The Cleveland State University Department of Theatre and Dance will enter its eighth full season as a resident company of the Allen Theatre Complex at Playhouse Square with a unique mix of drama, dance and music.
Dance begins the season with performances by GroundWorks DanceTheatre, running Oct. 11 and 12, 2019 on the Allen Theatre Mainstage. As the resident professional dance company of the CSU Department of Theatre and Dance, GroundWorks returns under the artistic direction of David Shimotakahara.
The second theatre production is Steven Dietz's explosive God's Country,playingin the Outcalt Theatre Feb. 27 through March 8, 2020. Directed by Dr. Michael Mauldin, this exciting, highly theatrical docudrama is about the growing white supremacist movement in America, those dedicated to violent revolution and the expulsion from "God's Country" of non Aryans. Taken from court documents, interviews, news articles and other sources, these narratives are skillfully interwoven, sometimes nonchronologically, with statistics and facts into a kaleidoscopic and highly theatrical vision.
The Dance Program returns to the Allen Theatre Mainstage with its popular annual CSU Spring Dance Concert, April 3 and 4, 2020. Featuring the CSU Dance Company, faculty, staff, musicians and guest artists, this repertory concert includes an eclectic evening of contemporary and traditional choreography.
Directed by guest director Nathan Lilly, the final theatre production of the season is Our Lady of Kibeho by Katori Hall, running April 16 through 26, 2020 in The Helen Rosenfeld Lewis Bialosky Lab Theatre. In 1981, a village girl in Rwanda claims to see the Virgin Mary. She is denounced by her superiors and ostracized by her schoolmates—until impossible happenings begin to appear to all. Skepticism gives way to fear, causing upheaval in the school community and beyond. Based on real events, Our Lady of Kibeho is an exploration of faith, doubt and the power and consequences of both.
General show times are Thursdays through Saturdays at 7:30 p.m., and Sundays at 2 p.m. $5-$15 tickets are available by calling 216.241.6000, visiting playhousesquare.org, or at the State Theatre Ticket Office, located at 1519 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH 44115. Tickets are also available 60-minutes prior to performances at the Allen Theatre Complex. Visit csuohio.edu/class/theatre-dance for upcoming limited $25 Dinner and a Show packages with theatre performances.


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Doubice (deutsch Daubitz) ist eine Gemeinde in Tschechien. Die Streusiedlung liegt in 390 m ü. M. am Ostrand der Böhmischen Schweiz im Böhmischen Niederland in einem vom Daubitzbach (Doubický potok) durchflossenen Talkessel.

Geografie

Geographische Lage
Der zu großen Teilen aus Umgebindehäusern bestehende Ort ist vollständig von Wäldern und Bergen umgeben. Südlich des Dorfes befindet sich der sagenumwobene Spravedlnost (Iricht), auf dem der ruhelose Geist des Daubitzer Bäckers und Wucherers Hörndl umgehen soll. Im Osten erheben sich die schon zum Lausitzer Gebirge gehörigen Berge Široký vrch (Steingeschütte, 585,7 m) und Vápenny vrch (Maschkenberg, 548 m) hinter denen die Nachbarorte Rybniště und Krásná Lípa liegen. Nördlich des Ortes setzt die Felslandschaft mit dem von der Kirnitzsch durchflossenen Khaatal an, die sich nach Westen fortzieht, wo u. a. die Balzhütte (Na Tokáni) zu finden ist. In diesem Gebiet liegt auch der 490,8 m hohe Sokolí vrch (Limberg) mit der Stülpner-Einöde (Stülpnerova poustka), dem ehemaligen Felsversteck Karl Stülpners.

Gemeindegliederung
Doubice besteht aus den Ortslagen Nová Doubice (Neudaubitz) und Stará Doubice (Altdaubitz). Im Tal der Kirnitzsch, wo diese auf deutsches Gebiet fließt, befindet sich die Wüstung des nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg aufgelassenen Ortsteils Zadní Doubice (Hinterdaubitz).

Nachbarorte

Geschichte

Daubitz war eine slawische Dorfgründung um eine bereits ab 1457 nachweisbare und 1995 lokalisierte Glashütte. Das Dorf gehörte zum Besitz der Grafen Kinsky, erster nachweisbarer Besitzer war Radoslav Vchynský von Wchinitz und Tettau.

5 Kilometer nordwestlich, im Tal der Kirnitsch entstand Hinterdaubitz, das seit 1547 nachweisbar ist. Im Dreißigjährigen Krieg zogen die Schweden durch, daran erinnert noch ein Felsüberhang Švédský tábor (Schwedenlager) in den Felsen bei Kreibitz, unter dem die Bewohner Zuflucht suchten. 1724 erfolgte in den Felsen bei Daubitz der Abschuss des letzten Braunbären der Böhmischen Schweiz.

Während des Zwetschkenrummels erfolgten 1778 bei Daubitz, Teichstatt und Kreibitz kleinere Scharmützel zwischen preußischen und österreichischen Truppenverbänden. Die österreichischen Einheiten, die aus Chorwaten, Ungarn und Slowenen gebildet waren, wurden bald des Kämpfens überdrüssig und desertierten in die Felslandschaft des Gebirges, wobei auch das Schwedenlager wieder als Schlupfwinkel diente.

Seit 1785 wurden die Felsen mit ihren Verstecken ein Schlupfwinkel für Karl Stülpner, der zu Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts sein Felsversteck am Limberg hatte.

Zum Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts erweiterte sich das Dorf nach Süden und auf den Fluren eines Gutes entstand zum Iricht hin der Ortsteil Neudaubitz.

Der Bau des Wahrzeichens von Daubitz, der Pfarrkirche Maria Himmelfahrt, erfolgte zwischen 1811 und 1814.

Daubitz besaß eine Schule, die Kinder aus Hinterdaubitz besuchten jedoch die Schule im näher gelegenen sächsischen Hinterhermsdorf. Ab der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts war Daubitz Teil des Gerichtsbezirks Rumburg.

Zum Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs hatte Altdaubitz 56 Häuser mit 294 Einwohnern, Neudaubitz 132 Häuser mit 539 Einwohnern und Hinterdaubitz 7 Häuser mit 32 Einwohnern. Im Juli 1945 begann die Vertreibung der ausschließlich deutschen Bewohner und die Enteignung der gräflich Kinskyschen Besitzes. Vor allem aus Dymokury und Královice wurden zunächst 200 Tschechen angesiedelt, später kamen noch Slowaken und Sinti und Roma hinzu.

1975 wurde Doubice nach Krásná Lípa eingemeindet und ist nach einem Referendum seit dem Jahre 1993 wieder selbständig.

Doubice ist heute ein Erholungsort und Zentrum des Pferdesports und veranstaltet neben anderen Reitturnieren eine jährliche Hubertusjagd.

