The U.N. Human Rights Council, frequently accused of coddling some of the world's most repressive governments, is throwing itself a party in Geneva Tuesday featuring the unveiling of a $23 million sculpture paid for in part with foreign aid funds.

[b]Matthew Kirk: Sculptures and Drawings[/b]br / br / Saturday November 22, 5pm - 10pmbr / other days by appointment onlybr / br / Native-American artist Matthew Kirk presents an exhibition of sculptures and br / drawings at 196Cooper, Bushwick, Brooklyn.br / br / From drawings on paper, wood panels, and sculpture, this exhibition of recentbr / works will stretch across two floors and into the backyard. This is Matthew Kirk's br / first solo show.br / br / Wine and snacks will be served.br / br / WHERE:br / 196 Cooper Street br / Brooklynbr / br / L to Wilson Avenuebr / Walk down Wilson Avenue two blocks away from br / the park to Cooper Street and take a left. The venuebr / is between Wilson and Central Avenues.br / br / Please visit http://navajothunder.com for more details and contact information.img src="http://rhizome.org/syndicate/nothing.gif?f=announce" border="0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rhizome-announce/~4/457616382" height="1" width="1"/

[b]Matthew Kirk: Sculptures and Drawings[/b]br / br / Saturday November 22, 5pm - 10pmbr / other days by appointment onlybr / br / Native-American artist Matthew Kirk presents an exhibition of sculptures and br / drawings at 196Cooper, Bushwick, Brooklyn.br / br / From drawings on paper, wood panels, and sculpture, this exhibition of recentbr / works will stretch across two floors and into the backyard. This is Matthew Kirk's br / first solo show.br / br / Wine and snacks will be served.br / br / WHERE:br / 196 Cooper Street br / Brooklynbr / br / L to Wilson Avenuebr / Walk down Wilson Avenue two blocks away from br / the park to Cooper Street and take a left. The venuebr / is between Wilson and Central Avenues.br / br / Please visit http://navajothunder.com for more details and contact information.img src="http://rhizome.org/syndicate/nothing.gif?f=announce" border="0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rhizome-announce/~4/457616383" height="1" width="1"/

Parmi les 7 Merveilles du monde antique, il ne reste que la pyramide de Khéops encore debout. L#8217;une de ces Merveilles, le Colosse de Rhodes, détruit par un tremblement de terre en -226, va être reconstruit sous forme de sculpture lumineuse très créative. Ce sera #8220;l#8217;installation lumineuse la plus grande au monde#8221;, selon son architecte. [...]img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/648/f/8318/s/26542a1/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2_fr.html?title=Un Colosse va renaître sur l#8217;île de Rhodeslink=http://www.gizmodo.fr/2008/11/18/un-colosse-va-renaitre-sur-lile-de-rhodes.html" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/partagez.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark_fr.cfm?title=Un Colosse va renaître sur l#8217;île de Rhodeslink=http://www.gizmodo.fr/2008/11/18/un-colosse-va-renaitre-sur-lile-de-rhodes.html" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/24192620637/u/49/f/8318/c/648/s/40190625/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/24192620637/u/49/f/8318/c/648/s/40190625/a2.img" border="0"//a

Parmi les 7 Merveilles du monde antique, il ne reste que la pyramide de Khéops encore debout. L'une de ces Merveilles, le Colosse de Rhodes, détruit par un tremblement de terre en -226, va être reconstruit sous forme de sculpture lumineuse très créative. Ce sera "l'installation lumineuse la plus grande ...

Fun Flickr sets showing the making of a cute sculpture called The Jumping Brain. The Jumping Brain is a limited edition toy created by artist Emilio Garcia that is a detailed plastic model of the brain, with, erm... webbed feat. It comes in traditional lab demo gray, as well as red, green and blue and even has its own MySpace page. The Jumping Brain (Via Mind Hacks)...br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/ht.php?t=camp;i=f3593baeeaf707ae9b09894a2677e148"img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/ht.php?t=vamp;i=f3593baeeaf707ae9b09894a2677e148" border="0" //a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=f3593baeeaf707ae9b09894a2677e148" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

This curious bronze statue is available on eBay for a BuyItNow price of $249. Remove the devil head and the true phallic nature of the statue becomes clearer. I prefer it with the devil head in place. "Pure Bronze masculine genital Sculpture Statue Signed" (Thanks, Michael-Anne Rauback!)...br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/ht.php?t=camp;i=6f9540631ef46ca82d850b5d1b4c52ce"img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/ht.php?t=vamp;i=6f9540631ef46ca82d850b5d1b4c52ce" border="0" //a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=6f9540631ef46ca82d850b5d1b4c52ce" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

