Sep
29
2009
During Balkan Fibre Art workshop Isolde Venrooy was doing embroidery on the paper. Actually what she did is a completely reverse of stitching – the pattern is produced by cutting out small pieces of paper. Picture from the newspapers suddenly became a new comb like, fragile structure with greatly different effects…

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Sep
28
2009
‘Pioneering electronic composers FSOL have teamed up with surround sound guru Rodney Orpheus from DTS, Procella audio systems and Yamaha to create a specially constructed piece of 3-D audio-architecture specifically commissioned for Kinetica’s ‘Life Forms’ launch exhibition,’ back in 2006.

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Sep
28
2009
It’s time to say few wordz about that what exactly has triggered my interest and deep love for electronics and technology… time: early 1990s… only four letters: FSOL… the Future Sound of London…
FSOL, Lifeforms (c)
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Sep
27
2009
And 1… 2… 3… 4… 5… 6… 7… 8… once more… 1… 2… 3… 4… 5… 6… 7… 8… Here are some lovely (and some scary) photographs of vintage exercises, machines and accessories… ladiez and gentlemenz practicin’ and pumpin’ their muscles at the beginning of 20th Century…
Photo: actress doing arm exercises, date unknown
Taken from thepaintedwoman.blogspot.com
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Sep
27
2009
At the end of this summer I was invited by the organizers of TEDx Zagreb event to join their team as web editor and social media strategist… I’ve jumped into the project and at the beginning of last week the web site was launched… The site was designed by Andrea Knapic from Zagreb.

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Sep
22
2009
When thinking about the original principle of life, you think about the journey from beginning to the end, when thinking about the original principle of art, you cannot miss that exact line. Isolde Venrooy follows its different manifestations in her artworks that explore unexpectedness coming out of normality, surprises hidden in habits of perceiving.

I. Venrooy, ‘The Property of Taking up Space’, detail (c)
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