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Keep Calm and Carry on Monitoring the Media: A Review of Monitorial Citizen, NeMe (Cyprus), 9th December 2017, part of State Machines: Art, Work, and Identity in an Age of Planetary-Scale Computation. Published on Furtherfield, and Institute of Network Cultures. IN TOTO: 3 years in Tokyo by Simone Philippou http://cyprus.wiz-guide.com/index.php?pageaction=kat&modid=1&artid=1001 NIMAC: Drone Vision: Judgement Day,… Continue reading Reviews

Cultural historian fails Police Entrance Exam / On the wonders of civil service / A family of (bad) corruption jokes

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I really wanted to be a police officer. The dream was dashed when I realised that I couldn't produce passing transcripts during the Police Exams. I didn't have it in me to suspend critical thought in a way that would allow me to go through with it / answer the exam questions. It had become clear that this was the underlying requirement. What was left was to undergo the exercise as a kind of performance.

4 points of frustration around the Eleni Loizidou ‘corruption scandal’ / My mom got hacked and they say she’s corrupt!

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So she was hacked. There dawns the realisation that it was a matter of time, one way or another. When we recently talked about the possibility of her being targeted in this way, in advance of all this, she ended the conversation with 'μάνα μου εν έσιει τίποτε.' Her sense that there's nothing to hide… Continue reading 4 points of frustration around the Eleni Loizidou ‘corruption scandal’ / My mom got hacked and they say she’s corrupt!

enamoured with gmcfosho’s meta-confrontational political exorcisms: youtube-lofi(?) animation-SWAG hip-hop-killing anonymous video art doesn’t need this text, but here it is anyway SPLASH

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These are the early stages of an online crush; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frDamZjCbkI of single-mindedly consuming someone's work in awe, in this case, of their mastery in designing online presence, the way they create an arena and then perform subtle subversions within it, with perfectly self-reflective / powerful politics that sync their visual style with their take on… Continue reading enamoured with gmcfosho’s meta-confrontational political exorcisms: youtube-lofi(?) animation-SWAG hip-hop-killing anonymous video art doesn’t need this text, but here it is anyway SPLASH

love for Nurtane: “Jaded historian of Makarios’ memory across media also thinks this is quite interesting for Pafos17”

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OR “This is (the other) Aphrodite's fault”: Resolving the Dawn and the Sunset Issue (2017) Coming from a great interest in controversy, especially when it has to do with political memory, or the discursive overlap of politics and aesthetics, I conclude that the danger here isn't one of censorship. The issue is the idea that… Continue reading love for Nurtane: “Jaded historian of Makarios’ memory across media also thinks this is quite interesting for Pafos17”

on the Nicosia Airport (2016)

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OR Unpacking Chapter 7. Conflict as capital: Contemporary art and the heritage of conflict OR Harlem Shake: The UN and libidinal resistance in Cyprus OR PhD Tips: Getting through the Viva Click here for full screen Citation: Loizidou, C. (2016). "On the Nicosia Airport." Presented at the "Troubled Contemporary Art Practices in the Middle East:… Continue reading on the Nicosia Airport (2016)

πόθεν εφκήκεν το ξύλο;

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[Edit: Γυρεύω ευκαιρία να ανασυντάξω το πιο κάτω σε σχέση για με την πιο κάτω δουλειά του Julio] ..τελικά εν ήταν που τον παράδεισον. Ήταν που την πόρταν του ψυχιατρείου. Πόθεν να τα πιάσεις τούντα πράματα & πόθεν να τ'αφήσεις. Περίληψη των πιο κάτω: εκτός που τα γενικά προβλήματα με την πόρταν (την κράτησην), προτείνω… Continue reading πόθεν εφκήκεν το ξύλο;