Fun Flickr sets showing the making of a cute sculpture called The Jumping Brain. The Jumping Brain is a limited edition toy created by artist Emilio Garcia that is a detailed plastic model of the brain, with, erm... webbed feat. It comes in traditional lab demo gray, as well as red, green and blue and even has its own MySpace page. The Jumping Brain (Via Mind Hacks)...br style=clear: both;/ a href=http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/ht.php?t=camp;i=f3593baeeaf707ae9b09894a2677e148img src=http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/ht.php?t=vamp;i=f3593baeeaf707ae9b09894a2677e148 border=0 //a img src=http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=f3593baeeaf707ae9b09894a2677e148 style=display: none; border=0 height=1 width=1 alt=/

This curious bronze statue is available on eBay for a BuyItNow price of $249. Remove the devil head and the true phallic nature of the statue becomes clearer. I prefer it with the devil head in place. Pure Bronze masculine genital Sculpture Statue Signed (Thanks, Michael-Anne Rauback!)...br style=clear: both;/ a href=http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/ht.php?t=camp;i=6f9540631ef46ca82d850b5d1b4c52ceimg src=http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/ht.php?t=vamp;i=6f9540631ef46ca82d850b5d1b4c52ce border=0 //a img src=http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=6f9540631ef46ca82d850b5d1b4c52ce style=display: none; border=0 height=1 width=1 alt=/

centerimg id="image1617" src="http://rhizome.org/imagebase/article/2105/mccoys1.jpg" alt="mccoys1.jpg" //centerbr / pa href="http://www.postmastersart.com/artists/jennifer_kevin_mccoy/mccoy.html"Jennifer and Kevin McCoy/a are a married couple of New York-based artists whose collaborative work conveys a love of film and televised narratives. Their early projects embodied database aesthetics as they chopped shows like i8 is Enough/i, iKung Fu/i, and iStarsky and Hutch/i into short clips, often inviting viewers to rearrange them according to what we'd now call metadata. For instance, one could choose from a bank of DVDs in their iEvery Shot, Every Episode/i to watch every occurrence of the color blue, or of extreme close-ups. More recent works have entailed building elaborate miniature film sets, complete with working cameras, to shoot microfilms. In the case of iHigh Seas/i, the set is a sort of kinetic sculpture in its own right, mimicking its subject as it moves around to create shots of the famed Titanic loosing its footing on the ocean. The role of filmic media in mythologizing the ill-fated boat is of course implicit in the installation. While these projects have always been infused with a sense of subjectivity, as the artists perform their fandom through their selective decisions, lately their work has incorporated more explicitly autobiographical elements. Their piece, iOur Second Date/i, for instance, is a miniature movie set which features the artists watching the film from their second date, iWeekend/i, reenacted through a mobile sculpture and video streamed live to a tiny screen. The choice to position themselves as spectators within their own reality, and moreover to confess that their romance budded around screen pleasure opens up a number of interpretations of their ongoing work and paves the way to their newest project, which opens November 22nd at a href="http://www.postmastersart.com/"Postmasters Gallery/a. In iI'll Replace You/i, the artists again place themselves at center stage, without stepping in front of the camera. Instead, a series of different actors (some of whom are quite miscast) play them in enacting a "day in the life" of the artists. Of course, this day is unfathomably long in that it includes every type of activity in which the artists, parents, lovers, and professors might possibly engage on a given day, thus exploring the roles and experiences that constitute our identities. Nonetheless, the fake McCoys manage to do it all, with the actors changing shift throughout the day, while engaging with the artists' real children, students, friends, and colleagues. The resultant video installation is accompanied by a series of photo portraits of the artists in which passersby and friends stand in for one or another member of the couple (raising questions about the deeper psychic or cosmic nature of compatibility and the implausibility of replacement) and a series of "artist talks" in which actors from outside of the art world discuss work by famous artists as if it was their own. Once again returning to the database form, the latter piece promises to shed light on the genre conventions of art-related discourse and critique with clips that are both humorous and poetic. Leave it to the McCoys to sketch out the formal boundaries of a practice and then show us how fun and beautiful it can be to color within those lines! - Marisa Olson/p piImage: Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, I'll Replace You, 2008 (Photo courtesy of Postmasters Gallery)/i/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rhizome-fp/~4/457471062" height="1" width="1"/