Weblinks

 http://www.doubice.cz
 http://www.luzicke-hory.cz/mista/index.php?pg=obdoubd
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GUEST PIANIST PERFORMS ALL-CHOPIN PROGRAM
The Music Program of the University at Albany's Department of Music and Theatre is pleased to present guest artist Tadeusz Domanowski in an all-Chopin program on Thursday, February 18, 2016 at 7pm at the UAlbany Performing Arts Center on the uptown campus. The program will include Scherzo no. 2 in B flat minor, op. 31; Sonata no. 2 in B flat minor, op. 35; Ballade no. 1 in G minor, op. 23; Nocturne in C minor, op. 48, no. 1; Nocturne in F sharp major, op. 15, no. 2 and Polonaise in A flat major, op. 53.
Tadeusz Domanowski was born in Poland. He started his artistic education at the age of nine at the Gliwice School of Music followed by study at the Zenon Brzewski Secondary School of Music and the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music, both in Warsaw. He is also a graduate of Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development at New York University. In 2013-14, he was appointed Adjunct Faculty at New York University.
A winner of various piano competitions including the Steinway Competition in Hamburg, the International Balys Dvarionas Competition in Vilnius and the IBLA Grand Prize in Italy, Domanowski has performed in Germany, France, Italy, Great Britain, Sweden, Greece, the Czech Republic, Romania, Moldova, Lithuania, Russia, China and the United States. He has given recitals and performed as a soloist with symphony orchestras at numerous music festivals in Poland and abroad.
Domanowski has also performed as a chamber musician in a number of European music festivals and has collaborated with the Silesian Quartet and the National Philharmonic Quintet. He has also participated in a cycle of TV programs broadcast by the Polonia TV channel, performing piano and chamber music pieces written by Polish composers. In addition, he has recorded many archive piano compositions by Beethoven, Chopin and various contemporary composers for Polish Radio.
Tickets for the concert are $8 for the general public and $4 for students, seniors & UAlbany faculty/staff and may be purchased through the Performing Arts Center Box Office. For further information, contact the Box Office at (518) 442-3997.
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City Council - Civic Recognition Period
Call to Order / Roll Call
Mayor Wallace called the meeting to order at 6:01 p.m. Although a formal roll call was not taken, all members of the City Council were present. The Colors were presented by the Phoebus High School Marine Corps JROTC.
Ceremonial Items - "Spotlight on Citizens" - Armstrong Elementary School and Major Delaney C. Williams
Mayor Wallace read and presented a proclamation to Major Delaney C. Williams, a 1984 graduate of Phoebus High School, who, in May of 1988, was the first African-American Officer to be commissioned into the United States Marine Corps from VMI in the over 175 year history of the institution. Councilwoman Snead read a congratulatory letter from Congressman Robert J. Wittman and Councilman Hobbs read a congratulatory letter from Senator Tim Kaine.
The City Council also recognized Armstrong Elementary School on being named a National Blue Ribbon School. This is the highest award given to a school by the United States Department of Education.
- the meeting adjourned at 6:25 p.m.


TOKYO – Asian shares rebounded from one-month lows on Friday, helped by signs global bond markets are stabilizing after a big selloff, though investors were on guard ahead of US jobs data and crunch talks between Greece and its creditors at the weekend.
Sterling jumped more than one percent against other major currencies after British Prime Minister David Cameron appeared set to govern Britain, showing surprising strength in a tightly-contested election.
MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan .MIAPJ0000PUS rose 0.4 percent, recovering from a one-month low hit earlier. Japan's Nikkei .N225 ticked up 0.4 percent from one-month low hit on Thursday.
Investors breathed a sigh of relief after the global bond market rout since late April appeared to have run its course for now.
"Yields have risen to levels that would attract investors," said Chotaro Morita, head of Japan rates strategy at SMBC Nikko Securities.
Buying of government bonds resumed after yields reached key levels, including 0.8 percent in German Bunds DE10YT=RR, 1 percent in French bonds FR10YT=RR and 2 percent for Italian and Spanish bonds. IT10YT=RR ES10YT=RR.
Europe has been the epicenter of a rout as investors rushed to exit crowded long bond positions built up to take advantage of the European Central Bank's quantitative easing.
"Hedge funds were taking profits (in European bonds). There could be more profit-taking in the near term but bond yields can rise only so much considering the ECB's quantitative easing," said Fumio Nakakubo, chief investment officer at UBS in Tokyo.
Bonds were also helped by a fall in oil prices: A steady rise in oil prices since March had been cited as one reason behind the rout in bonds as higher oil prices tend to boost inflation – a major risk for fixed-income investors.
The yield on US Treasuries US10YT=RR, the benchmark for borrowing costs globally, also ended an eight-session rise, helping to underpin Wall Street and global equity prices.
In addition, strong quarterly results from Alibaba (BABA.K) as well as speculation that consumer review website Yelp.com could be for sale drove technology stocks higher.
S&P 500 Index .SPX rose 0.38 percent, with the S&P tech index .SPLRCT up 0.87 percent.
China's mainland stock indexes .CSI300 trimmed gains to be up 0.9 percent after news China's exports contracted 6.4 percent in April from a year ago, sharply missing expectations for a 2.4 percent gain and fuelling fears about the health of the cooling Chinese economy. The Chinese yuan CNY=CFXS was flat at 6.2076 against the dollar.
Many investors now look to the US employment report due later on Friday, with traders expecting nonfarm payrolls to recover to gains of 224,000 in April from a shockingly low 126,000 in March.
Another weak reading could deepen worries that the US economy may not be gathering momentum.
"The US economy had virtually a zero growth in January-March. If it remains weak after April, a rate hike by the Federal Reserve may be delayed further," said Shuji Shirota, head of macro economics strategy at HSBC Securities in Tokyo.
In the currency market, the British pound jumped about one percent to $1.5390 GBP=D4after exit surveys showed Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservatives may continue to govern Britain.
The polls gave the Conservatives 316 of 650 seats in the lower house of parliament, still short of a majority but far better than expected.
The party was seen winning more seats than previous polls had indicated, although it remained shy of securing an outright majority. The opposition Labour party was seen at 239 seats, less than previously expected.
The euro sagged to $1.1251 EUR= from a three-month high of $1.1392 hit on Thursday, on a fall in European bond yields and concerns about Greece's precarious financing situation.
Greece defied its international creditors on Thursday, refusing to cut pensions or reverse re-hiring some public employees to meet their demands, dimming prospects of progress next week towards securing financial aid.
Athens is seen running out of cash ahead of its 750 million euro payment to the International Monetary Fund on May 12 but has refused to accept unpopular reforms promised by a previous government.


