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Floating States 2018 by Ulysses Belz, painter and printmaker

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Ulysse Belz est un peintre allemand qui vit maintnant à Majorque. Je l’ai rencontré il y a quelques années, aujourd’hui il peint ds cartes dans le ciel avec des nuages...

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Ulysses Belz
Painter and printmaker

Floating States 2018

#Ulysses_Belz was born in Mainz / Germany on 12 of March 1958.

After school he starts an apprenticeship as a restorator of books at the “Werkstatt Schoy” in Essen and finishes with a diploma in fine bookbinding in 1979.

In 1980 he is admitted at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris where he studies until 1984 in the classes of Jean-Marie Granier and Pierre Courtin. Leaving Paris in 1984, he opens a gallery in the old center of Athens, in the Street of the Tripods (Odos Tripodon 18) where he works from 1984 to 1989. The Goethe-Institute Athens shows his work in a first solo exhibition in 1987. After returning to Germany, first solo exhibition at Gallery Gres, Frankfurt 1980, followed by various exhibitions in Frankfurt and Berlin.

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You Can’t Upload Your “Self” Into Virtual Reality - Issue 47: Consciousness
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In his 2003 book, Being No One, Thomas Metzinger contends there is no such thing as a “self.” Rather, the self is a kind of transparent information-processing system. “You don’t see it,” he writes. “But you see with it.” Metzinger has given a good amount of thought to the nature of our subjective experience—and how best to study it. A fellow at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, he directs the Neuroethics Section and the MIND Group, which he founded in 2003 to “cultivate,” he says, “a new type of interdisciplinarity.” To bridge what he calls the academic variant of the generation gap, the group is formed of philosophers and scientists—young and old—interested in psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience.There’s a long history of conscious self-models on this planet. When I (...)

You Can’t Upload Your “Self” Into Virtual Reality - Facts So Romantic
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In his 2003 book, Being No One, Thomas Metzinger contends there is no such thing as a “self.” Rather, the self is a kind of transparent information-processing system. “You don’t see it,” he writes. “But you see with it.” Metzinger has given a good amount of thought to the nature of our subjective experience—and how best to study it. A fellow at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, he directs the Neuroethics Section and the MIND Group, which he founded in 2003 to “cultivate,” he says, “a new type of interdisciplinarity.” To bridge what he calls the academic variant of the generation gap, the group is formed of philosophers and scientists—young and old—interested in psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience.There’s a long history of conscious self-models on this planet. When I (...)

Germany Drops Investigation Into Comedian Jan Boehmermann’s Anti-Erdogan Poem
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German authorities have dropped criminal proceedings against a TV comedian that Turkey accused of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a poem he read out on television.

Prosecutors in the western city of Mainz said they had not discovered sufficient evidence to proceed with a probe into Jan Boehmermann, despite Erdogan filing a complaint against the comedian.

In March, the satirist had recited a poem on television in which he joked that the Turkish leader had participated in bestiality, calling him a “goat-f*****,” and watched child pornography.

The then-Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu called the jokes an insult to all Turkish people and Ankara requested that Germany prosecute Boehmermann. But the decision to drop the case is likely to anger Turkey and will be viewed as a slight to its leadership.

In a statement published Tuesday, prosecutors said that “criminal actions could not be proven with the necessary certainty,” calling it “questionable” that the comedian’s comments had constituted slander as he was speaking in a satirical format.