div img class="image" src="http://www.accessoweb.com/photo/661948-803911.jpg?v=1226430283" alt="macbook" / br / br /Comme vous le savez, ou pas, a class="link" href="http://www.accessoweb.com/Maintenant-je-n-ai-plus-qu-a-MAC-bituer_a4399.html" onclick="window.open(this.href,'_blank');return false;"je me suis acheté un MacBook/a mercredi dernier et depuis j'ai eu l'occasion de le tester à plusieurs reprises, dans des situations différentes, mais, que je vous le dise quand même, mon emploi du temps ne m'a pas permis d'installer différents petits trucs ni de passer mon temps dessus. br / br /J'ai pris le nouveau MacBook 13 pouces tout en aluminium équipé du nouveau trackpad en verre. br / br /Premières impressions à la sortie du carton, c'est vraiment un magnifique laptop, celui qu'on a pas honte à amener partout et à sortir à n'importe quelle occasion pour frimer devant les autres :) br / br /Ensuite, je dirais qu'au démarrage, le MAC est assez déroutant, pour un gars comme moi qui vient de passer les 20 dernières années de sa vie sous Windows. Mais cela ne va pas durer. br / br /La suite logicielle fournie avec le MacBook me semble parfaite pour faire un peu de tout, il ne reste plus qu'à regarder comme tout ça fonctionne mais, d'après ce que j'ai vu, pas de gros soucis insurmontables. Je dirais même que cela semble plus facile que sous Windows grâce à la compatibilité avec pas mal d'appareils. J'ai pu tester par exemple avec mon Nikon, lorsque j'ai voulu le décharger, il m'a suffit de brancher le cable USB pour voir démarrer instantanément iPhoto . Ensuite choix des images, importations et lectures de celles-ci comme un mec qui n'avait jamais eu autre chose que des MAC dans sa vie :) br / br /span style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;"Le trackpad maintenant./span br / br /Alors là, c'est pas tout a fait pareil. Sur les portables que j'ai eu dans ma vie, tous les trackpads fonctionnaient de la même manière ( 1 doigt pour déplacer le curseur, 1 tape sur le trackpad ( ou 2 ) pour valider un lien ou démarrer un logiciel. br / br /Là, sur le MAC, du moins avec ce nouveau trackpad multi touch, il faut connaître quelques astuces, qui du reste, une fois ancrées dans la mémoire, sont bien pratique à utiliser. br / br / ul li class="list"1 doigt : déplacement du curseur/li li class="list"2 doigts ( de haut en bas ou de droite à gauche ) permettent de circuler sur un site ou autre/li li class="list"3 doigts ( de gauche à droite ) permettent de revenir à la page précédente ou inversement/li/ul br / br / Et pour le clic, il s'agit d'un vrai clic, comme sur une souris, en jouant sur la flexibilité du verre dans une zone déterminée ( enfin il me semble ne pas dire de bétises ) br / br / span style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;"Durée des batteries/span br / br /Bien là, je dois dire " chapeau " . Le MacBook est vendu pour une durée de 5h avec une luminosité d'écran à 50 % . br / br /J'ai mis la luminosité à 50% ( ce qui suffit amplement dans 98% des cas ) et j'ai déchargé ( complètement ) et rechargé la batterie 6 fois . br / br /Ma batterie pleine m'affiche une autonomie d'environ 6h aujourd'hui et d'après les tests que j'ai pu effectuer, c'est en dire en utilisation WIFI, et en surfant la plupart du temps, j'ai bien eu l'autonomie signalée par l'affichage sur le MAC. br / br /span style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;"Safari ou Firefox ?/span br / br /Voilà une drôle de question que je ne pensais pas me poser un jour. Pour l'instant, je n'ai pas installé Firefox sur le MAC, histoire de m'habituer un peu à Safari et voir comme ce navigateur se comportait. br / br /Et bien je dois avouer que, hormis quelques plugins auxquels je m'étais habitué sur Firefox, Safari me convient parfaitement puisqu'il offre les mêmes fonctionnalités que Firefox. Je ne dis pas que je n'installerais pas Firefox, mais pour l'instant, Safari me satisfait pleinement. br / br /span style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;"Oui et alors, ces MAC, il n'ont aucun défauts ?/span br / br /Si certainement mais je n'ai pas encore suffisamment approfondi. br / br /Pourtant, à ce jour, j'en vois 2 vraiment importants br / br / ul li class="list"span style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;"la fragilité de l'aluminium/span : si vous ne saviez pas pour quelle raison il fallait acheter une house pour votre Laptop, et bien là, avec ce nouveau Mac, sans protection, je ne donne pas cher de l'aluminium ( je veux dire par là, que votre laptop va rapidement se transformer en sculpture de type Art Moderne faites de rayures en tout genres )/li li class="list"span style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;"Les combinaisons de touches/span : d'un côté, cela peut être très pratique lorsqu'on utilise un logiciel à longueur de journée. Par contre, pour moi ( et je parle bien de moi ), cela me handicape vraiment. Je suis toujours en train de chercher une combinaison pour faire ceci ou cela, et le pire, c'est que je n'arrive pas à m'en rappeler. Vous me direz ça va venir, je le pense aussi, mais pour l'instant, je galère ....... parfois./li/ul br / br /Voilà mes premières impressions pour ce MacBook 13 pouces. br / br /Alors, avant de vous quitter, et pour ceux qui souhaiteraient laisser en commentaires un truc du style : " foutre 1200 Euros sur un truc qui rend les mêmes services qu'un laptop à 500 Euros ..... etc .... ", ne vous donnez pas cette peine. Si j'ai acheté un MacBook, c'est que ça fait 3 ans que ça me tente et que j'ai enfin trouver les moyens de me le payer. Après utilisation, je serais ravi ou déçu, on verra bien, en tout cas pour l'instant, je suis plutôt ravi :) br / br / /div br style="clear:both;"/ div style="position: relative;"Article original écrit par Philippe LAGANE et publié sur a href="http://www.accessoweb.com"AccessOWeb/a br /br / div align='center'a href="http://www.lazercustom.fr" target="blank"img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3231/2996786501_d6ee613c52_o.png" width="468" height="60" alt="lazer custom" //a/div/divdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/accessoweb/XGSC?a=H4tD8W4I"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/accessoweb/XGSC?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/accessoweb/XGSC?a=l3XLYWEY"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/accessoweb/XGSC?d=43" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/accessoweb/XGSC?a=IXijNHHu"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/accessoweb/XGSC?d=599" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/accessoweb/XGSC/~4/HWwvZSvad34" height="1" width="1"/

