方 鹿 DEER FANG

Driving in the middle of US, there are a lot of blank billboard waiting to be purchased. “Ad Here”, a product of credit crunch.

开车在美国中部，你会看见很多空白公路广告，等待着被购买。“在这儿登广告” 的标语又是经济萧条的一个标志。

Coffee in the convenient shop by gas stations is cheap and Huge! Look at the one in my hand, it’s the smallest cup size you can get. It’s $1.09. In Beijing you can get 1/2 size coffee for 25 Yuan (about $4), because it’s a middle class/westerner consumption.

加油站便利店里的咖啡便宜而且巨大无比。看我手上的杯子是最小的一种了，1.09美元（相当于7块人民币）。在北京，大概半杯这样的咖啡就是 25元（相当于4美元），因为咖啡在中国还是中产阶级和外国人的消费品。

Some Midwest fashion. 一些美国中部的时装 (作为参照物，我身上穿的还是体积较大的羽绒服）

For $7 you can eat all you can like this, if you can bear the over-weight customers around you.

如果你可以不去在意你周围过于肥胖的顾客，那么花7美元就你可以爱吃多少吃多少。

The sky is still wide and clear.
天空仍然辽阔而干净。

11月刊的《艺术地图》杂志，我采访了美国艺术家Joan Jonas，还有年轻日本女艺术家笹本晃。同期介绍的几位女性艺术家还有金守子和尹秀珍。浏览或下载PDF文件

刚出版的12月刊，我为国际艺术栏目编译了两篇“关系艺术”的文章，两篇对我自己艺术实践也有很大影响的文章。一篇当然是Nicolas Bourriaud的《关系形态》，另外一篇是Claire Bishop的《对抗主义和关系美学》。浏览或下载PDF文件

For Art Map magazine’s November issue, I interviewed artist Joan Jonas and Japanese artist Aki Sasamoto. In the same column there are also articles of Kim Sooja and Yin Xiuzhen. View or download PDF

And in the December issue that just came out, I edited and translated two articles on Relational Aesthetic, which was an influential idea for my own art practice. View or downloadPDF

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上周四趁优伦斯空间的免费日（免费看艺术一直是我的忠直）去看了Dior和中国艺术家展。先抛开展览当中明显的经济利害关系不谈，看着这个美仑美焕的展览的时候我总在想，为什么当艺术处于一个“艺术与xx”的壮况下，艺术总是一个弱者。比如说在一些新媒体艺术中标榜的“艺术与科技”，艺术的意义很容易就被消失在那些高科技的新奇视觉效果内。就像这次的Dior与中国艺术家展，在一个“艺术与名牌”展览下，的每个设计专题配合了一个中国艺术家的作品，在整个庞大而成熟的商业操作下艺术家的干预显得有点无足轻重。

我想这主要是因为艺术的指向性比其它任何领域都要宽，目的性也不如其它领域一样明确，所以当它作为一个个体与企图与另一个领域并置时，就往往会被另一方吞并或为另一方服务。自然在今天，我不是要提倡纯粹艺术，或者否认艺术与社会语境的关联。恰恰相反，艺术具备这种对任何领域和社会现实进行干预的本质，但在干预的同时，艺术应该在象征意义上替代另一领域，而不应是一种并置的关系，也就是说艺术是时装，艺术是科技，艺术是宗教……

老板音响系统1.0， CPU:798圣诞Mixing活动

12月12日星期五，晚上8点到12点，免费

我们邀请大家来参加“老板音响系统1.0” 的启动活动，一次在 CPU:798 画廊的圣诞Mixing 活动。这是一个新的媒体活动尝试，欢迎大家带上你们的手提电脑、摄像机、播放器或其它录制设备来参加活动。我们的目的是混合媒体，并了解艺术家、DJ、音乐家、设计师、建筑师正在进行的工作和项目，无论是成功的、失败的还是未完成的项目。计划的最终目的是通过媒体的混合，以及通过在纪录的内容（照片，视频等）上添加“老板”的标签（tagging) 并上传到 twitter.com, flickr.com 和其它地方，从而使消费者成为生产者。

时间：2008年12月12日，8点到12点

地点：CPU: 798 (map: http://cpu798.com/contact)

