1MinuteRevolution.com, Angelo Plessas, 2011

1MinuteRevolution.com

On the Silver Couch : Ivan Maria Vele

Ivan Maria Vele

-In 140 characters describe me your identity..

I am a vast multitude of identities.Obsessive dreamer and sensually pragmatic. I am only scared of boredom while I don't believe in death.

-Do u agree the empire of the internet is more superior, humane and

"real" than any other physical authority?

I never obeyed to any authority-family, state, church- while I believe the web is somehow a superior organic force dominated by US- the users/contributors. corporate forces are trying to kill the net by regulating it with repressive laws. in some cases the lack of electronic freedom=lack of democracy. indeed the net is also changing lifestyle. Arts and fashion are available to all while the punk ethics of d.i.y. has finally prevailed. would you have believed that in 1977? The future is no future!

- What about the "empire" of Berlusconi.. Italy?

I left Italy in 1994. I couldn't accept Mr B, the former fascists and the Lega Nord -suddenly in power.This dangerous lobby of "piduisti-mafiosi-clowns" has procured italians an heavy "ethical damage". They promised a fake blue dream of renaissance and what we've got is only a squallid kingdom of corruption. it is indeed very difficult to contrast these criminals but sooner or later our collective consciousness will prove to be stronger then their lies.the way forward is cultural dissemination. it is through the application of severe cultural paradigm shifts that we will prevail.

Read in Greek: Lifo.gr

Limbo, The Organized Mind (1974) - Jim Henson

thanks Stopping off place

On the Silver Couch : Petros Moris

Petros Moris

-Do you have a role model?

I don’t believe I really have one... I mean, people are so complicated to be considered models of any kind! I think that what inspires me is an amalgam of people’s practices rather than individual personalities.

- The theme of identity is an issue in question in our post-internet era. Do you have an alter ego?

I had to think a little bit more about that one, but again, maybe not? It seems that I don’t even have an online alter ego: I’m as shy online as I’m in real life and I have never created a proper avatar for any online virtual community!

Read in greek on LIFO

On the Silver Couch : Maria Christina Polymenakou

Maria Christina Polymenakou

-I read your tweets and I see an obsession with what's happening in the M. east. Do you feel that you are a part of this revolution?
Totally! Respecting myself and what i believe, i have to do my small part. and it paid. Responce was unreal. it feels so good inside + jealous #zerotolerance

-How do you feel as a woman and a stylist seeing women wearing a burka?

Loves! burka is a cultural not religious phenomenon. it's all up to the women to claim their rights now that change is happening "#girlpower

-In 140 characters which is your dream society:

key words: freedom, love, respect, collective thinking, ecofriendly, multicultural, creative #dreamsociety

Read in greek in Lifo mag

Study for a pogo stick

Angelo Plessas presents at Triennale Bovisa, Milan

UnwhiteMe.com

OnTopOfTheEmpire.com

 AllDayDoingNothing.com

 PlagueOfFantasy.com

On the Silver Couch : Semeli Economou (Re-post)

Semeli Economou

- You are an actress and a director. Do you like to dominate or being dominated on camera?

I'm a transformer. I love to transform myself and I love to transform others. So by being both an actress and a director is like having my head and tail on one coin! Its up to you which way you want to flip it...

- I see you a lot in India..tell us what are you doing there?

India is a magical place and I try to go there once a year to do Panchakarma, which is a traditional form of healing/detox. It aligns and balances the chakras. Everyone needs a little magic in their lives no?

- Your motto?

The sooner we find out what our purpose in life is, the more time we have to execute it!


Her website here

Read in Greek on Lifo mag

On the Silver Couch : María Virginia Jaua Alemán

María Virginia Jaua Alemán

-Tell us your story of your life in 140 characters:

A life story is something very simple: She was born, grew up, studied, had fun, travelled, and fell down many times, and sometimes have succes. And we have the part nobody wants to know: little by little she faded and later she died. But we have a part everybody wants read: she loved and was loved… and if we have a lot of sex, better!

- Do you imagine yourself blogging in 20 years from now?

