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A blogging space about my personal interests; was made during training in Stockholm #Young Leaders Visitors Program #Ylvp08 it developed into a social bookmarking blog.
I studied #Architecture; interested in #Design #Art #Education #Urban Design #Digital-media #social-media #Inhabited-Environments #Contemporary-Cultures #experimentation #networking #sustainability & more =)
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p.s. sharing is usually out of interest not Blind praise.
This is neither sacred nor political.
Wednesday, September 28
re-act?
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Tuesday, September 20
Gunilla Carlsson > She Entrepreneurs
Gunilla Carlsson Minister for International Development Cooperation
http://www.regeringen.se/sb/d/7517/a/70410
http://www.regeringen.se/sb/d/7517/a/70410
#Sheent11
www.si.se.se/sheentrepreneurs
She Entrepreneurs is a program for dialogue, mutual understanding and knowledge sharing between young women social entrepreneurs from the Middle East, North Africa and Sweden.
www.si.se.se/sheentrepreneurs
She Entrepreneurs is a program for dialogue, mutual understanding and knowledge sharing between young women social entrepreneurs from the Middle East, North Africa and Sweden.
Monday, September 12
Design competition 2011
People Want is A new International Design competition inspired by the Third World peaceful movements taking place in 2011 is Launched.
:::Information Copied via Face Book Group
We represent a group of young designers who have decided to be part of the uprising freedom movement by using Art Powers to support it. Therefore, we have started this project (People Want) to make sure we are taking a role in such movements.
........
نحن نمثل مجموعة من المصممين الشباب قررنا البدء بمشروع يدعم الحراك الشعبي القائم لنسخر طاقات الفن لخدمه وتوثيق هذا الحراك كي تكون إعمالنا وأعمال المشاركين جزء لا يتجزأ من الشعوب
image copied via website
- الشروط
يحق للمصمم أن يشترك بثلاثة ملصقات كحد اقصى , يمكن أن يكون الملصق المشارك منفرد أو عبارة عن سلسلة متواصلة .1
ينطوي موضوع الأعمال تحت عنوان ) الشعب يريد( .2
3. (RGB) jpg بلاحقة dpi 200 حجم الملصق يجب أن يكون 50سم بـ 70سم , سواء كان أفقي أم عامودي , و الدقة
المشاركة التي لا تحتوي على هذه الصفات سيتم استبعادها , للمصمم الحرية في اختيار التقنية الفنية
يجب تحميل الملفات من خلال موقع المسابقة، كل مصمم سوف يقوم بإنشاء حساب خاص به ثم إضافة المعلومات الشخصية .4 ,
و الموافقة على قواعد المسابقة www.peoplewantcontest.org
شرح الملصق بما لا يزيد عن ١٠٠ كلمة .5
6. (RGB) jpg بلاحقة dpi يجب على المصمم إرفاق صورة شخصية بقياس 6سم بـ 8 سم بدقة 200
لجنة التحكيم مسؤله عن تقييم الملصقات المتقدمه للمسابقه واختيارالـ 100 عمل الافضل .7
ستقام معارض في عده مدن للاعمال الرابحه .8
سوف يتم طباعة كتاب خاص بالمعرض ونشره، أصحاب الملصقات الفائزة سوف يحصلون على نسخة مجانية من هذا الكتاب .9
ولا يشمل ذلك أجور الشحن
تاريخ بدء استقبال المشاركات من 25 ايلول 2011 وحتى 4 كانون التاني 2012 .10
أي استفسار أو تعليق يرجى مراسلتنا على الايميل التالي .11 : info@peoplewantcontest.org
12.
نود التأكيد على أنه يحظر نشر أي ملصق مشارك على الانترنت ضمن مسابقات
منافسة (في الفيسبوك، الخ) حتى أعلان لجنة التحكيم اختيارها للـ 100 ملصق
النهائي. أي عمل فني نشر على الانترنت قبل اعلان لجنة التحكيم النتيجه سيتم
استبعاده
لا يجوز الانحياز لاي شعار ديني أو سياسي أو طائفي .13
- الملخص
نحن الشعوب .. نحن كل انسان يبحث عن الحياة..
