Update: EDUARDO RECIFE

So much new work from sketches to fonts to be seen at Eduardo Recife's Misprinted Type 4.0. As my first interview for the Imaginarium, I was particularly gutted to learn that I missed his recent visit and exhibition in London.

Links:
Misprinted Type 4.0
Misprinted Type 3.0
Eduardo Recife (SiouxWIRE)

Introducing: ERNESTO NETO

Ernesto Neto's organic, epic and sensory works are intriguing, delicate worlds that demand to be explored.

Ernesto Neto was born in 1964 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil where he has exhibited since 1988 and from where he continues to work.



Links:
Ernesto Neto (Park Avenue Armory)
Ernesto Neto (Galeria Fortes Vilaça)
Ernesto Neto (Tanya Bonakdar Gallery)
Ernesto Neto (Universes in Universes)
Ernesto Neto (ArtNet)
The Malmö Experience (Dexigner.com)
Ernesto Neto Interview (Kultureflash)
Ernesto Neto biography (BAM-PFA)
Ernesto Neto (Wiki)

Featurette: TIM MINCHIN

Imagine an Australian combination of Woody Allen, Frank Zappa and Eddie Izzard and you might get something close to the brilliance of Tim Minchin.

Links:
Tim Minchin
Tim Minchin YouTube
Tim Minchin Wiki
Tim Minchin MySpace

Introducing CARRIE SCHNEIDER

Carrie Schneider enigmatic and playful works seem to all have contrasts and contradictions.

From Carrie's biography:

Carrie Schneider earned her BFA from Carnegie Mellon University in 2001 and her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007. Upon graduating, Carrie attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and the Kuvataideakatemia (Finnish Academy of Fine Arts) in Helsinki, on a Fulbright Fellowship. Carrie lives and works in Chicago.

Links:
Carrie Schneider
Weloveyouso (source)
Carrie Schneider (Frieze)
Carrie Schneider (TimeOut Chicago)
Carrie Schneider (Frame)
Carrie Schneider interview (YouTube)

SiouxWIRE Snippets 10

Revealed: millions spent by lobby firms fighting Obama health reforms
Chris McGreat, The Guardian
Six lobbyists for every member of Congress as healthcare industry heaps cash on politicians to water down legislation

Free will is not an illusion after all
Anil Ananthaswamy, New Scientist
Champions of free will, take heart. A landmark 1980s experiment that purported to show free will doesn't exist is being challenged.

Reading Kafka 'enhances cognitive mechanisms', claims study
Alison Flood, The Guardian
Subjects who had just read Kafka's The Country Doctor were better at recognising patterns in grammar test, psychologists found

Artists Test Limits as China Lets (a Few) Flowers Bloom
Ian Johnson & Sky Canaves, The Wall Street Journal

How the Internet strengthens dictatorships
Evgeny Morozov, TED