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The London Festival of Photography (part 1)
Ilkin Huseynov, Puppet-show, Ganja, Azerbaijan, 2011. From the series Hometown For some reason, London's festival of photography is probably not getting all the attention it deserves. Hence this first...
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If You can Smell it, it has Mass
A clinical trial made in 2010 at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel observed that when male subjects are exposed to emotional tears -- isolated from females crying during sad movies then...
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#A.I.L - artists in laboratories, episode 6
6th episode of the art and science show i've been recording for ResonanceFM. For this episode, i went to Battersea to interview the new graduates of RCA's Design Interactions. The department has 16...
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Interview with Michel de Broin
Michel de Broin, Silent Screaming, 2006 Michel de Broin hung a gigantic disco-ball over Paris, threw 12 tons of asphalt on the road to create a absurdly twisted bike lane in Montreal, rode his...
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How to design an Elvis mouse
Elvis's mouse model. 2 clones One of the most curious, amusing and thought-provoking projects of the Design Interactions graduation show this year asks questions that range from 'What is more...
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Strange Hungers
Sadie Hennessy, Elephant in the Room, Collage, 2011 Strange Hungers was a pulp fiction book from 1963 set on the island of Haiti where the notorious Ah Sing and Mei Lai conduct pagan love rites! It is...
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Weaponized architecture
Representation of the project Weaponized Architecture in Area C. From far, the building looks like a fragile Bedouin encampment (Weaponized Architecture: The Impossibility of Innocence, Barcelona:...
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#A.I.L - artists in laboratories, episode 7
7th episode of the art and science show i've been recording for ResonanceFM. Just like last week, i went to Battersea to interview some of the new graduates of the Design Interactions department at...
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The One Way Ticket to deep space
It's hard to believe that the first tourist flight into space might already be planned for next year. But Joseph Popper is probably not very impressed by the prospect because he came up with an idea...
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Invisible: Art about the Unseen 1957 - 2012
Tom Friedman, Untitled (A Curse), 1992. Photo Linda Nylind An empty plinth cursed by a professional witch, eavesdropping devices you can't detect no matter how much you look, a Playboy centrefold...
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Inner World / Innen Welt: The Projects of Haus-Rucker-Co., 1967-1992
Flyhead Helmet, from the Environment Transformer project. 1968. Zamp Kelp, Ortner, Pinter, Haus-Rucker-Co. Image courtesy Ortner & Ortner Baukunst Archigram, Superstudio, Ant Farm, Haus-Rucker-Co....
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#A.I.L - artists in laboratories, episode 8
Question of the month: How often has that ugly toaster appeared on my homepage? This is already the 8th episode of the art and science show i've been recording for ResonanceFM. This week i'm talking to...
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HMPark Life, the new panopticon
Alexander Kalli's graduation project for the Architecture department ADS3
 at the Royal College of Art offers a provocative reflection on the punishment system in the UK. HMPark Life was triggered by...
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Book review: The Sky's the Limit - Applying Radical Architecture
The Sky's the Limit - Applying Radical Architecture, edited by Robert Klanten, Sven Ehmann and Sofia Borges. Available on amazon UK and USA. Publisher Gestalten writes: Thanks to innovations in...
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The London Festival of Photography (part 2)
The London Festival of Photography (part 1) Michelle Tran, Vince, 2010 Lantern image of a happy couple c. 1900 (identity unknown) The London Festival of Photography is one of my favourite events in...
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The 300 Year Time Bomb
This one might be the last project i'll blog from the Design Interactions graduation show. Diego Trujillo had two interesting projects in the exhibition. The main one was The Generated Man, a software...
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Logbook Z33
Z33 House for Contemporary Art in Hasselt, Belgium, is (as you might have noticed) one of my favourite art centers in Europe. There are many reasons for that. The main one is that Z33 is one of the...
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Air Futures, the company that controls the trade of Air Rights in New York
Image credit: Theo Games Petrohilos If there's one student show that never disappoints, it's the Bartlett Summer Show. There are models over drawings over installations over plans over rendering. Over...
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Book review - Reframing Photography: Theory and Practice
Reframing Photography: Theory and Practice by Rebekah Modrak and Bill Anthes. Available on amazon USA and UK. Publisher Routeledge says: In an accessible yet complex way, Rebekah Modrak and Bill Anthes...
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The Theatre of Synthetic Realities
As i mentioned a few days ago, the Barltett's student show is one of my favourite events of the Summer in London. It is however so overwhelming and turbulent that you need dedication and pure chance to...
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