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THE MOST AND THE LESS. Part 11 By maximillien de lafayette. Contributors: peggy north, ruth sielberg, fabiola rossi.
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THE BEST OF THE YEAR This is what, this year, people looked at, selected as the best and the worst, read most, remembered, cared less and completely forgot about...
 BEST INTERNATIONAL ART EVENT OF THE YEAR: Florence Biennale, Italy. Photos from L to R: #1. Dr. John T. Spike. #2. Professor Piero Celona. #3. Professor Pasquale Celona. No other art exhibit equals the quality, the originality and astonishing diversity of Florence Biennale. Unquestionably, this is the greatest art show on earth. Three geniuses were behind this major international events: The Celona brothers, Piero and Pasquale and Dr. John T. Spike, an international authority on art.
BEST ARTISTS OF THE YEAR: #1.Joseph Matar. (Lebanon, France) #2. Salwa Zeidan. (Lebanon) #3. Aime Venel. (France) #4. Marina Kharma. (Lithuania, Russia) #5. Daniel Iliescu. (Romania). BEST EUROPEAN CUBIST ARTIST OF THE YEAR: The legendary, Vincenzo Balsamo. (Italy). BEST INDEPENDENT CURATOR OF THE YEAR: Jan Lynn Sokota. BEST INTERNATIONAL CURATORS OF A MAJOR ART EVENT: Dr. John Pike, Professor Piero Celona, Professor Pasquale Celona. NEW YORK BEST INSTALLATION PHOTOGRAPHY ARTIST OF THE YEAR: Renate Aller. (Germany). INTERNATIONAL ARTIST OF THE YEAR: Mona Hatoum (Palestine). WORST ART SHOWS OF THE YEAR AT: Baumgartner Gallery, New York. BEST FASHION AND ART PROMOTER OF THE YEAR: Andres Aquino. BEST FASHION DESIGNER OF THE YEAR: Jamil Khansa.
Photos from L to R: #1. Marina Kharma. #2. Aime Venel. #3. Renate Aller. #4. Mona Hatoum.
THE YEAR'S BEST AND WORST TV ADS
Photo: FAY RIPLEY and the National Lottery "unicorn" that got ad bosses so worked up. The worst TV ad of the year in the UK, was for Camelot. The campaign featured Cold Feet star Fay Ripley as Lady Luck, clad in purple garb with a pink unicorn voiced by Graham Norton. The ads beat out Diet Coke, Mitsubish, Ford Focus, Burger King, Specsavers, Weetabix, Quick Step Flooring and Nobby's Nuts. LADY LUCK failed to smile on Camelot this year ... the lottery giant's sales pitch was voted worst on TV by the ad industry. The series of baffling ads featured Cold Feet star Fay Ripley as a purple-clad Lady Luck with a pink unicorn in a series of commercials. It won Grade One Turkey of the Year from the ad industry 'bible' Campaign, beating off Diet Coke's new icon, a tortoise with a can on its back. Also named and shamed were a trio of car firms, Mitsubishi, Ford Focus which was named "a true toe-curler". Ads from top name brands such as Burger King whose offering was "About as appetising as a bag of cold chips", Specsavers and Weetabix also made the top 10. An advert for Mitsubishi cars - which takes third spot in the list - shows the vehicles playing football. Campaign says: "Criminally this gets everything wrong, It uses a hackneyed idea and takes it to preposterous extremes. The top 10 worst ads included Quick Step Flooring which saw a dog doing handstands. Taking up is the ad for Nobby's Nuts where pubgoers go for Noddy Holder's nuts. It is described as "A truly wearisome piece of wordplay which only the most undemanding would find funny." The annual awards are as eagerly awaited by the industry as the familiar "best of the year" ones as so many big names are held to ridicule. Camelot ads suffered a dodgy purple patch before when Billy Connolly's purple goatee beard baffled viewers. The Lotto organiser's current set of ads includes one in which a pyjama-clad couple find themselves on the Eiffel Tower as it does a cartwheel. Campaign magazine which published the results, stated: "The definition of a Grade One turkey is a combination of a good agency, a good client and an absolute and consistent stinker of a campaign. "In Camelot's case that translates into a pink unicorn, a rather depressingly common Lady Luck and a series of completely incomprehensible scenarios." The magazine does include the best ads of the year on TV, radio, press and poster. The winner of the best TV ad was for Sony in which thousands of coloured balls are released to roll down the hills of San Francisco. It was followed by ads for Sure, VW Golf, Stella Artois and Marks & Spencer among others. Data: Evening Times.
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The winner of the best TV ad was for Sony Bravia in
which thousands of coloured balls are released to roll down the hills
of San Francisco. It was followed by ads for Sure, VW Golf, Stella
Artois and Marks & Spencer among others. Other great ads of the year
is Stella Atroiswith their ice skating priests spot, and "Lost
souls", "a labyrinthine alternative-reality game that involves hidden
passwords and secret codes that enable players to respond to help a
woman trace her missing brother."
