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The USA has 2.3 million prisoners (25% of the world´s inmates) and there were 6,420,000 car crashes in the USA in 2005.

Pennsylvania, etc.

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Slashdot reports that Warner Music Group has hired Jim Griffin to work out a deal with ISPs over file sharing. The proposal is to implement a monthly fee from ISPs to the big 5 record companies, to be absorbed by the internet consumer, in order to make file sharing music files completely legal. The price [...]

Posted by Aeron Bergman
The Partido Socialista Obrero Español has nearly taken the absolute majority in the Spanish parliament again. Mild, polite, social justice loving Jose Luis Zapatero will continue his quiet campaign of economic status quo with a liberal edge. While Spain is still keen on racism in football matches, embarrassing racist police actions, [...]

Posted by Aeron Bergman
I invited Tony Conrad to lecture in my class at the Art Academy of Oslo today. He was charming, funny and candid about the early days of film experiments, music iconoclasm, and conceptual jokes. It is nice to see someone move fluently between several disciplines. My students and I loved the lecture. [...]

Posted by Aeron Bergman
The Goodiepal has been developing his lecture/performance/concert to new levels of subtle complexity. I saw him tonight in Oslo´s Blå. He uses footage from his lecture on “The 11th Hour“, a Danish TV show, in the background while moving around his objects on a desk on stage. He comes in [...]

Posted by Aeron Bergman
Reactionary art has a long and irritating tradition. I realize this text gives them unnecessary attention again.
Here is a short list of particularly annoying artists:
Santiago Sierra. If occasionally his politics are interesting, (11 People Paid to Learn a Phrase) virtual enslavement and permanent humiliation is not an interesting direction for artistic freedom. [...]

Posted by Aeron Bergman
I am teaching early video art to an interested yet skeptical class of very smart young Norwegian artists. Apologizing in advance because the perspective is mostly American, I am explaining the political situation of the time, and how these artists actually believed they were going to change perspectives by making video [...]

Posted by Aeron Bergman
There are unsufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation (and so many others). The check of justice, freedom and security has bounced. The solid rock of brotherhood has crumbled to sand. Veterans of creative suffering, we wallow in self evident truths that look anything but. Freedom rings and [...]

Posted by Aeron Bergman
Today Alejandra and I continued our tour of Detroit’s historic sites of violence and civil disturbance. The violence seemed far away today: a clear winter sun lit up mundane, quiet, daily activities and made even burned out apartments look elegant. We bought cakes at Minni’s on Wyoming Avenue. Lamuriel, the [...]

Posted by Aeron Bergman
The shock of driving through the endless grids of over-lit shopping and suburban Detroit sprawl deadens after a while, but two years passed since I last visited my childhood home, and the shock hit me fresh. How much energy do Americans need to burn up everyday? Big distances divide mundane [...]

Holiday in Detroit!