نحن العامل والمعلم والفلاح والطبيب والأديب والفنان .. نحن المستقبل
نحن جميع الشرائح والأديان والطوائف والمعتقدات .. نحن الايمان
نحن التراب والشجر والجبل والشمس والظل .. نحن الهواء
نحن مصدر سلطة الحكومات
لنبدأ بالحقائق
-
إن إرادة الشعب هي مصدر سلطة الحكومة، ويعبر عن هذه الإرادة بانتخابات
نزيهة دورية تجري على أساس الإقتراع السري وعلى قدم المساواة بين الجميع أو
حسب أي إجراء مماثل يضمن حرية التصويت. من (الماده 21 حسب الاعلان العام
لحقوق الانسان)
في حين اذا القينا نظره الى واقع الحكومات في الشرق الأوسط لوجدناها أنظمة استبدادية يغلب عليها الطابع العائلي .
-نسبة
الأمية في الشرق الأوسط هي نحو 30 % أي ما يعادل 100 مليون فرد حسب
إحصائيات منظمة اليونسكو لسنة 2009 م هذه النسبة تدل على وجود عائق أمام
نهوض الشرق الأوسط وتحرره من التخلف والفقر والمرض .
-و في ما يخص فرص العمل فإرتفاع معدل البطالة إلى 25,6 % وهي النسبة الأعلى بالعالم كافي ليخبر بحالنا .
- ( حريه التعبير ) من اهم بنود الاعلان العالمي لحقوق الانسان و السبب الاساسي في نهوض الأمم فكريا..
(لكل
شخص الحق في حرية الرأي والتعبير، ويشمل هذا الحق حرية إعتناق الآراء دون
أي تدخل، واستقاء الأنباء والأفكار وتلقيها وإذاعتها بأية وسيلة كانت دون
تقيد بالحدود الجغرافية ، ( الماده 19 ) و لا يسعنا هنا إحصاء نسبة معتقلي
الرأى دون محاكمة في سجون الأنظمه المتسلطة.
لا حقوق لا تعليم لا حريه رأي لا فرص عمل متاحه ..و جميعها حقوق مشروعه وواجبه للشعوب.
أكثر
من خمسون عاماً و شعوبنا محكومه بالصمت بالرغم من الظلم والانتهاكات غير
الشرعية ... الى ان جاء عام الـ 2011 .. خرجت الشعوب غاضبة مطالبة بالتغيير
كاسرةً بخروجها قيود الخوف ، ومطالبة بالحقوق بالرغم من القتل والترهيب من
قِبل الحكومات القمعية .
سقط الآلاف من الضحايا الى الآن و السبب الوحيد مطالبتها الشرعيه بحريتها وبالعداله الاجتماعيه .
- الهدف
- دعم الحراك الشعبي عبر توثيق هذه المرحله التاريخيه للشعوب حين خرجت تعبيرا عن ارادتها بالتغيير .
- التأكيد على شرعيه مطالبها و حراكها السلمي .
- تصوير طاقات الشعوب حين خرجت منتفضة
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Tuesday, July 12
Ai Weiwei
Freed Chinese Artist Reported to Be Back at Work, Though Barred From Talking to Press
By EDWARD WONG
Published: July 6, 2011
BEIJING — A Swiss gallery owner who represents Ai Weiwei, the dissident artist and international celebrity recently let out of detention, said Wednesday that Mr. Ai was working on his art again, even though he could not do interviews or meet with journalists because of the conditions of his release.The gallery owner, Urs Meile, said in an e-mail that he had visited Mr. Ai at his home from June 30 to July 3 and that Mr. Ai was in good health.“The detention could not break his incomparable presence and vigor, his humor and his alertness!” Mr. Meile said in the e-mail. “He is full of energy and again intensively dedicating himself to his artistic creation.”Mr. Meile added that Mr. Ai “is able to work without interruption, to make plans and to realize projects together with his team.”Mr. Meile did not give details on what kinds of projects Mr. Ai might be pursuing. Before he was detained, Mr. Ai, 54, was seeking to expose the use of paid commentators on the Internet by the Communist Party, according to a report in late June by Information, a Danish news organization. Mr. Ai had spoken about the project with a journalist for Information. The commentators referred to by Mr. Ai are believed to be paid each time they post something that bolsters or repeats the government position on a certain issue.Mr. Ai’s projects have been increasingly political in recent years. Perhaps the most controversial was an exhibition involving school backpacks meant to evoke the thousands of children who died in school collapses in the 2008 earthquake in Sichuan Province. Parents of the dead children have been lobbying the central government to look into the role of corruption in the shoddy construction of schools, but the government has tried to silence the parents by paying them off or detaining them.Mr. Ai was beaten by police officers in a hotel room in Chengdu, the provincial capital of Sichuan, when he traveled to the province to look further into the school collapses and support the parents.Mr. Ai was detained by the police in April at the international airport in Beijing as he was about to board a flight to Hong Kong. He was let go 81 days later, his normally expansive girth considerably diminished. Family members and supporters said he had been detained because of his political candor, but Chinese officials said the Beijing police were looking into accusations of tax evasion. Mr. Ai was released only after he “confessed” to tax fraud, according to Xinhua, the state news agency. Mr. Ai has been allowed to travel around Beijing, but he is barred from leaving the city.Mr. Meile’s gallery is in Beijing’s arts neighborhood of Caochangdi, where Mr. Ai has his studio and home.“He’s contriving, discussing, debating, reflecting, as we know him,” Mr. Meile wrote. “With the support of his wife Lu Qing, his team and his friends he is about to review and digest the past two and a half months.”
