Lenin's Study – Invisible Monkey

Lenin's Study – Invisible Monkey
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Lenin's study with invisible monkey: When Armand Hammer first met Lenin, in 1921 he gave him a bronze sculture of a monkey sitting on several volumes of Darwin. The sculpture remains in Lenin's study. (Sculpture: made by late-19th century German sculptor Hugo Wolfgang Rheinhold.)

The Invisible Monkey

Scambusters 419 - The Invisible Monkey
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From: Gilbert Murray
To: Dr Usman Danbaba
Subject: I have contacted the lawyer
Sent: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 11:33:09

Dear Dr Danbaba,
I am delighted to hear the good news about the death certificate. Well done, my friend: good work. You will be pleased to hear that I have contacted the lawyer that you suggested. He responded very promptly, and asked me to send him further details. I am about to respond to him, after which he will let me know how much his fees will be. The man seems to be on the ball, which is good news. Unfortunately, we have still not managed to catch the monkey that fell into the paint. The animal is incredibly difficult to see, and even if we manage to spot it, it moves far too quickly when we try to come close. All we see is a blur in front of our eyes. Perhaps there are disadvantages to this paint after all. You asked to see a picture of the animal. It wasn’t easy, but Beaker has managed to take a picture of it in the kitchen, which I have attached. If you look closely, you can just about see the monkey hanging from its tail from the lantern on the left. I trust you can now appreciate how difficult it is proving to catch the beast. I have placed Beaker’s other two monkeys under lock and key. Having one invisible monkey swinging about the place is bad enough. There is no way I am going to allow this to happen again.

I will get back to you when I know how much the lawyer’s fee will be.

Best regards,
Gilbert Murray


From: Gilbert Murray
To: Dr Usman Danbaba
Subject: I will do as you suggest
Sent: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 18:23:15

Dear Dr Danbaba,
Thank you for your email. You made some salient points. I will do as you suggest and contact this Barrister Akintola Williams first thing in the morning and see if he can help us out. Things are going from bad to worse regarding Beaker’s escaped monkey. The damn animal has only fallen into the vat of invisible paint. The little blighter was hard enough to catch when we could see him. Now that the monkey is nearly invisible, catching it is almost impossible. The paint on the monkey’s fur isn’t quite dry yet, so we can still just about see it at the moment leaping around the house. But if we don’t catch it before the paint dries, I don’t think we’ll ever be able to. I am extremely angry with Beaker. I told him to keep his monkeys under control. And now this has happened. The man is an idiot sometimes.

Let me know what the position is regarding the death certificate as soon as you can, Dr Danbaba.

Best regards,
Gilbert Murray

Gilbert Murray - Bio Scenarios

Gilbert Murray, Fictional
Character of Scambuster 419
Originally uploaded by F. Sigorski.

The Worm Sanctuary Owner
In which Gilbert Murray, owner of the Gypping in the Marsh Earthworm Sanctuary and a man with somewhat unusual religious beliefs, responds to yet another tempting offer put forward by a corrupt Nigerian banker. How long will Gilbert be able to keep this particular worm wriggling on the end of his hook?

Cast of characters
Gilbert Murray – owner of the Gypping in the Marsh Earthworm Sanctuary. Wonday Kumba – allegedly the head of the Treasury and Credit Unit of a Nigerian bank. Professor Allen Mobolaji – allegedly the Governor of the bank.


The Door Furniture Specialist
In which Gilbert is honoured to be able to help out a real princess who is seeking a complete stranger to act as her legal guardian and look after her $9 million fortune until she comes of age. Nobody knows more about doorknobs and knockers than Gilbert Murray, and unfortunately for the princess, Gilbert seems to be getting rather distracted by the thought of getting his hands on the princess’ own knockers...

Cast of characters
Gilbert Murray – a specialist in selling and maintaining door furniture. Princess Moreen Kabba – allegedly an orphaned Sierra Leonian princess. Dr Jack Joel – allegedly the Director of a bank in the Ivory Coast. Forgan Aka – allegedly a UN-accredited attorney who is associated with the bank.


