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Faces, Cambridge, Massachusetts
closure reason: died with disco (1990)

 

The Starck Club, Dallas
cr: unknown (1989)

 

The Cave, New Orleans
cr: ceiling collapse (1931)

 

Le Palace, Paris
cr: drug trafficking (1989)

 

The Living Room, Providence, RI
cr: building declared unsafe (1991)

 

The Blitz Club, London
cr: declining attendance (1989)

 

Air, Tokyo
cr: unknown (2016)

 

Golden Pudel, Hamburg
cr: fire (2016)

 

B018, Beirut
cr: bombing (2014)

 

Heartbreakers, Columbia
cr: insider deal (early 2000s)

 

Elgin Jailhouse, Aberdeen
cr: fire (1998)

 

Florida 2000, Nairobi
cr: evicted (2013)

 

The Booby Trap, Winter Park, Florida
cr: criminal activity (2015)

 

The World, East Village, NYC
cr: owner found dead on the premises (1991)

 

Disco Schatzi, Hagegrunn
cr: fire (2012)

 

In Extremis, Sarasota, FL
cr: demolished

 

Bongo’s, Bradenton, FL
cr: demolished

 

Stowaway Club, Newport, Wales
cr: fire (2018)

 

Bangor Cave, Blount County, Alabama
cr: illegal gambling (1938)

 

Reina Nightclub, Istanbul
cr: attacked by ISIS (2017)

 

La Favela, Bali
cr: gas explosion (1992, 43 killed)

 

Sari Club, Kuta, Bali
cr: terror attack (2002, 202 killed)

 

Christian Audigier Club, Las Vegas
cr: bankrupt (2014)

 

Arma 17, Moscow
cr: shut down by the Russian military (2016)

 

Art of Lovers, Osaka
cr: prostitution (2013)

 

New City Club, Tokyo
cr: structural instability (2014)

 

King Xhmu Discotheque, Sapporo
cr: unknown (2014)

 

Enchanted Forest Teen Club, Dayton
cr: burned (1972)

 

La Belle Angèle, Edinburgh
cr: arson (2002)

 

Proscape Gardens, Memphis
cr: unknown (1979)

 

The Bitter Lemon, Memphis
cr: unknown (1972)

 

Club Oberá, Oberá, Argentina
cr: paranormal activity (2013)

 

Lolito’s, Moscow
cr: front for a child prostitution ring (2014)

 

Cocanut Grove, Boston
cr: burned (1942, 500 people killed)

 

The Station, West Warwick, RI
cr: burned (2003, 100 people killed)

 

40/40 Club, Atlantic City
cr: destroyed by Hurricane Sandy (2012)

 

Medusa’s, Chicago
cr: lost its lease (1992)

 

The Hospital, Montreal
cr: no business license (2005)

 

Sutthisan Rama, Bangkok
cr: financial crisis (2004)

 

Cross Club, Prague
cr: safety code violations (2014)

 

The Tunnel, NYC
cr: non-payment of rent (2001)

 

Xenon, NYC
cr: declining attendance (1984)

 

The Doors, Johannesburg
cr: mass murder on premises (1997)

 

Pyyzm, London
cr: onsite rape and murder (2013)

 

Eclipse, Coventry
cr: continued drug arrests (1995)

 

Gatecrasher One, Sheffield
cr: burned (2007)

 

Pusher, Manchester
cr: police drug crackdown (1974)

 

Kettells, Seattle
cr: unknown (2009)

 

No Comment Club, Paris
cr: unknown (2014)

 

Cabaret du Néant, Paris
cr: waning of ‘clubs that celebrate death’ fad (1867)

 

The Nsect Club, Hampton, VA
cr: weak attendance (1995)

 

Cousin Bill’s, Oklahoma City
cr: tornado (2012)

 

Hillbilly Ranch, Boston
cr: burned (1980)

 

Chandalier, NYC
cr: unknown (1985)

 

The Metaphysics, NYC
cr: destroyed by WTC collapse (2011)

 

The Electric Circus, NYC
cr: outmoded (1970)

 

Shorty’s Underground, Cincinnati
cr: floor collapsed (1995)

 

Panorama Club, Portland
cr: unknown (2003)

 

The Odyssey, Los Angeles
cr: burned (1981)

 

Coconut Teaszer, Los Angeles
cr: foreclosure (2006)

 

