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:: Thursday, November 13, 2008 ::

NYTimes Spoof by the Yes Men



A spoof by the notorious YES MEN: 6 months in the making, and 2 million copies distributed from 6 printing locations nationwide.

Download file:
http://www.risingtidenorthamerica.org/
special/NYtimes_
YesMenSpoof.pdf


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:: Friday, October 31, 2008 ::

FEATURE: The Golden Notebook Project, by the Intitute for the Future of the Book



On November 10th, The Institute for the Future of the Book kicks off an experiment in close reading. The seven women listed below will read Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook and carry on a conversation in the margins.

thegoldennotebook.org

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:: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 ::

FEATURE: "Clean" Feeds on Australian Artists



The Australian Government will soon introduce a whole of Internet filtering system under the auspices of child Cyber-Safety, requiring Internet Service Providers to filter out content identified as prohibited by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA).

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:: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 ::

FEATURE: Networked: a (networked_book) about (networked_art)



A Juried International Competition
Call for Proposals
Deadline: December 15, 2008

turbulence.org/networked

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:: Friday, October 03, 2008 ::

FEATURE: Freewaves' Hollywould Festival in October



Mark your October calendar for Freewaves' 11th Festival where we will feature experimental media art along the Boulevard in Hollywood.

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:: Monday, September 22, 2008 ::

FEATURE: LX 2.0's new project by MTAA: Our Political Work



Lisboa 20 Arte Contemporânea is launching on September 18th LX 2.0 Project's new comission, the piece Our Political Work by Brooklyn-based artists MTAA

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FEATURE: European Art Projects: Megastructure Reloaded



Throughout the 1960s, megastructure was the magic word for architects and urban planners, indicating a way out of the ongoing crisis of architecture.

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:: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 ::

FEATURE: Selection of Recent Online and Offline Projects, September 08



The following are online and offline projects which have been circulating in various online communities. They are gathered here in no particular order.

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:: Monday, June 30, 2008 ::

FEATURE: Trade & Row, Raising Awareness of Current Issues



Vision
To raise awareness of current issues

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:: Thursday, November 20, 2008 ::

Ice ICE/Proposition 8 E-Action: A 3 Day Virtual Sit-In!



NOVEMBER 20th to NOVEMBER 23rd, 2008

JOIN THE VIRTUAL SIT-IN FOR LOVE! JOIN OUR LOVE-IN!!

VALUE FAMILY! STOP THE CRIMMIGATION! HALT LOVE‚S LEGISLATION!

A 3 Day Virtual Sit-in on the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Pro-California Proposition 8 Groups for their refusal to support HUMAN RIGHTS FOR ALL!

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Opening RECYCLISM// zat 22 nov. 21h.



Dutch version below


Noordkaap invites you to join the opening of 'Recyclism –There will be dust" Next Saturday 22nd of November om 21PM, by wethouder Culture Jan Lagendijk.

artists: Arturo Hernández Alcázar, Daniele Pario Perra en Gilberto Esparza

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LA-Lit: Clouds :: Nov 21+22, 2008 at Betalevel and Center for the Arts Eagle Rock



Come celebrate LA-Lit’s three year anniversary on Friday November 21 at Betalevel and on Saturday November 22 at Center for the Arts Eagle Rock.

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:: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 ::

newmediaFIX News Selection, November 18, 2008



Available on Delicious:
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Wired News - AP News

BOSTON (AP) -- The music industry's courtroom campaign against people who share songs online is coming under counterattack.

A Harvard Law School professor has launched a constitutional assault against a federal copyright law at the heart of the industry's aggressive strategy, which has wrung payments from thousands of song-swappers since 2003.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/
stories/T/TEC_MUSIC_DOWNLOADING?SITE=
WIRE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&
CTIME=2008-11-17-07-22-47



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Turbulence Artists' Studios: "Reflection (hope and reconciliation)" by Michael Takeo Magruder



Turbulence Artists' Studios: "Reflection (hope and reconciliation)" by
Michael Takeo Magruder
http://turbulence.org/studios/takeo
Needs Flash 9+ plugin and stereo audio; 512+ kb/s connection recommended

Pervasive mass-media in the information age offers us a continuous stream of mediated realities. Countless events of varying and often questionable significance emerge as scrolling columns of headline news and then quickly fade into the soon-forgotten annals of our time.

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Dec. 4: A benefit for Newsdesk.org and The Public Press



RSVP + Full Invite Online: http://sfnews.eventbrite.com/
Independent Arts & Media, 415-677-9877

Come celebrate two grassroots efforts to bring professional, noncommercial journalism to the San Francisco Bay Area.

