The Transgenic Pheasant Embryology Art and Science Laboratory taught by Adam Zaretsky at the University of Leiden was a hands-on perfomance art wet-lab aimed at stimulating a debate about the use of new biological methods for permanent alteration of genetic inheritance

Women with Fire Masks, a photo taken in 1941 by photographer, reporter and model Lee Miller

The book highlights a current trend in international graphic design: more and more visual designers are staging their compositions as three-dimensional scenarios, in order to turn them into posters, magazine covers, web sites, and animated films

This new Biennial located right inside the area which Rem Koolhaas defines as the hollocore was political, bold and intelligent if a little bit too much on the shambles side

A look back at 2008 and best wishes from me and from the (rather unwilling) Caribbean Pirate and Spaghetti Man

Jordi Colomer studies the way in which the modern city influences human behaviour and explores the ubiquity and drawbacks of modernism in the urban environment

One day, Daniel Eatock left his desk, found the car whose alarm had been interrupting his peace every five minutes, and waited for the siren to switch on. When the siren sounded, he started dancing like a madman. He made videos of several of his car alarm dances, never touching the car, only dancing to the sound pollutants

An exhibition in Paris brings together works by teachers and students of the celebrated Dusseldorf School: Bernd and Hiller Becher, Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer, Axel Hütte, Thomas Ruff, Thomas Struth and many others

How about talking money for a change? Rhizome, Turbulence and Art Fag City have given us a lot throughout 2008. Now is the time to give a little back

This provocative collection of photography, essays, and maps looks at infrastructure as a way of mapping our place in the city and affecting change through architecture

An uncanny installation currently on view at LABoral uses the strategies of the Electronic Voice Phenomenon, voice and pattern recognition, and face tracking to generate voices, and images from apparently closed, silent and empty spaces and systems

ul lia href="http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/news/artnetnews/artnetnews12-4-08.asp"Artnet News - artnet Magazine/abr/ The National Endowment for the Arts has just issued Women Artists: 1990-2005 (the full text is downloadable here), a 17-page study about the status of women in the arts./li /ul

ul lia href="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/it-may-be-fashion-but-is-it-art-1052049.html"It may be fashion, but is it art? - Features, Fashion - The Independent/abr/ Last week, one of the world#039;s most prestigious art fairs devoted an entire section to the glossy, airbrushed world of fashion photography. As demand for such imagery soars, Rhiannon Harries asks, does a Galliano shoot really belong in a gallery?/li lia href="http://www.ritalink.org/2008/09/data-visualization-of-the-week-03-visual-dna/"data visualization of the week #03: visual DNA :: ritalink.org | no comments/abr/ Visual DNA es una instalación que cuenta con veinte tubos de ensayo, un detector de código de barras, una mesa y un proyector. En cada tubo hay partes de seres vivos que contienen código genético, como por ejemplo pelo humano, pan con mohos o una pata de una tarántula./li lia href="http://www.elmundo.es/albumes/2008/12/04/jordi_colomer/index_3.html"Colomer: Habitante del tiempo y el espacio | elmundo.es/a/li /ul

ul lia href="http://dancetech.ning.com/video/on-curating-new-media"On Curating New Media: Connecting Catalytic Moments/ Interview with Sarah Cook - dance-tech.net/abr/ hello Sarah/li lia href="http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/009129.html"Worldchanging: Be a Superhero: Support Worldchanging/abr/ Worldchanging may look like an imposing ice fortress on the outside, but really we#039;re a small non-profit, and we depend in part on donations to be able to do our job. Although times are tough, there has never been a better time to support our small organization that works to make big change./li lia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/dec/07/meat-soya-environment-paraguay"The hidden cost of our growing taste for meat | Environment | The Observer/abr/ As the west#039;s appetite for meat increases, so too does the demand for soya - used as animal feed by farmers. But the planting of huge tracts of land is causing deforestation and destroying eco-systems in developing countries./li /ul

ul lia href="http://www.artsflanders.be/newsitem.php?ID=155"Heterotopia and the City, Public Space in a Postcivil Society/abr/ The book discusses the concept of heterotopia: urban spaces that carry multiple, fragmented meanings. Heterotopia and the City seeks to clarify this concept and investigates the heterotopias which exist throughout our contemporary world: in museums, theme parks, malls, holiday resorts, gated communities, wellness hotels, and festival markets./li lia href="http://www.design.nl/item/changing_ideals"Design.nl - lsquo;Changing Ideals: Re-thinking the Housersquo;/abr/ The new exhibition at NAi Maastricht ‘Changing Ideals: Re-thinking the House’ presents superb examples of architects#039; and designers#039; endless fascination with the ideal house throughout the years./li /ul

