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10 Most Violent Video Games (and 10+ Alternatives)

Advice from Common Sense Media editors. Ultra-violent video games get a lot of attention -- but there are plenty of less-violent alternatives that kids will enjoy playing just as much (if not more).

Are game designers responsible for the negative effects gaming could have on society?

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  Land art environmental disaster or creating environmental awareness?

Spiral Jetty by Robert Smithson from atop Rozel Point, in mid-April 2005

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Satellite view of Roden Crater, the site of an earthwork in progress byJames Turrell, outside Flagstaff, Arizona.

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The debate over the Sydney Biennial sponsorship from Transfield who have contracts with the government to run detention centres raised many moral questions for both participating artist and the general public a like.

Similarly if you are offered design work to design the above vassel used to transport asylum seekers out of Australian waters,how would you respond?

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It is interesting to think about art production in the booming contemporary art economies of China and India. Ai Weiwei Sunflower installation speaks about the issues around art production in such economies and how it shapes the art produced. 

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Caught On Video! Miami Artist Smashes $1 Million Dollar Weiwei Vase At Florida Museum

Responsibility of Production:

This act is interesting - the man who broke the vase is protesting about the lack of local artist in the newly opened gallery. However the work itself is interesting because it make comment on art production and artefacts  It is a 1000 year old vase Ai Weiwei dipped in paint.

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Ancient, modern and contemporary art. Bars, cafe, restaurant, cinema, and cemetery on site. And other things to do while you're there.

'post disciplinary curating'  in action

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What is Curation?

This is the first in a series of videos explaining the shifts we're seeing in the world of content creation. Curation has exploded with the growth of Twitter, Tumblr…

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Herb and Dorothy segment

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Curating

 Herb and Dorothy Vogel redefine what it means to be an art collector.

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Lost in La Mancha Trailer of Terry Guilliams film that never was.

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Failure: Tatlin’s  Monument to the Third International (1919–20),[1] was a design for a grand monumental building by the Russian artist and architectVladimir Tatlin, that was never built.[2] It was planned to be erected in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, as the headquarters and monument of the Comintern (the third international).

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Failure:

Helmut Smits

Smits is an artist designer and film maker. Who's simple use of materials makes comment upon social environments.

image 1.Title: Brick Window Year: 2013 Materials: leaded light

image 2. Back to the Construction Plans

image 3. City Tree

Year: 2010 Materials: billboard, paint

image4: Street Fountain

Year: 2002 Small water pumps in existing pot-holes in the road surface. When it rains, small fountains appear.

Image 5. A Plastic Plant Acting Like a Real One by Losing Its Leaves

Year: 2009 Materials: c-print Dimensions: 81 x 58 cm

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FAILURE: Bas Jan Aber. 

Working in the 70's Aber made a series of performances which 'staged' failed moments and tasks. They often comment on the limits of an action and everyday tasks.

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FAILURE: David Shrigley Crap. 

Shrigleys work often questions what is a good drawing or artwork and critiques the way we judge a work to be a success. Experiments may not turn out as planed, the measure is not if it meets expectations, rather consider what can be learned from what has actually occurred.

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WAYS OF SEEING:

Ori Gersht Pomegranate Video (see link below)

In his still life series Gersht investigated the relationships between photography, technology and optical perception, at a pivotal moment in the history of photography where digital technology both threatens a crisis and promises a breakthrough. The video references Juan Sanchez Cotan’s 17th-century still life, also picture.

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Ori Gersht, Pomegranate, 2006

Duration: 2 min out of 3 min 52 sec, editin: 6 + 2AP

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Editing: Hybridity

A zorse is a zorse, of course, of course… except when it’s a zonkey, a zony or a zetland. As you might have guessed, the “z” comes from zebra and all of the aforementioned hybrids display some form of zebra striping. Zebroids typically combine the strength of zebras with the docility of domesticated horses, donkeys and, in at least one special case, a Shetland Pony. Zorses are bred with a purpose, however: they inherit the zebra’s resistance to the Nagana pest disease and are used for tourist treks on and around Mount Kenya.