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:: Monday, November 17, 2008 ::

newmediaFIX News Selection for November 17, 2008



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Sharing their demons on the Web - International Herald Tribune

FOR years they lived in solitary terror of the light beams that caused searing headaches, the technology that took control of their minds and bodies. They feared the stalkers, people whose voices shouted from the walls or screamed in their heads, "We found you" and "We want you dead."

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/11/13/style/13psych.php

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Turbulence Commission: "Bronx Rhymes" by Claudia Bernett and Maria Ioveva



http://turbulence.org/works/bronx_rhymes/

"Bronx Rhymes" illuminates the history and significance of Hip Hop in the Bronx by tagging important locations for Hip Hop (1520 Sedgwick, for example) with posters. Each poster describes the historical significance of that location in the form of a rhyme, and invites people walking by to join in a rhyming battle by txt-ing their own rhyme from their mobile phone.




CONVOCATORIA DE AYUDAS A LA CREACION CONTEMPORÁNEA / MATADERO MADRID 2009



Hasta el 9 de enero de 2009

Bases y formularios de solicitud disponibles en:
www.mataderomadrid.com

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:: Thursday, November 13, 2008 ::

newmediaFIX News Selections, November 13, 2008



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Proximas actividades / Upcoming Activities . 10/11 - 16/11



Special Event
Lecture by Jon "Maddog" Hall, Executive Director of LINUX International
Monday, November 10 / 7 pm

Lecture by Jon "Maddog" Hall , President and Executive Director of Linux International and a historic promoter of free software.

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Convocatoria de proyectos--Interactivos?'09: Ciencia de garaje



Interactivos?'09: Ciencia de garaje

Cierre de convocatoria: 14 diciembre, 2008 a las 24:00h (GMT+1)
Convocatoria para colaboradores: 30 diciembre, 2008 - 25 enero, 2009
Celebracion del taller-seminario: 28 enero - 14 febrero, 2009 en Medialab-Prado (Madrid)

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Triple Canopy Issue 4 - Now Online



Issue 4: War Money Magic http://canopycanopycanopy.com

Star Wars: A New Heap
Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying
and Love the Death Star
by John Powers
Was George Lucas a minimalist? Was Donald Judd a Jedi? The coincidences of Star Wars, minimalism, modernist architecture, and urban planning.

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:: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 ::

newmediaFIX News Selections for November 12, 2008



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Six Real Gadgets Minority Report Predicted Correctly | Gadget Lab from Wired.com

The future-predicting technology that drives the premise of the sci-fi blockbuster Minority Report is silly at best. And when the film hit theaters in 2002, the gadgets seemed pretty unrealistic, too. But eerily enough the slew of dreamed-up gizmos showed off throughout John Anderton's daring escape are hardening into reality.

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/11/four-future-gad.html

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ART, PRICE AND VALUE: Contemporary Art and the Market



Curated by the critic Piroschka Dossi (author of Hype! Kunst und Geld, Deutsche Taschenbuch Verlag 2007) and Franziska Nori, project director of the CCCS.

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FORMS OF INQUIRY: The Architecture of Critical Graphic Design



Exhibition 14 November – 14 December 2008, opening 14 November 4 – 8pm

presents architecture as seen through the practice of graphic design. The exhibition brings together new works by a range of international graphic designers who base their work in critical investigation [...]

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:: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 ::

newmediaFIX News Selection, November 11, 2008



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BOOK: A Feminine Cinematics: Luce Irigaray, Women and Film, by Caroline Bainbridge



Drawing on the work of philosopher Luce Irigaray, this groundbreaking study intervenes in the debate around women and film. Women's films can be seen as providing a new arena for the exploration of sexual difference and patterns of representation and spectatorship.

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New interviews on VIP - VideoChannel Interview Project



VIP - VideoChannel Interview Project
http://videochannel.newmediafest.org/vip/

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:: Monday, November 10, 2008 ::

Turbulence Campaign for Sustainability



Dear Friends,

Our annual Fundraising Campaign begins now. Once again, we need your support.

2008 was our most active year yet. We launched 30 COMMISSIONED works on Turbulence.org and Networked_Music_Review; co-presented two exhibitions - MIXED REALITIES (with Ars Virtua and Huret & Spector Gallery) and LUMENS (with Greylock Arts and MCLA Gallery 51)

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The Others Tour to New Caledonia



A group exhibition of Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and Australian-based Polynesian, Melanesian and Asian conceptual artworks recently opened at the Tjibaou Cultural Centre on the Kanaky/French Island of Nouméa, off the Queensland coast.