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Massive Funding Boost Means SRL Build Starts Next Year
Construction of Suburban Rail Loop (SRL) East will be underway next year – with the Andrews Labor Government detailing the start of our investment into the state's biggest and most significant infrastructure project – that will create up to 8,000 direct jobs.
We've delivered a massive pipeline of road and rail upgrades across Victoria, and now we're getting on with
delivering the project that will change how and where we grow in the decades ahead.
Just like London and many other great cities of the world, Melbourne needs to become a 'city of centres' if it's to grow in a sustainable way that preserves all that we love about it.
A child in primary school today won't have to choose between leaving home or giving up studying at a top
university because it's too hard to reach. They won't have to settle for a job they don't love, because a better
opportunity is too far away.
That's why we'll begin to deliver the project Victorians voted for.
The Labor Government is providing new funding of $9.3 billion towards major works on SRL East to deliver 26-kilometre twin rail tunnels and six underground stations between Cheltenham and Box Hill as well as investment in new community projects and initiatives in the broader areas around the stations.
Trains will be running on SRL East by 2035, transforming Melbourne's public transport network and better
connecting people to jobs, health, education, retail opportunities and each other. Fast, efficient, high-tech trains powered by renewables will provide a turn up and go service – carrying around 70,000 passengers a day.
Commuters in Melbourne's south east will experience much faster journeys on the underground line, saving up to an hour on a one-way trip. Trains will take 3-4 minutes between stations, and a journey from Cheltenham to Box Hill will be just 22 minutes.
Construction starts next year, with the Business and Investment case showing SRL East and SRL North will deliver $58.7 billion in economic, social and environmental benefits, and will support up to 24,000 local jobs.
Today's announcement provides certainty for project delivery and communities in Melbourne's east and south
east, paving the way for procurement of main works packages to start next year – and comes on top of the $2.5 billion already provided for planning and development of SRL and for Initial and Early Works on SRL East.
The Government will continue to work with the Commonwealth and the private sector as this project progresses, with the creation of significant value capture opportunities as the build progresses.
The contract for this first phase of works – creating up to 800 early direct jobs – has been awarded to global
construction and engineering firm Laing O'Rourke, which has agreed to exceed workforce and local content targets.
The huge package of works includes preparing sites for the launch of tunnel boring machines, moving and
protecting underground services, ground improvement, geotechnical investigations and roads modifications.
The contract offers exciting opportunities for local industry and suppliers, including delivering in excess of 95 percent local content.
Around 14 per cent of the total hours will be undertaken by Victorian apprentices, trainees or cadets, with
opportunities for women, Aboriginal and disadvantaged Victorians – contributing to the next generation of highly skilled workers.
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Tourism a potential sector, guarantees for Italian businesses: PM Rama at Albania-Italy Business Forum
Albania is a country with increasing potential in a range of sectors. But according to Prime Minister Edi Rama, tourism is one of the sectors where there is a lot of room for activity, and domestic tour operators are not meeting the current demand.
Attending the Albania-Italy business forum, PM Rama invited Italian entrepreneurs to invest in our country, and to feel safe, since the country has a favorable tourism legislation.
"I want to emphasize a single element. Certainly the country has many potential for growth and many investment opportunities in the sectors of energy, oil, minerals, agriculture and tourism. What we are experiencing in this period is that the space where opportunities are offered even with the exponential demand is that of tourism. We really have a lot of room in this area.
"While every year the increase in demand is really unattainable from the point of view of the offer. Our tour operators are forced to reject 5 percent of the demand, a highly diversified demand. Moreover, there is an advantageous legislation as far as investing in tourism is concerned. In the next 5 to 10 years, it will be really the most important field in Albania from all viewpoints. Anyone investing in a 4 or 5 star hotel would have ten years without any taxes, only a VAT of 6%."
Rama assured the investors that Albania is on the right track, and is becoming similar to Italy in many important aspects, such as taxes and bureaucracies.
"And to think that there are 20 billion euros here in the hall is something incredible. And I hope some of these euros will remain here in Albania. Will remain in Albania in the form of investment. Albania is a growing country, and the Italians really feel at home here because we are Italians with all our values and shortcomings, despite not sharing the same history, traditions and culture.
"But I want to say we are the Italy of your grandparents. Here there is a lot to see and to do and much to win. Those who have made this step can prove that apart from the problems, apart from obstacles, Albania really guarantees all of these.
"Put in a single word, we share a similar way with yours, that is: very low taxes and bureaucracy as well. We will continue to ease bureaucracy, while with taxes we are at a very low level. We are developing a regulatory process. We are a country on the right track, and Italian entrepreneurs feel safe here."
The business forum saw the attendance of the Minister of Finance and Economy Arben Ahmetaj and the deputy Minister of Economic Development Ivan Scalfarotto.
Also attending were some 200 delegates and about 350 Italian business people.
Në 6 familje, një ka biznes – Të dhënat e Instat, dominojnë ndërmarrjet familjare
Hidhen hapat e parë të testit që zbulon autizmin tek fëmijët në një kohë të hershme
How much are the main currencies exchanged today against the local currency?!
Greece gives 100 thousand doses of AstraZeneca for Albania – Manastirliu: We are determined to continue with the national vaccination plan
Bank of Albania and European Central Bank sign agreement on prevention and protection of euro banknotes from counterfeiting
EU Delegation: AMA head to be elected in September by new legislature
Exchange rate / Pound and Dollar 'celebrate' while Euro loses points
Confidence in the economy improves – TNE increases by 1.6 points


Swedish artist Lars Vilks, who in 2007 sparked controversy with a drawing of Prophet Mohammed, has been reinvited to speak at Uppsala University, where he was attacked two weeks ago.
"The department (of philosophy) has reached a wise decision. Lars Vilks must be allowed to hold his lecture," Uppsala University vice-chancellor Anders Hallberg said in a statement Tuesday.
"Violence and threats of violence cannot be allowed to silence people, not on campus or elsewhere," the university added in the statement.
On May 11, Vilks was holding a lecture at Uppsala University's philosophy department, when he was head-butted by a man while others shouted and attempted to attack him.
Police evacuated the lecture hall but some demonstrators resisted forcing officers to use tear gas. Two people were arrested.
Vilks' attack occurred as he was showing a film by an Iranian filmmaker, depicting two homosexuals disguised as Mohammed, Swedish media reported.
Uppsala Univeristy was criticised in many Swedish newspapers for not showing enough support to Vilks after the attack and for initially refusing to reinvite him.
The university said Tuesday Vilks had accepted the invitation and that it would hold a new security assessment before holding the lecture.
Four days after he was attacked at the university, Vilks' house in the south of Sweden was targeted in an arson attack.
In 2007, Swedish regional daily Nerikes Allehanda published Vilks' satirical sketch to illustrate an editorial on the importance of freedom of expression.
The drawing prompted protests by Muslims in the town of Oerebro, west of Stockholm, where the newspaper is based, while Egypt, Iran and Pakistan made formal complaints.


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Blog Teams Arsenal Most efficient Premier League clubs in the last three seasons (2009 to 2012)
Most efficient Premier League clubs in the last three seasons (2009 to 2012)
Soccerlens 6 April, 2012 Arsenal, Aston Villa, Birmingham City, Blackburn Rovers, Blackpool, Bolton Wanderers, Burnley, English Premier League, Everton, Football Stats, Fulham, Hull City, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Newcastle United, Norwich City, Portsmouth, Queens Park Rangers, Stoke City, Sunderland, Swansea, Tottenham, West Brom, West Ham, Wigan, Wolves
Building on our previous post about the most efficient football clubs across Europe's top four leagues this season, here we do an historical analysis of the Premier league and the best performing clubs in the last three years (2009/2010 to 2011/2012).
The chart below shows some fascinating visual data about Premier League teams in the last three years – from succintly pointing out Arsenal's #1 issue to highlighting the massive statistical improvements United have made this season to why Liverpool and Wigan are at the wrong end of the tables.
Make sure you click on the image below to enlarge and view the full data, then share your thoughts in the comments below.
The most efficient Premier League clubs in the last three years
Talking Points:
Wigan's continued Premiership survival has been nothing short of miraculous given their tendency for wayward shooting and calamitous defending.
Arsenal are below the average defensive efficiency line for all three years. Their 2012 team has the fifth worst defense overall in the last three years and the second worst this season, ahead of only Blackburn. Someone should show Wenger this chart before he buys any other players (if he buys them, that is).
United's ridiculous position at the top left for 2012 shows how they have made the most of their attacking chances and held their ground (despite that 1-6 scoreline) defensively as well. The only comparison – defensively – is City from 2011 and Villa from 2010.
From the chart it would seem that United were the better team than Chelsea in 2010 – but that's the nature of football, where it's not just your overall numbers but your ability to win key games, which United failed to do that season.
Liverpool have the second-worst attack this season behind Wigan, and the fourth-worst attack in the last three years. Only Wigan (twice) and Portsmouth have done worse. One of them was relegated and the other might join them this season. How soon before Liverpool sue Evra for costing them a Champions League place / financial losses?
Research done by Matthew Wood. You can find more of Matthew's statistical work at Balanced Sports.
Liverpool, Chelsea, United, City and Arsenal all have points to prove this weekend
Most efficient football clubs in England, Spain, Italy and Germany in 2011/2012
Soccerlens


"The holidays will be hard," people around me said. I already knew they would be, and wasn't sure why people needed to remind me of a fact I could not forget. But then I reasoned within myself: What should they say to me? I thought of my own struggle to know what to say to the bereaved. I thought of how I would feel if people wouldn't say anything to me about my loss. I thought of how they could just avoid talking to me since it was hard to know what to say. And then slowly the truth slipped into my heart. When people tell me the holidays will be hard they are, in a way, giving me permission to be sad and have a hard time. Stating the obvious shouldn't irritate me; it should give me peace…because people around me are acknowledging my pain.
While grieving, it is best to extend grace to one's comforters—even in their lack of understanding. Forgive their blunders; remember you've undoubtedly made some of your own. Accept their comments as permission to be sad. Give the comments that hurt you most to God. He will be your unfailing Comforter, for He is the God of all comfort and the Father of grace. The next time a comment strikes you as insensitive or odd, determine to receive it and look for comfort that may be hidden within it. You just may be surprised at what God teaches you.


