four Yip

uqbar. media art culture e Rinascimento Virtuale

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four Yip

Wednesday, January 7, 2009 - Friday, January 9, 2009
(10 PM CET - 01 PM SLT)

ARENA EX.IT slurl: (http://slurl.com/secondlife/Experience%20Italy%20NW/128/128/37)

Photos on Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/26414255@N06/

Blog

http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2008/08/the-mixed-reali.html

Eifachfilm Vacirca

uqbar. media art culture e Rinascimento Virtuale

Vi invitano all'apertura di /Invite you at the Opening of

Eifachfilm Vacirca

Saturday, November 08. - Monday, November 10. 2008

ARENA slurl (http://slurl.com/secondlife/Experience%20Italy%20NW/128/128/37)

OPEN NOW

The recent Financial Global climate is affecting us all in some way. From mortgage prices to investments, businesses fail and people loose their homes, jobs and lives as a result. The severe lack of forsight by those in control this has led to the potential crash of neo-liberalism.We now see the wealth of the world in a different light. An uncertain future is all we have to look forward to.
Europe was caught out by the financial crisis and did not see recession looming, the head of the Eurogroup of nations conceded today, amid estimates that the EU has plunged into a downturn. OCt 08
'Recession awaits us, and we didn't think that recession lay in waiting,' euro zone chairman Jean-Claude Juncker told members of the European Parliament in Brussels. Oct 08
'We were badly mistaken with the different sequences of this crisis,' said Juncker, who is also the premier and finance minister of Luxembourg. Oct 08
The European Commission in early November 2008 warned that the worst financial crisis for generations has driven the EU economy into recession and that economic growth would come close to a standstill next year.
"Increasingly, the signs point to a deep and synchronised global recession that began last quarter and has gathered momentum," said Bruce Kasman, an economist at JPMorgan Chase in New York. November 08
The eurozone’s second-biggest economy will grow by just 0.2-0.5 percent next year instead of the 1 percent previously predicted, Economy and Finance Minister Christine Lagarde told the Senate.The minister said the growth forecast for next year 2009 was “the lowest ever by a government in France” but that it was realistic.
“The international economic outlook has deteriorated much more than was expected, which will impact growth in Switzerland over the next several quarters,” the Swiss National Bank said in a statement in October 08
The sharp falls came after the Dow Jones index slid 5.05 percent on Wall Street November 7th 08 as investors braced for a gloomy economic ride after the euphoria of Obama’s election victory faded.“Now that the event is over, investors are sobering up and looking at the economic gloom,” said Mizuho Investors Securities broker Masatoshi Sato.
Billionaire philanthropist George Soros conceded in OCtober 08 that US influence was waning: "It has already declined. For the past 25 years, we have been running a constant current account deficit. The Chinese and the oil-producing countries have been running a surplus. We have consumed more than we produced. While we have run up debt, they have acquired wealth with their savings. Increasingly, the Chinese will own a lot more of the world because they will be converting their dollar reserves and US government bonds into real assets."
Japan By James Kirkup and Julian Ryall in TokyoLast Updated: 4:00PM BST 16 Oct 2008Telegraph.co.uk"To cope with the current crisis, further steps may be needed," Mr Aso told members of the Japanese parliament. "However, I still believe this package will be effective to a certain degree."Mr Aso's budget package will be mean direct financial support for farmers and fishermen paying higher fuel bills, and for Japanese consumers.The emergency budget is part of a wider 11.7-trillion-yen package announced in August.The Bank of Japan also made another 300 billion-yen of emergency loans to Japanese banks, hoping to unblock the Tokyo money markets. The central bank has been offering extra liquidity on an almost daily basis for a month.
euroAuthor: ČTKhttp://www.ceskenoviny.cz/news/index_view.php?id=338324Prague - The current situation on financial markets will affect the agenda of Czech EU presidency in the first half of 2009, deputy prime minister for EU affairs Alexandr Vondra said. The financial crisis has become a new priority of the European Union, Vondra said."When you are making preparations for a football match, you sometimes base your tactics more on offensive while another time you are more defensive. It is evident that in the economic situation in which Europe will be finding itself next year, emphasis will be rather placed on the protection and defence of what has already been attained," Vondra said.
Posted by Kevin Anderson Sunday October 12 2008 06.50 BST
