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Frieze part 4: from gorilla to snow white
Time to close the reports about the Frieze Art Fair (see Frieze part 1: The fun of the fair, Frieze part 2: murders at the art fair and Frieze part 3: The Angry Farmers Milk Bar) with plenty of images...
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Macro-videos for musicians in action
The GAMERZ festival closed a few days ago in Aix en Provence. The first time i visited it was in 2010 and i decided then that it would be my favourite festival of the year. A few editions later, it...
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#A.I.L - artists in laboratories, episode 9
It's back! After a Summer/early Autumn break, #A.I.L - artists in laboratories, the weekly radio programme about art and science i present ResonanceFM is on air again. Starting today Tuesday 6th...
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Bzzz! The sound of electricity
Another work i discovered at the GAMERZ festival in Aix en Provence a few days ago. And just like yesterday's this one give sound a visual presence. So visual actually that artist Cécile Babiole...
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Active Presence - Action, Object and Audience
John Bock, Vas-Y! (photo MACRO) Performance art is very much in favour these days. This Summer in London only, The Tanks opened its gigantic space to 'art in action' and the Hayward inaugurated Art of...
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Artissima - Valerio Carrubba
Yesterday, i had a quick tour of Artissima, Turin's contemporary art fair. I came back with hundreds of photos of the usual dubious quality and i still need to 1. go back to the fair with a camera...
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Interview with Benjamin Gaulon aka RECYCLISM
Benjamin Gaulon -aka RECYCLISM- is an artist, researcher and art college lecturer. And to be honest, when i see how much he manages to pack in each of his job descriptions, i'm starting to suspect that...
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Arnold Odermatt, policeman photographer
Probably my favourite photo at Artissima art fair in Turin last week: Arnold Odermatt, Vierwaldstättersee, 1972 I wrote briefly about Arnold Odermatt in the past but i'm glad that the Springer Berlin...
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#A.I.L - artists in laboratories, episode 10
A new episode of #A.I.L - artists in laboratories, the weekly radio programme about art and science i present ResonanceFM, will be broadcast today Tuesday 13th November at 4:00 pm. There will be a...
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GAMERZ festival 2012
This year, even GAMERZ, an art&tech festival with a name that promises its visitors much joy and entertainment, didn't want to turn its back to the times of fear and uncertainty we are living. The...
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Leigh Ledare, an erotic family album
On Friday, bored and in Brussels, i took the tram to see the solo exhibition of Leigh Ledare at Wiels, a contemporary art center housed in a former beer brewery. Ledare is famous for being one of the...
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#A.I.L - artists in laboratories, episode 11
A new episode of #A.I.L - artists in laboratories, the weekly radio programme about art and science i present ResonanceFM, will be broadcast today Tuesday 20th November at 4:00 pm. There will be a...
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Russian Criminal Tattoo portraits
This morning i went to the press view of Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union at the Saatchi Gallery and I'm not sure that the artists participating to the exhibition heartily...
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Hold On, when a joystick manipulates Hollywood
Still from Hold On, The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980) Installation view of Hold On at Festival Gamerz, Fondation Vasarely, Aix-en-Provence,2012. Photo by Luce Moreau One of the best surprises of...
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Doctors, Dissection and Resurrection Men
There is a spectacularly informative and macabre exhibition at the London Museum right now. Its title is suggestive enough: Doctors, Dissection and Resurrection Men. Skull saw, c. 1831-1870 © Science...
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Watchtowers, West Bank, Palestine
This afternoon i stopped by the Victoria & Albert Museum to see Light from the Middle East, an exhibition of contemporary photography from and about the Middle East. It wasn't overwhelmingly...
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#A.I.L / artists in laboratories, episode 12: Ruairi Glynn
A new episode of #A.I.L - artists in laboratories, the weekly radio programme about art and science i present ResonanceFM, will be broadcast today Tuesday 27th November at 4:00 pm. There will be a...
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Book review - Darkitecture: Learning Architecture for the Twenty-First Century
Darkitecture: Learning Architecture for the Twenty-First Century, edited by Iwona Blazwick and published by Two Little Boys. (available on amazon UK and USA) Darkitecture is an anthology of texts and...
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Shoot! Existential Photography
The exhibition Shoot! Existential Photography opened a few weeks ago at The Photographers' Gallery and i never got to mention it so far. The selection of work is fantastic, the theme is seductive and...
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Manfred Mohr: one and zero
P-18 "Random Walk", 1969 The spotlight on computer art tends to fall on the shiny and new. Who won what at this year's edition of Ars Electronica, who's just designed a work of generative art for the...
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