[spectre] Olats News n°7 - November 12th 2002

[Annick Bureaud]

OLATS NEWS 007 - E – 12/11/2002

1 – Pioneers & Pathbreakers : Katsuhiro Yamaguchi by Christophe Charles
http://www.olats.org/setF4.html

2 – Pioneers & Pathbreakers : R. Buckminster Fuller by Victoria Vesna
http://www.olats.org/setF4.html


3 – Pioneers & Pathbreakers : New on the Palatnik Site
http://www.olats.org/setF4.html

4 – Repères & Ressources : review of the "Alphabet" cd-rom, by Anne
Clotilde Boussand
http://www.olats.org/reperes/reperes.shtml

5 - Fondements Culturels de la Mondialisation (Cultural Roots of
Globalisation) : bibliography
http://www.olats.org/fcm/fcm.shtml

6 - Special announcement : exhibition "Lanterna Magika" in Paris 


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1 - Pioneers & Pathbreakers : Katsuhiro YAMAGUCHI, by Christophe Charles
http://www.olats.org/setF4.html
The roots of technological and electronic art are often thought as a
"Western" practice, North-American mainly because it is the best
documented, Western European at the very best. Very few people are aware
that in Japan, a group of artists and art critics were at the very same
time experimenting in the same way, with the same questions but in a
different culture.
Katsuhiro Yamaguchi is one of this key figure, co-founder of the group
"Experimental Workshop" (Jikken Kobo) that included visual artists,
musicians, performers, etc. He worked with light, "multimedia"
installations, took part in the Osaka Expo in 1970 and went on with
video works. 


2 - Pioneers & Pathbreakers : R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER, by Victoria Vesna
http://www.olats.org/setF4.html
"Bucky" makes a "come back" to the artistic and intellectual scene
today. And this is justice. Referred to as an architect, inventor,
scientist, engineer, mathematician, educator, philosopher, poet,
speaker, author, consultant, economist, futurist, transcendentalist,
designer, he was a tireless writer, inventor, lecturer. Among his
prolific inventions, we'll recall the geodesic dome ; among his visions,
we'll remember the "Spaceship Earth" and the Dymaxion™ Map, more
up-to-date than ever. It is about time to (re)discover R. Buckminster
Fuller.... and to read him. An extensive bibliography —by and about
Buckminster Fuller— is provided in this notice.


3 – Pioneers & Pathbreakers : New on the Palatnik Site
http://www.olats.org/setF4.html 
Abraham Palatnik's Artwork in Public and Private collections
(Text in French)

"Art and Technology" by Abraham Palatnik. Translation from Portuguese
into French by Catherine Tresgots
(Text in French)


4 – Repères & Ressources : review of the "Alphabet" cd-rom, by Anne
Clotilde Boussand
http://www.olats.org/reperes/reperes.shtml
"Alphabet"
Murielle Lefebvre, Frédéric Durieu & Jean-Jacques Birgé, adapted from
Kveta Pakovska’s work, NHK, Syrinx, 1999, Mac & PC

This CD-ROM intended for both children and adults shows an animated and
colourful alphabet inspired by East-European creators. Full of surprise
in sounds and graphics. Letters dance, disappear, eat their co-letters
and generate sounds when rolled over. Worth discovering !


5 - Fondements Culturels de la Mondialisation (Cultural Roots of
Globalisation) : bibliography
http://www.olats.org/fcm/fcm.shtml
A first bibliography regarding the Cultural Roots of Globalisation is
now online.


6 - Special announcement : exhibition "Lanterna Magika" in Paris
Within the frame work of "Bohemia Magica, A Czech Season in France", the
Espace Electra is proposing the exhibition "Lanterna Magika : New
Technologies in Czech Art of the 20th Century", showing works by Josef
Svoboda, Zdenek Pesanek, Zdenek Sykora, Frank Malina, Woody Vasulka,
Michael Bielicky, Federico Diaz, Petra Vergova and Floex.
Two of those artists are documented in the Leonardo/Olats Pioneers &
Pathbreakers projects : Svoboda and Leonardo founder Frank Malina.
This excellent exhibition is a unique opportunity to see the works of
the Czeck pioneers in kinetic art and "multimedia interactive" performances.
Espace Electra, 6, rue Récamier, 75007 Paris
Everyday but Monday - 12h - 19h until January 5th 2003



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