The Colussus of Rhodes, one of the original Seven Wonders of the World, is going to be rebuilt as an innovative light sculpturemdash;the "world's largest light installation" according to its...

pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/7wonders-colossus_of_rhodes.jpg" width="494" height="344" style="display:block;" /The Colussus of Rhodes, one of the original Seven Wonders of the World, is going to be rebuilt as an innovative light sculpturemdash;the "world's largest light installation" according to its architect. And it'll be even bigger than the 120-foot original, which was destroyed in an earthquake in 226BC. The new architectural piece will be between 200 and 320 feet tall, and instead of being a recreation of the originalmdash;risking inflaming Greek public opinion on heritage issues, apparentlymdash;it'll be a building visitors can enter, covered with light effects so that it can "tell" stories throughout the day. There's no word on whether it'll stand astride the harbor like the original, but with planning and funding already underway it may be standing within six years, half the time the original took. [a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/nov/17/colossus-rhodes-greece-sculpture"Guardian/a]/p br style="clear: both;"/ img alt="" style="border: 0; height:1px; width:1px;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?i=88203a367976538e081388acfa2597bd" height="1" width="1"/ img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=88203a367976538e081388acfa2597bd" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=I6HHEwEX"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=120" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=hqbmV9Qf"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=aQAFOpzT"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=aQAFOpzT" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=zzNQMxGy"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=zzNQMxGy" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/IidZuyMDeSY" height="1" width="1"/

Jeff Koons (born January 21, 1955) is an American artist whose work incorporates kitsch imagery using painting, sculpture, and other forms, often in large scale. His life and work were profiled on CBS Sunday Morning and 60 minutes. nbsp; nbsp; nbsp;

Mancunians nicknamed it Kerplunk after the 1970s children’s game – an apt description for a £1.42 million sculpture with giant spikes that began falling off soon after it was completed.

New Media or Hybrid Arts Professor, tenure trackbr / br / STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Hoboken, NJ (New York City area)br / br / The Art Technology B.A. Program (ARTC) at Stevens Institute of Technology is seeking to fill a tenure-track faculty position in New Media or Hybrid Arts at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor, to begin in August 2009. The successful candidate for this position should be a dynamic and innovative artist/scholar engaged in advanced digital or spatial experimental arts as well as research and scholarship with a national reputation. A terminal degree is required. Our candidate will have significant input into the philosophy and development of the ARTC program, and could potentially serve as co-director. Fields we are interested in include: bio-art, computational art, interactive installation, spatial media, Internet-based art, video art, robotic and kinetic sculpture, among others.br / br / Newly established in 2004, ARTC is a small but growing program in the New York City area that spans across multiple disciplines and includes students from the technical, scientific, entertainment, design and fine arts communities. Our goal is to create a hybrid research environment with opportunities for artists to collaborate with scientists and technologists at Stevens, one of the premier centers for the study and innovation of science, technology, and entrepreneurship. Candidates must be comfortable working in an atmosphere uniquely devoted to these areas.br / br / Please send cover letter, CV, URL and/or other documentation of your work, and dossier to Search Committee, Art and Technology Program, College of Arts and Letters, Stevens Institute of Technology, Castle Point on Hudson, Hoboken, NJ 07030. Deadline: Feb. 1, 2009. For further information about the program, see: http://www.stevens.edu/cal/art/. Stevens is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.img src="http://rhizome.org/syndicate/nothing.gif?f=announce" border="0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rhizome-announce/~4/456192129" height="1" width="1"/