Irish photographer Richard Mosse has spent the last seven years in disaster-stricken areas, ranging from postwar Yugoslavia to post-earthquake Haïti. Although these subjects addressed by Mosse usually have to do with brutal forces – both man-made and natural – the large format photographs show a keen eye for composition and a talent to unveil the beauty behind such violence. With his unconventional approach Mosse is questioning the solid foundations of documentation photography.
Electronic music-party-pop-deejays-performance-art-mindstyle-lifestyle-humor-design-lifestyle-confrontatie-techno-soul-disco-fashion-film-video-exhibition-platform-übermultiretrosexuality and many more! After a creative public pause of four years, Now&Wow will come back as an indoor festival on the 17th of December. Location: Maassilo Rotterdam.
The STRP Festival is one of the biggest festival Europe celebrating art, music and technology. From November 18 until November 27 interactive art, music, film, live-cinema, performances, dance, games, and robotic amazingness will fuse into one big festival in the Klokgebouw in Eindhoven.
In 2013, future media pioneers like electronic music composer Dick Raaijmakers or artist Gerrit van Bakel might not have a chance anymore to inspire the broad public with their work. Unless you have been living under a rock, you probably know that the Dutch government is implementing a major cut in the funding of art and culture. Media culture is the fastest developing discipline, but receives the least funding of them all. To make a comparison: the dying art of reading paper books receives approximately 4.5 times more subsidy than e-culture.
But why should you care? Well, thanks to the cuts the internationally praised Nederlands Instituut of Mediakunst and V2 Institute for Unstable Media might disappear.
Stadium filling concerts of Lady Gaga, Armin van Buuren or Foo Fighters would simply be inaudible without electronics. Imagine a world without new Coldplay songs being performed live on stage and where Paul Simon’s Graceland does not exist. Electronic editing techniques mean that one wrong note from a trumpet need no longer ruin the otherwise perfect recording of Mahler’s Symphony No. 4. In fact, the only composition possible during a live concert would be John Cage’s 4’33″.
You may not realise the complexity recording and playing music harbours, but STEIM (Studio for Electro Instrumental Music) do.