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VBROOKLYN AT HARVESTWORKS



Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center
in cooperation with Integrated Digital Media Institute, Forward Motion Theatre and the Polytechnic University present: VBROOKLYN

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:: Friday, September 26, 2008 ::

TEXT: ARS ELECTRONICA 2008, breve cronica sesgada en 4 puntos..., by Raquel Herrera



(Spanish only)

No pretendo hacer esta mi primera critica de Ars Electronica con intencion exhaustiva. Durante una semana, multitud de exposiciones, charlas y actuaciones se acumulan con tal intensidad que solo un robot Data o C3PO podria asimilarlas todas. [...]

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TEXT: NeMe, Immersive Event Time by Jeremy Hight



Time is plastic. Our linear measure is man made for convenience. The oversimplification of minutes, hours, days is functional in a base utilitarian sense, yes, but fails to account for point of entry, context, point of view, the density of what is occurring in time and how it is thus experienced.

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INTERVIEW: Golan Levin



This interview is republished in collaboration with Turbulence.org. It was released in Networked Music Review on 01/31/08. Only the text is reproduced here. To access audio and video as well as proper links related to this interview, please go to Networked Music Review.

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TEXT: Thinking Global, by Ed Halter



This text is republished in collaboration with Rhizome.org. It was released in Rhizome Digest on July/23/08 and appears here as it was originally posted.

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:: Thursday, May 15, 2008 ::

TEXT: Review of Net Art in Colombia: It's Ugly and Doesn't like the Cursor, by Eduardo Navas



This text is published in collaboration with Latinart.com; originally published on March 5, 2008.

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Nanotecnologia, nuevo espacio para la responsabilidad



(Spanish only)

This text is released in collaboration with Escaner Cultural, an online magazine based in Santiago de Chile. It was originally published on June, 23 2001.

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INTERVIEW: Miya Masaoka, by Helen Thorington



This interview is republished in collaboration with Turbulence.org. It was released in Networked Music Review on 05/21/07. Only the text is reproduced here. To access audio and video as well as proper links related to this interview, please go to http://transition.turbulence.org/
networked_music_review/2007/05/21/
interview-miya-masaoka/


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TEXT: a minima:: feature, "Not-Art" by Antonio Cerveira Pinto



This PDF file is released in collaboration with a minima:: new media magazine, published in Spanish and English. It was previously republished in Net Art Review in August, 2005 For more information, please visit aminima.net.

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INTERVIEW & TEXT: Daniel Rozin, Mirror of the Soul, By Marco Mancuso



This text is republished in collaboration with Digicult.it. It was released in May 2005. It appears as originally published.

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INTERVIEW: Mark Amerika, by Rick Silva



This text is republished in collaboration with Rhizome.org. It was released in Rhizome Digest on 11/21/07 and appears here as it was originally posted.

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:: Monday, February 25, 2008 ::

INTERVIEW: Virus / Body / Signal Transmissions. Interview with Jussi Parikka, by Ignacio Nieto



Interview with Media theorist Jussi Parikka, published in English and Spanish.

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INTERVIEW: PIrandelo e il BOX Multimedialte by Bertram Niessen



(Italian only)

This text is republished in collaboration with Digicult.it. It was released in February 2005 (First Digimag Issue).

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TEXT: a minima Feature on Reinhard Nestelbacher (DNA-Consult Sciencetainment), Gerfried Stocker (Ars Electronica Center)



This PDF file is released in collaboration with a minima:: new media magazine, published in English and Spanish. It was originally published in a minima:: #15 For more information on the publication, please visit aminima.net

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INTERVIEW: Amit Pitaru, by Helen Thorington



This interview is republished in collaboration with Turbulence.org. It was released in Networked Music Review on 05/18/07. Only the text is reproduced here. To hear audio and access proper links related to this interview, please go to http://transition.turbulence.org/
networked_music_review/
2007/05/18/interview-
amit-pitaru/


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INTERVIEW: Michael Smith, by Ceci Moss



This text is republished in collaboration with Rhizome.org. It was released in Rhizome Digest on 01/23/08 and appears here as it was originally posted.

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:: Monday, December 17, 2007 ::

TEXT: a minima:: Feature on Romy Achituv and Camille Uterback



This PDF file is released in collaboration with a minima:: new media magazine. For more information on the publication, please visit aminima.net

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TEXT: The Theatre of Electronic Surveilance, by Annamaria Monteverdi



This text is republished in collaboration with Digicult.it. It was released in October 2007.