The Starwood, Los Angeles
cr: unpaid taxes (1981)

 

Gazzarri’s, Los Angeles
cr: irreparable earthquake damage (1993)

 

Clifton’s Pacific Seas, Los Angeles
cr: declining attendance (1960)

 

Floodlights, Beverly Hills
cr: never existed (2000)

 

Nafta Club, Nazare, Portugal
cr: building collapsed (2002)

 

The Adventurers Club, Orlando
cr: unknown (2009)

 

Mystic, Malta
cr: mass suicide on premises (1970)

 

Honey Moon Trail, Rock Springs, Maryland
cr: owner murdered (1963)

 

JB’s, Flint, Michigan
c: burned (2014)

 

The Magic Kingdom, Indonesia
cr: bomb blast (2002, 180 killed)

 

The Cave @ Homa Chateau, Gullin, China
cr: flooded (2014)

 

Lavish, St. Louis
cr: unknown (2002)

 

Old Joanna’s, Swansea
cr: burned (1998)

 

Dady-O Nightclub, Cancun
cr: drug trafficking (2014)

 

Luv-a-Fair, Vancouver
cr: safety code violations (2004)

 

Memory Lane, Cayman Islands
cr: collapsed (2003)

 

Cabaret de l’Enfer, Paris
cr: demolished, replaced by supermarket (1950)

 

Satellite Lounge, Cookstown, NJ
cr: fire

 

Majestyk, Leeds, UK
cr: fire

 

The Axiom, Houston
cr: too many drug overdoses

 

Cheetah, Venice, CA
cr: fire

 

Playboy Club, NYC
cr: outmoded

 

The Vault, NYC
cr: destroyed during West Street expansion (1996)

 

The Mineshaft, NYC
cr: health code violations (1985)

 

Palladium, NYC
cr: purchased by NYU and demolished

 

Charlie’s Club, Moore, Oklahoma
cr: tornado damage (2014)

 

 

