ART TORRENTS

Writing's by Slavoj Zizek
Saturday, December 23, 2006

Various writing's by Slavoj Zizek.

Share via thepiratebay or demonoid.

at 8:21 PM  

How to Build an Igloo(1949), by Douglas Wilkinson

Simple documentary about the creation of an igloo, commented by Douglas Wilkinson. Very fine footage. 10min playtime.

Share it at demonoid and thepiratebay.

at 7:21 PM  

Öyvind Fahlström
Thursday, December 21, 2006

Manipulate the world!

Under the motto: Manipulate the world - take care of the world, Fahlström set up a variety of meeting-places in which participants were invited to take part in an interdiciplinary game of purposeful discovery. He introduced elements of popular culture into his work early on and made substantial contributions to a critical assessment of the "medialisation" of art. In this, the most extensive book about Öyvind Fahlström to date, Teddy Hultberg charts the artist´s predominant lines of creative development and shows how his cross-genre endeavours were based on a few central ideas: character forms, signs, games and life materials.

The present study focuses on two innovative and extraordinary compositions for radio: "Birds in Sweden" (1963) and "The Holy Torsten Nilsson" (1966). These works can be heard on the two accompanying CD records and are also included here in written form. Some unique and hitherto unpublished visual and textual material, the result of several years of research by Teddy Hultberg, is also included in the book.

Two fantastic audio books by Öyvind Fahlström.

It sounds like this map(also made by Öyvind F.):


Taken from ubu. But if you want to support the filesharing network's, then go to thepiratebay or demonoid!

at 11:55 PM  

Critical Art Ensemble Book Projects
Monday, December 18, 2006

Five books written by Critical Art Ensemble.

Critical Art Ensemble is a collective of five tactical media artists dedicated to exploring the intersections between art, technology, critical theory, and political activism. Each artist has her or his specialised talents and skills, including performance, book arts, graphic design, computer art, film/video, photography and critical writing. Those skills are used in a tactical manner, recombined according to the demands of each work.

CAE chooses a subject in a specific cultural situation and creates a work within that context, with that particular audience, and within the social space and performative matrix of everyday life. They use the skills and the media that will best address the content and situation, moving to any site - galleries, the internet, the street – in Europe and North America.

CAE’s practice is about the process of resistance, about creating works and events which reveal and challenge the authoritarian underpinnings of pancapitalism and Western culture. CAE makes events using combinations of traditional and participatory theatre, lecture, dialogue and the written text – events that demonstrate the necessity of this challenge.

For the past seven years, CAE has focused on biotechnology, its colonising effects and ideological layering, and the biorevolution in global capitalism. The public’s access to the processes of biotechnology is limited; it is only the resultant product that appears as a commodity, resulting in misleading speculation, fear, disinformation and communicative disorder.

Tacticality includes a willingness to be amateurs, to try anything, to resist specialisation, and CAE’s interventions propose to give people reliable information and direct experience of the routinised processes of science so that individuals can come to understand that biotech is within their power to think about and actively influence. In some works, CAE invites public participation (participatory theatre) in doing actual experiments, exploring the performativities of science and theatre. These public experiments demystify the scientific process, encourage amateur explorations, and serve as a public pedagogy about biotech initiatives and business. Throughout the diverse strategies of these works, CAE raises questions concerning democracy, pancapitalism, the utopian promises of biotech, eugenics, and of life itself.

CAE hopes these performances contribute to the development of an informed, critical public discourse on biotechnology.

Titles:
Digital Resistance
Molecular Invasion
Electronic Civil Disobedience
The Electronic Disturbance
Flesh Machine

More information about CAE at their website.

You can download the listed book's directly from the CAE website, or support the filesharing networks at demonoid or thepiratebay.

at 3:50 PM  

Book of Ballast by Hans Schabus
Sunday, December 17, 2006

Book of Ballast is the work Hans Schabus showed at the International Liverpool Biennial 2006.

Hans Schabus
Born 1970, Watschig, Austria.
Lives and works in Vienna, Austria.