Homelessness, the economic crisis and votingHomelessness is on the rise in the US, and the newly homeless could find their votes challenged.In Reno Nevada, joblessness has jumped 60% and a tent city of 170 people grew. Reno is trying to shut down the tent city and move people to newly opened shelters. CBS News has reported tent cities in Seattle, Portland, Fresno, Columbus, and Chattanooga. There are also reports of encampments in Seattle, San Diego, and Columbus, Ohio, Santa Barbara and Fresno California.The wave of foreclosures, which in some areas of the country disproportionately affect black voters, could also come into play. The Republican Party of Macomb County Michigan, one of three counties that make up Detroit, is planning to use list of foreclosed homes to challenge people who try to vote using those addresses.Republicans claim that they are trying to prevent voter fraud. Homeless and voting rights advocates are trying to make sure that people don't lose their homes and their right to vote.
USAAs veteran curator of that realm of American national power upon which all others ultimately depend, Greenspan has inspired remarkable deference. He long ago tamed the legislature, to the point that, instead of exercising oversight over his tenure, Congress has ritually idolized rather than interrogated him. Greenspan's aura has extended even to presidents of the United States. Bill Clinton went so far as to ask Greenspan in 2000 if he would like to be appointed to a fourth term as chairman, or whether he'd prefer to "go out now on top." The then 73-year-old replied: "Oh, no. This is the greatest job in the world. It's like eating peanuts. You keep doing it, keep doing it, and you never get tired."BY PETER HARTCHERAmerican Interests www.the-american-interest.com Winter Issue
“Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders’ equity, myself included, are in a state of shocked disbelief,” he told the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
Mr. Greenspan conceded: “Yes, I’ve found a flaw. I don’t know how significant or permanent it is. But I’ve been very distressed by that fact.”
Mr. Greenspan said that he had publicly warned about the “underpricing of risk” in 2005 but that he had never expected the crisis that began to sweep the entire financial system in 2007.
“This crisis,” he told lawmakers, “has turned out to be much broader than anything I could have imagined. It has morphed from one gripped by liquidity restraints to one in which fears of insolvency are now paramount.”NEW YORK TIMES (US)
Greenspan’s sins return to haunt usBy David BlakePublished: September 18 2008 18:39 Last updated: September 18 2008 18:39
Back in 2002, when his reputation as “The Man Who Saved the World” was at its peak, Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the Federal Reserve, came to Britain to pick up his knighthood. His biggest fan, Gordon Brown, now the UK prime minister, had ensured that the citation said it was being awarded for promoting “economic stability”.Even as things went completely wild, Mr Greenspan dismissed those who warned that a new bubble was emerging. It was just a case of a little “froth” in a few areas. Later, after waiting until 2007, two years after he left office, he conceded that “froth” had been his euphemism for “bubble”. “All the froth bubbles add up to an aggregate bubble,” he told the Financial Times......Mr Greenspan realises that something big has happened and describes it as a “once in a hundred years” event. But then, you do not get Alan Greenspans coming along every day.Finincial Times (UK) Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2008
Neoliberalism, White (Male) Privilege & the Current Financial Crisisby Jessie on Sep 30, 2008 at 11:29 am Make no mistake, all the available evidence suggests that the American political economy is headed for a major crash. Some are even speculating that this is the end of American economic dominance in the world’s financial market. But don’t be deceived by the blame-the-victim rationalizing that’s being floated now. Let’s be clear about what policies and which people are behind the current financial crisis: neoliberal policies and the overwhelmingly majority of economically privileged white men (photo from same link) who created, implemented and benefited from those policies.Neoliberalism refers to a set of policies that encourage “less government” and unfettered (and unregulated) capitalism. The key elements of neoliberalism include: 1) the rule of the market, 2) reducing government expenditures on social services, 3) deregulation, 4) privatization, and 5) gutting the notion of “the public good.” The end result of neoliberal policies is that while a handful of people get very, very rich, these policies simultaneously exacerbate the suffering of just about everyone else and increase domestic and international instability. So, what we’re seeing now is just the logical, perhaps inevitable, result of these policies.