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p.s. Hey. ** diesel clementine, Hi. Oh shit, I only just realised that somehow my eyes must’ve jumped over your comment yesterday, and I have no idea why. I’m so sorry. When I start the p.s., my coffee intake and hence wakefulness is questionable, and maybe that’s why. Anyway, I just read your comment and it was fully rich and fascinating, and it wasn’t too long and nor did it contain anything that wasn’t both highly appropriate and a boon for me and the assembled. No worries whatsoever, and I apologise again. I’ll make myself more eagle-eyed starting today. ** jay, Hey, jay. That rhymes, I only just noticed. Happy to read your descriptor of the McCall work. I’m a fan, and I’ve seen his stuff live and know of what you speak. Interesting to imagine you typing that on an autopsy table. And to experience the autopsy itself second hand. It gives me sort of Ouija board vibes. Although I do hope for your sake that your vehicle is back to normal. Excellent day to you irregardless. ** James, Must be indeed. Well, I’m glad you’re dancing again, and I can feel it. When I was a kid, one time I came upon a worm that had a human-like face on its … tail, or whatever it’s called. It was one of those ‘scare off enemies’ things that nature gives to certain otherwise helpless creatures. It was scary as fuck. It looked like Marilyn Monroe. I smashed to mush with a shovel, which I still regret doing. I have so extremely no interest in going to Dubai. What is a ‘mock exam’? Well, I guess it’s mock exam, duh, but why would you be asked to take a mock exam? Seems weird. I’m so-so about coconut. Its taste needs to be pretty well hidden in chocolate’s for me to eat it. I liked being at an all-boys school. My school had a sister school, an all girls school, and they would ship us back and forth for events and dances and stuff. That was exciting for some reason. If you have a book on Fire Island, you are definitely gay. I don’t even have a book on Fire Island. That is really fucking gay. ** Lucas, The 20th, 8 days away, okay, not so bad. Awesome about the speedy appointment. Was your confidence about the exam today reinforced by the thing itself? My Wednesday was … let’s see, I started writing a maybe new fiction thing. That was a surprise. I had a coffee with someone I met first here on the blog who’s going to university here, and she was/is great, and that was fun. The rest was pretty random. I hope you exited the room where you took the exam hopping, skipping, and jumping. ** Dominik, Hi!!! Yeah, I feel sort of confident that we’ll conquer the film’s remaining hurdles, but it’s going to be tricky. Thank you! I think love was thinking that even your clothes and the food you bought and your house keys and literally everything you own would all be lamps. Good luck trying to imagine that. I’m surprised Las Vegas doesn’t have a hotel shaped like a giant genie’s lamp. Love turning everything you own into a nightclub, which even he can’t imagine, G. ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, B. Yeah, nice things, those Bullochs. So handy. The Piotr Uklanski piece is really nice, and, unlike the Bullochs, it doesn’t seem like it would shatter if you moshed on it. ** Steeqhen, Getting there, good. Did you manage to dot the final ‘i’ last evening? I guess that’s the thing: I don’t find gyms or at least the idea of them sexy. I know that’s idiosyncratic of me. I think I’m more into couch potatoes. Plus, as I’ve said before, I’ve always thought of my body as just a moving platform on which my head is transported. Yeah, I lived about 80% in my head when I was younger, and I kind of still do, and I wouldn’t change that for the world. So, yeah, you’re doing just fine. Thank you for wanting to watch our films. Ace the sprint to Xmas. ** Steve, The name Lawrence Abu Hamdan is familiar, but I’m not sure if I know his work. I’ll find out. Thank you. Everyone, Mr. Erickson has shared his 2024 ‘music top 10 list (with extensive addenda)’, if you’re interested, it is located here. It’s cold and increasingly colder here. I need to buy a scarf. I left mine on the metro. Drat. ** Joseph, Yay, disorientation is the goal of all goals. Well, not always, okay. Like if someone put a gun to my head, that wouldn’t be a good goal. Yes, your book, I love it! I’m almost finished reading it — I’ve been taking my sweet time — and it’s still scaling the heights. I don’t think you want to get on the level of Knott’s insanity, or least where it took him eventually. Have his cake but eat it too. Great post title, obvs. Yay! Thank you, sir! ** HaRpEr, Not that you should quit smoking, far from it, but Zac quit smoking about four years ago, and he’s gotten less sick around Xmas ever since, which I guess makes sense. But he still gets sick is, I guess, the point. I think maybe when you get outside the UK, Anthony Burgess’s name recognition lowers substantially? Or I’m just not paying attention in the right way, just as likely. Kavan is good, yes. ‘Ice’ is great. Dystopia is so extremely way maxed out in my opinion (too). Apart from, yes, ‘Harrow’ and the rare genius depiction. ** Who else but mee 🧸, Hey! It is a bit of an elegant year. I wonder why. We have chosen the one at the top, the ‘fireplace’ one, but we might spring for a second one, maybe the conch shell one possibly. Which one would you like to scarf down? ** Justin D, Hey, hey. I rarely reread entire novels, or almost never, but, yes, I do pick books off the shelf and make a beeline to bits that that have lingered and then luxuriate in their refreshed familiarity. It is fun: my game. I recommend it if you like indulging in such things. Yes, sorry, I’m behind on my email as seemingly always, but I’m almost there, and I am already thanking you from the bottom of my future heart, or I mean its future status. Are you hoping to get anything in particular gift-wise for Xmas this year? ** 𓆏D𓆏𓆏arby, Your name has never looked better, and that’s saying something. Wow, your drawings are great! I think my favorites, at least to start with, are ‘Ghost in the Room’, ‘Pretty circle with depth’, ‘Die! Hund!’, and ‘Ugly Expression’. What do those choices say about me, I wonder? I feel special. Thank you, pal and maestro! I don’t know what a band-aid blunt is, which is super square of me, I’m sure, but I like what it sounds like. Your humor hits the bullseye with me. You told me about touching the Boris guy’s hand, but the pit’s impactfulness re: you is news! I dipped into the pit at a Melvins show one time, and the next thing I remember is lying outside the venue on the sidewalk with half of my clothes torn up. I like hanging out at galleries and museums and the After8 bookstore and of course in cafes which is where I guess I hang out the most. Ramen, nice. It’s hard to find really good ramen in restaurants though, I don’t know why. At least in Paris. Anyway, that place sounds enviable. No, you shouldn’t delete, no, if you want my opinion. And I can 100% assure you that this blog isn’t a syop or a lab where I use you guys to cook up characters or anything. Nope. You’re in the clear around here. Enjoy whatever your weekend puts in front of you. ** Okay. I’m giving you 86 dead clubs, and, maybe more interestingly, how they died. A veritable minimalist nightlife obituary. See you tomorrow.

