I’m not an art director, and never will be, but I got really fascinated by this book (editors: Steven Heller + Veronique Vienne) . Not only by its content: interesting cases such as the one on the value of multiple entry points or the panache of doo-dads, and a fresh way of looking at art direction using different viewpoints. But also fresh through its design by Rick Landers.
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It was an fantastic week. I’m missing the artist meetings 
Tnx Reiu, Redas, Elena, Nath, Olivier, Richard, Greg, Senso, Alain, Sabina, Anne, Hanne and Daniel!
Photo: Artur Eranosian - StampMedia, more about the week in Denmark see the blog StampMedia made.
A massive amount of works were produced. It will be difficult to make a selection of both a virtual and a physical exhibition, because the quality of the works produced by Aivis, Alise, Urte, Monika; Athanasia, Kaya, Laurène, Aristeio, Lucrezia, Annapaola, Màrio, Daniela, Aleksandr, Tiia, Ida, Marianna, Qiqi, Francesca, Thomas, Artus, Luisa, Theodora, Krista, Alexandra, Evelyn, Klara, Svan, Adèla, Julie, Ibrahim, Christoffer, Daniel, Ryan, Hayley, Nicole, György, Fanni, Patryk and Joanna is amazing.
As Daniel says, the results speak for themselves:
In March the Alter Ego project (the EUNIC project, one of the flagships of the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue) started with a meeting, setting up the whole project. And look, today we are in the middle of the first workshopday. The winners of the Europeanwide competition arrived yesterday…and it is indeed exciting to see how all cultures and nationalities mingle here with one common interest share their artistic/creative qualities together.
We have an amazing group of artists here. Richard Sammel, Olivier Cherki, Senso, Greg Avau, Hanna Siira, Anne Schönharting, Alain Mbaki Makengo, Redas Drizys, Daniel Scott, Sabina Grigorieva, Nathalie Vasco, Elena Crisanti and Reiu Tuur are giving the best of themselves. And work with 40 youngsters from 22 countries on unique art pieces.
Thanks the the youth press agency StampMedia you can follow the daily work online and later on there will be a documentary made of the week.
The results of the workshop will travel through the Internet via a virtual exhibition later this year and some of the works will also be part of a physical exhibition, travelling through Europe in 2009.
Klarafestival.be loopt volop, kijk en geniet. En ondertussen bereiden we een meeting voor, voor de coördinatoren van het Alter Ego project dat trouwens verlengd werd tot 15 september. 3 Oktober weten
we welke jongeren onder leiding van 12 gerenomeerde kunstenaars een week op workshop mogen naar Denemarken. StampMedia zal zorgen voor een fijne reportage van dit gebeuren. En Amusee Vous zal er voor zorgen dat 3 oktober een fijn feestje wordt voor genomineerden en winnaars. Drukke, maar boeiende weken dus…
I still wonder. While working on the draft paper for the Daarkom e-culture strategy, I just realised that the word museum 2.0 is as easily used as web 2.0 to categorize websites using certain applications. Ok sites like the Indianapolis Museum of Art labeled as state of the art museum 2.0 on a couple of sites lately have a tagcloud, a blog, there is a link with youtube, there are rss feeds, there is a myspace link , a facebookpage, a fickr page and there is a podcast. It looks impressive and has a lot of (interesting) background information for the (online) visitor. Unfortunately not always easy to find your way through all of it though, even for someone who is used to work with the Internet. And what I do not find is where the sharing and (re)creating going on? Guess that is going to be the real challenge for a lot of museums and art galleries in the future: to let the online visitor intervene and become a currator, and not just to implement any kind of application available on the Internet right now.
A nice interactive project from over the channel. Tate launched Tate Media about a year ago. The project that attracted my attention a couple of months ago was Tate Tracks.
In a first stage popular musicians were asked to write a song for their favorite work of art at Tate Modern, in a second stage bands and young musicians aged 16-24 were invited to make their choice within the Tate collection and write a song and upload it on myspace. The public could vote on the submitted tracks and the 20 most popular went before a jury of professionals…and the winner is Kotki Dwa inspired by The Handsome Pork Butcher by Francis Picabia. Modern Art meets music and youth through the web!
