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Newton

Ho Tzu Nyen
film/video

With a considerable amount of irony Ho Tzu-Nyen, one of the most renowned Singapurian filmmakers, borrows the image of Newton's apple as a metaphor for the futile challenge artists face in terms of achieving a creative inspiration (or rather, one after another) of their own accord.

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_Social Tesseracting: Parts 1 - 3

Mez Breeze

With this project the Australian games theorist Mez Breeze examines how processes of knowledge production and entertainment models change under the influence of artificially generated stimuli. The work belongs to the “Augmentology 1[L]0[L]1_project“ which addresses how information is absorbed within artificial environments making its insights accessible via a link-in system

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MACHT GESCHENKE: DAS KAPITAL - Kritik der politischen Ökonomie

Christin Lahr
process performance conceptual

Day after day the artist Christin Lahr transfers 1 Euro Cent to the German Federal Ministry of Finance.  Each time she consecutively copies 108 characters of Karl Marx' "CAPITAL - A Critique of Political Economy" into the 'reason for payment' box of the transfer form---All the way until the German Federal Bank will have the complete work of text on their bank account.

 

http://www.macht-geschenke.de/

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Intelligent Bacteria - Saccharomyces cerevisiae

HONF - The House Of Natural Fiber
installation conceptual

This performative-acoustic installation by the Indonesian art collective HONF (House of Natural Fibre) is a response to the religiously motivated, national prohibition of alcoholic drinks in public space. This project highlights not only the often fatal consequences of illegal and unsanitarily produced methanol but moreover points to risk-free fermentation methods of easily available tropical fruits.

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