etoy at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing

toys leave China in containers, etoy enters China with a container: the SARCOPHAGUS opens its gates this monday, June 9 at the National Art Museum of China (NAMOC) in Beijing. the community of the living and the dead woos for the Chinese and unpacks Timothy Leary only steps from the Forbidden City. after weeks of construction, the NAMOC opens SYNTHETIC TIMES, a global media art group show curated by Zhang Ga in collaboration with TATE London, MOMA New York, Eyebeam, and Pro Helvetia.

to adapt MISSION ETERNITY to the Chinese market and build on a corporate tradition (etoy.FIZZLE), etoy trades intangible assets for a new currency: the etoy.AFTERLIFE-CERTIFICATE is designed to light up the boundary between life and death. inspired by an old Chinese tradition of using fire to transfer assets to the dead (hell bank notes), etoy collaborated with young graphic design talent 阮千瑞
(Ruan Qianrui) to create the first note (beta v.01) equivalent to 1/1000 of an etoy.SHARE. with each certificate, a part of the etoy.BRAND goes up in smoke.

Opening: June 9, 5 p.m.
Exhibition: National Art Museum of China (NAMOC)
No. 1 Wusi Street Dongcheng District, Beijing 100010 P.R.China
Jun 10, 2008 -July 3, 2008

share with the living and burn for the dead
中国团队 /your agents in Beijing

marc brinkmeier

our friend, marc brinkmeier called fosten, has get a price -in the rubric reportage-, of the big publisher gruner+jahr who edit the magazine stern and other known magazines . they attached importance for good photographers. marc´s series was titled "pictures lest we forget".










othertimes he shoots for PLATOON the exhibition-photos poor in spide of work

all of PLATOON would like to congratulate him.
Yipee fosten!!!!!

koreans eat dogs..

.. but here yeunsu and udo eat octopus.. a baby octopus.. the strange thing is you don't know if you should call it alive or not. in fact it should be dead because it is chopped.. but it does not look like.. but have a look:

etoy wins VIDA AWARD 2007

president Francisco Serrano, announced on 29.11.07 at Barcelona Contemporary Art Museum (MACBA): etoy wins the first prize of the VIDA AWARDS created by Fundación Telefónica to foster artistic creation based on new technologies and artificial life.
congratulations to our friends and members of etoy. its fantastic.
here you can read the excerpt from the jury statement:
etoy launched the Mission Eternity Project in 2005, foregrounding on the one hand respect for the human longing to survive in some way after death, and on the other a sense of irony about dated sci-fi fantasies we contrive to satisfy that desire. The Sarcophagus is one materialization of this project. It is a mobile sepulcher that holds and displays portraits of those who wish to have their informational remains cross over into a digital afterlife. The size of a standard cargo container that can travel to any location in the world, the Sarcophagus has an immersive LED screen covering its walls, ceiling and floor. There, interactive digital portraits can be summoned via mobile phone or web browser from virtual capsules that are stored in the shared memory of thousands of networked electronic devices of Mission Eternity Angels (people who contribute a small part of their personal storage capacity to the mission, currently 765 of them; to date, 2 volunteers have been accepted for encapsulation). The data spectres that populate this tenuous memorial space are composed of details of lives lived, in visual, audio and text fragments. But when they are summoned in lo-res pixellated form in the Sarcophagus, they resemble one merged personality. The massing of details that we find in archives and records that keep the dead with us has a similar compositing effect, yet the Sarcophagus is also very unlike those. It gives us access to a novel social world generated among networked computer users who have a common goal of keeping something alive, which can invoke intense feelings such as care and wonder.

so PLATOON wish the mission a long life and good luck.

schuppenclub

da geht doch was!!! macht lust auf auf mehr.
dank an den handyreporter IM Klonk für die spitzen aufnahme. lecker abend. euer fosten

Invitation to the GRAFTWORLD opening

GRAFTWORLD
Scenographic Architecture

transcending mental and formal boundaries is the response of Lars Krückeberg (whom we met in Beijing), Wolfram Putz,Thomas Willemeit and Gregor Hoheisel to constant change in a contemporary dynamic society.

founded in 1998 in Los Angeles as the label GRAFT for ‘architecture,design, music and the pursuit of happiness‘ ,their exhibition installation is a visualization of an exemplary design and communication process that transforms all traditional categories of furniture, architecture and urban environment into one continuous landscape. the working methods of GRAFT unite semantic, syntactic and phenomenological aspects; their buildings are distinguished by scenographic elements of film with space-time references, a farreaching constructional research in cooperation with diverse companies as well as an intense dialog with clients. the interactive exhibition lounge GRAFTWORLD integrates projects that were created in the GRAFT studios in Berlin, Beijing and Los Angeles and range between hotels in Tiflis and Vancouver, resorts in the caribbean, villas in Berlin and Mallorca and not to mention Brad Pitt´s guesthouse&studios in LA.