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Q: String processing. Extract shellcode I have the dissembled code of a shellcode:
shellex: file format elf32-i386
Disassembly of section .text:
08048060 <_start>:
8048060: 31 c0 xor %eax,%eax
8048062: b0 46 mov $0x46,%al
8048064: 31 db xor %ebx,%ebx
8048066: 31 c9 xor %ecx,%ecx
8048068: cd 80 int $0x80
804806a: eb 16 jmp 8048082 <ender>
0804806c <starter>:
804806c: 5b pop %ebx
804806d: 31 c0 xor %eax,%eax
804806f: 88 43 07 mov %al,0x7(%ebx)
8048072: 89 5b 08 mov %ebx,0x8(%ebx)
8048075: 89 43 0c mov %eax,0xc(%ebx)
8048078: b0 0b mov $0xb,%al
804807a: 8d 4b 08 lea 0x8(%ebx),%ecx
804807d: 8d 53 0c lea 0xc(%ebx),%edx
8048080: cd 80 int $0x80
08048082 <ender>:
8048082: e8 e5 ff ff ff call 804806c <starter>
8048087: 2f das
8048088: 62 69 6e bound %ebp,0x6e(%ecx)
804808b: 2f das
804808c: 73 68 jae 80480f6 <ender+0x74>
804808e: 4e dec %esi
804808f: 58 pop %eax
8048090: 58 pop %eax
8048091: 58 pop %eax
8048092: 58 pop %eax
8048093: 59 pop %ecx
8048094: 59 pop %ecx
8048095: 59 pop %ecx
8048096: 59 pop %ecx

And I want to extract like this:
\x31\xc0\xb0\x46\x31\xdb\x31\xc9\xcd\x80\xeb\x16\x5b\x31\xc0\x88\x43\x07\x89\x5b\
x08\x89\x43\x0c\xb0\x0b\x8d\x4b\x08\x8d\x53\x0c\xcd\x80\xe8\xe5\xff\xff\xff\x2f\x62\x
69\x6e\x2f\x73\x68\x4e\x58\x58\x58\x58\x59\x59\x59\x59

This is where a have get, but I don't know how to continue, it is important to note that between the first line and the second one, it is not a blank space.
This is what I have done for the moment:
objdump -d shell | sed 's/^ //g' | grep ^[0-9].*[0-9a-z]: | tr -s " " | cut -d \t -f1 | sed 's/[a-z]{3}//g'

And I have got this point:
8048060:    31 c0   xor %eax,%eax
8048062:    b0 46   mov $0x46,%al
8048064:    31 db   xor %ebx,%ebx
8048066:    31 c9   xor %ecx,%ecx
8048068:    cd 80   in
804806a:    eb 16   jmp 0x8048082
804806c:    5b  pop %ebx
804806d:    31 c0   xor %eax,%eax
804806f:    88 43 07    mov %al,0x7(%ebx)
8048072:    89 5b 08    mov %ebx,0x8(%ebx)
8048075:    89 43 0c    mov %eax,0xc(%ebx)
8048078:    b0 0b   mov $0xb,%al
804807a:    8d 4b 08    lea 0x8(%ebx),%ecx
804807d:    8d 53 0c    lea 0xc(%ebx),%edx
8048080:    cd 80   in
8048082:    e8 e5 ff ff ff  call 0x804806c
8048087:    2f  das
8048088:    62 69 6e    bound %ebp,0x6e(%ecx)
804808b:    2f  das
804808c:    73 68   jae 0x80480f6
804808e:    4e  dec %esi
804808f:    58  pop %eax
8048090:    58  pop %eax
8048091:    58  pop %eax
8048092:    58  pop %eax
8048093:    59  pop %ecx
8048094:    59  pop %ecx
8048095:    59  pop %ecx
8048096:    59  pop %ecx

Still very far from the solution.
Thank you in advance

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ABOUT THE ARRS
The Association of Road Racing Statisticians (ARRS) is an independent, non-profit organization that collects, analyses, and publishes results and statistics regarding elite distance running at distances 3000m and longer. Click here for more information.
The data of ARRS is stored in the ARRS database, which has more than 1.3 million performances from more than 240,000 races by more than 95,000 elite and sub-elite distance runners world-wide. It is possible to browse the database through the interface https://more.arrs.run
This website and the ARRS database has been created entirely through volunteer efforts. Many hundreds of people have contributed race results and other useful information over a period of many years. Some of these people have spent a great deal of time vetting the information, correcting errors, adding missing information, and providing ancillary information. If you find what you believe to be an error or if information is missing, please send the information to info@arrs.run
Many of the statistics on this website have been generated from the ARRS database.
The co-founder, coordinator, data manager, website manager, key person and the soul of ARRS - Ken Young (1941 – 2018) is unfortunately no longer with us.
ARRS is now in a transition process.
THE FUTURE OF THE ARRS
Ken Young's preoccupation with the collection of distance running data and its analysis stretched back many years before the formation of ARRS in 2003. His dedication over the fifteen years from 2003 did much to establish the ARRS organisation and its global network of correspondents.
ARRS has changed markedly since 2003. Less than 10,000 performances were added to the database in 2003. The ARRS network grew significantly and by 2017 more than 80,000 performances were being added to the database each year.
The development of the second ARRS website https://more.arrs.run through volunteers - one of them Juraj Gasparovic – became possible. In 2015 this website made the ARRS database accessible online.
In 2016-2017 Ken, Juraj and ARRS were working on a transitional arrangement for data handling and maintenance of this database involving more people, when Ken suddenly passed away in February 2018. It was obvious even before Ken's death that this growing data deluge could not be managed by one person. ARRS was working on a solution so that several people would be able to edit the database and this website in a wiki-style structure.
ARRS is now seeking others willing to work with Juraj Gasparovic in inputting data. If you are interested please contact info@arrs.run
We have two options for the future of ARRS: (a) continue in the regular processing of actual race results, (b) freeze the ARRS scope to the end of 2017 and document only historic results before the end of 2017. Without more volunteers to process results, the entering of future race results will be very difficult. The growth of the sport and sheer volume of results make it impossible for just one single individual to process them.
In order to raise the necessary funds to ensure the continuation of the ARRS and the two ARRS websites, we have made sponsorships available (see below for the list of sponsors). Please contact Andy Milroy - AndyMilroy@blueyonder.co.uk - if you or your organisation are interested in becoming a sponsor.
Andy Milroy – ARRS General Secretary
Juraj Gasparovic – ARRS Data Manager
Marty Post - ARRS Deputy Director
Stephen Peckiconis - ARRS Technical Coordinator
ARRS World Records
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Record Progressions
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Best Time for Place
Rules for Record Keeping
Competitive Rankings
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Yearly Rankings Leaders
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Veteran's All-Time Rankings
National and Regional Champions
Life-Time Prize Money
Win Streaks
Most Wins Lifetime
n-th Best Performances
Most Sub-x Performances
Most rankings may be found at more.arrs.run. These include annual and all-time rankings for any country and year for most standard distances.
Platinum Level
...Bolder Boulder 10K
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Marathon Lists
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Road performances are classified as "record quality", "statistically valid", or "statistically invalid" based on the start/finish separation and the net drop of the course.
Record Quality
.....Start/finish separation is less than 30% of the race distance and the net drop is less than 1.0 m/km
Statistically Valid (suffix "a")
.....The net drop is less than 5.0 m/km and the net effect of tailwind and/or drop does not exceed 5 sec/km
Statistically Invalid (suffix "x")
.....The net drop is 5.0 m/km or more
.....The course has been shown to have been short on remeasurement
.....The course is suspect based on an analysis of the race time bias that exceeds 5 sec/km faster than expected (-5.0 sec/km)
Only record quality performances are included in national and world road record lists. Record quality and statistically valid performances are included in rankings lists.
Multi-part names such as "van der Weijde" may appear in computer generated lists and elsewhere with the spaces removed, i.e., "vanderWeijde." This has been done for the purposes of efficiency in entering performances into the database.
Copyright. The data contained on this website is public domain and as such, cannot be copyrighted. However the format of the presentation of the data is copyrighted. Permission to reproduce the data/tables on this website is granted provided the Association of Road Racing Statisticians is cited as the source and the ARRS website URL is included.