BIO

Ah a BIO .. thats hell for me , lol, but it has to be I know, I have seen so much but cant say everythingWell you know, I studied Ecology, then I copied VHS cassettes, broke up with the study, yes mud ..a lot of mud.. We were the biggest in Switzerland. I was the man in the Studio, the Epic Centre, knew everybody also in cut, TV journalist, anchor man, wrote for the news, scanned Reuters, AP, then made pay per view assignments, Hollywood, Film Marketing, Theatre and Theatre video master. We were 3 times awarded for Theatre of the Year, yes because of the video’s and then Streaming Red Bull TV, UNO, docters, I really saw a lot and then SAP events, build a elite Club, got a burn out.. and now SL performance Art
I know hahaha, Don’t want to anymore, video is hell, all those wanting to make a carrier and grow into it come to me, whining, then they are all alone. I saw people.. unbelievable: Weapon merchants, porn producers, politicians, always being the one trustable to make their trash worthy. They adopt you because they know the moving image is of great power and I am the master there, not really belonging and hidden in the society so they even have more trust because I am like invisible and must be like not existing. I trust no one anymore I am d-oo-b-cc. Creative commons is my answer. When they don’t have a copyright they are screwed.

http://d-oo-b.cc/

http://flickr.com/photos/arcorosca/sets/72157608868260247/show/with/3022070960/

Selavy Oh

uqbar. media art culture e Rinascimento Virtuale

Vi invitano all'apertura di /Invite you at the Opening of
Selavy Oh
venerdi/friday 31. ottobre/october - domenica/sunday 02. novembre/november. 2008

ARENA slurl



BIO

rezzed 2/28/2007

Conceptual Artist

The idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work.
Color and texture are ends in themselves.
Things that exist exist, and everything is on their side.
The important thing is just this matter of timing ...

Email: ohselavy@yahoo.com
Web: http://www.flickr.com/photos/selavyoh/collections/72157604531361694/
http://odysseyart.ning.com/photo/album/listForOwner?screenName=selavy

Selected works

Solo Exhibitions
Nested cubes (Angelgate 2008)
Systems of reference (Arthole 2008)
Nested cubes (curated by Helfe Ihnen, DEsign Island 2008)

Solo Performance
Micro-performances (curated by Nur Moo, Poetik Party, Sintetika, 2008)

Permanent Exhibition
Tectonics (Museo del Metaverso 2007-2008)
Cube descending ... (Museo del Metaverso 2008)
The Conditions of Discourse (Museo del Metaverso 2008)

Group Exhibitions
Sketchbook (Moleskine for “Rinascimento Virtuale”, curated by Fabio Fornasari, Firenze, 2008)
Soft Structure ("Kiss The Sky" curated by DanCoyote Antonelli, NMC Arts Lab 2008)
Frozen moment ("Kiss The Sky" curated by DanCoyote Antonelli, NMC Arts Lab 2008)
Spatial Decomposition II ("Radiance" curated by Bau Ur, Angelgate 2008)
Invisible space & double structure (SL5B, 2008)
Forbidden space & spatial anomaly (curated by Amy Freelunch & Jay Newt, BiW, SL5B, 2008)
Self portrait ("The REAL me" curated by Oberon Onmura, Man-a-hatta Gallery 2008)

