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A pequena morte
Constelações, ensaios sobre cultura e técnica na contemporaneidadeJosé Bragança de MirandaEdição Sistema Solar, 2023 “É preciso abandonar a mística da salvação que só relança o processo. Aceitando a finitude, vivendo numa errância longe dos arkhai, habitando no abismo da medialidade sem fim, surge a questão da política como imperativo absoluto.”— José Bragança de Miranda Uma…
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For a garden by Manuel Casimiro
Today, one of Manuel Casimiro’s most representative artworks was pre-inaugurated at Fundação Casa de Mateus, in Vila Real: O Jardim Pintado [The Painted Garden] — a project from 1992, materialized and exhibited for the first time in 1996 at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, followed by a second installation at Fundação de Serralves in…
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Para um jardim de Manuel Casimiro
3 de dezembro de 2023Foi hoje pré-inaugurada na Fundação Casa de Mateus, em Vila Real, uma das mais representativas obras de Manuel Casimiro: Jardim Pintado — projeto de 1992, materializado e exposto pela primeira vez em 1996 no Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea, a que seguiu uma segunda instalação instalação na Fundação de Serralves em…
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The guillotine is back
I thought religious wars were rural modes of atavism from the past. I was wrong. Nevertheless, I still don’t think people should behead statues or slash paintings to prove an argument. Suffragist Mary Richardson’s desperate and symbolic act was and is a radical and profound cultural critique of the patriarchal status quo. JUST STOP OIL’s…
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Intersections
ACPDo you believe in reality?ChatGPTI’m just a computer program, so I don’t have beliefs or consciousness. I exist to provide information and assist with tasks to the best of my abilities based on the data and algorithms I’ve been trained on. Whether or not one believes in or questions the nature of reality is a…
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A leftist very superficial report on AI
Kate Crawford presents Atlas of AI as a thoughtful academic anatomy of Artificial Intelligence. Though very well written (certainly with good alien editing work), it is more of a leftist journalist ‘investigation’ than a proper essay on AI. What is written by Kate Crawford about AI applies ‘pari passu’ to most technologies since the dawn…
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O que importa mesmo é a censura
Os tontos acreditam na espuma dos dias, ao ponto de se afogarem nela. GALERIA QUADRUM, Lisboa (1973 a 2006) Nome do artista [ano de exposição] 1973-1995 [192 autores] Adelaide Colher [1980]Alan Davie [94]Alberto Carneiro [75, 77, 78, 79, 81, 82, 83, 85, 90]Alberto Jose [83]Alice Jorge [73]Alvaro Lapa [77, 82, 83]Amaral da Cunha [82, 83,…
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In advance of an absent mind:
Histories of a CollectionModern and Contemporary Art from CAM 05 May – 18 Sep 202310:00 – 18:00 SAT, 10:00 – 21:00 CLOSED ON TUESDAYLocationMain GalleryCalouste Gulbenkian Foundation We celebrate CAM’s 40th anniversary with an exhibition that follows the key moments of this important collection, from its first acquisitions in the 1950s until the present day.In…
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The intersectional wound and the post-contemporary screen
Preface to a theory of Portuguese art By António Cerveira Pinto As in any critical structure that yields to an excessive accumulation of contradictions, arrogance, repressions, injustices and silences, as in any collapse, revolution, or even a slower mutation, there is, in the change of paradigms, inevitable confusions of ideas and language and the inevitable…
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critical thinking by a post-conceptual artist
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