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cornsnap asked this question on the artcone forums: I have a .jpg file 276 X 67 pixels that is a solid color. At one end is a small logo. I want to remove that logo and add another logo. How should I go about doing that?

Thanks.

Goa asked this question on the artcone forums: For example I know where to put the brushes with the abr extension.
But I don’t know what it is and where to put the files with 8bf extension.
Does youz know?

Stasha asked this question on the artcone forums: The Taipei Fine Arts Museum (TFAM) is holding an exhibition titled “The Spectre of Freedom” at the Taiwan Pavilion located in Venice’s Palazzo delle Prigioni June 12-Nov. 6. The exhibition is a part of the Venice Biennale, which, since its founding in 1895, has been at the forefront as a venue for introducing new trends across a wide field of arts, including the fine arts, architecture, music and dance. The TFAM has sponsored an exhibition at the biennial event since 1995, introducing to the world developments in Taiwan’s contemporary art scene.

According to the exhibition designer, Wang Chia-chi, the thematic title “The Spectre of Freedom” was inspired in part by the famous 1974 film “Le Fant(tm)me de la Libert?” (1974) by Luis Bu-uel, the Spanish founder of surrealist cinema. Consonant with Bu-uel’s vision of liberty as a phantom, the exhibition is designed to reveal the contemporary human condition in the era of globalization, in which the freedom to which the human spirit aspires seems overwhelmed by humanity’s self-inflicted limitations.

The 2005 exhibition features works by four Taiwanese artists–Kao Chung-li, Kuo I-chen, Lin Hsin-i and Tsui Kuang-yu. Except for Kao, who was born in the late 1950s, they were all born in the 1970s.

The section on Kao’s works, titled “Hyper Drawing,” comprises a set of filmic installations in which noisy 8mm projectors show the artist’s hand-drawn animations merged with historical images to express the struggle of daily life. Commenting about his 1999 work “Tarzan,” for example, Kao said that today’s people are like apemen transplanted into urban jungles, unable to escape the onslaught of audiovisual technologies. In the film, Tarzan is at first delightedly amazed but soon feels oppressed by all the technological paraphernalia accosting his senses.

Taking himself as subject, Tsui’s single-channel videos dramatize the absurdity of urban life. In a humorous vein, they provide lessons on how to simplify human existence in consumer society.

In Kuo I-chen’s video installation titled “Invade the Prigioni,” the apparition-like silhouette of a jet plane passing overhead is projected onto the vault of the palazzo, accompanied by the sound of its engines building from a low rumble to an ear-splitting thunder, evoking premonitions of immanent calamity. As explained by Kuo, his “invasive flight” is meant, in part, to jar people into consciousness of the relationship between reality and illusion.

Lin Hsin-i’s work, titled “De-strike,” is an interactive Web-connected installation in which huge digital images of Lin cannibalizing herself metamorphose as attendees in Venice interact with her in Taipei, via the Internet and Web cam. In part, it is a statement about unpleasant realities artists must face in struggling to have their works displayed and marketed in the age of globalization.

Besides the works in the Taiwan Pavilion, Chen Chieh-ren’s film “Factory” is being shown in the Venice Biennale’s international section, a first for a Taiwanese artist. The subject of the film is garment workers in Taoyuan, southwest of Taipei.

For those who would like to get a taste of the course of development of avant-garde art in Taiwan, the TFAM is concurrently holding a retrospective exhibition in Taipei until Aug. 14 highlighting 22 artists whose works have been exhibited at the Venice Biennale over the past decade.

Stasha asked this question on the artcone forums: Which one would you prefer to get your graphic design done? How do you start off creating a logo? DO you first draw on paper, scan and trace with any of the graphic softwares?

Lombi asked this question on the artcone forums: The Linkage System FAQ has now moved here: http://www.lombergar.com/v4/page/affilation

Power2Frogs asked this question on the artcone forums: or if your a pro gouache user, what can you advice me on a headstart.

Micky asked this question on the artcone forums: Do you know of any?…if you are interested there is Stuckism and Re-modernism
If you know of others I would love to know…..
or reo stuckerism