A version of this article appeared in print on July 7, 2011, on page A9 of the New York edition with the headline: Freed Chinese Artist Reported to Be Back at Work, Though Barred From Talking to Press.
China artist Ai Weiwei released on bail
Mr Ai said he could not speak to the media about his case
Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has returned home having been freed after more than two months' detention.He was bailed late on Wednesday after pleading guilty to charges of tax evasion, Xinhua news agency said.An outspoken critic of China's human rights record, his arrest in April prompted a global campaign for his release.The 54-year-old said he was back home and in good health in a phone interview with the BBC."I am already home, released on bail, I can't talk to media but I am well, thanks for all the media attention," he said.Mr Ai was detained as he boarded a Beijing flight bound for Hong Kong.Perhaps most famous for helping design the Bird's Nest stadium that became the centre-piece for Beijing's 2008 Olympics, he was held at a secret location without access to a lawyer.Beijing alleged the artist had evaded taxes and destroyed evidence; his supporters said the charges were motivated by his activism.'I'm out'
Xinhua reported that Mr Ai had offered to repay the taxes and would be released because of "his good attitude in confessing his crimes".The agency quoted police as saying the company that handles business aspects of Mr Ai's career, Beijing Fake Cultural Development, had evaded "a huge amount of taxes and intentionally destroyed accounting documents".Xinhua also reported that Mr Ai was suffering from a "chronic illness".China's foreign ministry previously said that Mr Ai was under investigation for "economic crimes".It insisted that his arrest - which came amid one of China's biggest clampdowns on activists in years and was condemned by Western governments - had "nothing to do with human rights or freedom of expression".But the release coincides with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's visit this week to Germany and the UK, two countries with which Mr Ai has strong professional ties and public support.Beijing has been under enormous pressure to free the artist, says the BBC's Damian Grammaticas in Beijing.The case had generated criticism from the international community that China was breaking its own laws by holding Mr Ai in secret without access to a lawyer, adds our correspondent.A message from the Twitter account of Mr Ai's lawyer, Liu Xiaoyuan, said he had received a text message from his client's phone which simply read: "I'm out!"Chinese human rights activist Wen Kejian welcomed the release, saying Mr Ai's arrest had been political.Artist's appeal
The US state department welcomed Mr Ai's release, adding: "But there's obviously more individuals who are being held, so we want to see the release of all these people."Baroness Ashton, the EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs, said Mr Ai's case had been "the subject of widespread concern" and featured in recent EU-Chinese discussions on human rights in Beijing.She said she welcomed the news "while regretting the circumstances of his detention".In a statement, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said his release "can only be a first step" and that China must now fully explain to Mr Ai the accusations against him.The German director of Human Rights Watch said it was "not by accident" that Mr Ai had been released shortly before Mr Wen's European visit, but warned he could now be facing further restriction on his movements."Examples from the past of other dissidents that were released have shown that released opponents of the system face strict restrictions and many have been silenced," said Wenzel Michalski.
Rights group Amnesty International said Mr Ai's long detention without charge had violated China's own legal process.