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INTERVIEW: Networked Music Review, Jason Freeman



This interview is republished in collaboration with Turbulence.org. It was released in Networked Music Review on 03/11/07 . Only the text is reproduced here. To hear audio related to this interview, please go to http://transition.turbulence.org/
networked_music_review/2007/
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TEXT: Death, Bowling With Pigeons and Exploding Furniture, by Ulysses Catellanos



This text was written for the "Artery", gallery 1313's publication, Summer 2007. Ulysses Castellanos was one of the artist of "Space Invaders" aluCine's media insttallatinos May 31st -June 24th, 2007.

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TEXT: The Messy, Dirty, Silly Interplay of Art and Activism: Artivistic 2007, by Micha Cardenas



The following is a critical review of Artivistic, originally published on Techno Tranny Slut,and republished here with Permission.

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TEXT: Porque a algunos artistas nos interesa el software libre? by Lila Pagola



(Spanish only)

This text is released in collaboration with Escaner Cultural, an online magazine based in Santiago de Chile. It was originally published in October, 2007.

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TEXT: For An Art Against the Cartography of Everyday Life



This text is republished in collaboration with Rhizome.org. It was released in Rhizome Digest on 10/03/07 and appears here as it was originally posted.

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:: Monday, October 29, 2007 ::

TEXT: A Visit to the "Electronic Aquarium" (El Acuario Electronico), by Pablo Hadis

Image: Humanized jellyfish (bis)

Wandering down the halls and inner forking paths of the Centro Cultural Recoleta (CCR) in Buenos Aires is a pleasant experience, every door leads to some type of art display that stimulates the senses.

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TEXT: IF/THEN: Jussi Parikka' s Digital Contagions: A Media Archaeology of Computer Viruses by Joseph Nechvatal



One could be forgiven for assuming that a book with the title Digital Contagions: A Media Archaeology of Computer Viruses would be of sole interest to those sniggering hornrimmed programmers who harbor an erudite loathing of Bill Gates and an affection for the Viennese witch-doctor.

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TEXT: Arte Correo, una idea en proceso, por Jota Medeiros



(Spanish only)

This text is released in collaboration with Escaner Cultural, an online magazine based in Santiago de Chile. It was originally published in Issue 90, February 2007.

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TEXT: a minima Feature on Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau



This PDF file is released in collaboration with a minima:: new media magazine. For more information on the publication, please visit aminima.net

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INTERVIEW: Eddo Stern, by Thomas Beard



This text is republished in collaboration with Rhizome.org. It was released in Rhizome Digest on 12/13/06 and appears here as it was originally posted.

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:: Friday, September 28, 2007 ::

TEXT: Sumrell and Varnelis's Blue Monday. Book Review by Molly Hankwitz, co-editor



AUDC's book, Blue Monday is a provocative, preliminary probe into the fall out culture of Empire from the perspective of architecture and urbanism.

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INTERVIEW: N. Katherine Hayles, Material Girl, by Roy Christopher



This interview is released in collaboration with Front Wheel Drive. It was originally published on March 11, 2003, and is also published in the recent book Follow for Now: Interviews with Friends and Heroes, edited by Roy Christopher. Make sure to visit the publisher's website wellredbear.com to learn more about the book and other interviews.

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INTERVIEW: Displaced Familiarity. Interview with Scott Kildall, by Domenico Quaranta



This interview was orginally published in Domenico Quaranta's blog , Spawn of the Surreal on August 31, 2007. It is republished with permission.

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TEXT: a minima:: Feature on Kathleen Rogers



This PDF file is released in collaboration with a minima:: new media magazine. For more information on the publication, please visit aminima.net

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INTERVIEW: Natalie Bewernitz and Marek Goldowski, by Miguel Amado



This text is republished in collaboration with Rhizome.org. It was released in Rhizome Digest on 4/25/07 and appears here as it was originally posted.

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:: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 ::

REVIEW: Pat Harrigan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin's Second Person: Role-Playing and Story in Games and Playable Media, by David Cox



Second Person: Role-Playing and Story in Games and Playable Media elucidates many of the techniques, approaches and philosophies of role playing based games, media and art.

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INTERVIEW: Mikomikona, Archeologia Dei Media, by Bertram Niessen



(Italian only)
This text is republished in collaboration with Digicult.it. It was released in March 2005.

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INTERVIEW: Charlie Gere, Christiane Paul, Jemima Rellie, by Lauren Cornell



This text is republished in collaboration with Rhizome.org. It was released in two parts in Rhizome Digest, 06/20/07 and 6/27/07, and appears here as it was originally posted.

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TEXT: a minima Feature on Gerfried Stocker, "The Art of Tomorrow"



This PDF file is released in collaboration with a minima:: new media magazine, published in English and Spanish. For more information on the publication, please visit aminima.net

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