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Mona Hatoum Homebound (2000)
‘Homebound is a tableau of furniture and objects arranged behind a barrier of taut steel wire in a gallery all its own. This is a cluttered domestic environment of tables and chairs, cots, toys, kitchen utensils, lights, a birdcage. All wired-up, a whining current surges round the room as clusters of objects light up in turn, the aggressive sound amplified for our pleasure and disquiet.’

 

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Jan Nelson and Liza May Post Down (2004)
Sculpture, video

 

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Tokujin Yoshioka Crystal of Light (2020)
‘The enormous artwork (height 1.65m, width 3.5m) is placed near Exit B6 of Tokyo Metro Ginza Station and illuminates the inside of the station.’

 

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Claire Fontaine Italy (burnt/unburnt) (2011)
matchsticks, inflammable wall

 

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404.zero 3.2 (2021)
‘The entire audiovisual content was produced before real setting up – we spent two weeks in a warehouse in Saint Petersburg with a similar sound system, full tables of modular synthesizers, and visualizer. It was a new experience for us – never had the ability to deeply focus on sound and light for such a large-scale setup rather than counting hours before running the show.’

 

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Tatsuo Miyajima Time Waterfall (2016)
The work was shown across the entire façade of Hong Kong’s iconic 490-meter-highInternational Commerce Centre on the Kowloon harbour-front.The numbers of different sizes all flow down over the surface of the building at the different speed, representing individuality of people and multi-temporality of time.

 

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Monica Bonvicini Blind Protection (2009)
Blind Protection is a bundle of white neon tubes hung, turned on and blaring, from the ceiling. The light hurt my eyes.

 

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Su-Mei Tse Swing (2007)
If you’re like me you can’t wait to jump on for a ride, however it would all be over before it started as the entire piece is essentially a rigid light made of white neon tubes and controlled by a motor embedded in the ceiling.

 

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Bruce Nauman Green Light Corridor (1970)
Nauman enforces the contrast between the perceptual and physical experience of space in his sculptures and installations. Looking at the brilliant color emanating from Green Light Corridor (1970) prompts quite a different phenomenological experience than does maneuvering through its narrow confines.

 

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Anthony McCall Various works (1973, 1974)
Anthony McCall is known for his ‘solid-light’ installations, a series that he began in 1973 with his seminal Line Describing a Cone, in which a volumetric form composed of projected light slowly evolves in three-dimensional space. Occupying a space between sculpture, cinema and drawing, his work’s historical importance has been internationally recognized.

Conical Solid (1974)

Line Describing a Cone (1973)

 

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Conrad Shawcross Slow Arc Inside A Cube IV (2009)
Slow arc inside a cube is inspired by a description by the scientist Dorothy Hodgkin, responsible for working out the structure of pig insulin, a complex protein chain. Hodgkin did this by pioneering a technique called crystal Radiography, and compared the longwinded process of extrapolating the dense protein cloud from reams of chromatographic grids to trying to work out the structure of a tree from purely looking at its shadow. It is similar, of course, to Plato’s cave. The piece is the first in a series of works where a small but brilliant halogen light, on the end of an articulated arm, travels diagonally from one corner of a cube of mesh to its opposite side, the path it draws being not quite straight but slightly bowed. The piece is about the relationship between the moving point source of light, the cage, which is the only constant, and the changing shadow of this constant projected on to the walls of the space. It is the shadow of a cube, but it is not a silhouette but a shadow from within itself, maybe an inverse shadow is an effective way to describe it.

 

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Paul Chan 1st ^Light^ (2005)
1st Light is the first of a seven-part cycle of animations in which Chan addresses the themes of religion, politics, and art. A shape-shifting parable of politics and religion in a post-9/11 world, Chan’s animation is both morally and aesthetically resonant. Drawn on a computer and projected on the gallery floor, the simple but dramatic silhouettes in the work describe an apocalyptic vision of the world. Shadowy bodies fall, earthly objects rise to the heavens.

 

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Jennifer Steinkamp Madame Curie (2011)
The work was inspired by Steinkamp’s research into atomic energy, atomic explosions, and the effects of these forces on nature. Marie Curie was the recipient of two Nobel Prizes for creating the theory of radioactivity, and discovering radium and polonium. She was also an avid gardener and lover of flowers. An enveloping, panoramic work, this piece activates a field of realistically rendered moving flowers and flowering trees, drawn from a list of over 40 plants mentioned in Marie Curie’s biography, written by her daughter, Eve Curie.

