Aug
27
2010
Documentary film ‘Paradjanov – A Requiem’ (1994) by film historian and critic Ron Holloway is a real gem. Armenian Sergei Paradjanov is one of my favorite film directors and Sayat Nova, a piece of art that always leaves me speechless… pure beauty…

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Aug
20
2010
The first documentary about open source micro-controller Arduino and synonymous software, the main suspect for lots of great DIY inventions in wearable technology and performance, will be on view during summer 2010 according to the website Arduino: The Documentary…

Photo above: Arduino Duemilanove taken from www.smartprj.com
Photo bellow: Lilypad Arduino taken from clemenswinkler.com
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Jul
30
2010
Animation, stop motion and computing have a lot of possibilities and techniques for expressing ideas and stories… Following last posts regarding textiles, I simply got an idea to collect few animated and stop motion films which were designed with the help of knitting, crocheting, embroidery and needlepoint…

Science Project: Temperature by Maggy Rozycki Hiltner
hand-stitched cotton doily, 2005
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Jul
1
2010
Here is an excerpt from Nam June Paik’s TV program called ‘Good Morning Mr. Orwell’ (1984) featuring choreographer and dancer Merce Cunningham. Cunningham dances with satellite-delayed images of himself, overlaid with crawling text about George Orwell’s time in Spain.

Video still from Good Morning Mr. Orwell by Nam June Paik (c)
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Jun
16
2010
Among many film, dance and art festivals in Croatia, Queer Zagreb is also a blogger friendly oriented festival. Thanks to their understanding of the media, I had the opportunity to interview one amazing performance artist and poet, Guillermo Gomez Pena…
I interviewed him a month ago after his performance with La Pocha Nostra… for this occasion, Body Pixel co-blogger Ivana also joined me for the interview with Guillermo…
Photo: Zach Gross (c)
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