The Inventor IV
In which Gilbert the inventor, aided and abetted by his newly-cloned assistant, attempts to help yet another crooked Nigerian banker syphon money out of a dead person’s bank account. How will Beaker cope when Gilbert sends him all the way to Nigeria with a briefcase full of money to meet the scammers? All does not go according to plan... according to the scammers’ plan, that is.

Cast of characters
Gilbert Murray – an eccentric inventor. Beaker – Gilbert’s new assistant, who is just as faithful and just as disturbed as the original Beaker from whom he was cloned. Felix Okafor – allegedly an Accounting Officer working for the Standard Trust Bank in Lagos, who appears to have difficulty remembering his own name. Mark Murray – allegedly Mr Okafor’s barrister. Raphael Ebube – allegedly the Manager of the Foreign Remittance Department of Standard Trust Bank Plc. Justice Kayode Esho – allegedly a judge working for the Probate Registry at the Federal Ministry of Justice.


The Poet
In which Gilbert does his best to reunite a poor orphaned refugee with the fortune left to her by her father, while attempting to teach her how to write poetry... with somewhat mixed results.

Cast of characters
Gilbert Murray – aspiring poet. Queeneth Bakayoko – allegedly an orphaned refugee, and heir to a fortune. Sir John Newman – Director of a security company in the Ivory Coast. Dr George Edward – President of the security company.


The Rubber Duck Manufacturer
In which Gilbert outdoes himself in irritating the staff at a security company whilst offering helpful money-saving tips to a poor orphan.

Cast of characters
Gilbert Murray – manufacturer of rubber ducks and other assorted squeaky rubber bathtime products. John Karba – allegedly a penniless orphan from the Ivory Coast, with a huge inheritance left to him by his father. Hassan Bello – allegedly the manager of a security company in the Ivory Coast. Joy Konte – allegedly Mr Bello’s secretary.

Scambuster 419

Betrogene Betrüger, Brand Eins, Heft 06, Juni 2007
Originally uploaded by F. Sigorski.

Anyone who is interested in "internet culture" here is the Scambuster 419 or Gilbert Murray story. I wouln't know how to call this - but it is interesting. The website gives you an insight into the world of the 419 advance fee fraudster. This website contains a wealth of useful information on 419 scams and advance fee fraud. However, most of the website is devoted to a number of email exchanges between “Gilbert Murray” (in a variety of guises) and a range of advance fee fraudsters, all of them desperate to get their hands on his money... and all of them failing miserably to do so (...)

(Rächer der Entnervten?)

Nasa Space Mission

Nasa Space Mission
Originally uploaded by F. Sigorski

Read today: An elementary school science teacher in a Chicago suburb doesn't have to turn on the news for an update on NASA's space mission. She just turns on her video baby monitor. Since Sunday, one of the two channels on Natalie Meilinger's baby monitor has been picking up black-and-white video from inside the space shuttle Atlantis. Live video of the mission is available on NASA's Web site, so it's possible the monitor is picking up a signal from somewhere. "It's not coming straight from the shuttle," NASA spokeswoman Brandi Dean said. "People here think this is very interesting and you don't hear of it often - if at all." Summer Infant, the monitor's manufacturer, is investigating what could be causing the transmission, communications director Cindy Barlow said. She said she's never heard of anything similar happening. "Not even close," she said. "Gotta love technology."

Photo: Astronaut Joe Tanner works to make the P3/P4 truss operational during his extravehicular excursion from the International Space Station in this view from NASA TV, September 12, 2006. Xinhua / Reuters.

Olympics 2010 Logo

Olympics 2010 Logo
Originally uploaded by F. Sigorski

Two different things - one thing in common - both "works" were getting literally "famous" for creating a sense of outrage among the public. Sudden appearance of tremendous interest in "visual arts"?

