“Have we met?” A multispecies approach to the planet
A couple of weeks ago, I went to the press view of the 23rd Triennale Milano International Exhibition. The event features various exhibitions as well as a series of national pavilions. The Democratic...
View ArticleISEA 2022: Porn and ecoporn in digital arts
While picking up my badge at ISEA2022 in Barcelona last month, I braced myself for 4 days of interesting but intense academic gravity. My first hours at the symposium, however, taught me that the...
View Article“I wanted to speak about the future of quantum computing which, through...
Libby Heaney is an artist and a quantum physicist. She has been working with IBM’s quantum hardware and Qiskit, an open-source software development kit, for three years. For her solo show at arebyte in...
View ArticleIn the Black Fantastic
In the Black Fantastic, by writer, broadcaster and curator Ekow Eshun. With essays by scholars Kameelah L. Martin and Michelle D. Commander. Published by MIT Press. What physical form might Black...
View ArticlePraying and cursing polluters to death
Mitsutoshi Hanaga Collective of Monks Praying to Kill Owners of Corporations Responsible for Environmental Pollution at the Suzuka River in Yokkaichi, 1970. Photo: Mitsutoshi Hanaga Estate In the...
View ArticlePrepper Paradise. Designing for the end of the world
During the Cold War, everyone knew what the apocalypse would look like: a nuclear war or a nuclear accident. Today, the threats are multiple and ubiquitous. TEOTWAWKI (The End of the World As We Know...
View ArticleLithium lore and relentless extractivism in the Democratic Republic of the...
An exhibition at Z33 in Hasselt explores the ecological and humanitarian dimensions of the raw materials necessary to sustain our modern, digital and so-called green lifestyle. Alexis Destoop, The...
View ArticleBook review: Body Am I. The New Science of Self-Consciousness
In Body Am I. The New Science of Self-Consciousness, neuroscientist and writer Moheb Costandi examines how the brain generates maps and models of our body, how those maps translate into our conscious...
View ArticleAbsolute Beginners: making the basic goods you might need when economies...
In 2017, Tom James collaborated with Alex Hartley to build a geodesic dome from reclaimed materials on the grounds of a country mansion. Then they invited various experts and members of the public to...
View ArticleMeta.Morf 2022: What does it mean to love nature when many of us doubt that...
What does it mean to be an ecophile, a true lover of nature in an age when most of us struggle to even recognise nature? When landscapes are artificialised, when the distinction between natural and...
View ArticleEmbracing ticks and other disgusting creatures
The second talk* that particularly impressed me during the Meta.Morf 2022 – Ecophilia conference organised by TEKS in Trondheim a few weeks ago, was Laura Beloff‘s The Dark Side of Evolution; On Ticks....
View ArticleThe Red Thread: making visible the connections between people at opposite...
In early May, from 8 am until 1.30 pm, anyone entering The Complex art space in Dublin could encounter six industrial sewing machines that appeared to be self-operating. Needles were going up and down,...
View ArticleTiny Mining. Extracting minerals from our own body
While the demand for minerals to produce electronics, clean energy and the infrastructures that support them is skyrocketing, it is getting increasingly difficult, environmentally damaging and...
View ArticleMetaspore, a look into the “biopolitics of the senses”
We are getting increasingly comfortable with the idea of having a community of bacteria living inside and on our bodies. Health experts have convinced us that we need to care for the “friendly”...
View ArticleNext Cloud Atelierhaus. An online residency for Marxist oracles, Algorithmic...
In 2021, servus.at, a Linz-based network culture initiative that promotes the use of free open source software for collaborative work, launched a one-month online residency program for digital artists....
View ArticleRoutledge Handbook of Art, Science, and Technology Studies
Routledge Handbook of Art, Science, and Technology Studies, edited By Hannah Star Rogers, Megan K Halpern, Dehlia Hannah and Kathryn de Ridder-Vignone. The book introduces Art, Science and Technology...
View ArticleWeather Engines. The poetics, politics and technologies of the environment
Weather Engines, which opened at Onassis Stegi and the National Observatory of Athens a couple of weeks ago, is looking at the climate crisis through the prisms of social justice, technology and the...
View ArticleCold Cases. How temperature is used to assert violence on racialised people
When Jussi Parikka, curator together with Daphne Dragona of the exhibition Weather Engines at Onassis Stegi in Athens, introduced Susan Schuppli at the conference that accompanied the exhibition, he...
View ArticleRecording studio for bees and other sound oddities
Félix Blume is a sound artist and sound engineer. His sound pieces, videos, actions and installations make you see the fantastic in the mundane and the poetical in the every day. Over the course of his...
View ArticleWould you close an art center in the name of the climate emergency?
What would happen if the development, running and all the activities associated with a major art center were guided by an energy budget and not just by a financial one? If, in accordance with the Paris...
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