Krems: things on buildings and a nice door

Krems

Todays's lecture with Slavko Kacunko was at the Krem's campus so we took the train from Furth Palt to Krems, and walked through the town to get to campus.

Print collection at Gottweig

The monastery has Austria's largest private collection of historical graphical art. The collection has over 20,000 pieces and dates back to the first reported acquisition in 1621. A digitization project is underway and many pieces are now available for view in an online database - and can also be ordered as beautiful reproduction prints! Get your orders in for Christmas!

University of the Danube, Austria

I'm here in Austria for my third module in the Media Arts Histories program which runs between two locations: the main University campus in Krems and the Gottweig Monastery in Furth. Yesterday and today we have lectures with Erkki Huhtamo from UCLA on a variety of topics related to media archeology. Lectures at the monastery involve a 30 minute hike!

Safely arrived in Cardiff, Wales. In the bosom of family.

traveling again...

After 6 days in Regina I am on my way again, this time to the UK for 2 days and then on to Austria for 2 weeks.... Currently in Calgary airport.

Apologies for the total lack of post over the last two weeks, I have been consumed with art making... Check out my show at:

http://uregina.ca/rvk/residencia_corazon.html

Dinner last night - Restaurant Edgargo

An indescribable La Plata institution... and yes, those are indeed shrunken heads.

The Zoo

Yes, Zoo's are bad but unfortunately they remain a guilty pleasure. I actually set out to visit the Le Corbusier house (one of only 2 in the Americas) but it was closed and the Zoo was near by so... I did meet a bunch of free animals wandering around, all of who were persistently friendly and kept following me. The duck and the capabara (?) I had to really shake. Other than these new pals, and given the original plan for the afternoon, I was more enamored with the zoo architecture than their inhabitants. The condor cage is a HUGE metal structure that is basically an oversized bird-cage, really striking as a piece of sculpture. But yes, some of the animals seemed utterly depressed and I couldn't even bare to look at the tiger.