NO ACTA!!!

Dear readers, this post has little to do with art and artists but the blog is a way of spreading information. Today´s post is about ACTA. Many of you out there dont know much about it due to the restriction and the censorship in public media. Please read carefully ACTA affects YOU!

ACTA is: 

- The Anti-CounterfeitingTrade Agreement 

- Has been planned confidentially since 2008 by Japan, the U.S., the EU, etc. Possible ratification will be in June 2012.

- Will affect e.g.:

    - File sharing

    - Generic medicine 

    - GM Seeds

Hinders freedom of speech and the individual privacy

censoring/monitoring the internet

Do we trust the government to monitor our moves on the net?!

Please read about it and take action at once!!!

http://www.stopacta.info/

P.S there will be a demonstration against ACTA in Gothenburg/ Göteborg on Saturday 2 pm be there and spread the knowledge! 


The information on this page is from a TOK presentation which was done by me and my classmates Annie and Alma. 

Ivan Albright

Ivan Albright was a Chicago area native, growing up on the North Shore and graduating from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1923.  He was born to a father who was a painter and was an identical twin to his brother, Malvin Marr - also an exceptional painter.
Ivan Albright is most well known for his many paintings of "The Picture of Dorian Gray" which were commissioned by a Hollywood studio and used in the movie "The Portrait of Dorian Gray".  Due to this notoriety Albright's works have often been interpreted as being in the horror genre.

Luc Tuymans

Born 1958, Mortsel, Belgium. he is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium. Tuymans is considered one of the most influential painters working today.