 

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Louisa Fairclough Absolute Pitch (2014)
On each filmstrip is a single sustained note sung by a chorister who was given the instructions: “Close your eyes and sustain this (given note) for as long as you can. As you sing, picture a colour. Remember that colour”. Printed onto each filmstrip in parallel with the voice is a single block of colour. The five film loops cast the lines of the monoprint into physical space, the lengths of film slicing through the semi-dark. With the lenses pulled out of focus, the projectors throw large diffuse spots of colour and filmstrip shadow onto the walls and ceiling, the voices coinciding as the pentatonic harmony shifts through differing degrees of consonance.

 

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Anri Sala The Last Resort (2017)
’38 custom-built snare drums that have been upturned, installed with an interior light and suspended from the ceiling. Within each drum, an orchestral recording is played through hidden speakers. The musical track, a new variation on Mozart’s 1791 Clarinet Concerto in A Major, reverberates inside the drums to trigger their kinetic response.’

 

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Ann Veronica Janssens Rose (2007)
Seven beams of light and artificial haze (360 x 250 cm)

 

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Simon Faithfull Reenactment for a Future Scenario no.1: EZY1899 (2012)
‘This film depicts the Sisyphean efforts of a silver-suited commuter to board and fly in a monstrous rendition of a 1990s jet. The unreal vehicle is misshapen, blackened by fire and missing a wing, the craft will not fly, but the traveller undertakes his ritual of boarding and waiting for take-off whilst flames surround him.’

 

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James Nizam Visible Light (2013)
James Nizam, a Canadian artist, is creating geometric shapes using light and mirrors. Manipulating his surroundings, he takes advantage of the contrast between light and dark in order to create his sculptures. The installations utilize several lighting elements and mirrors in order to create a physical presence to the immateriality of light.

 

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Philippe Parreno Marquees (2006 – 2015)
Parreno’s iconic Marquees were made between 2006 and 2015. The Marquees and pianos are sequenced to musical compositions by Agoria, Thomas Bartlett, Nicolas Becker, Ranjana Leyendecker, Robert AA Lowe and Mirways.

 

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Shun Ito Orbit 2 (2015)
Après de longues années au sein de la compagnie de danse contemporaine Karas dirigée par Saburo Teshigawara, Shun Ito décide en 2001 de se consacrer à la sculpture cinétique. Les effets de la gravité, auxquels il a été particulièrement sensibilisé durant sa carrière de danseur, sont le thème principal de ses créations. La lumière est également un élément essentiel de son travail. La combinaison de lumières et de mouvements crée des rythmes complexes et une grande variété de formes et de couleurs, donnant à ses œuvres un effet cinématographique.

 

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Joana Vasconcelos Giardino dell’Eden (2015)
Plastic flowers, synchronous micromotors, LED light bulbs, transparent polychrome acrylic discs, electric system, spandex, PVC, MDF

 

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Thorsten Kirchhoff Overdrive (1998)
Oil and light bulbs on n.2 canvas

 

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Eugenio Cuttica Ataraxia (2018)
‘Argentinian artist Eugenio Cuttica displays one-hundred five fiberglass sculptures that stand atop white chairs and scale a ten-meter high sloping wall.’

 

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Cai Guo-Qiang WE ARE (2024)
‘Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang has addressed the reported injuries and distress that stemmed from his daytime fireworks display, WE ARE, that was staged last month at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. At the event, attended by a crowd of 5,000, according to the L.A. Times, rocks the size of quarters fell on the attendees which resulted in two reported injuries. Images captured by bystanders also appear to show one onlooker whose sweatshirt sustained burn holes from the falling debris. In addition to people being injured, there were multiple complaints regarding the sound the piece produced.’

 

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Edo Rosenblith Black Space/White Lines (2014)
‘Inspired by traumatic events in society and his personal life, 17 year old Edo Rosenblith’s artwork juxtaposes dark subject matter with humor in a stylized form of painting reminiscent of R. Crumb and Philip Guston. In Black Space/White Lines, the young artist takes the fairly comfortable experience of the traditional gallery wall as a starting point and reverses expectations by transforming it from pristine white to black and bathing the space in black light. Using paint markers commonly used by graffiti artists, Rosenblith presents an on-site wall painting—in the starkness of black and white—crowded with leering faces in various stages of cartoon anxiety.’