Hans Schabus is obsessed with journeys, and with the spaces through which we make journeys.
He has dug tunnels, recreated mountains, and even sailed a boat through the sewers of Vienna.
He often sends visitors to his exhibitions on intriguing journeys of their own – through basements, corridors, and mazes – and literally rebuilds gallery spaces, forcing us to look more closely at what we often take for granted: the space around us.
In his brilliantly imaginative new work, Schabus explores a mostly forgotten connection between Liverpool and the United States, and takes us on a transatlantic journey with some highly unusual travelling companions.

Find the book at thepiratebay, demonoid or karagarga.

at 1:26 PM  

Prisoners' Inventions
Thursday, December 14, 2006

Prisoners' Inventions is a collaboration between Temporary Services, a group based in Chicago and Angelo, who is incarcerated in California. Angelo illustrated and described many incredible inventions made by prisoners.
The creations include cooking appliances, cigarette lighters, condoms and chess sets.
These items often fill needs that are not addressed within the usual restrictions of the prison environment.
Temporary Services co-edited a book of Angelo’s writings and drawings, re-created many of the inventions from the book, and built a full-size replica of Angelo’s cell at his request.

Read more about Temporary Services and Prisoners' Inventions.

Prisoners' Inventions has been shared 1500 times during the past two weeks.

Find it at thepiratebay, demonoidor karagarga.

at 10:48 PM  

Filter by Anders Weberg
Saturday, December 2, 2006

This post was only meant to be about a film made by Anders Weberg, but as i looked this file up, i discovered that is was a part of http://p2p-art.com/. An art project by Anders Weberg:

Art made for - and only available on - the peer-to-peer networks.
The original artwork is first shared by the artist until one other user has downloaded it.
After that the artwork will be available for as long as other users share it.

The original file and all the material used to create it are deleted by the artist.

”There's no original”

P2P Art is a project from Swedish media artist and filmmaker Anders Weberg.

Visit Anders Weberg.

The film Anders has shared is called 'filter':

A 73 minute experimental film

"Filter is fully based on the emotions that I experienced in the beginning of 2006
when I woke up one night and found my son unconscious on the floor.
A couple of minutes passed by until I could bring him back.
The fear and desperation I felt during this time is what the film is all about."

This film and all the files used creating it was deleted 2006/09/15.

find it here:

at 1:00 AM  

Free Walking & In The Weather publications
Thursday, November 30, 2006

This torrent contains publications made by Free Walking(Bonnie Fortune & various contributors) and In The Weather( Melinda Fries, Bonnie Fortune & various contributors). The italic text below is written by the artist's.

Torrent on demonoid & on thepiratebay.

Free Walking is about going on walks, together or alone. It functions as an ongoing project to explore time outside. Like all cultural work it is a form of entertainment. The walks tend to be designed or lead by someone with a local knowledge that they have accumulated either through research or through their day to day experience of a place. At the center of Free Walking activity is Bonnie Fortune. In early 2004, with a group of friends, she initiated conversations about making walks together. The experiences that have come from this have been rewarding ones and have brought us into contact with new friends and new ideas, so we continue or exploration. To read some of the writing from the Free Walking zines section of this website, where we also have PDFs available for download. Freewalking.org will continue to develop as a public documentation of walks and projects.

In The Weather, self-guided walking tours.

A map of a walk records the memory of a singular experience. The map provides a route; when directions given by another are followed, the route becomes a path. Walking becomes an exploration of the city at once private and shared.

Melinda Fries and Bonnie Fortune share an interest in exploratory walking and have collaborated as In The Weather since 2004. This year we published In the Weather self-guided walks/Chicago, which includes walking directions by 16 Chicagoans. The booklet is dispensed freely at 10 locations throughout Chicago.

In 2005 we decided to collect walks from around the world, with the In The Weather website being the result. We'd love for you to participate and share the memory of a walk, a favorite walk, or a walk you'd like to take.

at 11:25 PM  

Temporary Services' booklets

I've downloaded all the free booklets by Temporary Services and uploaded them to demonoid and thepiratebay.

For information about Temporary Services, go to their website. A list(where i downloaded them) of all their booklets can be found here.

at 11:20 PM  

N55 Publication's

This torrent contains a few publications made by N55. You can find a complete list of the publications they made during the years, right here.

You can get the publications at demonoid(as i wrote earlier, leave a comment if you want an invite) and thepiratebay.

Enjoy!

at 11:13 PM