All posts tagged: New York

Hong Kong-born Artist Paul Chan Wins Prestigious Prize In NY

The artist Paul Chan was awarded the prestigious Hugo Boss prize in New York last week. Initiated in 1996, the prize is awarded every two years to an artist who has made “a significant contribution to the evolution of the contemporary visual arts“. Paul Chan is prototypical of his generation, exploiting the potential of the World Wide Web and its information overkill to excess, redesigning it and establishing links with goal-oriented, unbridled enthusiasm. He has already created a wide-ranging oeuvre that reveals him to be one of the most inventive and multifaceted practitioners in contemporary art. His studies of current political and social issues, as well as the great and timeless concerns of history, literature, and philosophy, are incorporated into his art with lighthearted verve. More about Paul Chan http://bit.ly/1xHql3C

The Geography Of Innovation Is Shifting

When a prominent venture capitalist of California invested one billion dollars in high risk green technology, Silicon Valley recalled the world that in innovation, geography is karma. What Vinod Khosla’s story tells us is that location is crucial when dealing with innovation and technology. Thirty years earlier Vinod left India to study management at Stanford University in California. In 1981, fresh out, he founded Sun Microsystems, a computer manufacturer . Innovations do not occur anywhere but often in geographic clusters where investors, large research universities, existing technology companies, engineers, designers, artists and scientists are always willing to think outside the box. Those people are part of what Richard Florida calls the Creative Class. His paradigm asserts that innovation is the outcome of creativity, this latter being the outcome of human creation for a concrete realization which then might lead to innovation. As far as geography and clusters are concerned, the Silicon Valley has been for several decades considered as the only creative and innovative hub worldwide. This is clearly changing. The geography of innovation is shifting. For proof, start with Google, …

New York Chinatown par Franck Bohbot

Franck Bohbot consacre sa recherche artistique aux espaces publics et aux paysages urbains. Fasciné par l’iconographie cinématographique, il centre sa création autour du rapport entre l’individu et l’architecture. Dans cette série, Franck Bohbot a pris le contre pied du cliché du Chinatown animé. Ici, pas de bruits, pas de livraisons, ni de rues animées, ou de touristes. Le silence et l’architecture du Lower East Side sont rois. A mi-chemin entre poésie et décors cinématographiques de science fiction, il a réalisé une série nocturne du quartier vidé de son activité, de ses habitants avec comme décor New York. Il en découle un voyage énigmatique, créant un univers pictural et quasi fantastique en pleine nuit. Franck Bohbot est le lauréat 2014 des International Awards of Architectural Photography http://bit.ly/1vchwU5