Second: The "Olympics 2010 Logo" by Wolff Olins, the worlds most influental brand business, London, England, 2007. Image: All rights reserved under the collective known as the Protected Games' Mark - London Organising Comitee of the Olympic Games Limited. (See: the first entry, titled: "The World Largest Timepiece")

The World Largest Timepiece

The World Largest Timepiece
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Two different things - one thing in common - both "works" were getting literally "famous" for creating a sense of outrage among the public. Sudden appearance of tremendous interest in "visual arts"?

First: The "The World Largest Timepiece" - X-mas Light installation by Architekten Gramazio & Kohler, Zurich, Switzerland. Image: Reuters. (See: the second entry, titled: "Olympics 2010 Logo")

Sauhaufen

Sauhaufen
Originally uploaded by F. Sigorski

"Sauhaufen" - a jolliest entry I found on the Blog Gebülde nicht Gelübde.

Auf dem Meer des Frohsinns

Gelesen: Auf dem Meer des Frohsinns.

Was Heisst Da Eigentlich "After"?

Heute Gelesen: Eine ewige After-Work-Party, aber was heisst da eigentlich "After"?

Daily Impressions

Studio
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Daily Impressions from Schöppingen, Germany. (News from North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany / Studio & Freelance Time)

Brand Eins - (Plan B Version 2)

Brand Eins, Heft 06, Juni 2007
Originally uploaded by F. Sigorski.

Heute Brand Eins gelesen. Erst immer auf Seite 10: Mikroökonomie: Die kleinste Wirtschafliche Einheit: der Mensch. Berufs und Leute Portraits. Beschlossen ich werde Kameltreiber. (Plan B - Version 2)

Heute Gelesen: ...Symptome der unvermeidlichen Desynchronisation zunehmend inkompatibler Beschleunigungen... Oder Sowas...

Sonnenfinsternis 1999, bei Büchelberg (Landau / Pfalz)
Originally uploaded by F. Sigorski.

Heute Gelesen: "Immer länger muss das moderne Subjekt auf seinen Tod und damit die Erlösung von den Zumutungen des Daseins warten. Kein Wunder also, dass spätmoderne Kulturen immer mehr Anordnungen bereit stellen, deren verräumlichte Zeit die potenziellen gesellschaftlichen Wunden heilen, die ein Überfluss an verfügbarer Lebenszeit unter den Bedingungen eines eklatanten Mangels an sinnvollen Handlungsmöglichkeiten unweigerlich reissen muss. Wartezimmer, holding patterns, Warteschleifen und die immer längeren (Warte)listen von Ereignissen auf deren Eintreten in der Angstlust möglicher Vergeblichkeit gewartet werden darf (der Anschluss, die Arbeit) sind keineswegs nur Symptome der unvermeidlichen Desynchronisation zunehmend inkompatibler Beschleunigungen in ausdifferenzierten Systemzeiten." (Exzerpt aus Michael Barchet, "Räume des Wartens, Das Kino, die Kleinstadt und der Tod", Begleitprogramm "Die Subversion des Stillstands - The Subversion of Standstill".

( ...unvermeidlichen Desynchronisation zunehmend inkompatibler Beschleunigungen in ausdifferenzierten Systemzeiten... ein Wahnsinnssatz. Warum kann das nicht einfacher und verständlicher formuliert werden?)

Aldous Huxley – The Doors Of Perception

Aldous Huxley – The Doors Of Perception
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Also ordered: The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley, Harper Perennial Modern Classics; Reissue edition, 2004, orig. 1954, ISBN-13: 978-0060595180.

Denis Diderot – Rameau’s Nephew and D’Alembert’s Dream

Denis Diderot – Rameau’s Nephew and D’Alembert’s Dream
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Waiting until this book arrives. It seems to take ages. Rameau’s Nephew and D’Alembert’s Dream by Denis Diderot. Paperback: 240 Pages, Penguin Books Ltd, 1976. ISBN-13: 978-0140441734

Graham Greene – Afrikanisches Tagebuch

Graham Greene, Afrikanisches Tagebuch, 1963
Originally uploaded by F. Sigorski.