地点：CPU: 798 (map: http://cpu798.com/contact)，798内优伦斯对面时八书店的小路尽头就是 CPU:798，将有“老板”标记。

参加者：艺术家、音乐家、软件/网络发展人，朋友

标签：老板、北京、实验、艺术、音乐、媒体、dubstep、共享、免费啤酒

This Friday, December 12, 8 PM - 12 Midnight, Fabricatorz and CPU:798 hosting the launch of the Laoban Soundsystem 1.0 with a free and open to the public event at
CPU:798 (map) in DaShanZi/798, Beijing

We invite all to come out to the launch of version 1.0 of the Laoban Soundsystem for a special Holiday Mixing Event at CPU:798. This is a new type of media event where all are welcome to join, bring media, laptops, video players, cameras, and other recording devices. The goal is to mix media, explore what artists, DJs, musicians, designers, and architects are working on RIGHT NOW — successes, failures, and rough edges are welcome at Laoban events! The ultimate plan is for consumers to be producers by both mixing media, and by tagging any recordings they have with “laoban” when posting onto twitter.com, flickr.com, or other places.

参与人包括 Participants Include：

• 何龙 long2，声音视觉艺术家, Audio Visual Artist
• 任林啸 Ren Linxiao，录像艺术家 , Video Artist
• 蔡凯 Cai Kai, VJ
• 雷磊 RAYDESIGN (RAY + PENNYsound system)
• 方鹿 Deer Fang, 录像艺术家 Video Artist
• Jon Phillips and Matt Hope, Upcoming Laoban 2.0 Soundsystem Open Speaker Plans
• Matt Hope will DJ late night
• 特殊嘉宾 Famous Special Guests To Be Announced
• 我们希望你的参与 ！WE WANT YOU! Bring what you are working on and put it into the MIX!

新闻详情，more about the news here.

经济危机来了，赶快买！赶快买！

感恩节后美国沃尔玛等商场的大甩卖造成了踩踏，三死多伤。美国的消费景观在经济危机下虽然疲惫却更显壮观。等等，留意大家抢购的货色：42寸高清彩电!

这到底是因为情况还不算太糟，还是一切都没得救了！

Financial crisis has come. Let’s shop more and faster!
Three people died when hundreds of shoppers rushed into Wal-Mart’s post Thanksgiving sales. In this financial crisis, American consumerism is exhausted but still spectacular. But wait, pay attention to what people were buying: 42″ HD Flat Screen TV!

So does it means that things are not too bad, or everything is too late?

新闻来自 News from: news.163.com/special telegraph.co.uk

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看来文化不同，反恐的方式也会很不同。It seems different cultures can come up totally different ways of Anti-Terrorism. (images from news.163.com)

中国队 Chinese team

印度队 Indian team

Indian team

最近似乎很多人，还有很多动物自杀。一个朋友的朋友烧碳自杀，网上一个19岁男孩用网络视频直播了他的自杀过程，还有澳大利亚南部的150条琼鱼集体搁浅死亡。部分网站上说的是这些琼鱼听见一条搁浅的琼鱼的哀号后，纷纷游向充满岩石的岸边，但一些网站上的解释是琼鱼搁浅是受人类海上活动使用的回声定位系统信号干扰造成的。

上个周末我的好朋友结婚，赶回广州两天。从严寒的北京过去，觉得那的一切特别温和、熟悉。
My good friend had a wedding last weekend， so I went back to Guangzhou for two days. Going from Beijing’s cruel winter, Guangzhou felt so dolce (This is not really related but I want to say that, I use this weird word here because I was translating the Relational Aesthetic text today into Chinese, if you know what I mean: dolce utopia)

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金融风暴对于外来工来说或许像个抽象的国际名词，但和现实的距离却没有期待中的那么遥远。南方都市报刊登了一组春运回家的图片。尽管离春假还有三个月的时间，不少工厂的倒闭和拖欠工资使不少外来工投入到这次提前的春运。

Financial crisis might seems like an abstract international word for a lot of the Chinese migrant workers, but its distance to reality is not as far as they expected. Southern Daily news paper publishes a group of photos of workers started their Chinese Spring festival return home trip. Even though now there are still three months to the festival, the wave of returning home journey is much earlier this year because of the closing of lots of factories in the south.