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The first time I saw it, I thought, "Oh, that's interesting." And the thing is, for that fic, it worked. It wasn't an offhanded, smug, "Wizards are so much better OMG!" comment.
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"Post adolescent" art on display in two Taiwanese museums – picture feast
Posted by artradar on August 5, 2010
EMERGING ARTISTS TAIWANESE ART MUSEUM SHOWS COLLECTIONS
An exhibition exploring the theme of "post adolescence" is presenting 72 works by younger generation Taiwanese artists, those between 25-35 years of age, in an effort to reveal their art creation processes and society's influence on them.
Aptly titled "Post Adolescence", the exhibition recently showed at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (NTMoFA) and is finishing up at Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, an institution managed by the Taipei National University of the Arts.
A partnership between these two art institutions, "Post Adolescence" is in part a way to showcase NTMoFA's Young Artist Collection Program, started in 2005 and which now holds nearly 500 pieces by "post-adolescent" Taiwanese artists under 35 years of age. According to the museum's website, the program aims to "cultivate young artistic talent, elevate and develop contemporary art in Taiwan and promote cultural industries."
"Post Adolescence" is seen by Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts as an attempt to define the characteristics shared by artists in this age group:
The highly motivated generation of younger artists demonstrates novel art works using [the] special visual language of comics, aimless/purposeful cacophony of voices, or Internet-based technological devices.
The works of those artists embody innovative and surreal themes, reflecting their generation characteristics – passionate yet rebellious – and presenting an alternative form of art in Taiwan.
Many of the artists exhibiting works in the show have won awards – this is one of the criteria for inclusion in the Young Artist Collection. Standout participants include: Cheng-ta Yu, Kuo I-Chen, Su Hui-yu, Huan Wei-min, Chen Wan-ren, Wang Pei-ying and Wang Ting-yu. Cheng-ta Yu and Kuo I-chen featured in the Taiwan Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia (Venice Biennale) and Su Hui-yu was nominated for the Taishin Arts Award.
Lo Chan-Peng, 'Youth Diary of the Strawberry Cell Division 3', 2008, oil on canvas, 194 x 194 cm. Image courtesy of Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts.
Wang Chung-Kun, 'sound.of.bottles #3', 2009, kinetic installation, 200 x 180 x 180 cm. Image courtesy of Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts.
Chen Ching-Yuan, 'We Catch the Land!', 2008, screen printing and acrylic, 270 x 550 cm. Image courtesy of Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts.
Hua Chien-Ciang, 'The Divine Series', 2006, gauche, 200 × 60 cm (four panels). Images courtesy of Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts.
Kuo I-Chen, Survivor Project《41°N,74°W》, 2007, digital print, 87 x 240 cm. Image courtesy Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts.
Wang Liang-Yin, 'Pudding of Consciousness', 2005, acrylic on canvas, 130 x 194 cm. Image courtesy of Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts.
Related Topics: Taiwanese artists, museum shows, museum collectors, emerging artists
Young Taiwanese unable to name leading local artists, survey reports – May 2010 – a summary of an intriguing article on art knowledge and education in Taiwan
3 young Chinese artists awarded prizes at inaugural Caochangdi PhotoSpring – May 2010 – more on emerging Asian artists winning awards
Korean National Museum of Contemporary Art Young Korean Artists retrospective spans 30 years – May 2010 – evidence of the influence of awards and collections focussing on young artists
Four Asian artists nominated for NYC PULSE Awards – March 2010 – offers some biographical details for these artists
The ones to watch: four young Taiwanese artists in Taipei Art Awards – January 2010 – details on the winners of the 2009 awards
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Animamix Biennial – an alternative biennial pushes aesthetic of comic art – interview curator Victoria Lu
Posted by artradar on February 16, 2010
ANIMATION ART BIENNIAL
The Animamix Biennial is unique. The first was held in 2007, organised by Victoria Lu, an experienced curator and the Artistic Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Shanghai. This years show, also curated by Lu, spans four galleries: the Museum of Contemporary Art (Taipei, Taiwan), the Museum of Contemporary Art (Shanghai, China), Today Art Museum (Beijing, China) and the Guangdong Museum of Art (Guangzhou, China).
Animamix Biennial, 2009-2010, MOCA Shanghai
It presents art that develops or embodies the Animamix aesthetic, artwork that combines the styles of animation and comics.
The term "Animamix" was actually coined in 2004 by Lu when she became aware of the emerging stylistic trend while curating Fiction.Love at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Taipei, Taiwan.
Fiction.Love, 2004, MOCA Taipei
Animamix is now entering the mainstream, pushing the artists who have developed this style into the spotlight, artists such as Takashi Murakami (Japan), mixed-media visual artist Trenton Doyle Hancock (U.S.A.) and Brazilian painter Oscar Oiwa. As the style encompasses a broad range of mediums, and is often brightly coloured with bizarre narratives, it has an inherent ability to attract attention.
Animamix Biennial, 2009-2010, Guangdong Museum of Art, China
Always interested in exploring emerging trends, Art Radar Asia spoke briefly with curator Victoria Lu about the Biennial:
On Animamix as an artistic trend
The Animamix Biennial was inaugurated in 2007. Since then, has this art direction become more recognisable to mainstream audiences or does it still sit on the fringes?
This answer is rather difficult to define. If I judge by the growing numbers of Animamix direction artworks in the international art fairs, I can say yes. The Animamix direction is growing internationally.
Is this style popular internationally (for audiences, dealers and buyers) or is the popularity restricted to the Asian region?
There is more Animamix kind of artworks available in Asia market for the moment, so I believe Animamix art is more popular in Asia. But there are more and more artists in Europe working [with an] Animamix direction.
On the Biennial
Why did you want to start this Biennial?
I am tired of the current international biennials. There are a group of curators [which have been] leading the conceptual direction for too long. You will find [that] very similar artists list no matter where you go. So I want to try something new, something different. My concept for the Animamix Biennial is an ongoing evolution of art exhibitions and activities. This kind of biennial can really reflect the local art scene.
Would it be fair to say this Biennial is an Asian-initiated event focussing on an art trend that is becoming more globalised?
International biennials were started in Europe in the early last century. Now biennials are becoming more and more popular in the Asia, starting from the beginning of this century. Many cities in Asia are competing for the exposure of their art and culture.
Generally, how has the exhibition been received by critics and museum patrons?
My Animamix shows are very well received by audiences. So far we have also been well received by the critics.
Which artists have been well received by critics and audiences? Are there any "stars" of the Biennial?
I cannot say who the stars are. They are all important to me.
Animamix Biennial, 2009-2010, Today Art Museum, Beijing
The final leg of the Animamix Biennial, Dazzled and Enchanted – New Age Animamix, is now showing at the Guangdong Museum of Art in Guangzhou, China. The show will close on 28 February 2010.
A Perspective on Asian art Biennial 2009 – January 2010
Top 17 Asian artists 2009: Art Radar's most searched artists – January 2010
Top 5 sites for Japanese contemporary art news by Matthew Larking – June 2009
New York's first major show of Anime, Manga and Video Games KRAZY! Japan Society – February 2009
Takashi Murakami's one of a kind art fair Gesai grows in size – September 2008
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New York's first major show of Anime, Manga and Video Games KRAZY! Japan Society
Takashi Okzaki, Afro Samurai, Film Still
JAPANESE CONTEMPORARY ART MANGA ANIME
KRAZY! The delirious world of Anime, Manga and Video Games March – June 14 2009 New York
The influence of these three forms of Japanese contemporary art and popular culture has been sweeping across Asia and around the world. This unique traveling survey of contemporary Japanese culture was organised by Vancouver Art Gallery.
