version of a book of Kevin Kelly first published in 1998."

This is such wonderful pearl catalog and I've never heard about before!
See what Kevin Kelly explain about and enjoy checking out the website.

"Lifehacking, the Whole Earth Catalog Archive

The Whole Earth Catalogs preached the hacker/designer approach to life starting in 1968, decades before this lifehacking became the norm. The Catalogs were a paper-based database offering thousands of hacks, tips, tools, suggestions, and possibilities for optimizing your life.

... The Whole Earth Catalogs and CoEvolutions were idea-based journalism, rather than event-based. Instead of reporting on top of things, they liked to get to the bottom of things. These issues zagged while the rest of the culture zigged, only to zag later.

... The good news is that all this goodness is now online.

... The entire 35-year archive of Whole Earth Catalogs, Supplements, Reviews and CoEvolutions are all up and ready to be studied. You can read them for free, or download them for a fee. Go here.

... There are some very are early Whole Earth Catalog Supplements that in all my time at Whole Earth I never saw or read. They are here online now. For those unfamiliar with the wisdom of the Catalog, this archive will serve as a wonderful start. There are more than 100 issues of CoEvolution Quarterly (later called Whole Earth Review) and dozens of Whole Earth Catalogs to keep you up for years."

Via Kevin Kelly