ul lia href="http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/the_wrong_note/"Frieze Magazine | Archive | The Wrong Note/abr/ How Western pop music is being used as ‘touchless torture’ by the American military/li lia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/04/guantanamo-obama-white-house"A toxic legacy | World news | The Guardian/abr/ One of the first problems Barack Obama will have to address when he takes office is Guantánamo. What fate awaits its inmates - and how disastrous are the long-term effects of its very existence, asks Julian Borger/li lia href="http://rhizome.org/editorial/2149"Thoughts on quot;New Media Artists vs Artists With Computersquot;/abr/ quot;New Media vs Artists With Computersquot;, artist and blogger Tom Moody sees the distinction between conceptual photography and art photography made in the 1970s as a correlate to that between new media artists (i.e. those who exact a high level of mastery over hardware and software) and artists working with computers now (i.e. those who use computers and digital technologies in their art practice, often towards a conceptual end and in a more amateur fashion.)/li lia href="http://www.resistnetwork.com/info/journal/post/Leaked-BNP-list-published-on-the-web-by-Wikileaks."Resist - Journal - Leaked BNP list published on the web by Wikileaks./abr/ You may have heard of the BNP members list that was leaked onto the internet this week by Wikileaks. A few months ago one of the founders of Wikileaks explained to Resist the power of leaking secrets via the web and the ethical justifications behind it./li lia href="http://archinmotion.wordpress.com/2008/10/24/building-of-the-year/"BUILDING OF THE YEAR laquo; ARCHINMOTION (ar+mo)/a/li lia href="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/is-technology-rewiring-our-brains-1051654.html"Is technology rewiring our brains? - News, Gadgets amp; Tech - The Independent/abr/ Small says the effect is strongest in so-called digital natives - people in their teens and 20s who have been quot;digitally hard-wired since toddlerhood.quot; He thinks it#039;s important to help the digital natives improve their social skills and older people - digital immigrants - improve their technology skills./li /ul

ul lia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/dec/03/phantom-limb-pain-brain-science"Body swap research shows that self is a trick of the mind | Science | The Guardian/abr/ Brain scientists have succeeded in fooling people into thinking they are inside the body of another person or a plastic dummy. The out-of-body experience - which is surprisingly easy to induce - will help researchers to understand how the human brain constructs a sense of physical self. The research may also lead to practical applications such as more intuitive remote control of robots, treatments for phantom limb pain in amputee patients and possible treatments for anorexia./li lia href="http://www.galerieperrotin.com/actualite.php#436"News of the Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, actualiteacute;s de la Galerie/abr/ aaaaaaaaaaarg! Mr is in paris/li lia href="http://alaintruong.canalblog.com/archives/2008/11/26/11518446.html"quot;Deacute;couvertes : retour de Chinequot; @ Galerie Albert Benamou - Les cahiers d'Alain Truong/a/li lia href="http://zuiprezi.com/"ZuiPrezi zooming presentation editor/abr/ ZuiPrezi is a zooming presentation editor which allows you to easily create stunning presentations. With the help of ZuiPrezi you can create dynamic and visually structured zooming maps of texts, images, videos, PDFs, drawings. ZuiPrezi has a very intuitive interface and support for online sharing./li lia href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNvEPIM6BZ8"YouTube - Demis Roussos is Russel Brand's father/a/li /ul

ul lia href="http://www.pocproject.com/"POC/a/li lia href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/frisson-of-power-blockbusting-art-shows-1044167.html"Frisson of power: blockbusting art shows - Features, Art - The Independent/abr/ Byzantium, Babylon and now the Tsars. The blockbuster shows of the moment all celebrate the art and artefacts of long-lost empires. Tom Lubbock thinks he knows why/li lia href="http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article5270325.ece"Turner winner Mark Leckey attacks 'shock art' - Times Online/abr/ “I kind of hate the relationship the press in Britain has towards art,” he said. “I hate the way it’s all Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin and Banksy. They expect spectacle and shock. Art is not like that. The art world I know is not like that; it’s a whole other world.”/li lia href="http://blog.aapglobal.com/2008/11/30/marnix/"Interview with Visual Artist Marnix de Nijs | Aap!Global! Blog!/abr/ Marnix de Nijs is as one of the leading exponents of interactive sculptures, and recently sat down with Aap! to discuss some of his recent artwork that explores the dynamics between the human body, machines and other technology./li lia href="http://varnelis.net/blog/george_orwell_in_the_sentient_city"george orwell in the sentient city | varnelis.net/abr/ Yesterday#039;s New York Times reports on something I#039;ve been saying all along: that the sentient city is also a surveillance city and the digital trail we leave as we move through it allows corporations and governments to spy on us like never before. Yes, there#039;s a chance it#039;s all for our benefit. But for how long? See You#039;re Leaving a Digital Trail. What About Privacy?/li /ul