“Nine Classic Paintings Revisited” is the second of two lectures presented by filmmaker Peter Greenaway as the 2010-2011 Avenali Chair in the Humanities at the Townsend Center for the Humanities, UC Berkeley. Greenaway talks about a series of video installations he calls Nine Classic Paintings Revisited, in which he applied his often controversial vision to The Last Supper, The Wedding at Cana and other famous artworks.90 minutes.

Best known for such films as The Draughtsman’s Contract (1982), The Cook, the Thief, his Wife & her Lover (1989), The Pillow Book (1996), The Tulse Luper Suitcases (2003-2004), and Nightwatching (2007), Greenaway has worked more recently on numerous exhibitions and installations in Europe, from Venice’s Palazzo Fortuny and Barcelona’s Joan Miró Gallery to Rotterdam’s Boymans van Beuningen Gallery and Paris’ Louvre.

Centerbeam (1977/1978), 6. documenta Kassel from Yollarda on Vimeo.

In 1977, the “exuberant, friendly inferno” Centerbeam captivated hundreds of thousands of visitors at the documenta 6 exhibition in Kassel, Germany, and at its subsequent installation on the National Mall in Washington, DC. Artists from the Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS), led by its Director Otto Piene, worked with MIT scientists and engineers to develop this piece. Centerbeam exemplified the collaborative spirit and democratic working process of CAVS, which was founded in 1967. “Pipelines of elements and energies,” Centerbeam was a massive, temporary installation of kinetic, performing and participatory sculpture. It incorporated technologies pioneered by CAVS fellows as artistic media: laser projections, holograms, steam screens, neon, video, inflatable sculptures helium-lifted into the sky and other works, projected from the spine of a 144 foot long water prism. The rational, processional form of Centerbeam by day and its indeterminate volumes of laser-illuminated steam, floral and stellar images by night, embodied CAVS’ symbiosis of the arts, sciences and engineering.

You can see the Video until the 29th of July 2012 at the exhibition “The Future Archive”, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Chausseestrasse 128, Berlin

Streets in Istanbul by Eda Karaatli

The Atlantis Hypothesis

Atlantis, for those of you visiting from another planet, is the legendary utopian society that sank below the surface of the ocean, never to be seen again. As described in Plato’s dialogues Timaeus and Critias, around 12,000 years ago, there were two great civilizations: Athens and Atlantis. Both of these societies were what anthropologists call socially-stratified—there were classes of people, including artisans, farmers, warriors, and royalty. Both societies farmed and raised cattle. They both built temples and meeting halls. They both mined silver and gold; they both made bronze and tin as well as silver and gold objects. They had horse-drawn chariots, they built bridges, aqueducts, canals and roads, and had ships to conduct international trade. Atlantis, so Plato said, was a trading and commercial center with an urban lifestyle and a ruling class. The city-state was located on an island the size of Libya and Asia combined, outside of the Pillars of Hercules (believed to refer to the Straits of Gibraltar). Athens ruled the eastern side of the Pillars of Hercules—the Mediterranean Sea. The people of Atlantis were directly descended from Poseidon, the Greek god of the sea. An extended war broke out between Atlantis and Athens. The civilization fell into decadence and Zeus punished them, sending a great earthquake, and Atlantis sank beneath the waves of the ocean in the space of a day.

In July 2005, a conference entitled The Atlantis Hypothesis presenting multidisciplinary papers on the potential for the geological truth of Plato’s tale of Atlantis took place on the Greek island of Milos. One of the papers presented was a report by Marc-Andre Gutscher, a geologist of the prestigious French research institution Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). The original hypothesis came from Jacques Collima-Girard, who took selected elements of Plato’s story, and identified a sunken island west of the Straits of Gibraltar as a potential candidate for the location of Atlantis. Dr. Gutscher followed through on the argument, completing a bathymetric investigation of the island, and producing quite an interesting paper, Destruction of Atlantis by a Great Earthquake and Tsunami to be published in the journal Geology in August 2005.

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The Atlantis Hypothesis

Invisible AIrwaves #29 (May 2012 DJ Mix) by Q-Burns Abstract Message

Hip yourself to the SOUNDS OF NOW with the latest Invisible Airwaves radio program, bursting forth from the clandestine 8DLabs located somewhere beneath the neon coral reef. “Aha!” you may proclaim, upon discovering that the first half of this mix previously appeared as part of 5 Magazine’s New Mix Monday series. But, fret not … the following portion is all new and mysterious and somewhat puzzling, though its evocative beat vibrations should allow a pleasant head-nodding session to commence as requested. Stop … track list! :

Der Dritte Raum – Swing Bop (Acid Pauli’s Kosmik Remix) – Compost Records

Solead feat. Bunkum Squad – Is The Water Wet? (Tal M Klein Remix) – Bunkum Records

Dexter Duplong – Steel Town Dancer – 3am Recordings

Arbeid Adelt! – Death Disco (Todd Terje Edit) – Play Out!

Ajello – Sabrer (Hannulelauri Version) – DANNY Was A Drag King

Scuola Furano – On Fire (Glimmers Remix) – Nano Records

Manuel Sahagun – Tomorrow (Phunktastike Remix) – Undertones Gang Records

Nick Chacona & Anthony Mansfield – Tase The Wizard – The Wurst Music Co.

Metronomy – Loving Arm (Soul Clap’s ‘Shake A Leg’ Remix) – Because Music

Haku – Rugo – Use Of Weapons

Colors Sound System – Road Movement – Lunatic Jazz

Hardway Bros – Mania Theme (Toby Tobias Remix) – Is It Balearic..?

Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs – Tapes And Money (John Talabot’s ‘Ritual’ Reconstruction) – Polydor

Gazeebo – First Come First Serve (Coyote Remix) – Gazeebo International

Minor Loud – Morph – Days Of Being Wild

Daniel Avery – Movement (Andrew Weatherall Remix) – Throne Of Blood

Talking Heads – Seen And Not Seen (Alkalino Rework) – (unreleased)

Luke Gibson – Don’t Talk (Invisible Menders For The Kids Remix) – Midnight Social Recordings

Deep Space Orchestra – Blindsided (Medlar Remix) – Foto Recordings

Dance Spirit – Stay – Home Audio Recordings

Daco – Artificial Sweetener (Monkey Nuts Mix) – Paper Recordings

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