"The Vancouver Art Gallery is committed to fostering new and dynamic understandings of visual culture. With the exhibition KRAZY!, we seized a tremendous opportunity to forward the study of some of the world's fastest growing art forms," said Kathleen Bartels, director of the Vancouver Art Gallery. "Despite the pervasive presence of these media, little has been done to assess the ties that bind them. By offering an interdisciplinary account in a major survey exhibition for the first time, we will illuminate their importance as a sustained cultural force."
From the Japan Society website:
KRAZY! will be New York's first major show dedicated to the Japanese phenomenon of Anime, Manga, and Video Games-three forms of contemporary visual art that are exercising a huge influence on an entire generation of American youth.
The exhibition, organized by the Vancouver Art Gallery, will be presented in an environment designed by cutting-edge architectural practice Atelier Bow-Wow, featuring life-size blowups of popular figures from the worlds of anime and manga within an intriguing sequence of spaces that evoke Tokyo's clamorous cityscape.
Co-curated by leading North American and Japanese specialists, KRAZY! will give visitors a direct experience of new forms of cultural production and offers fresh insight into the interdependence of three art forms of the future.
Source: Japan Society website
Video – Brief trailer describing how visitors can interact with the show – 6 movie theatres, a sound room, games consoles etc.
Krazy! Cosplay party event details March 28 2009 – dress up as characters
Anime:
Ichiro Itano (Super Dimension Fortress Macross), Yoko Kanno (Cowboy Bebop, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Wolf's Rain), Satoshi Kon (Paprika), Mamoru Oshii (Patlabor 2: The Movie), Katsuhiro Otomo (Akira), Makoto Shinkai (The Place Promised in Our Early Days), and Masaaki Yuasa (Mind Game).
Moyoco Anno (Sakuran), Hisashi Eguchi (Stop!! Hibari-kun!), Taiyo Matsumoto (Tekkon Kinkreet: Black & White), Junko Mizuno (Pure Trance), Mamoru Nagano (The Five Star Stories), Hitoshi Odajima (Mu: For Sale), Takashi Okazaki (Afro Samurai), and Yuichi Yokoyama (New Engineering).
Video Games:
Toru Iwatani (Pac-Man) and Shigeru Miyamoto (Super Mario World, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker)
Review links:
Popcultureshock.com – appears to be full press release for original Vancouver show May 2008, details of exhibits which have 'shaped the history of contemporary visual culture' and bios of 7 participating curators
Anime Today – preview of New York show, listen to Joe Earle director of Japan Society talk about it
Krazy! at Vancouver Art Gallery stretches visual vocabulary – May 2008 – Straight.com – comment on cross over of high art and pop culture, interviews Vancouver Art Gallery about their art mandate and how this show fits within it
Canadian Art – May 2008 – asks 'is it art?', information about artworks and several images
Click to buy catalogue of show
Takashi Murakami on why the War helped create Japanese pop culture Dec 2008
Survey of Japanese photography at Paris Photo Nov 2008
Takashi Murakami's one-of-a-kind art fair grows in size Sep 2008
World's first show of bamboo sculpture in New York Sep 2008
Chinese Cosplay artist Cao Fei is one to watch Sep 2008
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New roles for art collectors, organisations created by Cao Fei on Second Life – Uli Sigg is RMB City governor
Posted by artradar on January 30, 2009
Cao Fei RMB City A second life city planning 2007
INTERVIEW CHINESE ARTIST CAO FEI
Editor of Asia Art Archive's Diaaalogue, Sue Acret spoke to Chinese artist Cao Fei about her Second Life project RMB City which was officially launched in January 2009. In this project which uses as a medium the online virtual world called Second Life, Cao Fei develops new roles for collectors and art institutions which blur the lines between digital and real.
Susan Acret: Please tell us about your avatar China Tracy and the RMB City work and how the online world of Second Life became a platform for these works.
RMB City – a city utopia with Chinese aesthetics
Cao Fei: During the creation of i.Mirror and the China Tracy Pavilion (A machinima-documentary about China Tracy's first explorations of Second Life, and the large-scale installation where it premiered at the 2007 Venice Biennale), I started to think about creating a place that belonged to China Tracy within Second Life… her own 'city utopia'. China Tracy felt that since most cities within Second Life were Western in style, she wanted to represent some of her concepts about Chinese urban development in a space that incorporated Chinese aesthetics and identity, albeit in a surreal hybrid style.
Blurred boundaries between real and virtual for modern generations
S.A: You've said that your generation, brought up in a digital world, 'will always compare virtual and real' and that sometimes the boundaries between the two can be blurred. Your art reflects this movement between these two spheres. What opportunities do virtual worlds offer artists that are not available in the 'real' world?
C.F: Second Life is a world where the conventional free-market economy still applies. Although we call it a virtual world, its economic structure and the virtual currency is tied with the 'real' economy. From a visual perspective, Second Life appears to be hyper-real and excessively imagined. Combined with its uncertain identity, it can be mysterious and enigmatic to people. On arriving in this virtual world, China Tracy was attracted by the hyper-real prison, but also felt an unavoidable sense of oppression.
Cao Fei, i Mirror Second Life Machinima, 28 minutes
Although the boundary between virtual and real is becoming more and more blurred, the way the virtual world contradicts and coincides with reality offers something ambiguous and complex. This, to a certain extent, enhances our lives as a whole, providing a reference for the exploration of individuality and the nature of life.
Another reason that the virtual world appeals to me is that it transcends obstacles in reality, despite being hyper-real. It offers a virtual platform for human beings to experiment with a possible utopia, such as building an individualistic heaven, drafting laws and systems, generating new discussions and thoughts, etc.
S.A: How many collaborators have you worked with for your RMB City project? How do you find your collaborations with these 'real' people?
C.F: Collaborators involved in RMB City include collectors, galleries, scholars, researchers, artists, schools, various exhibition projects, commissioned projects, biennials and triennials, etc.
New roles for art collectors organisations, Uli Sigg is RMB City governor
1. Collectors
We invite collectors to actively participate in the actual development of the city. For example, we invited Mr Uli Sigg to be the first governor of the city (for 3 months), in order for him to oversee and propose a blueprint for the utopia of RMB City in terms of its systems, construction and direction.
2. Public organizations
We are now working closely with Serpentine Gallery. They are one of the real information centres for RMB City. Also, UCCA which will collect RMB City, will have a virtual art gallery and other independent projects. Some art organizations are willing to rent spaces to be involved in this project and also develop their own projects.
3. Exhibition/ Project
I have realized personal projects for biennials and triennials via RMB City, for example, for the 2008 Yokohama Triennial and New Orleans Biennial, as well as on some consigned projects, such as H Box's video project. I would like to some overseas artist residency programs to take place the RMB City's platform.
We invite different parties (not just limited to the art field) in the real world to participate in the virtual world. We also invite Second Life avatars who are interested in our project.
Therefore, RMB City insists on 'the cooperation of virtual and real': collaborators should come from both worlds. Through this process, we hope to improve conventions and develop a new path.
Cao Fei Cosplayers, video 2004
S.A: Your use of internet platforms such as You Tube and Second Life is a democratic, open way of creating work, insofar as it is available freely to large numbers of people all over the world. Do you often get feedback from 'non-art' audiences on the internet?
C.F: Yes. I have received emails and messages to China Tracy in Second life, and comments on my YouTube videos, and friend-offers via My Space and Facebook.
I quite like these different forms of feedback from different channels, and meeting different people in different worlds.
S.A: Born in the late 1970s and brought up in the '80s, can terminologies such as Generation X (the consumerist generation) or Generation Y (the Net-generation or Generation Why) describe who you are? From COSplayers to the RMB City project, are your art projects the result of generational influence or your personality?
