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Hiroshima mon amour

In 1959, Alain Resnais compared the Hiroshima bomb to failed relationships.
In 2010, Americans and Japanese have agreed to work together on the «Hiroshima Reconstruction Project», supervised by Eric Hanson (xRez Studio), to create a virtual model of what Hiroshima was like before 1945.

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Culture Politics

Soi-même comme un autre

In «Soleil de la Conscience», Edouard Glissant, when visiting Paris from La Martinique, contrasts the gaze of «the Son» (le Fils) and the vision of «the Stranger» (l’Étranger).

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Cinema New technologies

Où va le cinéma ?

Archive en ligne de rencontres et débats qui ont eu lieu en 2008
au centre Pompidou à Paris.

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Cinema New technologies

Bolex Digital

Resurrection of the Bolex camera, with the first digital model.

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Culture Education

How to destroy the Jews

First MOOC on The Holocaust of European Jews by two History professors of UC Santa Cruz (Jewish studies).

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Culture

Slow Attitude

The Swiss have the reputation for being very slow : «chi va piano, va sano e va lontano».
Slow food, slow dance, slow stories, slow change : slow attitude.

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Cinema

Terrain vague

Terrain vague is a new collective of young filmmakers based in Lausanne.

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Electronic arts

Towards a scientific architecture

Nicholas Negroponte‘s SEEK exhibition on information technologies and the arts, at the Jewish Museum of New York City in 1970, became a milestone in the history of electronic arts.

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Culture Politics

Hirschhorn in the Bronx

Swiss contemporary artist Thomas Hirschhorn is building a temporary public monument in the Bronx dedicated to the memory of Italian marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci, who developed the concept of cultural hegemony.

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Cinema

RIP Harris Savides

Rétrospective au MOMA d’un des plus grands chefs opérateurs américains mort à l’âge de 55 ans.