"It is vital that the international outcry over Ai Weiwei be extended to those activists still languishing in secret detention or charged with inciting subversion," said Amnesty's Catherine Baber.
The circumstances of one of Ai Weiwei's relatives, his accountant and driver, who were detained at the same time as him, remain unknown.British sculptor Anish Kapoor, who had led criticism of Beijing over the detention, called for the artist to be given a fair trial."While I am thankful that he has been released, I do not think that artists should present their work in China until the situation has been resolved," said Mr Kapoor.The Indian-born sculptor had dedicated his monumental Leviathan art installation in Paris, unveiled last month, to Mr Ai.Ai Weiwei gained international recognition in the early 1980s for his monolithic brick sculptures.Last October, he unveiled a carpet of 100 million porcelain sunflower seeds at London's Tate Modern, which he said questioned the role of an individual in society... more on Ai Wei wei on BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12997324 Profile: Ai Weiwei
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13475398 Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's company 'evaded taxes'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12174873 China artist Ai Weiwei's Shanghai studio demolishedAi Weiwei (born 18 May 1957)
is a Chinese artist and political activist, who is also active in architecture, curating, photography, film, and social and cultural criticism.[1][2]
Ai collaborated with Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron as the artistic consultant on the Beijing National Stadium for the 2008 Olympics.[3]
As a political activist, he has been highly and openly critical of the Chinese Government's stance on democracy and human rights. He has investigated government corruption and cover-ups, in particular the Sichuan schools corruption scandal following the collapse of so-called "tofu-skin schools" in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.[4]
In 2011, following his arrest at Beijing airport on 3 April, he was held for over two months without any official charges being filed; officials alluded to their allegations of "economic crimes" (tax evasion).
^ "Ai Weiwei". Wolseley Media. 2008. http://www.wolseleymedia.com.au/AP-Ai-Weiwei.html. Retrieved 6 July 2008.
^ a b Cooper, Rafi (6 July 2008). "Cultural revolutionary". The Observer (UK). http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/visualart/story/0,,2289411,00.html. Retrieved 6 July 2008.
^ "China's New Faces: Ai Weiwei". BBC News. 3 March 2005. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4298689.stm. Retrieved 26 April 2010.^ Osnos, Evan, "It's Not Beautiful", The New Yorker, 24 May 2010 pp.54–63.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/oct/11/tate-modern-sunflower-seeds-review
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/83598_Aiweiwei
83598 Aiweiwei (provisional designation: 2001 SP265) is a main-belt minor planet. It was discovered by William Kwong Yu Yeung at the Desert Eagle Observatory near Benson, Arizona, on September 25, 2001. It is named after Ai Weiwei, a Chinese artist.
Template (2007) after collapse
BEIJING — A Swiss gallery owner who represents Ai Weiwei, the dissident artist and international celebrity recently let out of detention, said Wednesday that Mr. Ai was working on his art again, even though he could not do interviews or meet with journalists because of the conditions of his release.
The gallery owner, Urs Meile, said in an e-mail that he had visited Mr. Ai at his home from June 30 to July 3 and that Mr. Ai was in good health.
“The detention could not break his incomparable presence and vigor, his humor and his alertness!” Mr. Meile said in the e-mail. “He is full of energy and again intensively dedicating himself to his artistic creation.”
Mr. Meile added that Mr. Ai “is able to work without interruption, to make plans and to realize projects together with his team.”
Mr. Meile did not give details on what kinds of projects Mr. Ai might be pursuing. Before he was detained, Mr. Ai, 54, was seeking to expose the use of paid commentators on the Internet by the Communist Party, according to a report in late June by Information, a Danish news organization. Mr. Ai had spoken about the project with a journalist for Information. The commentators referred to by Mr. Ai are believed to be paid each time they post something that bolsters or repeats the government position on a certain issue.
Mr. Ai’s projects have been increasingly political in recent years. Perhaps the most controversial was an exhibition involving school backpacks meant to evoke the thousands of children who died in school collapses in the 2008 earthquake in Sichuan Province. Parents of the dead children have been lobbying the central government to look into the role of corruption in the shoddy construction of schools, but the government has tried to silence the parents by paying them off or detaining them.
Mr. Ai was beaten by police officers in a hotel room in Chengdu, the provincial capital of Sichuan, when he traveled to the province to look further into the school collapses and support the parents.
