You're probably looking for "Contemporary Art" but this piece might well be "Modern" by definition.

Anyway read this book: https://www.amazon.com/Million-Stuffed-Shark-Economics-Contemporary/dp/0230620590

Spoiler Alert: Rich people scamming other rich people who then scam other rich people later. It's a cycle of perpetuating false value because unless you're the very last person ever to hold the item, it benefits everyone to keep the false value alive.

The nuisances allude me as I read this book quite some time ago but it's fairly interesting.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'art, painting, contemporary art, activism, steve hickok, green plea, green, eco, bono' to 'banned, redacted' - edited by burdturgler

SFU Woodward's is the new home for the School for Contemporary Arts, but will also be the centre of Vancouver's lively art and cultural scene through the professional programs it will present for the public each year.

SFU Woodwards

This is all about how baseless contemporary art can traumatize real artistic genius.

Tonight the New Orleans Film Society is showing "RiP: A Remix Manifesto" at the Contemporary Arts Center. I saw you had submitted the trailer a few months back.

I couldnt tell you much about the nightlife, not up to date in that area ever since we had our baby, but as far as art goes there are heaps of little galleries around the Mitte/Prenzlauer Berg Area off Torstrasse.

You will also find lots of record shops around this area. There is one at the bottom end of Brunnenstrasse near Rosenthaler Platz and also a few on Kastanienallee around the corner.

Friedrichshain (former east/ lots of students) or Kreuzberg (former west/very alternative) are also young and lively areas with lots of bars and shops, they will likely have some good record shops too, but I don´t know the areas too well.

I also love the "Hamburger Bahnhof" Gallery for Contemporary Art, they always have special exhibitions on, but their regular display is also worth a look by itself.

There is also an Annie Leibovitz exhibiton at the Postfuhramt next to the gorgeous Synagogue on Oranienburger Strasse.

Anywhere is good to walk around really. So much history everywhere.
I´d concentrate on the former East, but I am sure the West has some nice areas too. Or there is of course the huge Tiergarten for peace and quiet.

Not sure who has the best french fries, but there is some strong competition for who makes the best Currywurst in Berlin. Some say Curry 36 on Mehringdamm in the West , some say Konopke at the Eberswalder Strasse train stop. There are heaps of choices in between really. I am sure you will try a few

re:blankfist - haven't got a driving license maybe i could try the same on a rented bicycle and film it.

re: rougy - will blog. cheap = great to hear, the trip and accommodations are expensive enough for me (although relatively very cheap, less than 110 euro in total for a flight to prague and then back from berlin). @weed. i live in holland (and work in a concertvenue with so many potheads around i can get stoned from passive smoking)

re:farhead2000 - great idea! thus far i only found some crappy house-djs performing in the time i'm in berlin but i'll see what i can find, can't go to berlin and not visit a club or two.

re:breakstheeart - thanks! that looks spectacular, ill see if i can get there by public transport.

re:maatc - interested in (apart from the obvious tourist attractions which i wont totally avoid) concert venues (rock, electronic, jazz), record stores (and which parts of the city i can find those maybe), contemporary art, photography (already found the Helmut Newton Stiftung and an exhibition on photorealism in the guggenheim, but im sure theres more), parts of the city to travel to and just wander around quietly, the best place to eat french fries, and @siftup, sounds great

Personally I find Hirst's works either brilliant or absolute nonsense. This skull seems to be somewhere in between, oddly enough. I'll upvote because he made Banksy a household name in the world of contemporary art

Winterzauber, "Winter Magic"

More info from the artist's website: http://www.p-geist.de/start.html

Multimedia art in Zurich: A restaurant is turned into a work of art

english version (translation Julie Draper)
Zurich, 11.27.2005

Beginning at sundown from 11.27 through 12.31.2005, the historically protected building housing the Lake Side Restaurant in Zurich will be transformed into a 450 sqm. three-dimensional video art installation.