saturday 20.01.2006 18.30 Aedes am Pfefferberg Berlin

welcome:
Kristin Feireiss, Berlin
Klaus Wowereit, Regierender Bürgermeister von Berlin
Andreas Ruby, Architekturtheoretiker


exhibition/ 20.01. - 01.03. 2007

opening hours
Tue - Fri 11 - 18.30 / Sat - Sun 13 -17

Aedes am Pfefferberg
Christinenstraße 18 – 19 / 10119 Berlin

*a catalogue will be published.





einladung zur eröffnung von GRAFTWORLD

mit der entgrenzung im kopf und in der form reagieren Lars Krückeberg (dem wir in Beijing getroffen haben), Wolfram Putz, Thomas Willemeit und Gregor Hoheisel auf den wandel einer gegenwärtigen dynamisierten gesellschaft. die ausstellungsinstallation des 1998 in Los Angeles gegründeten labels GRAFT für ‘architektur, design, musik und the pursuit of happiness’ ist die visualisierung eines beispielhaften gestaltungs- und kommunikationsprozesses, in dem alle maßstäbe von mobiliar über architektur bis hin zur städtebaulichen dimension miteinander verbunden werden in der arbeitsweise von GRAFT verschmelzen semantische, syntaktische und phänomenologische aspekte, ihre bauten sind geprägt durch raum-zeitliche szenografische elemente des films, eine weit reichende bautechnische forschung mit unterschiedlichen unternehmen
sowie durch einen intensiven dialog mit den bauherren. In der interaktiven ausstellungs-lounge GRAFTWORLD sind die projekte, die in den GRAFT - studios in Berlin, Beijing und Los Angeles entstanden sind, integriert und reichen von hotels in Tiflis und Vancouver, über resorts in der Karibik bis hin zu villen in Berlin und Mallorca.

Marc Brinkmeier: photographer & worldwide adventurer

Marc B Fosten , Platoon´s highest agent, and im not just referring to his rank here but especially to his actual physical size... had some of his extraordinary pictures featured yesterday by South Africa´s Sunday Times, with an alleged article about his experience with the children of Rainbow United, a football club based in one of Cape Town´s poorest area.







Marc has been traveling widely during the past few years, his compelling desire to capture some very human epiphanies within different cultures, kept feeding his unsatiable curiosity about human social relationships, conditions and the corresponding factors making different cultures closer rather then spread afar in a set of wrong and disputable assumptions. you have to go there to see with your own eyes....









with projects taking him from South Africa. Congo, Namibia, or places as different as Russia and Bangladesh; Fosten is surely a man constantly on the go...well, sometimes I wonder how he manages to keep his pace...here and then, in between his projects, we are glad to see him coming back to the headquarters here in the container, although it must be said he´s a freelancer and works totally independent on his own.











some of you might remember him from the World Cup times during the summer....or at the Pecha Kucha night here in PLATOON...


* the german speaking can also enjoy this podcast










Well, he surely doesnt pass unnoticed...
With his tiny pink slips stretched to the limits like he was a little boy and somehow drunk a magic potion that in a matter of seconds made him grow into an incredible giant.











so „Fäustchen“ to you mein lieber...






















*„Fäustchen“ being the PLATOON Salute...
fist against fist then bouncing against your heart... like sharing energies...and if it doesn´t make any sense to you, nevermind,,, who knows...knows.



## and now you can find him also on myspace ##

BLINKS & BUTTONS by Sascha Pohflepp

on yesterdays PECHA KUCHA there were a lot of very interesting speaches.. sorry if you missed it!

one of it was a project presented by its inventor, our old friend sascha pohflepp. his diploma in visual communication at the Berlin University of the Arts (UDK) presents us a vision in how we share our photographic moments in a worldwide community.. via flickr a lot of people already share.. with his gadgets you get something else.. maybe more interesting: a camera without any lenses. you just press the button in order to decide a specific second of time you want to take a picture.. and the camera gets the pictures for you: not yours but the one someonelse has made in this exact second worldwide and has then uploaded it to the internet.. the gadget searches online the datas of all available pictures and displays them on a screen.

fantastic!!

check it out on : www.blinksandbuttons.net

Between Blinks & Buttons are two projects about the camera as a networked object. Through making their photos public on the internet, individuals create traces of themselves. In addition to their value as a memory, each image contains a multitude of information about the context of its creation. Cameras become context-recorders which create references that go well beyond taking a photo.

Through this metainformation, every image is linked to the precise moment in time when it was taken, making it possible to see what happened simultaneously in the world at that instant. This work tries to focus the user's imagination on that other, to create narratives that run between one's own memory and a stranger's moment which happened to coincide in time.

The installation Blinks is a prism which refracts the ray of time running through a photo into all the moments that were captured simultaneously in different places. Buttons is a camera that actually shoots other's photos, taking the notion of the networked camera to the extreme.