Dearest colleagues and friends,

Foundland would like to invite you to join us for the opening of the Utrecht Uitfeest visual arts show called Present! on Sunday, the 2nd of September 2012 from 12 noon until 18:00 at BAK (basis voor actuele kunst).

We will be presenting a sparkling new version of our publication and an installation called,
Simba, the last Prince of Ba'ath Country as a preview to the upcoming Impakt Festival.
The Impakt Festival 2012, "No More Westerns" takes place at the end of October 2012.
Also on show are other Utrecht based institutions namely Casco, Expodium, BAK, Fotodok and Academiegalerie.

Present! will be open to the public on the 5th, 6th and 7th September (from 12:00-17:00)

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Lauren & Ghalia

www.foundland.org

More information and directions:
http://www.bknu.nl/ and www.bak-utrecht.nl/
(Lange Nieuwstraat 4, Utrecht)

MORE INFORMATION:
Simba the last prince of Ba'ath Country publication
This publication presents an investigation of digitally produced propaganda images created by the Syrian government as well as the Syrian opposition movement and distributed on Facebook and social media. We trace the use of images created within a Western context perhaps for Hollywood movies or banal screensaver images and the re-appropriation of these images as political propaganda. The publication includes a fictional interview with an "image maker" which is modeled on observations from Facebook. What is the motivation of digital propaganda artists, and how is Photoshop used to bring their rhetoric to life?

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FOUNDLAND
Design & Research
Herenmarkt 93-B
NL - 1013 EC Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel. + 31 (0) 6 4522 9837
http://www.foundland.org
lauren@foundland.org