Calendar-esque

A few events not to be missed if you’re in Europe over the next few weeks:

Reclaim The Spectrum shows how artists, designers and activists are appropriating Hertzian space and reworking it to subvert its ends. With works such as Usman Haque‘s Sky Ear, Wifi Hog by Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Wifi Bedouin by Julian Bleecker, Anab Jain‘s Yellow Chair Stories, Tempest by Erich Berger, etc.
In Sevilla, Spain, from 13th to 19th march at the caS for zemos98.

banner_index.jpgNext Level – Art, Games & Reality: Work by artists and designers who make the vocabulary of games their own, and provide us with their personal reflection on it. With works by Persijn Broersen and Margit Lukacs, Brody Condon, Joes Koppers, Geert Jan Mulder and the GameKings (in cooperation with Guerilla Games).
Until June 18 at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Bright has a good coverage of the show.

3 exhibitions i’m going to check this weekend:

Paolo and Silvio from Limiteazero have a show at the Hublab, Milan until April 11.

interna_grande.jpgSUPERNEEN will demo the very best of Neen Creations (art/architecture/fashion/design/music/writing/style) from 2000 to the present and introduce the concept of Neen in Italy.
At the Gallery Pack, Milan, until April 22.

Beautiful Losers at the Triennale, in Milan, until March 19. The exhibition explores the new aesthetic developed by visual artists, graphic designers, filmmakers, performers, Web and product designers who have emerged in the last ten years.

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Another show i’ll visit very soon:

Lilly Controls my Foriginal, the first Italian personal exhibition of the Austrian collective UBERMORGEN.COM (Lizvlx/Hans Bernhard) is taking place at the Fabio Paris gallery in Brescia till April 8.

Game Set and Match is a three-day symposium that discusses current and future transformations within digitally driven architectural practices through innovative cross-disciplinary collaborations in general and real-time collaborative design, engineering and prototyping processes in particular.
Symposium: March 29 – March 31 2006, Delft, The Netherlands.

Presented by Papier.Machine and the Pébroc Shop (Nantes), the Pimp my Dolls exhibition wants to show how young artists found a new playground for their experiments by creating toys and dolls directly inspired by their world with 2 pieces of fabrics and the sewing machine of their grandmother… for the greatest pleasure of the adults.
Opens on March 24th in Venice at the Studio Camuffo.

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The second part of the RE/ACT festival will be held in Mannheim’s castle, from April 7 to 9. RE/ACT has a great mission: it gives “an opportunity to students from all parts of the world to show their pieces of art to a broad audience and at the same time to make contacts with gallery owners, cultural referees, professors, students and media experts.”

See, The Visualisation of Information, will feature talks by Jochen Wagner, Joachim Sauter, Casey Reas, Carsten Nicolai, Tobias Wallisser. It’s on April 22 in Wiesbaden.

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Last event i wanted to mention is a bit out of this “come to Europe we’re having loads of fun here” post. Wonderful William Wegman has a retrospective at the Brooklin Museum, New York.
Funney/Strange runs through June 4.