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.
More and more newsbulletins make use of 'embedded footage': pictures from CCTV, widely discussed internet clips, 'newsletters' and 'viewer videos'. It is a logical development of control over society and, on the other hand, the possibility of recording every event and publishing it on the Internet.
Applying 'embedded footage' meets the demand for 'real life entertainment': frequently images become content and objectivity is not (always) guaranteed.
Are we happy to conclude that the mass media are now at last accessible to the masses and keep a close eye on society, or are we concerned about the imminent erosion of serious newsbulletins and the evaporation of journalistic ethics?
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Donated to 2010 VisualAIDS Benefit Auction hosted by ZieherSmith http://www.thebody.com/visualaids/current/postcards2009.html
this series of paintings exploits the beauty of the oil medium and the assumed uglyness and repulsivness of the subjectmatter.