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BEST AVANT-GARDE ART EXHIBITION OF THE YEAR: Joseph Nechvatal "Contamination" : An Art Exhibition at Château de Linardié, France. The artist Joseph Nechvatal has used the computer for twenty years to create his computer-robotic assisted acrylic paintings and electronic installations. To do so he has subjected his image compositions to custom computer virus programs. From 1991-1993 he worked as artist-in-resident at the Louis Pasteur Atelier and the Saline Royale / Ledoux Foundation's computer lab in Arbois, France on The Computer Virus Project: an experiment with computer viruses as a creative stratagem. In 2001 he extended that artistic research into the field of viral artificial life through his collaboration with the programmer Stéphane Sikora of the collective music2eye. The dominant hermaphroditic visual form seen throughout "CONTAMINATION" is created through the computational morphing of testicles, ovaries, female breasts, and the buttocks of both sexes. "CONTAMINATION" was chosen by the artist for the title of this exhibition for a very specific reason. Through the utilization of digital-robotics, the paintings on view hold in suspension aesthetic moments preserved from real-time computer viral attacks which the artist performed using the most recent version of his custom viral software. This C++ based software, developed with the programmer Stéphane Sikora, launches unpredictable progressive real-time virus operations that live off and transform its image hosts – hosts created by the artist using a blend of digital-photography, computer graphic maneuvers and externalized computer code. These real-time viral attacks fall into the category of artificial life (A-Life); that is into a synthetic system that exhibits behaviors characteristic of natural living systems. With "CONTAMINATION" artificial life viruses are modeled to be autonomous agents living in/off the hermaphroditic image. These "Contamination" attacks simulate a population of active viruses functioning as an analogy of a viral biological system. The host for the viruses are the digital files on which the computer-robotic assisted paintings in "CONTAMINATION" are based. Among the different techniques used here are models that result from embodied artificial intelligence and the paradigm of genetic programming.
Dr. Joseph Nechvatal earned his Ph.D. in the philosophy of art and new technology at The Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts (CAiiA) University of Wales College, Newport, UK. Dr. Nechvatal presently teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York City( SVA) and at Stevens Institute of Technology.
Memorable quotes from 2005
"I don't want people to think I am someone who is dangerous who will do something to their children." - Karla Homolka on her release from prison. "Being cloistered with nuns could be a very good option." - Anna Campagna, executive director of Centre Generation Emploi in Montreal, on Homolka's job prospects post-prison. "I know a lot of you are going through separation anxiety... but there's nothing I can do about getting a Tim Hortons in Kabul," - brigade commander Col. Al Howard to troops leaving for Afghanistan. "The justice system has never given Indian people a fair shot at anything." - Robert Whitehead, chief of the Yellow Quill First Nation, after a white man convicted in a gang rape escaped jail time. "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job." - U.S. President George W. Bush to Federal Emergency Management Agency chief Michael Brown, during his first visit to the region devastated by hurricane Katrina. Brown was later blamed for the federal government's inadequate response to the hurricane. "I don't treat my dog like that. I buried my dog." - Daniel Edwards on an elderly woman who lay dead in a wheelchair at the New Orleans convention centre three days after Katrina. "Go to hell!" - former
Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to five judges trying him for mass
murder and torture. "The man's 63. He's going to die in jail. How much sterner could you get?" - A pleased Gino Cavallo, who lost retirement money in the WorldCom scandal, on former boss Bernard Ebberss 25-year prison term for leading the largest corporate fraud in U.S. history. "This has been one massive smear job from A to Z, and it will have a surprise ending." - Fallen print baron Conrad Black on accusation he stole more than $80 million US from Hollinger International Inc. "Always glad to be in Chicago." - Black on his arrival in the Windy City to face charges in court. "He'll keep his clothes on." - Charles Coplin, the man the NFL put in charge of the Super Bowl halftime show, on performer Paul McCartney. "They are about to go over a cliff together on a Zamboni." - Former Ontario deputy labour minister Victor Pathe on the NHL lockout. "If you want to know how I feel, I'll summarize it in one word - terrible." - Commissioner Gary Bettman on cancelling the NHL season. "Sexuality can be very difficult to get your mind wrapped around - never mind the rest of your body." - Actress Kim Cattrall on her book Sexual Intelligence.
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from L to R: #1. Vincenzo Balsamo. #2.Joseph Matar. #3. Salwa Zeidan.
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from L to R: Dame Jan Lynn Sokota. #2. Andres Aquino. #3. Fashion
designer, Jamil Khansa. #4. Daniel Iliescu.
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Dr. Joseph Nechvatal