Nov
3
2010
Thanks to Pixel Pain I caught up earlier today great information about the new book titled In Praise of Copying by Marcus Boon, published by Harvard University Press… It’s fresh, new, free and you can practically sense the smell of ink and paper while you’re reading this post, right?
It has been awhile since I published a blog post in Readoholic, I know… But I’m terrible glad that with this post I’m not just cleaning the dust from my digital shelves…
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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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Apr
21
2010
Documentary Google Baby (2009) by film maker Zippi Brand Frank deals with birth outsourcing among three countries: Israel, USA and India. It involves business, technology (computers and human bodies) and a bunch of paradoxes.
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Apr
7
2010
I really wouldn’t be a good blogger, if I wouldn’t blog about documentary Book of Miri by Katrine Philp, a film that I saw in the competitive programme of ZagrebDox Festival last month.
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Apr
5
2010
Digital Nation – Life on the Virtual Frontier (2009 – 2010) is a documentary film by Douglas Rushkoff that thematizes the media issues in the context of our virtual lives, tech development, networking and multitasking.
This documentary is not made for infinite or final answers but to open a wider debate on the influence of technology and the internet on our lives.
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Feb
20
2010
While I blogged about ‘barbwired‘ project I have stumbled on video… more like a sketch by Vimeo user tikul. I’m hoping that tikul won’t be angry on me because I’m posting now ‘straitjacket ‘butoh’ dance/’ video here…
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