Plot: Greene reist mit einer vagen Idee für einen Roman zu einer Leprakolonie im Kongo. Herausgegeben in der Reihe "Das besondere Taschenbuch". Was nun das "Besondere" Leseerlebnis oder Literaturerlebnis an einer Reiseabhandlung von Leprakolonienbesuchen und regelmässigen Saufgelagen mit Greene und seinen katholischen Missionsfreunde sein soll muss mir völlig entgangen sein. Fest steht nur der Beschluss nie wieder in meinem Leben ein Buch von Greene zu lesen - scheusslich langweilige und trübselige Angelegenheit (Reisegeschichte eines "mauligen" Exzentrikers.)

(Was ich sonst noch aus diesem Buch erfahren habe, ist dass Greene David Copperfield ganz arg toll findet - überzeugende Info oder... !?)

Für die Liebhaber: Graham Greene, Afrikanisches Tagebuch, Hrsg. Zsolnay Verlag, 1963, Deutsche Ausgabe Willhelm Heyne Verlag München, 1977, ISBN 3-453-43030-1

Wanted: Social Affairs Manager

Wanted: Social Affairs Manager to take day-to-day responsibility for maintenance and upkeep of my Facebook, Twitter, Last.fm and Flickr accounts, ensuring that all are regularly updated with frequent and, above all, scintillating new content to make the subject appear greater than the sum of his rather uninspiring parts. Experience desirable. Salary negotiable. Benefits negligible. Apply within (...)

An excellent example found on the web that explains literally what the social impact of blogging and Web 2.0. is about – if you need to explain it to someone (...) tags: wishful thinking

Informative

I went away.

I am back.

An excellent example found on the web that explains literally what blogging is about – if you need to explain it to someone (...)

Web 2.0.

I was reading one of those top blogs earlier.

It was very good.

I would put a link up for you - but I have forgotten what it was called now.

Sorry

An excellent example found on the web that explains literally what blogging and Web 2.0. is about – if you need to explain it to someone (...)

Philart & SCRO

Gestern Gelesen. Dann zwei Webseiten die ich mir merken wollte:

philart.de Homepage von Dr. Gabriele Gramelsberger. Philart: "Wie der Name vermuten läßt geht es hier hauptsächlich um Philosophie und Kunst. Das kommt nicht von ungefähr, da meine Schwerpunkte im Bereich Philosophie, Neue Medien, Computer und Kunst liegen."

scro | science communication + research office Projektplattform für Content Development. SCRO: "Themen an der Schnittstelle zwischen Wissenschaft, Kultur und Gesellschaft, seit 2002. Das Ziel von scro ist es, (inter-)aktive Zugänge zu den komplexen Themen der Wissenschaften zu eröffnen. (Inter-)aktive Zugänge entstehen direkt durch Diskussionen, Vorträge oder interaktive Dialogformen als auch indirekt durch einen Dialog orientierten, narrativen Stil: Nicht die Thematisierung von Endresultaten, sondern die Produktion und Genese von Wissen und Techniken, nicht Antworten, sondern Fragen charakterisieren scro Projekte."

Dark Fiber - The Kindness Of Strangers Field Trips

Screenstill, Second Life Field Trip
Originally uploaded by F. Sigorski.

Second Life field trips is what I currently do. Figuring out how this all works - what one might be able to do with it... all the field trips are made for a project I started here with a grant from the Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen - also the place where I'm working until end of June. (Project Dark Fiber / Schöppingen)

Link to the project blog: Dark Fiber - The Kindness Of Strangers

Memoirs Found in a Bathtub, Stanislaw Lem, 1961

Memoirs Found in a Bathtub,
by Stanislaw Lem, 1961
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Memoirs Found in a Bathtub, by Stanislaw Lem, 1961, unavoidably evokes Kafka and yet it would be an injustice to call it derivative.  Lem is capable of an amazing knack for characterization.  He is wildly comic, he is sardonic, perplexing, insightful.  His narrator inhabits a sort of backup Pentagon called the Building, buried in a mountain, cut off from the outside world, or perhaps from reality.  The whole novel deals with his striving to discover what his mission is and the name of his superior.  The total preoccupation of the Building and everyone in it is a subversion and espionage, of which Lem makes Jovian mockery.

