SpamConsumer’s Lobster Random & friends:
24/25.04.2010 in Raum 18 Ziegrastrasse 11, Berlin /Germany

Supported by:
Anaomi San,  Korizo, Keplinger Universität, SpamDog, Raymond Milla, Chaoscrew, JimDrix.

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SpamConsumer’s Lobster Random & friends:
24/25.04.2010 in Raum 18 Ziegrastrasse 11, Berlin /Germany

Supported by:
Anaomi San,  Korizo, Keplinger Universität, SpamDog, Raymond Milla, Chaoscrew, JimDrix.

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Lobster Random Gallery at Schellingstr. 50 Maxvorstadt inMunich/Germany. (RIP)

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Exhibition “Lobster Random: No Gain!” February-2010 in Munich / Germany.

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scumskullz are constructed from black and white pixels on a 5×5 grid. the result is a space-Invaders-like pixel fighter – friendly or aggressive, chaotic or regular. it started out as an icon design study and has grown into a collaborative online art project with contributors from all over the planet. but beware: not every 5×5 bitmap is valid. there are certain constraints the anatomy of a scumskull has to meet. like almost every living creature on earth they are symmetric and contiguous. they have to touch all boundaries of the construction grid, too. an exhaustive search showed that according to this definition there are 12,209 possible scumskullz.

scumskullz usually live on computer screens and stickers on the streets, but they can be made out of everything you can imagine. bathroom tiles, legos, food, rubber stamps, lamps or truetype fonts. there are even rumors of scumskullz spotted on acid sheets and pills of E. visit the website to witness the global infiltration, learn more about the anatomy, view all discovered species and create your own scumskull.
the scumskullz crew consists of interdisciplinary design and IT experts based in munich, bavaria.

Das Haus am Köllnischen Park …

…wurde bis 1990 von SED-Parteischule “Karl Marx” sowie von der Bezirksparteischule “Friedrich Engels” genutzt.
Urban Experiences Workspace Berlin fand im größten Raum des Gebäudes, im Kinosaal statt.
In enger Zusammenarbeit mit den Helden von “BerlinBeamBoys“.

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Stuffed Wolpertingers, composed of parts of actual stuffed animals, are often displayed in inns or sold to tourists as souvenirs in the animals’ “native regions”.

The Wolpertinger (Crisensus bavaricus) (also called “Wolperdinger“, “Poontinger” or “Woiperdinger“) is a fictional animal said to inhabit the alpine forests of Bavaria in Germany.

“Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very natural and organic and in tune with mysterious cycles of the cosmos, which believes that there’s nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fiber and, in some cases, backbone.” Terry Pratchett (English Writer, *1948)

Charles Robert Darwin FRS (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist who realised and presented compelling evidence that all species of life have evolved over time from common ancestors, through the process he called natural selection. The fact that evolution occurs became accepted by the scientific community and much of the general public in his lifetime, but it was not until the emergence of the modern evolutionary synthesis from the 1930s to the 1950s that a broad consensus developed that natural selection was the basic mechanism of evolution. In modified form, Darwin’s scientific discovery is the unifying theory of the life sciences, explaining the diversity of life.

The International Istanbul Biennial History:

The İstanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts has been organising the International İstanbul Biennial since 1987. The Biennial aims to create a meeting point in İstanbul in the field of visual arts between artists from diverse cultures and the audience. The ten biennials İKSV has organised up to now have enabled the formation of an international cultural network between local and international art circles, artists, curators and art critics by bringing together new trends in contemporary art every two years.

The most comprehensive international art exhibition organised both in Turkey and throughout the geographical sphere we are in, the İstanbul Biennial plays an important role in the promotion of contemporary artists not only from Turkey but from a number of different countries in the international arena.

Various Ink Drawings on Vellum paper.  An “iThink” Evolution Mapping. My Contribution to the
11th International Istanbul Biennial (visit website) September 12 – November 8, 2009
The Lord Wink Award Istanbul (visit website) at the Gallery .artSümer (visit website)
Collective Exhibition with artists like Olaf Metzel, Günther Förg, Dan Graham and others.