Open Exhibitions
Chain (Brooklyn Is Watching 2008)
Object (attractive art) (Brooklyn Is Watching 2008)
Forbidden space (Brooklyn Is Watching 2008)
Spatial Decomposition (Brooklyn Is Watching 2008)
Black Cube (various locations, 2007-2008)
Architectural Intervention (Open Odyssey 2007)
Architectural Intervention II (Brooklyn Is Watching 2008)
Blue Curtain (Open Odyssey 2007/ Brooklyn Is Watching 2008)
Cubic Hail (Brooklyn Is Watching 2008)
Spiral (1001 white cubes) (Brooklyn Is Watching 2008)
Leaving traces ... (Brooklyn Is Watching 2008)

Selected Publications (online)
http://amyfreelunch.wordpress.com/2008/10/15/images-from-the-new-podcast/
http://brooklyniswatching.com/2008/06/06/selavy-oh-and-rauschenberg/
http://smarthistory.us/blog/149/the-attention-economy-and-attractive-art-by-selavy-oh/
http://npirl.blogspot.com/2008/07/its-hip-this-week-to-be-square-ish.html

Therese Carfagno

uqbar. media art culture e Rinascimento Virtuale

Vi invitano all'apertura di /Invite you at the Opening of

Therese Carfagno
lunedi/monday 27 - mercoledi/Wednesday 29 ottobre/October 2008

ARENA slurl

BIO
I came to Second Life in February 2007. I soon got a job as a journalist, and got to meet the most interesting artists in SL. Seeing so much creativity inspired me to start taking pictures myself. I find that taking pictures helps me the look at the world a little closer – and there are so many wonders to see in SL.

I have no interest in calling myself an artist. I take snapshots. If I'm happy with the picture because of the motive, the colours, the people in it or anything, i upload it to Flickr. That's it. And if someone else like what I do, that's even better.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/carfagno/
http://theresecarfagno.wordpress.com/

Inaugurazione Arena e calendario degli eventi

ARENA calendar.pdf

Questa sera, alle ore 22:00 , nella sim di Ex.it. ARENA apre i battenti con l’esibizione di due artisti italiani, Shellina Winkler e Solkide Auer.
Il termine ARENA esplicita bene il senso di questo evento, che vedrà più di quaranta artisti di calibro internazionale, disposti secondo una successione temporale ristretta, in un susseguirsi di mostre, performance, concerti e installazioni, dove oggetti colori avatar suoni chat teleport si fonderanno in una unica fantasmagorica performance che durerà quasi quattro mesi.

Questo straordinario avvenimento, il primo del genere in Second Life, sarà concomitante con la mostra Rinascimento Virtuale di Firenze, che ieri ha aperto le porte del Museo di Antropologia, dove sono allestite e mostrate le opere degli artisti che operano in World e non solo, gli stessi che
parteciperanno ad ARENA.

Qui allegato il calendario degli eventi di Arena!


Grand Opening of ARENA and Exhibitions Calendar

This evening, at 10 PM (1 PM SLT), on the Ex.it SIM, ARENA will opening with the exhibition of two italian Artists, Shellina Winkler e Solkide Auer.

The Name “ARENA” well express the sense of this event: fifty International artists, one after another in a short period, with exhibitions, performance, concerts, installations, where objects, avatars, sounds, chat, teleports will merge together in a four month wonderfull performance.

This extraordinary event, the first on Second Life, is simultaneously with Rinascimento Virtuale at Florence, that yesterday was opened at the Museo di Antropologia, where are show the art works of the SL artists, the same that will partecipate to ARENA.

In attachment you will find the ARENA’s Exhibitions Calendar !

ARENA Call for Artists: artisti partecipanti

ARENA
Call for artists

these are the "artists" that will exhibit their works
on EX.IT land http://slurl.com/secondlife/Experience%20Italy%20NW/128/128/SLURL37
these will be published as your presentation on the social network di uqbar. media art culture
and at the exhibition Virtual Renaissance (Oct 21 2008 to Jan 07 2009 Florence-Italy).


