Monthly Archives: December 2010

Capturing Wilders

text and image roberto voorbij The Emmen artist Rolf Mulder invites creatives to give their view on “the phenomenon Wilders”. Through an open call with the ambiguous title ‘Capture Wilders’, artists is asked to apply their skill of understanding the … Continue reading

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PEACE ON EARTH

text and image roberto voorbij Street art spotted in the Nieuwe Hoogstraat, Amsterdam. Depicted the usual suspects of Dutch politics Mark Rutte, Geert Wilders, Job Cohen, Jan Peter Balkenende, Femke Halsema and Alexander Pechtold. Peace on earth? Just this month … Continue reading

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Landscapes without memory

text and image roberto voorbij To define his Simulacra theory Baudrillard made in his essays ‘Simulacra and Simulation’ from 1981 a variation on Borges’s fable ‘On Exactitude in Science’. In the original fable leads the striving to make the perfect … Continue reading

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Technology Requested

text and image roberto voorbij On line 2 of the Rotterdam regional transport company RET has this August started an experiment with facial recognition. With the objective of preserving the public transport ban, imposed on perpetrators of nuisance and frequent … Continue reading

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Auschwitz Now

text and image r.v. If one looks at the series of photographs from a distance without knowing the exact subject matter one could assume that it does concern here a pleasant summer scene, far away from any danger. The clear … Continue reading

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