Photography and Video from Europe and North America @ Inter Art Centre and Gallery, Beijing, 13 - 26 June 2008
Alison Dalwood (UK), Stephan Hausmeister (Germany), Sam Jury (UK), Tim van Laar (USA), Isisdro L-aparicio (Spain), Stefan Sulzer (Switzerland), Sebastian Utzni (Germany), Michael Wright (UK)

Apparently it's not considered newsworthy beyond the local press, but a whole block of the Morningside Estate in Hackney Wick/Homerton, i.e. prime Olympic boom territory, has been without electricity for SIX days and counting.  The supplier (French state-controlled London Olympic bid sponsor EDF Energy) blames a water leak (Thames Water: acquired for £8 billion by Macquarie Bank of Sydney, 2006).  You couldn't ask for a better display of how financialized infrastructure works: resource rundown by two fragments of the former utility system converges neatly to make life impossible for guess which class demographic (sitting on guess which real estate...)

This is the lastest Alfa Romeo compact car, Mi.To. The new car takes its name from the abbreviations of two Italian cities: Milan, the city with a car style underway, and Turin, which will be responsible for its industrial production.

The Magdalene Mysteries
Presented by Vocal Motions Elastic Theatre
at THE SPACE

Thurs 15th- Sun18th May, 8pm; £10, concs £6
Box office: 02075157799 or www.ticketweb.co.uk
269 Westferry Rd. E14 3RS

Rapid Game Design Workshop

In a timeframe of three-day participants conceptualize and construct a prototype of an Augmented Reality Game using the ARToolkit, assisted by outstanding international trainers. The focus of the gameplay design will be on the relation between the virtual and the physical. Game rules can be implemented through the software by programming; and they can be implemented physically, in the real world game space; and they can be implemented socially, by designing what is and isn't allowed when trying to reach the games' goals.

A digression from Pil and Galia Kollectiv's "The Institute of Psychoplasmics"

One of the characteristic features of Unix is the architecture of its kernel. While previous operating systems employed an explicit monitor process which governed all other activity, the Unix kernel is, in some sense, a virtual process. In technical terms, it is executed procedurally through system calls made by user processes. The kernel has no independent existence as a process. While described precisely by code ("text" and "data") it is dynamically constituted by other processes.

Sleep-Inn Re-opens in Amsterdam
Nocturnal care for art buyers and cleaners

Amsterdam will have a Sleep-Inn again. The cultural institution Mediamatic offers a free place to sleep for cleaners and visitors of Art Amsterdam from 7 till 12 May. The Sleep-Inn is part of the (Con)Temporary Museum Amsterdam. All art-lovers can spend the night for free and visit the performances of the two hostesses Melanie Bonajo (NL) and Kinga Kielczynska (PL) called Mediummatic, 5 days of alternative communication from 08.30 pm untill 10.00 pm