The Wolpertinger is not a typical cryptid, as local people likely never believed in its existence. Rather, it is some kind of traditional prank belief, as is evident from the many stuffed Wolpertingers displayed in village inns along with real hunting trophies, which have been fabricated deliberately in order to make fun of gullible foreigners who may want to go hunting for this remarkable animal. Like the Jackalope, the Wolpertinger is thought to have been inspired by sightings of wild rabbits infected with the Shope papilloma virus, which causes the growth of antler-like tumors in various places on the rabbit’s head and body.

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“Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

A genogram is a pictorial display of a specie’s family relationships and medical history. It goes beyond a traditional family tree by allowing the user to visualize hereditary patterns and psychological factors that punctuate relationships. It can be used to identify repetitive patterns of behavior and to recognize hereditary tendencies.

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I wrote this whole report for RUGGED Magazine – ©Carhartt Europe //Work in Progress //Nord31
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CUBA IS A LITTLE CROCODILE-SHAPED ISLAND in the Caribbean Sea.
Trapped between Florida and Jamaica, the Bahamas and Haiti, the island offers rum, cigars and a whole lot of love on top of an azure-blue sea and ample sunshine.

But Cuba also stands for slavery, racism, revolution and bloody battles. Despite being such a small part of the world, Cuba has been through more than its fair share of misery and is certainly going to see some more. Guantanamo Bay and an aged dictator, a psychotic climate and a Big Brother state that controls and restricts its people in spite of defunct technology and infrastructure – Cuba stands for all of the above. If you go to Venezuela you find Burger King and McDonald’s on every street corner and everyone’s on crack. In Cuba, there are no drugs or advertisements, apart from the omnipresent hand-painted propaganda posters celebrating the revolution and its leaders.

Propaganda and censorship determine every day. Free-thinkers, like artists for example, have it particularly hard. For them, the image of the boat has become a symbol of freedom, since there are no boats in Cuba. Because of the trade embargo against Cuba all products and commodities are rare.

Even in the capital Havana it’s difficult for a painter to buy a simple brush.
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» Passers-by stopped to say thank you for bringing colour into their dull quarter.
The people in Cuba don’t even have paint for their house numbers.«
3 2 A K

The name “Cuba” comes from the Taíno language and though the exact meaning is unclear, it may be translated either as “where fertile land is abundant” (cubao), or as “great place” (coabana). Additionally, there is the claim that native inhabitants called the island “Cubagua” in the Columbus era starting in 1542.

Cuba is located in the northern Caribbean at the confluence of the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. Cuba is south of the eastern United States and The Bahamas, west of the Turks and Caicos Islands and Haiti, east of Mexico and north of the Cayman Islands and Jamaica.

Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country’s capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city. Cuba is home to over 11 million people and is the most populous insular nation in the Caribbean. Its people, culture, and customs draw from diverse sources, including the aboriginal Taíno and Ciboney peoples; the period of Spanish colonialism; the introduction of African slaves; and its proximity to the United States.

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» I have never before seen a little girl just coming up and kissing a 32ak’s character affectionately on the mouth.
What’s the use of being represented in the most important museums?
Something like this is makes the work much more worthwhile.«
W O N A B C

An orange Adventure:
Zombielove is a project by WONabc, SHAMEabc & MYLANder. They performed in Cuba with orange Guantanamo Bay Overalls and got arrested 3 times in only one week by the cuban’s secret-police.
Interrogated by their Propaganda Experts.
It was filmed for a next level Zombie Movie. Watch it at Cinemas soon!
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Lying Baron “Surfhousen” dashes through the wormhole.
He breaks a fly on the wheel.
[Pirates crackerjack in Habana /Cuba]

I left Havana by taxi. About one hour to all directions out of town…
I instructed the driver to slow down whenever we pass a propaganda signboard aside the road – to photograph it.
I did some fotos – browse some of the most representative and interrestic ones!
They are all handpainted. These ones highlight health, education, socialism, the embargo and other topics.
Commercial Advertizing doesn’t exist in Cuba at all.
It’s interesting to see how much spiritedness is invested by artists and government for those few people passing the highways. Propaganda is a part of our life and human history. Don’t get confused ’bout it!

CubaBrasil is a German-Serbian-Brasilian-Cuban co-project, founded by Carlito Stone two years ago.
Urban art and graffiti are coming together to form an all new category at the biennial in Havana.
WWW.CUBABRASIL.NET

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