This book contains a conception that goes beyond current short-term political satire. Here we are confronted with a totalization of the concept of intentional actions. This has been shown with a quite clear, perhaps ever ghastly consistency, resulting in surprising effects. I think this vision is both original and true. A human being is indeed capable of treating everything around him as a message. Choosing this as the principium of a novel is not a bad idea at all - even from the philosophical point of view. Totemism, animism and similar phenomena existing among primitive cultures are based on the premise that the world as such can be treated as an announcement addressed to its inhabitants. The fact that it can be used by makers of a certain social order and later go beyond the intentions of political dictators seems rather symptomatic. From this moment on everything becomes a message. The history can be viewed as a sequence of conspiracies and everything - including rain - becomes a symptom that allows foreseeing what will happen in the political sphere. All of this becomes a habit of an unfortunate species forced to live in such a closed system. To me this seems important in this book; its insanity - since this is a paranoid vision - is created with the necessary intensity and consequence and this valuable factor of the novel will always be preserved. It does not deal with - and this is what I am really proud of - a given transient social and political configuration. Instead it can be ascribed to many cultures, times and is capable of describing many different phenomena in diverse social systems. Moreover, this book is a successful combination of grim ghastliness with humor. Today this grim humor still seems to me a genius temporis and signum temporis! And there are no signs indicating that this is about to change... (Project Dark Fiber / Schöppingen)

Link to the project blog: Dark Fiber - The Kindness Of Strangers

Eden by Stanislaw Lem, 1958

Eden by Stanislaw Lem, 1958
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Just finished reading this week. Eden written by Stanislaw Lem. A short review: "Eden, written in 1958, opened the epoch of Lem’s mature science fiction works. Why do we still read this book with great interest? Certainly thanks to author’s exceptional imagination, who creates rich visions of the culture and nature of a remote planet at the same time keeping the reader in suspense - slowly revealing the mysteries of Eden with a dramatic suspension that characterizes all discoveries.” This book might be a good source for rather fictional attributes of plants and creatures for this project - especially “color- and sound descriptions” as well as organic “mutations”. Connected to the question: Is Second Life a Fata Morgana in 3d? (Project Dark Fiber / Schöppingen)

Link to the project blog: Dark Fiber - The Kindness Of Strangers

Dogville, Lars van Trier, 2003

Filmscreen, Dogville, Lars van Trier, 2003
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The second film of our "filmevening" - I believe it was on the 30th May - was Dogville by Lars van Trier. This film is not an easy one, nearly unwatchable - it is a long, long film but I would recommend to watch the film based upon its originality alone. Aesthetically, it is like nothing I've seen before in film. The film may be overlong and the delivery of the message overwrought, but it is an interesting journey.

End Tagline: Some things you have to do yourself.

Article about the film from Indiewire:

Idealism and Invention: Lars von Trier's Trying Masterpiece Dogville " Continuing his stubborn, aesthetically pathbreaking ways, Lars von Trier has produced, in "Dogville", a masterpiece that is nearly unwatchable. The film, which showed in competition here in Cannes, lasts just under three hours, and, since it takes place entirely on a gigantic, virtually empty stage, perversely tries viewers' patience from beginning to end. Another trying and even frightening thing about "Dogville" is that its politics, or better, its anti-politics, tend toward the fascist and are, at the very least, dangerously regressive. (The least of it is that it's also militantly anti-American.) Luckily, it also stars a sublime Nicole Kidman, luminous here in her most challenging role to date, and is made by the man who is probably the most brilliant director working in cinema today.