C.F: Since 1978, China has undergone an inevitable reorganization. Before we were ready to respond, we were already receiving all kinds of influences from a new time. Everyone is the product of a generation; 'I' am an individual as well as a transcendental object. Perhaps a young person who attempts to influence the world or China Tracy who surfs around the virtual world, are indeed coming from the same route. And as for me, I remain extremely close to yet with an appropriate distance from any of these worlds. This gives me a macro view of the 'world'. And then I decide how I should deal with it and derive my system to process all the complex messages of life. In Chinese terms, it involves entering (reality) and renouncing (the virtual) the world simultaneously. This journey is to experience both worlds while constituting the two.
This interview is edited. For the full version of this fascinating interview and more images go to Asia Art Archive.
Related categories: Chinese artists, virtual art, reports from China, video art, emerging artists, new media, Uli Sigg, art collectors
Cao Fei's first solo museum show in Germany Jan 2009
Artist to watch Cao Fei Sep 2008
UBS collecting video and global art Aug 2008 – Cao Fei's work has been acquired for UBS collection
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Emerging Chinese artist Cao Fei's first solo museum exhibition in Germany
Posted by artradar on January 5, 2009
Cao Fei Mirage
EMERGING CHINESE ARTIST SHOW to 15 February 2009
Born in Guangzhou in 1978, Cao Fei is one of the most important Chinese artists of her generation. Since the turn of the millennium, she has gained considerable attention from international curators such as Melissa Chiu of the Asia Society in New York and renowned Chinese art collectors Uli Sigg and Wang Guanyi.
Cao Fei's work was recently shown in London at China Power Station: Part 1, an off-site Serpentine Gallery exhibition of contemporary Chinese video, sound and installation art co-produced by The Red Mansion Foundation at Battersea Power Station.
Cao Fei is now particularly concerned with developing the technical possibilities of film, animation and the Internet in order to depict the swift and radical social and cultural changes in China. The exhibition presents her latest projects such as RMB City and i.Mirror. Since 2007 Cao Fei has been developing these utopian cities and future forms of living on the Net – on 'Second Life' – as her avatar China Tracy.
The exhibition in the Kunsthalle Nuremberg is the first comprehensive solo exhibition of the Chinese artist's work in Germany, organised in collaboration with Vitamin Creative Space, Peking/Guangzhou and Le Plateau, Paris.
She grew up in a world dominated by advertising and the electronic entertainment industry as developed in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and in her video films and sculptural installations she combines the influences of a global post-Pop culture with traditional elements of opera, the theatre or dance. Very quickly, Cao Fei developed a pictorial language entirely her own, in which she superimposes reality and fiction, and history and the present day. In 'docu-dramas' like Nu River (2007) or Cosplayers (2004) she consciously adopts a perspective that mediates between the inside and the outside viewpoints, interlocking documentation and fiction.
Kunsthalle Nuremberg Cao Fei exhibition
Artist to watch: Cao Fei September 2008 post
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Takashi Murakami's one-of-a-kind Japanese art fair Gesai grows in size – Saatchi Online
ART FAIR JAPAN
Saatchi Online Magazine reports that art fair GEISAI #11 to be held in Tokyo on September 14 "will be significantly larger than all previous editions, offering space for one thousand exhibitors in individual booths". Founded by the prolific rule-breaking contemporary artist Takashi Murakami in 2001, Gesai art fair usually takes place in Tokyo twice a year and "differs from typical art fairs in that it allows artists to represent themselves and present their work directly to an audience of collectors, art professionals and art enthusiasts in a professional art fair setting". Gesai had its American debut in Miami last December to coincide with Art Basel Miami Beach.
On the day of the event, art works will be awarded medals by a jury of international art professionals. Judges include Jack Bankowsky, Editor-at-Large, Artforum; Alison Gingeras, Chief Curator, the Pinault Collection; Carol Yinghua Lu, Independent curator and art writer; Philippe Segalot, Art Advisor, Giraud.Pissarro.Ségalot; and Marc-Olivier Wahler, Director, Palais de Tokyo, Site de Creation Contemporaine, Paris.
GEISAI #11 will also feature a special celebration of the unique anime and otaku subcultures that grew from southern Tokyo's electronic and computer shopping district Akihabara and are now taking the world by storm. As part of this celebration, GEISAI #11 will debut a special festival space featuring working shops inspired by those in Akihabara, and special surprise performances.
GEISAI #11 will be followed by the second edition of GEISAI Miami, which will once again be hosted by PULSE Contemporary Art Fair, and take place in the Wynwood Art District, December 2008, coinciding with Art Basel Miami Beach.
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Niubi kids and American art – Top ten shows in Hong Kong September 2008 part 2 – Saatchi Online
Top ten shows in Hong Kong this September part 2 published in Saatchi Online Magazine and written by Art Radar Asia's editor Kate Evans.
Lee Waisler: Portraits and Abstractions
11 September to 11 October
Sundaram Tagore Gallery
Sundaram Tagore's first solo show in its new gallery in Hong Kong features the eminent American artist Lee Waisler whose works are in permanent collections of prestigious institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Lee Waisler presents two series of works: portraits of iconic figures and abstracts, both in a trademark style in which he loads the canvas with layers of paints and organic materials to create thick sweeps of pigment separated by knife-sharp ridges. His portrait series includes the stylized over-bold faces of, amongst others, Marilyn Monroe, Mahatma Gandhi, Kafka and Albert Einstein. Their textured planes draw our hands to hover over the surface, curious, wanting to touch but not quite daring: a potent echo of the real life lure of iconic idols and our visceral compulsion to draw near, look closely and touch. For this show Waisler has created an interesting new body of work incorporating Chinese culture and imagery including a portrait of Anna May Wong, a famous Chinese-American actress of the 1930s and 1940s and Doctor Ho, a renowned healer from China.
Larry Yung: Desire – Loss
Amelia Johnson Contemporary
In the works of this much anticipated show two years in the making, Chinese American artist Larry Yung places idealized images of American and Chinese people alongside material objects of desire and cultural icons such as Mickey Mouse. Smiling characters are painted with a flatness reminiscent of the iconography of Chinese propaganda posters and 1950's US advertisements of the American Dream. This juxtaposition invites us to examine the complex relationship between the demise of the American Dream and the rise of Chinese aspirations. His stiff stylized figures appear artificial and remind us material prosperity is impermanent and illusory: part of a fleeting cycle of lack, desire, success and loss. His work has been commissioned by Proctor & Gamble, Pierre Cardin and Nordstroms and is held in various private collections including those of Marvel Comics, Esquire Magazine and Microsoft.
Niubi Newbie Kids
Mixed media group exhibition: Chen Fei, Chen Ke, Zhou Jin Hua, Zhang Ye Xing, Zhou Yi Qian, Feng Wei
19 September to 13 October 2008
Schoeni Gallery
Schoeni was pivotal in the nineties in promoting the art of then unknown Chinese political pop artists such as Yue Min Jun, Zeng Fan Zhi and Zhang Xiaogang, many of whom have since gone on to achieve iconic status and high auction prices. This September the gallery is showing the next generation of 80s born unknowns, the rebellious Niubi Kids. Untranslatable and a play on Chinese slang curse words, the word 'Niubi' is used by young people to identify the new wave of rebellious cool young Chinese. Also termed China's 'Me' generation, a product of China's One Child policy, they are less concerned with politics than with themselves, issues of identity and alternative worlds. This provoking not-to-be missed show of mixed media works, replete with influences from the internet, comics, video games and Japanese culture, is the result of two years work by the gallery and is the first in a biannual series.
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Survey exhibition in Vancouver, New York shows Manga, cartoon art in context
SURVEY OF MANGA ANIME COMICS AND ART IN VANCOUVER NEW YORK to March 2009
The influence of manga, anime, video games and cartoons on contemporary art is one of the most prominent current trends.