It is the work of Berlin-based multimedia artist Philipp Geist, a rising star in the young art scene. Together with the symphony orchestra OBC Barcelona and the Finnish sound ensemble Pan Sonic, Philipp Geist appeared as a video artist at the opening of the Sonar Festival in Barcelona in 2004. He was represented at the Dissonanze Festival in Rome, at Clubtransmediale in Berlin and at the Mutek Festival in Montreal which is renowned for new media. His video works have been exhibited at important international art institutions including the Central House of Artists (CHA) in Moscow, the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in London, the National Gallery in Warsaw (Zacheta), at the opening of the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich – and now for the first time in switzerland.

For his work in Zurich, the 29 year-old Berlin-based artist deliberately avoids the use of canvases and instead projects directly onto the concrete building façades and windows which have been prepared with a special projection foil. Every evening, visitors can expect to see a selection of images alternating between purist, dreamlike and intangibly fragile compositions. The starting foundation for all of Philipp Geist’s work is video material solely filmed and produced by himself. Geist finds the subjects for his work in everyday things like hairbrushes, leaves, raindrops and curtains. He releases these objects from their usual setting and places them in new visual and correlated contexts by employing special camera and video techniques using motion blur and superimposition.

Especially for Winterzauber (Winter Magic) in Lake Side, Philipp Geist went in search of wintry, Christmasy motifs which attempt to break the link to consumption and indulgence, and instead direct visitors’ attention toward the pure aesthetic component that is all too often obscured by the kitschy madness of Christmas.

It is in this way that a ride along the highly commercialized Oxford Street in London takes on a completely new appearance as it is seen through a window pane. Distorted by the raindrops at night, it allows viewers only a vague impression of the twinkling Christmas lights. Microscopic close-ups give sparklers, burned down candles and snowflakes an element of diversity that would have remained unappreciated by the human eye without the aid of technology.

By opting to use the three-dimensional, defined structure contours as projection surfaces instead of canvases, Geist increases the motifs’ abstraction while simultaneously regaining depth and diversity. In this way, Geist initiates a dialogue between the historically protected architecture, his artistic work and the people going in and out of the structure: The visitor himself becomes part of the projected image on the threshold between the inside and outside of the building.

Geist allows a wintry world to emerge in front of visitors’ eyes. The subject matter and motifs, although familiar, astonish with their size and unusual presentation while altering the observer’s perception and challenging conventional viewing habits.

Given that the opening of Geist’s work will coincide with the first day of Advent, it will be intriguing to see how he uses his playful, artistic interpretation to approach winter and Christmas themes. One thing is for certain: Visitors will be able to immerse themselves in a tranquil, wintry, dreamlike world of lights.

"Winterzauber" 2005 at Lake Side
Videoart installation by Philipp Geist
open daily from 11.27 - 12.30.05, 6:00 pm – 12 am
12.31.05, 6:00 pm – 5:00 am

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Much is often also made of the “exceptional” research that Clampett and his animators undertook (they visited night-clubs and “drafted” African-African musicians and actors) to provide an accurate, celebratory, authentic and incorporative vision of urban African-American culture of the time. Along with Tin Pan Alley Cats (1943) it highlights Clampett's fascination with African-American street culture, its syncopation and language, pushing its potent stereotypes to the extremes of comic absurdity.

Also, as with many of Clampett's cartoons, one can sense the direct influence of comic books, popular music, street culture, live-action cinema and contemporary art (especially surrealism) upon these two films. Like much of Clampett's best work, these films are syncopated snapshots of a particular time, place and set of social mores. So it is hardly surprising to discover that the greatest period of Clampett's tenure at Warners coincides with the ramped-up stereotypes encouraged by the World War II era. As Tim Onosko argues, “Clampett created an entirely new and irreverent style of animated filmmaking more suited to the era than either Disney or Fleischer” (17). Although Onosko's parochial account unnecessarily favours Clampett at the expense of his Warners' colleagues, as well as Avery at MGM, it does pinpoint the ascension of the studio to the pinnacle of Hollywood short animation during this period and accurately regards Clampett's work as a cornerstone of this process.

To me that is what this video is, a snapshot of that era, not a racist hate film.

I've seen the movie. Also, I saw one the activists talk on a panel at our Contemporary Arts Center.