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hutak.org: ABC Unleashed: Race Invaders
http://www.hutak.org/2008/11/race-invaders.html
ABC Unleashed: Race Invaders. About our responses to the globalisation of that distinctively Australian event, the Melbourne Cup. Cup Day, and Cup Day only, commands an attention, an interest, and an enthusiasm which are universal and spontaneous, not perfunctory. I can call to mind no specialised annual day in any country, whose approach fires the whole land with a conflagration of conversation, and preparation, and anticipation and jubilation. No day save this one. Mark Twain, Following the Equator.
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hutak.org: ABC Unleashed: Whip it Good!
http://www.hutak.org/2009/09/abc-unleashed-whip-it-good.html
ABC Unleashed: Whip it Good! As the Spring Racing Carnival begins in earnest this weekend, Michael Hutak says. New rules restricting how jockey's whip their horses are causing controversy. Outside Melbourne Cup time, Australia's multi-billion dollar horse racing industry usually attracts the attention of the wider general public for all the wrong reasons: betting scams, race fixing, money laundering, "colourful" racing identities, horse doping and claims of animal cruelty are the typical narratives.
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hutak.org: d/Archive: Michael Hutak
http://www.hutak.org/2007/01/darchive-michael-hutak.html
Of super 8 films courtesy d/lux/media/arts. Posted by Michael Hutak. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). A remix of published works by Michael Hutak. Articles, images and other stuff stretching way back. 169; 1984-2013 Michael Hutak. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0. Simple template. Powered by Blogger.
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hutak.org: AES+F at the 2010 Biennale of Sydney
http://www.hutak.org/2011/05/aesf-at-2010-biennale-of-sydney.html
AES F at the 2010 Biennale of Sydney. Russian art group AES F's. The Feast of Trimalchio is one of the Biennale of Sydney 2010 most talked-about pieces. Michael Hutak. Gets to grips with its seductive surfaces and grim reflections of the real world. For instance, if we were to audit the carbon footprint of all artworks in Sydney this year, would the work of Russian art troupe AES F, for example, emerge as ecologically indefensible? AES&F constitute two architects, a creative director and a fashion photog...
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hutak.org: Essay: One Laptop per Pacific Child
http://www.hutak.org/2011/04/essay-one-laptop-per-pacific-child.html
Essay: One Laptop per Pacific Child. An innovative global project to bring low-cost, low-powered laptops to children in developing countries is tackling the growing digital divide, writes Michael Hutak. As the world grows smaller, our common humanity will reveal itself.". Barack Obama, Inauguration Speech, 2009. What should education be when information is just a few clicks away? Here are some things we do know about the school leavers of 2023:. They will be competing for jobs on a global market. Address...
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hutak.org: ‘Reality’ bites at the La Budget Biennale
http://www.hutak.org/2009/04/reality-bites-at-la-budget-biennale.html
8216;Reality’ bites at the La Budget Biennale. Displays of unbridled wealth are tipped to give way to retro recession chic at this year's Venice Biennale, the world's oldest, most-venerated annual contemporary art event. Held this year in the shadow of the global financial crisis, the international art market, a luxury market, is set to be reminded that collecting art is mostly discretionary. Michael Hutak reports. Selection for one’s national pavilion at Venice is often the peak of an artist’...
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hutak.org: Exit through the foyer
http://www.hutak.org/2010/06/exit-through-foyer.html
Exit through the foyer. Just who is the author of the doco Exit Through The Gift Shop wonders Michael Hutak. And does it really matter? I love Banksy’s work without reservation, more for its wit and political content than the detail or daring of its execution. In EXIT, the character “Banksy” is presented as part Scarlet Pimpernel, part counter-cultural guerilla, always shot in the shadows, voice disguised, but it’s not at all clear what’s at stake in this preservation of...The word “genius” c...A remix o...
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hutak.org: Metaphysical TV [still]
http://www.hutak.org/2006/05/metaphysical-tv-still.html
Metaphysical TV" was the name of a group of film makers working in. Super 8 in the 1980s who generated their content by shooting directly off the tv. Screen. The work in this show will not be screen-based but will be. Stills and prints relating to the original obsessions of the group. This show is also the first in a series of Loose Weeks at Loose. May 24 to May 27, 2006. Opening Wednesday, May 24, 6pm. Loose Projects, 2nd Floor, 168 Day Street, Sydney. Posted by Michael Hutak. Dead Aphorism [1991 - 2006].
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hutak.org: Venice Biennale: It's the thought that counts
http://www.hutak.org/2005/06/venice-biennale-it-thought-that-counts.html
Venice Biennale: Its the thought that counts. The invisible, the maudlin, the magic at the 51st. Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte - AKA the Venice Biennale. This is so contempory [sic], contempory, contempory.” So mocked the fake gallery attendants in a singsong that greeted art lovers who wandered into the German Pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale, the world’s oldest and most prestigious contemporary art festival. Employed by 29-year-old Berliner Tino Sehgal. Decided that the exhibition space, lef...