Sure! I can imagine myself making an even better blog than the one I’m doing now: salonkritik.net. I can imagine everything… but, to be honest, it’s probable that by then will bored with blogging and will be doing something else. 

- Is the Internet uncensored in Venezuela?

I have not lived in Venezuela for many years, although I’m still in touch and I visit frequently. The Internet is not censored, but there is the permanent threat to do so. It’s more like psychological warfare. People live in a state of fear that it can happen from one moment to the other. In my opinion, the only thing that keeps afloat a government like Venezuela’s, is to keep people living in a state of terror and constant threats of censorships promote that state.

Read greek version on LIFO mag

International Portrait Gallery: Image #76

View the whole collection here

Haute Culture: General Idea Retrospective

Over Versailles

On the Silver Couch : Maria Ines Rodriguez

Maria Ines Rodriguez

What do you do:

I’m a Chief Curator at MUSAC in Spain. I work on exhibitions and research projects about the strategies of appropriation of the public space in various places of contemporary art, which relate to the art, the design, the architecture and the urbanism.

First artwork that influenced your way of thinking:

More than an artwork, the encounter with artists made me realize that art is a space for thinking, an active political and aesthetic field. A place for the emancipation of thought.

Facebook is the biggest ethnographic tool now and you are an enthusiastic user are we all becoming hyper-social robots?

FB allows us to quickly and directly reach people, and also to share a lot of information, to learn lots of things. Of course, it will never replace the pleasure of meeting friends and having a drink, talking, visiting exhibitions or eating together and being on the Silver-Couch!

Read greek version on Lifo mag 

Few stills from AllDayDoingNothing.com at Triennale Bovisa

Few stills from DLD11 in Munich

OnTopOfTheEmpire.com at the lounge of star-studded DLD conference

 with LonelyPolychrome.com 

The Clouds panel of Hans Ulrich Obrist that included:
Andreas Angelidakis (Architect)Hubert Damisch (Philosopher)

Elizabeth Diller (Diller Scofidio + Renfro)

Hans Magnus Enzensberger (Poet)

Tetsuo Kondo (Architect)

Tomas Saraceno (Artist)

Matthias Schuler (TRANSSOLAR)

Werner Vogels (Amazon)

Later at the main hall at the Haus der Kunst I vj-ed some websites

;

with Miltos 

and Rafael

On the Silver Couch : Hamid Amini

Hamid Amini

-In 140 characters tell us the story of your life?
I am Hamid Amini , born in 1981 in Tehran right after revolution , we had to leave the country but returned and then left again, I practically changed 4 times countries lived in States, Iran, Germany, Switzerland and now France ... after a few galleries, have been working as a project manager in a trend office and an advertising company here.... my life is a Cinema Paradiso for its own right.

-I noticed you like men who beat themselves what's up with that?

Those photos were taken illegally during Ashoura, a day where muslims mourn the death of an Imam , they beat their hairy chests till it becomes red, then later in the night they grab a knife and cut their scalps till blood runs into their face as a sign to violent death of the Imam , they chew opium to bear the pain better and later on fall sleep all naked in the mosque ... its sort of a bear club .... in Tehran !!! ... I was about to get arrested, Thanks God I looked like them and no body saw my hard-on ;))

-How do you feel on this couch?

Well I signed in for Greek courses as soon as I got back to Paris, so I guess that's enough about Silver Couch's influences on me!!

Read greek version on LIFO mag 

On the Silver Couch : Thomas Doustaly

Thomas Doustaly 

-In 140 characters tell us the story of your life? Born in Nîmes (France) in 1968, the year of revolutions. In Paris at 17. Editor in chief at 28… and totally lost right now ;-). -Who's your role model? Tracy Lord, Katharine Hepburn’s character in “The Philadelphia Story”. -What would you do first in France if you were a politician? I will change the election rules to give a voice to minorities. Read greek version on LIFO mag

Some press for Every Website is a Monument

Read article from Republica by Barbara Casavechia here

Read article by Elena Sommariva on Domus Magazine website here

Read article and interview from Elena Bordignon on Vogue.it here



Arte-Milano by Elena Bordignon



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