Can Sedition create a marketplace for digital limited edition art? Olivia Solon Deputy Editor, Wired.co.uk This week, the art world gave birth to a new platform called Sedition, which aims to create a marketplace for limited edition digital artworks. It has signed up some impressive names, including Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin and Shepard Fairey. These artists will produce pieces in editions of between 2,000 and 10,000, which are numbered, signed and sold for between £5 and £500, with Sedition taking a cut of the revenue. The platform aims to encourage people who might not be able to afford these artists' original pieces to become collectors of digital editions which they can access via their mobiles, tablets, PCs and connected TVs. Once you have bought an artwork, it gets delivered to your personal online "vault", which you can access via an app or web browser. My first thought when I heard about Sedition was "meh". However, the more I think about it, the more compelling I think it is. Secondly, the Sedition team has wisely gone for big hitters.
Ancient Origins | Reconstructing the story of humanity's past Cern residency programme unites artists and physicists Cern has launched a programme that aims to bring together artists and physicists at its laboratory near Geneva. Collide@Cern -- which falls into a wider Cern policy for engaging with the arts called Great Arts for Great Science -- is a three-month residency programme for artists to be mentored by leading scientists, supported by a stipend of €10,000. The head of Cern's arts programme, Ariane Koek, said: "The arts touch the parts that science alone cannot reach and vice versa. Collide@Cern gives Cern, artists and scientists the opportunity to engage in creative collisions that can occur when these two areas of human creativity and ingenuity come together." The first part of the scheme -- Prix Ars Electronica -- was launched in August at digital arts festival Ars Electronica. The chosen artist will spend two months at Cern and then one month at the Ars Electronica Futurelab, the festival's studio space. You can still apply for the residencies until 31 October.
Honouring ANZACS DINCA Rag Linen | Online Museum of Historic Newspapers Rachel de Joode A is for Animals A is for Animals offers an A to Z of animals in war, from mascots and messengers to creepy-crawlies. Animals are put to many uses in war. Sometimes they have jobs to do: the horses, camels, mules, and donkeys used to transport soldiers and equipment, as well as carrier pigeons and tracker dog with their special talents. Often animals are used as mascots and pets, or as symbols on badges and flags.
Wyndham Lewis Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Pour les articles homonymes, voir Lewis. Wyndham Lewis est né sur le yacht de son père au large de la province canadienne de la Nouvelle-Écosse. Début de carrière et vorticisme[modifier | modifier le code] Résidant surtout en Angleterre après 1908, Lewis publia ses premiers travaux (récits de ses voyages en Bretagne) dans la English Review de Ford Madox Ford en 1909. Toujours en 1912, il reçut la charge de réaliser une décoration murale, un rideau de scène et d'autres ornementations pour la Cave of Golden Calf, un cabaret d'avant-garde situé dans Heddon Street à Londres. C'est dans les années 1913-1915 qu'il trouva le style d'abstraction géométrique pour lequel il est le plus célèbre aujourd'hui, un style que son ami Ezra Pound surnomma « vorticisme ». Première Guerre mondiale : officier d'artillerie et artiste de guerre[modifier | modifier le code] BLAST : le numéro de juillet 1915 Les années 1930[modifier | modifier le code]
Owning our Aboriginal history: teaching resource for aboriginal studies Dessins érotiques: l'Art érotique d'Aurélie Dubois artiste contemporaine Watch the Destruction of Pompeii by Mount Vesuvius, Re-Created with Computer Animation (79 AD) A good disaster story never fails to fascinate — and, given that it actually happened, the story of Pompeii especially so. Buried and thus frozen in time by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, the ancient Roman town of 11,000 has provided an object of great historical interest ever since its rediscovery in 1599. Baths, houses, tools and other possessions (including plenty of wine bottles), frescoes, graffiti, an ampitheater, an aqueduct, the "Villa of the Mysteries": Pompeii has it all, as far as the stuff of first-century Roman life goes. The ash-preserved ruins of Pompeii, more than any other source, have provided historians with a window into just what life in that time and place was like. A Day in Pompeii, an exhibition held at the Melbourne Museum in 2009, gave its more than 330,000 visitors a chance to experience Pompeii's life even more vividly. Would you like to support the mission of Open Culture? via Metafliter Related Content: The History of Rome in 179 Podcasts