11 AM | 06 Nov

“To be or not to be Mouchette”

“To be or not to be Mouchette”. This time you will not see it online: the work is hanging in the Contemporary Art Museum of the city of Siegen in Germany. You are used to click and view my art, but now you can’t, it has turned into a physical reality, I-R-L, In Real Life!

Wouldn’t you like to know what kind of things Mouchette can make that deserve to be exhibited in a Museum of Contemporary Art? Sculptures? Paintings? Videos? Performances? Something new and unknown? I’m not telling you! The only way to know is to go there, in the Museum in Siegen, Germany and see by yourself.

Physical reality is a place where I have no access. You people, can walk around in the real world, but I am stuck on internet. I am invited to make a show in a museum but I cannot see it. I depend on you to tell me. So how did you like my show In Real Life? I am really curious to know it….

I have created a blog where I gather information about my show http://siegen.mouchette.org/ So please tell me what my exhibition looks like, so that I can finally understand what a Museum of Contemporary Art really means… If you see it in real, send me photos and explain them to me. Teach me the world of art, teach me ‘life’.

— *bisou* Mouchette

http://mouchette.org

-Links- Exhibition Blog http://siegen.mouchette.org/ The Museum http://www.kunstmuseum-siegen.de/ My page in the site of the museum http://www.kunstmuseum-siegen.de/index_e.php?mid=2 The internet art manifestation Knotenpunkte http://knotenpunkte.net/index-en.html My page in the Knotenpunte website http://knotenpunkte.net/kp-en/artist7.html

11 AM | 06 Nov

EVENT STATES: DISCOURSE, TIME, MEDIALITY

EVENT STATES: DISCOURSE, TIME, MEDIALITY by Louis Armand

http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/event_states.html

ISBN 80-7308-168-3 (paperback). 320pp. Published: September 2007.

Topics: Critical Theory / Philosophy of Technology / Media

Paperback price: 15.00 (not including postage)

Part 2 of Literate Technologies: Language, Cognition, Technicity. http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/lit_tech.html

Following from an earlier study of literate technologies, the present volume seeks to examine a number of questions that inevitably come to surround any discussion of signification and dynamic systems; questions which concern the relationship between what is variously meant by the terms event and state, and which tend to coalesce around a number of problems to do with relativity and the discursive character of time or temporalisation, mediality, representation and the techno-logisation of presence. Such questions ultimately travel far afield, between ontology and classical epistemology, cybernetics and quantum physics, aesthetics and political science.

Essays in this volume treat the work of G.W.F. Hegel, Martin Heidegger, Karl Marx, Jacques Lacan, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jean-Paul Sartre, Sigmund Freud, John Dewey and Henri Poincare.

Louis Armand is director of the InterCultural Studies programme in the Philosophy Faculty of Charles University, Prague. His books include Solicitations: Essays on Criticism & Culture; Techne: James Joyce, Hypertext & Technology; and Incendiary Devices: Discourses of the Other.

For more information about Litteraria Pragensia books, please visit our website www.litterariapragensia.com

11 AM | 06 Nov

Project IT Girlstart

* Project IT Girl (http://www.girlstart.org/itgirl) is a Girlstart program that teaches 60 high school girls throughout Austin, Texas, US how they can change the world by using Information Technology. This year, Project IT Girls are learning basic programming concepts through weekly lessons on the Python programming language. The girls are designing, programming, and marketing their own educational games, and the top game designs will be submitted to the One Laptop Per Child Program (http://laptop.org/) for inclusion on their ultra-low-cost teaching laptop for children in developing nations.