Kircher Library Visual Arts

Article on Loretta Lux. 'The eerily lovely children of the photoshop generation' by Richard B. Woodward in The New York Times 29/2/04. One of the unreadable articles on pdf on Loretta Lux's website.

Extended-Body: Interview with Stelarc. Paolo Atzori & Kirk Woolford, Academy of Media Arts, Cologne Germany.

Miss M interviews Stelarc.

Rainer Linz interviews Stelarc.

Article on Stelarc. Virilio, Stelarc & terminal technoculture by Nicholas Zurbrugg

Stelarc videos available on Vimeo.

Information about Ai Weiwei's work titled Fairytale 2007.

2 hours 33 minutes documentary on Ai Weiwei's work Fairytale. Fairytale is one of Ai's two contributions for Documenta 12 in 2007. For this project, Ai brought 1,001 people (including himself) from all over China to the city of Kassel in Germany. They were chosen through an open invitation posted on his blog. Ai designed clothes, luggage and a dormitory in an old textile factory for the visitors. He let them wander around the city during the exhibition time of three months. The participants were divided into five groups that each stayed in Kassel for a week. According to Philip Tinari the primary design object here is not the clothing or suitcases but the participants' experiences, even their spirits. He was also commissioned to create another sculpture at Documenta 12, titled Template. During the exhibition, the monumental outdoor piece made of wooden doors and windows from destroyed Ming and Qing Dynasty houses (1368--1911), collapsed after a storm.

Ai Weiwei segment starts at 35 mins in. During his incarceration, artist Ai Weiwei's assistants, E-Shyh Wong and Inserk Yang come to New York in his place for the unveiling of Ai's public artwork near Central Park "Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads" (2010).

An Article 'Ai Weiwei: China's social consciousness' by Thomas J Berghuis

Unexpected Pleasures, an exhibition of the world's ugliest, loveliest, most intriguing contemporary jewellery, opened at the National Gallery of Victoria . Includes a 2 minute video of Susan Cohn talking about contemporary jewellery.