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Mocking the Arts Establishment? In Italy it can be an expensive ordeal

Roberta Buiani writes about the young artist 'Luca Lo Coco', who found himself at the center of an attack initiated by the director of Flash Art, Giancarlo Politi himself. Lo Coco critiqued the commercial artworld circus, for lacking authenticity, social values and artistic integrity. He created a pesky doppelgänger of the Flash Art website at www.ashartonline.com, replacing the original content with is own artwork. The site also existed as a platform for others to share their own critiques and observations concerning the arts establishment. This ended with Lo Coco having to close the site down after 6 months, as well as losing all of his home furniture when he had no money to pay for the hefty fine imposed on him by the courts.

By Roberta Buiani - 16/06/2011

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We Demand The Impossible: An Interview with John Jordan and Gavin Grindon.

Marc Garrett interviews John Jordan and Gavin Grindon about their collaborative publication, 'A Users Guide to (Demanding) the Impossible'. "This guide is not a road map or instruction manual. It’s a match struck in the dark, a homemade multi-tool to help you carve out your own path through the ruins of the present, warmed by the stories and strategies of those who took Bertolt Brecht’s words to heart: “Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.”

By Marc Garrett - 19/07/2011

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Factory Farmtown

This is a game art project for the android os mobile platform. It's an interrogation of industrial agricultural practices as well as a play on video game violence tropes.

Interview with Johannes Grenzfurthner of monochrom, Part 2

Marc Da Costa interviews the ever dynamic Johannes Grenzfurthner, founder of monochrom. This is the second of three interviews, where he talks about their intervention at the Sao Paulo Art Biennial where they appeared as the representatives of the Republic of Austria.

By Marc Da Costa - 13/10/2010

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Sprint As Process

Helen Varley Jamieson's account of working collaboratively in Madrid at the Eclectic Tech Carnival. On a 'sprint', with five women coming together for a week to rebuild the group's website, physically & remotely.

By Helen Varley Jamieson - 01/08/2010

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Conflict Kitchen (Kubideh Kitchen)

Conflict Kitchen (Kubideh Kitchen) is a take-out restaurant that only serves cuisine from countries that the United States is in conflict with. The food is served out of a take-out style storefront, which will rotate identities every 4 months to highlight another country.

By Jeffrey Andreoni - 27/07/2010

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Trajectories: How to Reconcile the Careerist Mentality with Our Impending Doom. Part 1/4

This text (part 1/4) by Ellie Harrison addresses the ethical implications of continuing to choose the career of artist in the twenty-first century. This text is one outcome of Elllie's recently completed Leverhulme Scholarship on the Master of Fine Art programme at Glasgow School of Art.

By Ellie Harrison - 27/05/2010

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Trajectories: How to Reconcile the Careerist Mentality with Our Impending Doom. Part 2/4

A Rude Awakening. How history and art could have taken a very different path path in the early 1970s. "In a pre-neoliberal world, choosing the role of artist was seen as an alternative to the mainstream: a point of resistance, a political statement even". Part 2/4 by Ellie Harrison

By Ellie Harrison - 27/05/2010

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Trajectories: How to Reconcile the Careerist Mentality with Our Impending Doom. Part 3/4

The Plan of Action aims to cover all bases: active and/or passive responses to the situation; to use our roles as artists to incite the radical change to our societal structure (in the artworld and globally) needed to avert climate catastrophe whilst finding meaning and happiness should our active response fail. Part 3/4 by Ellie Harrison

By Ellie Harrison - 27/05/2010

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Trajectories: How to Reconcile the Careerist Mentality with Our Impending Doom. Part 4/4

Alternative Knowledge. From September 2008 - June 2010, Ellie Harrison undertook a Leverhulme Scholarship on the Master of Fine Art programme at Glasgow School of Art. The thesis published below forms one of the major outcomes of her research during this period. This is part four of four.

By Ellie Harrison - 27/05/2010

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creepy

A general purpose moral judgement suitable for everything from wearing the wrong glasses to global thermonuclear war. See also: dainty, dumpy, smurfy.

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