Mr. Ai was detained by the police in April at the international airport in Beijing as he was about to board a flight to Hong Kong. He was let go 81 days later, his normally expansive girth considerably diminished. Family members and supporters said he had been detained because of his political candor, but Chinese officials said the Beijing police were looking into accusations of tax evasion. Mr. Ai was released only after he “confessed” to tax fraud, according to Xinhua, the state news agency. Mr. Ai has been allowed to travel around Beijing, but he is barred from leaving the city.
Mr. Meile’s gallery is in Beijing’s arts neighborhood of Caochangdi, where Mr. Ai has his studio and home.
“He’s contriving, discussing, debating, reflecting, as we know him,” Mr. Meile wrote. “With the support of his wife Lu Qing, his team and his friends he is about to review and digest the past two and a half months.”
A version of this article appeared in print on July 7, 2011, on page A9 of the New York edition with the headline: Freed Chinese Artist Reported to Be Back at Work, Though Barred From Talking to Press.
Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has returned home having been freed after more than two months' detention.
He was bailed late on Wednesday after pleading guilty to charges of tax evasion, Xinhua news agency said.
An outspoken critic of China's human rights record, his arrest in April prompted a global campaign for his release.
The 54-year-old said he was back home and in good health in a phone interview with the BBC.
"I am already home, released on bail, I can't talk to media but I am well, thanks for all the media attention," he said.
Mr Ai was detained as he boarded a Beijing flight bound for Hong Kong.
Perhaps most famous for helping design the Bird's Nest stadium that became the centre-piece for Beijing's 2008 Olympics, he was held at a secret location without access to a lawyer.
Beijing alleged the artist had evaded taxes and destroyed evidence; his supporters said the charges were motivated by his activism.
'I'm out'Xinhua reported that Mr Ai had offered to repay the taxes and would be released because of "his good attitude in confessing his crimes".
The agency quoted police as saying the company that handles business aspects of Mr Ai's career, Beijing Fake Cultural Development, had evaded "a huge amount of taxes and intentionally destroyed accounting documents".
Xinhua also reported that Mr Ai was suffering from a "chronic illness".
China's foreign ministry previously said that Mr Ai was under investigation for "economic crimes".
It insisted that his arrest - which came amid one of China's biggest clampdowns on activists in years and was condemned by Western governments - had "nothing to do with human rights or freedom of expression".
But the release coincides with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's visit this week to Germany and the UK, two countries with which Mr Ai has strong professional ties and public support.
Beijing has been under enormous pressure to free the artist, says the BBC's Damian Grammaticas in Beijing.
The case had generated criticism from the international community that China was breaking its own laws by holding Mr Ai in secret without access to a lawyer, adds our correspondent.
A message from the Twitter account of Mr Ai's lawyer, Liu Xiaoyuan, said he had received a text message from his client's phone which simply read: "I'm out!"
Chinese human rights activist Wen Kejian welcomed the release, saying Mr Ai's arrest had been political.
Artist's appealThe US state department welcomed Mr Ai's release, adding: "But there's obviously more individuals who are being held, so we want to see the release of all these people."
Baroness Ashton, the EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs, said Mr Ai's case had been "the subject of widespread concern" and featured in recent EU-Chinese discussions on human rights in Beijing.
She said she welcomed the news "while regretting the circumstances of his detention".
In a statement, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said his release "can only be a first step" and that China must now fully explain to Mr Ai the accusations against him.
The German director of Human Rights Watch said it was "not by accident" that Mr Ai had been released shortly before Mr Wen's European visit, but warned he could now be facing further restriction on his movements.
"Examples from the past of other dissidents that were released have shown that released opponents of the system face strict restrictions and many have been silenced," said Wenzel Michalski.
Rights group Amnesty International said Mr Ai's long detention without charge had violated China's own legal process.
"It is vital that the international outcry over Ai Weiwei be extended to those activists still languishing in secret detention or charged with inciting subversion," said Amnesty's Catherine Baber.
The circumstances of one of Ai Weiwei's relatives, his accountant and driver, who were detained at the same time as him, remain unknown.
Rights group Amnesty International said Mr Ai's long detention without charge had violated China's own legal process.
"It is vital that the international outcry over Ai Weiwei be extended to those activists still languishing in secret detention or charged with inciting subversion," said Amnesty's Catherine Baber.