 

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Angela Bulloch Various works (2001, 2312)
For years Bulloch, with the help of Holger Friese and others, has been developing a series of works known as the ‘Pixel Cubes’. Each of the small, glass fronted plastic or wood boxes contains three fluorescent tubes. Using custom-made software, the fluorescents inside the cubes can be modulated to an almost infinite variety: 16 million colours, the same number as a standard computer screen. The individual cubes form the elements of a modular system which the artist then stacks up in different combinations, in cubes, towers, columns, or even as a cinema screen. Z-Point consists of 48 stacked light cubes that create a looped abstraction of the famous scene from Antonioni’s Zabriskie Point (1970) in which the heroine watches (or possibly imagines watching) the explosion of a Modernist house in the desert.

Angela Bullock Z Point (2001)

 

Angela Bulloch Disco 9 (2012)

 

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RaumZeitPiraten CinemaBackyard (2015)
An audiovisual, urban intervention with the CycloCopters of the artists collective RaumZeitPiraten. The CycloCopters are custom-built, light and sound emitting vehicles for urban interventions. Different models of old freight bicycles were modified and customized towards mobile, opto-acoustic systems that can be used to board and transform public spaces. With this rideable instrumentarium we try to open the cities for audiovisual live-experiments and performances in search of widened associative spheres, expanding our and the participants understanding of the public space and its potential.

 

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James Clar Dynomite (2006)
Dynomite is a series of audio interactive, tri-colour bars that pulse and change colour in rhythm with the music. Each bar has its own set of controls allowing the users to individually tune the colour, animation, and sensitivity, creating a multitude of combinations and effects.

 

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Charles Atlas Painting by Numbers (2011)
‘With his trilogy The Illusion of Democracy (2008–12), Atlas has abandoned the presence of human bodies in favor of numerical figures, animating a constantly expanding and contracting universe based on six digits. Casting 1 through 6 as the protagonists of these intricately choreographed video installations, Atlas pushes the limits of their “numberness” and evokes the pervasiveness of mathematical algorithms in our increasingly technologized society. In Painting by Numbers (2011), a sea of digits swells and subsides over six acts that culminate in a climactic finale.’ — MoMA

 

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Katie Paterson Light bulb to Simulate Moonlight (2008)
‘Spectral measurements of moonlight were applied to create a light bulb. The bulb provides a lifetime’s supply of moonlight, based on the average lifespan of a human being.’

 

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Cao Yuxi (James) ORIENS (2017)
ORIENS is an Audiovisual installation finished in 2017 by Cao Yuxi(James) within a 30M*14M*14M space at Today Art Musum in Beijing. This installation utilize the three dimensions of this immersive mapping projection space, sinks the audience into external dimensional atom blackhole that beyond the human’s perception.

 

 

