Radiant Copenhagen

From RHIZOME.ORG

March 27 at 5.30 pm Radiant Copenhagen is unleashed in the streets of Copenhagen at Overgaden - Institute of Contemporary Art. The opening offers an apocalyptic show as well as a general presentation of the project. March 28 at 12 noon and 3:00 pm a free guided bus tour sets off into the radiant future of Copenhagen, please book your seats on booking@radiantcopenhagen.net.

The artists Anders Bojen, Kristoffer Ørum and Kaspar Bonnen together with PhD in Literature Rune Graulund have worked with a team of architects, artists, designers, journalists, engineers and musicians to create a new vision for Copenhagen, an imaginary future as a reaction to the present day. All contributors share an interest in alternative realities and how these, through the internet and other media, play an increasing important role in our common understanding of the world.

Radiant Copenhagen is an internet based project spreading into the world through various staged incidents. For example a person discussing the evolution and superior intellect of vegetables with local green grocers in Nørrebro, a procession for a new religion marching through the streets or a group of seemingly random people at a bar in Frederiksberg arguing over the Ministry of Danish Design.

Radiant Copenhagen is a device to challenge conventional thinking, an assault on the collective imagination of Copenhagen by which new possibilities for change are established. Be there for the opening March 27, check out radiantcopenhagen.net and otherwise prepare yourself for a new Copenhagen.

Contributors to Radiant Copenhagen are Kristoffer Ørum, Anders Bojen, Rune Graulund, Maja Zander, Kaspar Bonnen, Stig W. Jørgensen, Palle R Jensen, Ida Marie Hede Bertelsen, Peter Rasmussen, Kasper Hesselbjerg, Ulrik Nørgaard, Daphne Bidstrup, Andreas Pallisgaard og Kristian Haarløv.

Radiantcopenhagen.net will be accessible from March 21.

Game studies: Play is more than fun

A pioneer in research on play, Dr. Stuart Brown says humor, games, roughhousing, flirtation and fantasy are more than just fun. Plenty of play in childhood makes for happy, smart adults -- and keeping it up can make us smarter at any age.

From TED Online

BibliotekaDiskoteka 001 Poetry and sound / Red Coats - DRAW! live

Photo> Zlatan Ristić

Recording of live performance @ Belgrade's city Library on 4th of March, played by:

Paul Murray - spoken word
Igor Stangliczky - electronics
Manja Ristic - violin
Ivana Grahovac - cello
Ivan Jovanovic - dubble bass
Stevan Lung - video

Style: electronica, strings, field recording, spoken word, storytelling, live performance


Free download of the recording:
http://www.archive.org/details/RedCoatsDrawLiveBgbsuperova

More info at:
http://supernova.auropolis.org/

Intertextuality: Adaptation

Hello everyone!

Today we had our last class on Intertextuality, and the last reading was about adaptation, based on a text by Linda Hutcheon.

Some discussions came up in the sense of adaptation generating better or worse movies than the books were, in the original form of the story.

Can good movies be bad adaptations?

Do the illustrations count as part of an adaptation?

Are books now being written as primary screenplays?

Those and other questions were rised, and more disussions might be generated by this topic: intertextuality, as we've seen, was very much present of this matter, as it seems to be on every discussion about texts and content.