has been for sale for some time, as you have seen. The maintenance and ongoing development to keep our non-profit and idealistic platform for contemporary art running and safe from hackers etc. costs money that is no longer there. Because of small investments that are necessary now and the running costs, we will have to shut down with a heavy heart at the beginning of summer on June 21.
'Nondescript News' is a compilation of TV stills (partly hidden by the speed of the medium) from several European news bulletins. These public images were watched collectively and categorically and form part of our worldview. Stripped of commentary and freed from their context, these explicit images have been neutralised. They are open to interpretation; an appeal is made to the viewer's archive of images. This always produces (individual) associations. But these rely on external iconography and may include stereotypes and preconceptions.
What have we all been watching and can we still interpret images in their originality?
(www.hanskoster.com)
Once again NATO nominates an enemy and tries to create democracy by force.
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Smoking man in a park in Groningen (NL).
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Western economic and (geo)political interests create a highly selective media coverage and an inconsistent policy on human rights.
(www.hanskoster.com)
'Nondescript News' is a compilation of TV stills (partly hidden by the speed of the medium) from several European news bulletins. These public images were watched collectively and categorically and form part of our worldview. Stripped of commentary and freed from their context, these explicit images have been neutralised. They are open to interpretation; an appeal is made to the viewer's archive of images. This always produces (individual) associations. But these rely on external iconography and may include stereotypes and preconceptions.
What have we all been watching and can we still interpret images in their originality?
(www.hanskoster.com)
Political and economic powers always stick together, overruling true democracy.
The war on terror in Afghanistan started as a one-dimensional hunt for Osama Bin Laden.
It has turned into a tribal, asymetric war with a renamed enemy without a perspective of victory on both sides.
As the ISAF-forces are pulling out over the next years, the western world will nominate
a new enemy (Iran?) to justify their military expenses.
We need an enemy to feel save, but can we still afford it?
'Nondescript News' is a compilation of TV stills (partly hidden by the speed of the medium) from several European news bulletins. These public images were watched collectively and categorically and form part of our worldview. Stripped of commentary and freed from their context, these explicit images have been neutralised. They are open to interpretation; an appeal is made to the viewer's archive of images. This always produces (individual) associations. But these rely on external iconography and may include stereotypes and preconceptions.
What have we all been watching and can we still interpret images in their originality?
(www.hanskoster.com)
4 mile runner in Groningen seems to have lost his way.
(www.hanskostervideo.com)
The financial crisis marks the end of an era and is the start of social disintegration.
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