The circumstances of one of Ai Weiwei's relatives, his accountant and driver, who were detained at the same time as him, remain unknown.
British sculptor Anish Kapoor, who had led criticism of Beijing over the detention, called for the artist to be given a fair trial.
"While I am thankful that he has been released, I do not think that artists should present their work in China until the situation has been resolved," said Mr Kapoor.
The Indian-born sculptor had dedicated his monumental Leviathan art installation in Paris, unveiled last month, to Mr Ai.
Ai Weiwei gained international recognition in the early 1980s for his monolithic brick sculptures.
Last October, he unveiled a carpet of 100 million porcelain sunflower seeds at London's Tate Modern, which he said questioned the role of an individual in society.
.. more on Ai Wei wei on BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12997324 Profile: Ai Weiwei
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13475398 Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's company 'evaded taxes'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12174873 China artist Ai Weiwei's Shanghai studio demolished
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12997324 Profile: Ai Weiwei
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13475398 Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's company 'evaded taxes'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12174873 China artist Ai Weiwei's Shanghai studio demolished
Ai Weiwei (born 18 May 1957)
is a Chinese artist and political activist, who is also active in architecture, curating, photography, film, and social and cultural criticism.[1][2]
Ai collaborated with Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron as the artistic consultant on the Beijing National Stadium for the 2008 Olympics.[3]
As a political activist, he has been highly and openly critical of the Chinese Government's stance on democracy and human rights. He has investigated government corruption and cover-ups, in particular the Sichuan schools corruption scandal following the collapse of so-called "tofu-skin schools" in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.[4]
In 2011, following his arrest at Beijing airport on 3 April, he was held for over two months without any official charges being filed; officials alluded to their allegations of "economic crimes" (tax evasion).
^ "Ai Weiwei". Wolseley Media. 2008. http://www.wolseleymedia.com.au/AP-Ai-Weiwei.html. Retrieved 6 July 2008.
^ a b Cooper, Rafi (6 July 2008). "Cultural revolutionary". The Observer (UK). http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/visualart/story/0,,2289411,00.html. Retrieved 6 July 2008.
^ "China's New Faces: Ai Weiwei". BBC News. 3 March 2005. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4298689.stm. Retrieved 26 April 2010.^ Osnos, Evan, "It's Not Beautiful", The New Yorker, 24 May 2010 pp.54–63.
is a Chinese artist and political activist, who is also active in architecture, curating, photography, film, and social and cultural criticism.[1][2]
Ai collaborated with Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron as the artistic consultant on the Beijing National Stadium for the 2008 Olympics.[3]
As a political activist, he has been highly and openly critical of the Chinese Government's stance on democracy and human rights. He has investigated government corruption and cover-ups, in particular the Sichuan schools corruption scandal following the collapse of so-called "tofu-skin schools" in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.[4]
In 2011, following his arrest at Beijing airport on 3 April, he was held for over two months without any official charges being filed; officials alluded to their allegations of "economic crimes" (tax evasion).
^ "Ai Weiwei". Wolseley Media. 2008. http://www.wolseleymedia.com.au/AP-Ai-Weiwei.html. Retrieved 6 July 2008.
^ a b Cooper, Rafi (6 July 2008). "Cultural revolutionary". The Observer (UK). http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/visualart/story/0,,2289411,00.html. Retrieved 6 July 2008.
^ "China's New Faces: Ai Weiwei". BBC News. 3 March 2005. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4298689.stm. Retrieved 26 April 2010.^ Osnos, Evan, "It's Not Beautiful", The New Yorker, 24 May 2010 pp.54–63.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/oct/11/tate-modern-sunflower-seeds-review
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/83598_Aiweiwei
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/83598_Aiweiwei
83598 Aiweiwei (provisional designation: 2001 SP265) is a main-belt minor planet. It was discovered by William Kwong Yu Yeung at the Desert Eagle Observatory near Benson, Arizona, on September 25, 2001. It is named after Ai Weiwei, a Chinese artist.
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Wednesday, July 6
POETIC MORPHOLOGY BY THE CLOUD COLLECTIVE
GALLERY: TOWARDS A POETIC MORPHOLOGY BY THE CLOUD COLLECTIVE
A temporary installation for the 22nd international poster and graphic design festival of Chaumont.
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