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p.s. Hey. ** Dominik, Hi!!! All credit to Sypha plus I guess my technical help. Thank you so much about the film. The success brings new problems with it, and we need to sort them out, but the biggest hurdle has been passed, or I sure hope so. Aw, love so knows my needs. I owe him one. Love turning everything you own into a lamp, G. ** Misanthrope, Alex is a brat, in other words. Enjoy the spoils of victory. Any progress of the positive kind with the CEO? Maybe you should remind him what can happen to CEOs who don’t take complaints seriously. ** Some Guy, New name, same you. I do, of course, remember the time when your s*ave was a topic of discussion. How could I forget. Nice, nice: your Xmas. I always think about getting a tree but then I think more about it and I don’t. I probably should think less. I have no Xmas plans other than a Buche feast a few days before the big day. It seems you did miss this year’s Buche Beauty Pageant, but nothing ever gets totally lost around here, so if you want to see the contestants, voila! ** Steve, I think I remember Bret telling me that he saw Sypha’s post and was kind of scared by it, haha. Everyone, Do go see what Steve thinks about two films: THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG and Paul Schrader’s OH, CANADA. We are working on determining when and where the film will have its premiere, yes. Obviously wish I was there for the great sounding Media City Film Festival. ** _Black_Acrylic, Oh wow, a Xmas Attraction disaster? Could it be true? It seems like it’s been ages. Thanks, Ben. ** Steeqhen, I always think that opening a Word doc is the official beginning. From there on it’s either success or failure with no in between. Good luck. I’ve never been able to work well in a library, but my own place is quiet enough that even the quiet shuffling about in libraries gets too distracting. Speaking of distracting contexts, I’ve never been in a gym in my life. I’ve just looked at them through windows. I don’t even know what they sound like, but I guess I can imagine. I quit university after one year so I could write all day, so I get you. How much further to the finish line? My ‘high school’, which was a private all-boys school, had no art or creative classes whatsoever or even wood/metal shop classes. Pure academia plus gym class. But we school weirdos found each other and made art together in the margins until the school expelled us. I think they still prioritise creative classes in French schools, but I’m not entirely sure. In the US, forget it. I hope you’ve arrived into today in one complete piece. ** James, Done, that’s the keyword, Congrats. Enjoy refilling. 40+ degrees is in way no fun, but I remember trying to feel grateful that I wasn’t in Dubai. See you when you’re well rested and ready. ** Lucas, Sounds like you got a lucky break there, with the concert no-show at least. When do your holidays start? It must be soon, right? It’s like, what, wait, the 11th already. I’ll take a look at the paper that you found interesting, thanks! My night must have nice since I’m up and alert again but I don’t remember what I did. Oh, wait, played my video game, that explains it. ** hsnkktobg, Hi! Krasznahorkai’s great, at least sometimes, but the pleasure he creates is not speedy, yeah, that’s for sure. Good luck. Yes, I did get your email, thank you! I’m just behind on things, especially email, but I’ll write back to you very soon. Lovely to see you! ** Justin D, Sypha never does anything halfway, god love him. I’m in the camp that, at least for now and in theory, thinks remaking ‘AP’ as a film is a very uninteresting idea. But who knows, obviously. The proof is in the pudding, as my mom used to say. I really like ‘Glamorama’ too. I think my fave of his is ‘Lunar Park’, if I had to choose. Maybe. I’m so happy that no one I know expects or gives gifts or cards, and I’m totally in the clear. Not that Xmas shopping wasn’t fun. In fact, now that I think about it, I miss that. Sad. My yesterday was mixed. I made plans to hang out with a new friend of mine. Olivia, Mario’s origami companion creature in my video game, sang a disco song that made a temple that Mario needs to enter rise out of the desert. On the other hand, the first post-film breakthrough success problem raised its apparently ugly head. But what can one do. Envy on your Xmas shopping and even wrapping, sincerely. ** Darbz.⛄️, Hi Darbz and your snowperson too. Nice you have that comix and record store so approximately. Roberta Flack and metal, what a marriage. I do like brooms, so it’s nice to imagine you pushing and hurling about with one. Sure, I’d like to see the sketch, sure. Your professor sounds like a guy who will understand and appreciate your words. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I bet I’m not. I just described my day not even an inch north of here. It was basically good, I guess. I’m tempted to put a little pressure pad under my doormat that triggers that poorly tuned serenade. I might even actually do it. I hope your professor is dressed up as Santa Claus when you talk to him. ** HaRpEr, Haha. I read the ‘A Clockwork Orange’ novel after I saw the film, and that was a mistake. Anthony Burgess was an odd writer. It seems like he’s completely forgotten now. I never hear anyone say his name or refer to him. Makes me want to try him again and find out why. I hope against hope that you’re not getting sick. Zac always gets sick at Xmas. Always, every year. Although he’s not sick yet, but it’s a Sword of Damocles. So, … how are you? ** Joseph, Hi, Joseph! Your new book is so fucking good! ‘LP’ is my fave Ellis too. I just put together the blog’s annual Xmas Poetry Scroll post, and I found a Xmas poem by Knott that’s nice and weirdly not insane at all. I’m still hungry and utterly patient for your Jack Terricloth Day if such a thing becomes fruit. Dude, it’s always Halloween on DC’s. Thanks! ** Joe, Hi, Joe! Thanks, pal. We’re not, like, out of the woods, but we’re a whole lot closer to the highway that runs alongside it. Wow, I think I’m the same about ‘AP’. I hope that doesn’t mean we’ve become adults. ** Uday, Champagne uncorked. Congrats! One learns so much more by listening instead of talking. Not that talking isn’t instructive, I guess. Depending. There’s such a thing as pomegranate chapstick? Wow. You contribute to this place constantly and impactfully. Thanks, I can’t wait for our film to be alive. ** Okay. A day of lighted things. That’s your day. See you tomorrow.