The A-WAL Public Art Project

The A-WAL Public Art Project is an experimental initiative that situates art in the vernacular through the commissioning of curators and artists for special projects in technovernacular and non-traditional environments. This project is at once central and extracurricular to A-WAL email, the email where cyber expression is commandeered through use of art and personal images as backgrounds. A-WAL has been featured as extension of exhibition at Satellite Project Shanghai Biennial, Observatori Contemporary (Valencia, Spain), Spring/Wooster graffiti project (New York), and will be present at the Venice Biennale in various unorthodox locales including a cave. A-WAL challenges traditional and technical modes of communications channels, redefines the relationship of public/private, and attacks the bourgeoisie notion and privileged role associated with collecting.

A-WAL Public Art Project | Edition: Quarter 2, 2007 | Vers des lendemains qui chantent. | Curated by Tirdad Zolghadr

Artists featured in this edition: Cassius Al Madhloum, Fia Backström, Cabaret Voltaire (featuring a dotmaster piece), the Parking Gallery - a project by Amirali Ghasemi, and Richard Rhys.

The Q2 project is on the A-WAL website

Do you like to be Jackson Pollock ?!

Do you like to be a abstract expressionism painter ? what do you think about Jackson Pollock ?! you as Jackson Pollock ;) ?

heh, hell yess...with no additional description go check out this link > http://www.jacksonpollock.org/ and enjoy painting just like Pollock ! feel free to move your mouse cursor ;)

The All-TIME 100 Albums

By JOSH TYRANGIEL AND ALAN LIGHT Published: Monday, November 13, 2006

So here's how we chose the albums for the All-TIME 100. We researched and listened and agonized until we had a list of the greatest and most influential records ever - and then everyone complained because there was no Pink Floyd on it. And that's exactly how it should be. We hope you'll treat the All-TIME 100 as a great musical parlor game. Read and listen to the arguments for the selections, then tell us what we missed or got wrong. Or even possibly what we got right.

for the complete list click here>>

Nachtwey : The Messenger

WARPHOTOGRAPHER
"Every minute i was there, i wanted to flee. i did not want to see this. would i cut and run, or would i deal with the responsibility of being there with a camera ?"

i remember that i had 12 or 13 years old and my father bought my 1st photo magazine. that issue of photo magazine contained the best photos of 1992-1993. i remember i saw a photo that impressed me too much and that photo showed the figure of a mother who lifted up her baby's body that enshrouded. the photo was taken from Somalia's famine in 1992. the photographer's name was James Nachtwey. many years after that i knew more about him and his artworks.

today's afternoon i watched the oscar nominated documentary movie called "War Photographer". a film by Christian Frei. a documentary movie about James Nachtwey's life & photos. wow ! i don't know what i should say. this movie makes you dumb. all the scences come and go and make you speechless. you see everything from an artist. a true artist. a real human. with real feelings that may no one of us know them. you watch this movie from two cameras. which one from our view to James Nachtwey and the second camera from James' view to the subjects. second camera installed on James' photocamera. i don't want to talk more about this movie and James Nachtwey (because i know all of you know more about him than me) and i prefer that you watch this movie and judge it by yourself. this movie is a masterpiece. a unique one. a movie about everything that the one & only James Nachtwey watches by his camera.

quote in the begining of this entry by James Nachtwey.
photo of James Nachtwey is taken by John Livzey.