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Culture

Happy 2014

Happy 2014 (year of the horse !)
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Architecture Video

this was tomorrow

A participative collection of videos portraying what post-WWII eurocentric architects and urbanists promised and delivered in terms of an inhabitable future – grandeur et décadence des HLMs.

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Culture Electronic arts New technologies

The Art of Gaming

If games are considered an artform, video games can be studied in art history classes.

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Culture Politics

Arts in Iran

Iran Modern is a retrospective of the dynamic art scene that existed in Iran prior to the 1979 Revolution, such as the Shiraz Arts Festival, and that might emerge again within the next 30 years.

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Cinema New technologies

«a movie was transmitted on Internet»

The very first film ever to be transmitted on the Internet was a film about bees transmitted by David Blair in 1993, and is still online.

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Storytelling Video

Mieke Bal

Mieke Bal is both an accomplished video artist and preeminent narratologist based in Amsterdam.

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Politics Science

EspacesTemps

Revue interdisciplinaire de sciences sociales fondée par le Prof. Jacques Lévy, spécialiste de géographie politique.

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Culture

Jan Krugier

The art collection of Holocaust survivor Jan Krugier is now on sale at Christie’s.
Art immonde et dégénéré selon le cardinal allemand Joachim Meisner.

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Cinema Culture

La rencontre de St-Gervais

A filmed encounter between two monumental directors : Jean-Luc Godard and Marcel Ophüls.

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Politics Science

As we may think

In 1945, after the war, Dr. Vannevar Bush published «As we may think» in the Atlantic monthly, calling all scientists to concentrate their efforts on pacific instruments and the dissemination of knowledge.