Music and environmental awareness united in a new project. “Edison – Change the Music” is the first low environmental impact project designed to promote the cause and culture of sustainable energy in music.

The project revolves around a competition for emerging bands which in two years has already attracted 650 bands and over 1,300 tracks. This year it will be staged in ten cities across Italy together with the X-Factor Tour. So how do you save energy at a rock concert?

Here are some guidelines: always use public transport and low-emissions vehicles for transporting musicians and equipment, use LED lighting on stage, sell food cultivated in local farms and insist on more efficient sound systems.

The green tour started on 8 June but will continue in Italy throughout the summer.

Is there a perfect scent to reflect our state of mind? Well apparently there is and you can find it inside the Czech Republic Pavilion at Expo 2010 currently being held in Shanghai. The Czechs have installed an automatic laboratory to create perfumes by simply analyzing our state of mind.

How’s it done? Aglass chamber houses an enormous sense-detecting mechanism. This is the place where a few lucky souls can get themselves analysed and in return receive a gift of special perfume created on the spot and made up of as many as ten olfactory components.

The poetry of landscapes seen through the eyes of the young German photographer Thomas Wrede whose intriguing shots are somewhere between reality and illusion. His secret? The houses Wrede depicts are actually miniature models arranged on mountains, snowy peaks and beaches. A curious effect that springs from the disproportion in scale of the various objects and settings. The project will be on display at the Gallery Wagner and Partner in Berlin till 31 July.

Back in the 1960s people started making paper clothes for promotional reasons – for advertising or political campaigns. Today paper continues to regale the fashion world increasingly interesting concepts. From May through August The Pap(i)er Fashion exhibition will be on show at Museum Bellerive in Zurich. It’s a “paper celebration” with examples of the works from a range of designers, fashion stylists and creatives over different periods.

http://www.museum-bellerive.ch/

For the last two decades this event is a must for everyone keen to know what’s cooking on the electronic music scene. SONAR is back in Barcelona and to make sure it can host all the artists keen to participate, it’s doubling up its locations. The classic “Sonar by Day” events (taking place in the CCCB Halls and the magnificent MACBA, the Museum of Contemporary Art) and “Sonar by Night” (at the Trade Exhibitions Centre in the Hospitalet district). The other venue will be at EXPOCoruña just outside the Galician city of La Coruña, in Spain’s north-eastern corner.

Here’s a rundown of some of the artists who will be performing during the three-day event which runs 17th, 18th and 19th June: Chemical Brothers, LCD Soundsystem, Plastikman, Air, Dizzee Rascal, Hot Chip, Jónsi, Matthew Herbert, the 2manydjs, Kid Koala, i Broadcast, Booka Shade, Flying Lotus.
And as usual the concerts will be accompanied by exhibitions, installations, special events and happenings. Not to be missed!

He is one of the most influential artists of our times famous for creating works made from every day materials put together in amazing ways. Born in 1962, Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco is exhibiting his works at Moma in New York until March 1st. Look out for his modified Citroën DS which now looks like a dragon-fly, an ensemble of mirrors, sculpture at its most curious. You just won’t stop looking at them from different angles!

Black and white, cuts, details, shades. The complexities and subtleties of Japanese life seen through the photo-lens of the Italian photographer Renato D’Agostin are on display at the prestigious Leica Gallery in New York.

The exhibition highlights the geometry of a city with streets, architectures and connections.

Leica Gallery
670 Broadway, New York City
till 9 January 2010

This is the first version of Poster4Tomorrow, an international social communication project thought up by the international Good Design Cultural Association.
The aim is to raise the awareness of world citizens in helping to combat acts of injustice and intolerance.

So how do they do this?

The organizers have gone out and asked creatives throughout the world to make a poster on the theme of freedom of expression – a fundamental right that must be guaranteed. The project includes celebrities of the likes of Yoani Sanchez and Roberto Saviano.

Till now 1834 proposals have been received. They are then vetted by a panel headed by Marjane Satrapi made up of nine international-level project designers.

The 100 winning posters are on display in Milan till 20th December

Creative Europe meet-up in Como.
12-18 October 2009

This is the very first creativity-sharing system on a Europe-wide scale. The aim is to support talented people in fashion, design and art through a cultural exchange platform – an ongoing, non-stop training workshop that provides real assistance. It does this by channelling the ambitions of young people to creative working opportunities in the Como area.
Join a get-together of young creatives from all over the world, many coming from the most prestigious schools of design.

For the second year running ComOn “Creativity Week ” this time from 12th to 18th October will see the Alpine city of Como dress up in yellow as it hosts shows and events in honour of one great protagonist: creativity!

ENNIO CAPASA will be present on Friday 16th October during the JUNGLE PARTY event to talk about his experiences as a creative, his relationship with young people and with the world over the internet.

WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU THERE!

Challenging cyclists to create “an attractive and modern bike share system,” Copenhagen pushes their standing as a forward-thinking, eco-friendly city with a competition open to designers around the globe.

Updating tharing innovativo e creativo.

heir 1995 bike sharing system (the first of its kind), the major goal is to create a transportation system effective in increasing the percentage of cyclists around Copenhagen while decreasing the number of injuries—geared towards commuters, tourists and city residents alike.

Signs stuck up outside the Bristol Museum announced: “Closed for essential maintenance work”. But the true story was something quite different – an out and out street-art blitz coordinated by the exhibition’s curator and the artist Bansky. Until 31st August, 100 examples of his provocative art will be on display here consisting of political and ethical slogans both provocative and poetic – all witty interpretations of the social dynamics – both amusing and subtle – of our times.

You really want to wow her? Well try out Brad Downey’s idea – the master manipulator of urban signals. Whatever will the pretty lass say?

Missbehave, the hysterical New York magazine for women that focuses on events, fashion, urban cultures, lifestyle and gossip has decided from today to close down its paper-based version. Hey, don’t worry – before long you’ll be able to see the first online edition: a new feed to put among your favourites!

One of the commonest questions you can ask an artist is “what inspires you?” However the latest exhibition at The Anonymous Gallery raises quit a different question: “where do your ideas go?”.
On till 24 January during this event three generations of artist are compared and examined from Andy Warhol, Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat to MOMO, Maya Hayuk and Dan Funderburgh.

There’s now an unusual place you can view art in the city – neither a museum nor an art gallery. It’s a container located on the city’s streets and squares in which artists with different tales to tell and a range of works can experiment their own visions. Until 16th November, the sixth version of Containerart, thw very first nomadic exhibition of contemporary and avant-garde art will be touring Milan, Turin, Tirana and enice. Come to the city square and see installations, videos, photographs and sculptures from the Italian and international scene’s most creative artists. All in the container!

The latest of London street-artist Banksy’s many ventures, this time in the Big Apple. His new frontier is The Village Pet-Shop, an arts project that plumbs the depths of man’s relationship with animals. “People from New York seem more interested in their pets than they are in art!” This assertion lies behind the inspiration for Bansky’s store-window-cum-zoo that opened this week in New York. “This is essentially street art as it can be admired from the street 24/7.”
This most unusual zoo will be on display until 31st October. If you can’t get to NY, google it on the web. Bansky’s fans are already queuing up!

The opening of the new Saatchi Gallery in London is heralded as one of October’s most important events. And its founder Charles Saatchi, famous for being one of the most active admirers and supporters of young British art has already hit bull’s-eye with the website. It looks like becoming a large interactive container constantly enriched by contributions from users, an artists community, students and curious people who can promote themselves on its pages. There are also comments, competitions, forums, and an updated list of events in London. If you’re an artist it’s time to get going – this could be your chance!

You still have till 19 October to see the building made by Frank Gehry for London’s Serpentine Gallery. Famous for its annual staging of a temporary pavilion created by architecture’s most important names, this year’s choice fell on the visionary Gehry noted for with his unusual forms of wood and glass

13 – 23 September
Ten days packed with creativeness. A chance “for everyone who believes design can solve problems, herald innovation, build profits, create beauty and lift one’s spirit”, to quote John Sorrell the man behind the festival.
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10,000 square metres just north of the Mitte and Prenzlauerberg district is the vast area where Micamoca Berlin will spring up.
The concept belongs to the Milanese collector-entrepreneur Mariano Pichler and within two years will host an art district with galleries, ateliers, and residences.
The German- Italian studio Kuehn Malvezzi is responsible for designing the project.

After last time’s triumph Enel Contemporanea is now enjoying its second time round. The theme is energy and this year’s event features the Brazilian artists Assume Vivid and Astro Focus involved in a spectacular work created ad hoc for Largo Argentina’s Roman spaces . (Till 3rd October )

Manifesta – the biannual contemporary art event – is always on the road and has now pulled into Italy. The happening’s strong point has to be its nomadic characteristic. Over the years it has moved around all over Europe to different places as it brings art to the people.
So this year it’s Italy’s turn with Manifesta on show in the following cities: Bressanone, Bolzano, Trento and Rovereto. Almost two hundred artists are involved in a number of high impact projects such as “Fortress” with special environments inhabited by voices.

WHAT: Graffiti Research Lab
WHEN&WHERE: Monday 26 May 2008, 19.00–22.00 , Tate Modern, London

An event to encourage young people and street artists to work with the creatives of the Tate Modern’s Graffiti Research Lab. A performances with lights and lasers is the latest frontier of street art. If you’re in town, drop by and see for yourself!
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