A title at the beginning announces that what we're about to see is a film in nine parts plus prologue. Our first view of the town of Dogville, located somewhere in the western United States in what seems to be the 1930s, comes in a high overhead shot. From this point of view the town resembles a Monopoly board or giant city plan come miraculously to life. Elm Street, for example - which has always lacked elms, as the novelistic narrator helpfully points out - is clearly labeled as such in the middle of the street, like on a map, and we see all of the town's 15 or so inhabitants virtually all the time, among various pieces of furniture and parts of buildings that stand in for larger structures. We see no doors, though people open and close them like so many Marcel Marceaus, and we hear them click.

Into this quintessentially American town (as imagined and symbolically re-created by a director who has never set foot in the United States), one day steps the amazingly beautiful Grace (Kidman), apparently on the lam from some gun-toting gangsters. She is rescued and befriended by an idealistic young man who is, in von Trier's malevolent cosmogony, significantly named Thomas Edison Junior. (He is played by British actor Paul Bettany, who more than holds his own in Kidman's powerful presence.) Tom convinces the townspeople to shelter Grace, which they do at first out of the kindness of their hearts, though their demands for appropriate recompense for such "selflessness" continue to increase. It is not hard to see behind this development a sharp and not entirely unfair critique of America's vaunted idealism that has often masked self-interest. The setting-up of this narrative and dramatic premise is a laborious, extremely (and purposefully) artificial process. Not many viewers, it is only fair to say, will want to commit the huge expenditure of psychic resources that is required.

The cast is strong and highly professional, which is an obviously crucial requirement for making something like this work. Besides Kidman and Bettany, we are treated to the fine work of veterans like Lauren Bacall, Ben Gazzara, Harriet Andersson, Patricia Clarkson, Jeremy Davies, Chloe Sevigny, James Caan, Stellen Skarsgaard, and Blair Brown. But it's Kidman's picture, and without her beauty, acting talent, and pure star presence, it's hard to imagine von Trier successfully pulling it all off. The townspeople's treatment of Grace continues to worsen, until she has become little more than an indentured servant and sexual slave in their eyes. By the end of this long, long film, von Trier wants us to believe that the human species is just naturally inclined toward evil and, that like a dog who cannot help but behave in a dog-like fashion, humans simply can't be expected to live up to their own high ideals. Even worse, he seems to be saying, any attempt to make the world a better place to live in is merely one more form of aggression that can only succeed in making things even worse. Critics will debate to what extent von Trier's critique is specifically directed at the United States (evidence for this position comes at the very end of the film in the documentary still photographs of 1930s America, which clash with and yet give flesh to the immense theatricality that has preceded them, accompanied by David Bowie's "Young Americans") or whether he means to indict the whole human race. Whichever, the likes of "Dogville" have never been seen before and are not likely to be seen again any time soon. (Filmreview by Peter Brunette) (News from North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany / Studio & Freelance Time)

Link: Dogville Film Review
Link: Indiewire the leading source on independent film since 1996

Isotype Figures by Otto Neurath

Isotype Figures by Otto Neurath
Originally uploaded by F. Sigorski.

An excerpt from Wikipedia: Otto Neurath was an Austrian philosopher of science, sociologist, and political economist. Before he was forced to flee his native country for Great Britain in the wake of the Nazi occupation, Neurath was one of the leading figures of the Vienna Circle. In Vienna, he was working on a project that evolved into the Social and Economic Museum, intended to convey complicated social and economic facts to a largely uneducated Viennese public. This led him to work on graphic design and visual education. With the illustrator Gerd Arntz, Neurath created Isotype, a striking symbolic way of representing quantitative information via easily interpretable icons. This was also a visual system for displaying quantitative information of the sort later advocated by Edward Tufte. Neurath and Arntz designed proportional symbols to represent demographic and social statistics in different countries, and to illustrate changes in these statistics over the 19th and early 20th centuries, so as to help the nonliterate or nonspecialist understand social change and inequity. This work has had a strong influence on cartography and graphic design. (Related ideas can be found in the work of Buckminster Fuller and Howard T. Odum.)

