‘RUSSELL HERRON’ mug (edition 72)
330ml ‘Cambridge’ earthenware mug, black text out of white (Russell Herron Collectable Number 4)Available EXCLUSIVELY FREE at the private view of IRREGULAR PULSE WEDNESDAY JULY 30th 6-9pm FERREIRA PROJECTS, 23 Charlotte Road, London EC2A 3PB
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LIMITED EDITION of ONLY 72 RUSSELL HERRON mugs available EXCLUSIVELY FREE at the private view of IRREGULAR PULSE on JULY 30th 2008

In 2004, video artist Maria Marshall went to Disneyworld with her two children and filmed everything.

Beijing-based artist Cao Fei (born 1978) is fusing fantasy with the contemporary Chinese city in her construction of RMB City, an experimental art community in the internet-based virtual world of Second Life.
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Chris Lisowski, The Toil of Tilling, 2008. Photo: Owen Smith.

The robots are coming! The robots are coming! The Mattress Factory and Robot 250 have partnered to present the eleventh installment in the museum’s Gestures Exhibition Series. Meet the Made features installations and performances that happen “in real time” within the Mattress Factory’s satellite gallery at 1414 Monterey Street, located on Pittsburgh’s North Side.
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Image:Michael Pybus and Dazed & Confused Magazine Untitled Photographic print 20 x 30 inches
Photographer - Jenny Hueston

Private View: 29 July 6.30 - 8.30pm
30 July - 31 August 2008

6 ARTISTS + 6 COLLABORATORS = 6 EXPERIMENTAL PROJECTS
What happens when 6 artists are asked to choose a collaborator to work with in new ways? Who will they choose? What will they want to make? How will the process work? Will these collaborations continue after the exhibition? Will they fail? Will this opportunity encourage the artists to collaborate in the future? How does the collaborative working process differ to their usual ways of working? What are the benefits or disadvantages of working collaboratively?
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Karl Lagerfeld, Artistic Director of CHANEL, MaureenChiquet, Global CEO of CHANEL, and Bruno Pavlovsky, CHANEL Fashion President, along with Adrian Benepe, Commissioner of the Department of Parks & Recreation for the City of New York, and Douglas Blonsky, President of the Central Park Conservancy and Central Park Administrator, announced today that Central Park will serve as the sole American venue for Mobile Art, a traveling international exhibition housed in a gleaming futuristic pavilion designed by Pritzker Prize-winning, London-based architect Zaha Hadid. Commissioned by CHANEL, Mobile Art presents changing installations of works by foremost contemporary artists from Europe, the United States, Asia, Russia and Latin America, each of whom has made a unique piece for the project exploring the visual, conceptual and cultural possibilities in the convergence of fashion and art.
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MAX DEAN, RAFFAELLO D’ANDREA & MATT DONOVAN Robotic Chair 1985 - 2006 custom-made robot, software, vision system, computer & platform Chair: 82 x 40 x 48 cm platform: 20 x 244 x 244 cm Courtesy Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto Photos by nichola feldman-kiss

PRIVATE VIEW: THURSDAY 31 JULY 2008, 6-8PM
THOMAS BAUMANN / IAN BURNS / JIM BOND / MAX DEAN, RAFFAELLO D’ANDREA & MATT DONOVAN / THEO KACCOUFA / KRISTOF KINTERA / TIM LEWIS / HAROON MIRZA / GOSHA OSTRETSOV / STEVEN PIPPIN / JAIME PITARCH / NATHANIEL RACKOWE / NIK RAMAGE / CAROLINE TATTERSALL / JEAN TINGUELY / ANTOINE ZGRAGGEN
Kinetic art emerged in the 1960s from the mixed parentage of the well-oiled motor of Constructivism and the anti-art ad absurdum of Dada. On the one hand, the movement was a celebration of the artist-as-engineer; a utopian practice that gave formal expression to the energy of mechanical processes and championed a Modernism most High. On the other, it animated the anarcho-political fervour of a revolutionary post-war contingent bent on trashing aesthetic precepts and bourgeois tenets. Supreme functionality verses extreme destructiveness; the whirr of social harmony or the cacophony of a cog in the political machine.
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