The exhibition "Krazy" brings the worlds of anime, comics, cartoons, video games, manga, graphic novels and contemporary art together in one exhibition.
The exhibition is co-curated by some of the art forms' most influential artists and cultural producers, including Pulitzer Prize-winning author Art Spiegelman, The Sims video game creator Will Wright, comic artist Seth and DreamWorks animated feature film director Tim Johnson. Conceived and developed by Vancouver Art Gallery senior curator Bruce Grenville, the exhibition will travel to a New York City arts institution in March 2009.
One of the largest exhibitions ever organized by the Gallery, "Krazy!" will occupy two floors of gallery space and is designed in collaboration with Tokyo-based architectural firm Atelier Bow-Wow-a design team renowned for their understanding of informal culture and ability to enhance communal visual experiences.
Divided into seven sections defined by medium, the exhibition takes viewers through ever-changing gallery environments, including a mini-theatre for viewing animated cartoons and anime, immersive video spaces and innovative reading environments for visitors to experience a deluge of manga, graphic novels and comics.
The exhibition comprises more than 600 artworks, including original sketches, concept drawings, sketchbooks, storyboards, production drawings, films, video games, animation cels, three dimensional models, sculptures, books, manga and much more.
Other participating artists: Lynda Barry, Marcel Broodthaers, Chester Brown, Milt Gross, Pierre Huyghe, Tim Johnson, Harvey Kurtzman, John Lasseter, Roy Lichtenstein, Christian Marclay, Winsor McCay, Sid Meier, Claes Oldenburg, Nick Park, Raymond Pettibon, Seth, Chris Ware
Asian participants include Iwatani TORU, Mamoru OSHII, Mamoru NAGANO, Shigeru MIYAMOTO, Yoko KANNO, Ichiro ITANO, Moyoco ANNO.
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Asian Art Triennial Manchester UK 5 April – 1 June 2008
Posted by artradar on April 6, 2008
INDIA SINGAPORE CHINA KOREA TAIWAN The UK's first Asian Art Triennial opens 5 April -1 June 2008 and is conceived by Shisha, the UK's premier international agency for contemporary South Asian crafts and visual arts, in partnership with Castlefield Gallery, Chinese Arts Centre, Cornerhouse, The International 3, Manchester Art Gallery and Manchester Metropolitan University.
Asia Triennial Manchester 08 shows fresh and innovative work that represents the best of contemporary visual art from Asia: a festival of visual culture that not only celebrates Manchester's diverse communities but also explores cultural, artistic and political debates of the 21st century. The international programme features stunning venue-based exhibitions, surprising site-specific new commissions, innovative residencies and extraordinary publicly sited work by artists from Mainland China, Hong Kong, India, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan. None of the work featured has been seen in the UK before and for some of the artists ATM08 will be their UK debut.
The inaugural Asia Triennial Manchester (ATM08) programme echoes Manchester's radical political and social history, reflects new artistic practice, and seeks resonances between the city and Asia by exploring the notion of 'protest' – in its widest sense.
Castlefield Gallery is working with Channel A (Hongjohn Lin and Ella Raidel) from Taiwan and p-10 (Woon Tien Wei, Jennifer Teo working with collaborators Jeremy Chu and Kai Lam) from Singapore who will reside in Manchester in the lead up to ATM08. The gallery space will become a hive of activity with both groups presenting new site-specific work that has been developed through their time in the city.
Channel A will reinvent the identity of the 18th century bogus Taiwanese, George Psalmanaazaar, as an estate agent, in order to explore the notion of property and fantasy in Manchester and Taiwan. p-10 will create a symposium platform for an accumulative research based investigation into different notions of 'localness' within the context of the international Triennial and Biennial. Chinese Arts Centre has initiated both a residency and exhibition programme.
There will be two artists' residencies, March – April with Chinese artist Mao Yan Yang, who will continue his interrogation of the media's depiction of events focusing on the Triennial's theme of protest and May – June with Hong Kong comic artist Kong Kee.
For the exhibition, the Centre is working with two Mainland Chinese artists, Chen Shaoxiong and Qiu Anxiong, who both use Chinese ink painting in an experimental way. Using their daily life story and a modern city portrait, they create new ink paintings and animation, which illustrate a sense of insecurity of the rapid urban development in China.
Cornerhouse is staging "What do you want?" with artists Tejal Shah, Jasmeen Patheja, Shilpa Gupta, Surekha and Shaina Anand, all living in India and working amongst a new generation of artists with activist concepts. The exhibition and community project challenges traditional cultural opinion, contemporary political issues and controversial social situations, the artists use photography, performance, sculpture, video and new media to analyse problems faced by Indian women and those living within conventional family structures.
The International 3's project features Chinese artist Han Bing whose work uses photography, video and performative social interventions to question everyday living and the impact of human progress. Han Bing's art manifests a kind of amor mundi — love of the world — investing ordinary objects with a subtle sense of the sacred. For ATM08, Bing is planning to involve approximately 100 local people in the European premiere of a surprising outdoor performance in Manchester on Saturday 12 April.
Manchester Art Gallery presents contemporary work by two Korean artists, Gwon Osang and Choe U- ram. Gwon Osang makes extraordinary life-size sculptures of people. He uses hundreds of photographic images to build up the surface appearance of his models, including the face, their hair and their clothes. The process gives his beautifully crafted figures both photo-realist and surreal qualities. Following a recent Manchester residency, Gwon is now creating new work including a sculpture of the musician Graham Massey – best known as a member of Manchester's electronic pioneers 808 State. This will be exhibited from 5 April together with an existing work Control.
Manchester Art Gallery also presents Gwon's first major UK solo exhibition from 21 June – 21 September 2008. Choe U-ram uses precision cut and polished metals, machinery and electronics to create stunning kinetic sculptures inspired by sea creatures and plant life. Two of the artist's enormous robotic works, Urbanus Female and Urbanus Male, will be exhibited for the first time in the UK in the gallery's atrium 5 April – 21 September 2008.
Source: press release
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We have two dogs in our house. One, a magnificent 90 lb German Shepherd whose appearance would grace the cover of any canine calendar or periodical. The other, a 12 lb scruff of wiry gray fur… the runt-of-the-litter… a purported terrier mix (an assertion all other terriers strongly contest). She sports a slight limp, a stub tail, and ears that put her in the lineage of Yoda.
This funny creature arrived to us from a rescue organization. They found her on a roadside with a broken leg and shattered tail — but despite her troubled past, she's surprisingly mobile. When attached to her lead in the yard, she has a knack for quickly wrapping herself around every available object in the most incomprehensible way. Within minutes, her leash resembles the layout for the Cyclone at Coney Island.
We normally hear a few whimpers and know it's time to save her from the latest entanglement. But if it's unusually quiet, it typically means she's really stuck. We'll never figure out why she goes silent when she needs us the most.
Christians are not much different than our little rescue dog. We've been saved from a bleak past, and given new life with a loving family. Even so, we still manage to get stuck in problems of our own making. If the trail of our spiritual lives was mapped out, it might often resemble the path of that tangled leash.
The question to ask ourselves: is it our first instinct to ask God for help when we get off track, or do we stay silent? Sometimes we may feel embarrassed and attempt to work things out ourselves before seeking help from God. Sometimes we ignore our pressing issues because we may not really want to change them (even though we should). Sometimes the deeper we get into trouble, the less eager we are to admit we need help.
Think about it – there's never a legitimate reason to delay getting God involved. He's listening for us, and wants to come to our rescue when we're in need. Why hesitate? He cares for us, and He can untangle our situation in a way we can't do on our own. We just need to ask.