During the 1920s, Neurath also became an ardent Logical Positivist, and was the main author of its manifesto. He wrote on the verification principle and "protocol statements." As a member of the "left wing" of the Vienna Circle, Neurath rejected both metaphysics and epistemology. He viewed Marxism as a type of science, and science as a tool for social change. He was the driving force behind the Unity of Science movement and the International Encyclopedia of Unified Science, the latter consciously modeled on the French Encyclopedie. His collaborators included Rudolf Carnap, Bertrand Russell, Niels Bohr, John Dewey, and Charles W. Morris. The objective of the Encyclopedia was the systematic formulation of all intellectual inquiry along lines acceptable to the Vienna Circle and its allies. Only two volumes appeared. Part of his dream for unified science was to put the social sciences on a causal, predictive footing similar to that of physics and chemistry. Austria after the Anschluss was no place for Marxists, and so he fled, first to Holland and then to England, crossing the Channel with other refugees in an open boat. In England, he happily worked for a public housing authority. He died in 1945. Most work by and about Neurath is still available only in German. His papers and notes are archived at the University of Reading in England. (Otto Neurath was born 1882 in Vienna, died 1945 in Oxford)

Link: Wikipedia Article Otto Neurath
Link: Otto Neurath Website / Biography (German)

It's A Square World 1963 Part 2

It's A Square World 1963
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After the Isotype figures fooled around chasing each other they rest. See entry It's A Square World 1963 Part 1

Isotype are pictograms by Otto Neurath. Link: Isotype Institute

It's A Square World 1963 Part 1

It's A Square World 1963
Originally uploaded by F. Sigorski.

A Bob Godfrey film with Michael Bentine 1963. A lecturer pointificates on the European economy while the Isotype figures fool around chasing each other and finally come to rest. The lecturer doesn't realize anything of this.

Isotype are pictograms by Otto Neurath. Link: Isotype Institute

Opening Sculpture Projects Muenster 2007

sculpture projects muenster 2007
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Excerpt form the projects website: The fourth international sculpture projects muenster opens in the summer of 2007. Since 1977 this large exhibition invites artists from all over the world to create new work in the city of Muenster. The events have put Muenster on the map of world renowned addresses for contemporary art. sculpture projects muenster 07 opens on June 16, 2007 and runs parallel with the documenta in Kassel, from June 17 to September 30, 2007. The curators Prof. Kasper König (Museum Ludwig, Cologne) and Dr. Brigitte Franzen (Westphalian State Museum, Muenster), and Associate Curator Dr. Carina Plath (Westphalian Art Association, Muenster) have invited 37 artists to participate in the exhibition. The team in Münster: Dr. Christine Litz, Dr. Brigitte Franzen, Prof Kasper König, Dr. Carina Plath.

Artists: Pawel Althamer, Michael Asher, Nairy Baghramian, Guy Ben Ner, Guillaume bijl, Martin Boyce, Jeremy Deller, Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset, Hans-Peter Feldmann Dora Garcia, Isa Genzken, Dominique Gonzalez Foerster, Tue Greenfort, David Hammons, Valerie Jouve Mike Kelley Suchan Kinoshita, Marko Lehanka, Gustav Metzger, Eva Meyer und Eran Schaerf, Deimantas Narkevicius, Bruce Naumanm Maria Pask, Manfred Pernice, Susan Philipsz, Martha Rosler, Thomas Schütte, Andreas Siekmann Rosemarie Trockel, Silke Wagner Mark Wallinger, Clemens von Wedemeyer Annette Wehrmann, Pae White

Image: From the sculpture projects muenster 2007 website (News from North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany / Studio & Freelance Time)

Weekend Muenster

Harbour Muenster, Germany
Originally uploaded by F. Sigorski.

Fun weekend. Visited Swaantje in Münster last weekend. Sunny day. Visited the harbour front with its georgeous atelierhouses called "Speicher". The harbour has also many bars and restaurants where people sitting outside all night. (News from North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany / Studio & Freelance Time)