• 2LifePhotos associazione di fotografi (ChrisTower Dae)
• Akira Gonaikawa
• Alan Sondheim
• AVATAR ORCHESTRE METAVERSE (AOM) (Blaisedelafrance Voom)
• Bingo Onomatopoeia
• Biagio Francia (Aka Blaise de la France Voom)
• Bryan Oh
• Caterina Davinio
• Cheen Pitney
• Chi5 Shenzhou
• Cienega Soon
• Comet Morigi
• Dancoyote Antonelli
• DB Bailey
• Douglas Story & Desdemona Enfield
• Eifachfilm Vacirca
• Evaluna Sperber
• Evo Szuyuan
• Four Yip
• Frieda Korda
• Georg Janick (aka Gary Zabel)
• Giugiola and MariTer Auer
• Giuseppe Stampone
• Gretel Fehr
• Harper Beresford
• Helissa Halasy aka Elisa Laraia
• Holy888 Skjellerup
• Humming Pera
• Ichtyo Brome
• Kimberly Mirabeau
• Leif Inge (aka Gumnosophistai Nurmi)
• Lucian Iwish
• Man Michinaga con Second Front
• Marco Manray
• MillaMilla Noel - Luce Laval
• MosMax Hax
• Nathalie Fougeras
• Nicolas Sack
• Patrick Moya
• Sarima Giha
• Sasun Steinbeck
• Sca Shilova
• Selavy oh
• Shellina Winkler - Solkide Auer
• Stephen Beveridge aka Sowa Mai
• Stephen Venkam
• Therese Carfagno
• The CARP Group Events (Velazquez Bonetto)
• Wirxli FlimFlam


These are the links where find all the informations.
http://uqbar-mediaartculture.ning.com/
http://uqbararena.blogspot.com/
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=36050864877



ARENA
Call for artists

questi sono gli “artisti” che esporranno le proprie opere
presso la land di EX.IT http://slurl.com/secondlife/Experience%20Italy%20NW/128/128/SLURL37
all’interno del network di uqbar. media art culture
e alla mostra Rinascimento Virtuale (21/10/08-07/01/09, Firenze- Italy.)


• 2LifePhotos associazione di fotografi (ChrisTower Dae)
• Akira Gonaikawa
• Alan Sondheim
• AVATAR ORCHESTRE METAVERSE (AOM) (Blaisedelafrance Voom)
• Bingo Onomatopoeia
• Biagio Francia (Aka Blaise de la France Voom)
• Bryan Oh
• Caterina Davinio
• Cheen Pitney
• Chi5 Shenzhou
• Cienega Soon
• Comet Morigi
• Dancoyote Antonelli
• DB Bailey
• Douglas Story & Desdemona Enfield
• Eifachfilm Vacirca
• Evaluna Sperber
• Evo Szuyuan
• Four Yip
• Frieda Korda
• Georg Janick (aka Gary Zabel)
• Giugiola and MariTer Auer
• Giuseppe Stampone
• Gretel Fehr
• Harper Beresford
• Helissa Halasy aka Elisa Laraia
• Holy888 Skjellerup
• Humming Pera
• Ichtyo Brome
• Kimberly Mirabeau
• Leif Inge (aka Gumnosophistai Nurmi)
• Lucian Iwish
• Man Michinaga con Second Front
• Marco Manray
• MillaMilla Noel - Luce Laval
• MosMax Hax
• Nathalie Fougeras
• Nicolas Sack
• Patrick Moya
• Sarima Giha
• Sasun Steinbeck
• Sca Shilova
• Selavy oh
• Shellina Winkler - Solkide Auer
• Stephen Beveridge aka Sowa Mai
• Stephen Venkam
• Therese Carfagno
• The CARP Group Events (Velazquez Bonetto)
• Wirxli FlimFlam


Questi i link dove trovare tutte le informazioni.

http://uqbar-mediaartculture.ning.com/
http://uqbararena.blogspot.com/
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=36050864877