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News & links from Metropolis M & co.

The Art Newspaper somt de feiten rond de zaak Clemens K. nog eens op: de voortvluchtige Fonds BKVB accountant zou €22 miljoen ipv de vermelde €15,5 miljoen verduisterd hebben. (EvT)

Ann Goldstein comments on Stedelijk appointment: MOCA's financial troubles played no part in move (LA Times) (EvT)

Video: James Kalm butts in on ARD interview with Goldstein at the opening of the MoMA Kippenberger show (skip to 7min) (EvT)

Video van een gesprek tussen Rem Koolhaas en Catherine David over de ontwikkelingen in de golfregio, onder leiding van Ole Bouman. Even scrollen naar A conversation in Venice. (DR)

Ann Goldstein over het Stedelijk in NRC: 'Ik wil dat het een actieve, dynamische plek wordt. Een plaats die de nieuwsgierigheid opwekt, waar altijd wat te beleven is. Maar ook een plek die erkenning krijgt voor zijn onderzoek, zijn publicaties en zijn educatieve programma’s. (ed)

Marie Jeanne de Rooij nieuwe directeur Vrije Academie Den Haag
als opvolger van de vertrekkende Ingrid Rollema.
Lees verder..

Ann Goldstein new director Stedelijk Museum
Senior Curator at The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles appointed in Amsterdam
Lees verder..

En het regent goedbedoelde adviezen: Bos, Esche, Jacobs, Hollein en Enwezor over het nieuwe Stedelijk in de Volkskrant (EvT)

Michael Jackson fans can visit the Mediamatic condoleance book (EvT)

Oude zaak in Bordeaux heropend: tentoonstellingsmakers van tentoonstelling met werk van onder anderen Marlene Dumas toch vervolgd vanwege verspreiding kinderporno. (ed)

Coralie Vogelaar shares her links

Coralie Vogelaar's latest publication 'dearest TINKEBELL.' (i.c.w TINKEBELL.) divulges what kind of people sent hate mail to fellow artist TINKEBELL. Using the email addresses of the senders as a starting point Vogelaar gathered all openly available personal information she found online. The project shows the relativity of online privacy and questions the internet as a space of non-accountability, while researching hatemailers as an antropological phenomenon.

In her work Vogelaar questions the authenticiy and mechanisms of mediated culture. In her books she makes explicit statements through the recontextualisation of found phenomena in journalism, art and/or popular culture. She is currently a resident at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. www.coralievogelaar.com

http://blog.rapleaf.com/solutions/
The search-engine I used most to find the people behind the hatemails. The Rapleaf company is now focusing on selling their data to companies.

www.live.com
The search engine from Microsoft with a lot of hits (like old comments) Google doesn't show.

http://www.myspace.com/114143310,
http://www.myspace.com/30996204,
http://www.flickr.com/photos/86907640@N00/293326655,
http://www.myspace.com/378474570
Of the hundreds of hate mails I checked, 2/3rds was sent by adolescents. I find that very understandable, since at that age I had a very pronounced and activist world view as well: for instance when people didn't separate their garbage or were pruning trees in the local forest.

http://www.myspace.com/11294249,
http://www.myspace.com/41264819
Among the adults it seems, there is a lot of frustration which is often taken out on public figures.

http://pro.corbis.com/Search/SearchResults.aspx?q=war&p=11
Once in a while I browse through stock photo's because they say a lot about visual culture and what people want to see; also at first glance it is hard to see if they are meant for journalistic, artistic or a commercial purposes.

http://www.viceland.com/nl/dos.php
And finally, I love it when people tell each other what to do and what not to do...