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Aspect: V21: A Good Place to Stop
Aspect: V21: A Good Place to Stop! The title of this issue of the dvd-magazine is literal: this is the final stop for a publication that, in 10 years & 26 DVDs, has shown, promoted, curated,...
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Who Owns The Arctic
The project that Owen Wells developed and exhibited at the Design Interactions graduation show this year looks at the Arctic, a region that global changes has transformed into the new El Dorado. It is...
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#A.I.L - artists in laboratories, episode 37: James Bridle
The new episode of #A.I.L - artists in laboratories, the weekly radio programme about art and science i present on ResonanceFM, London's favourite radio art station, is aired this Wednesday afternoon...
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SPPS, from chemical defense to border control
Supereste ut Pugnatis (Pugnatis) ut Supereste (SPPS), 2013. Photo credit Ian Hobbs There was a time, not so long ago, when you could visit a new exhibition showing 'bio tech artworks' every second...
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"Imitation", exploring China copy culture
Imitation Chapter 3-1 Imitation, Imitation is another project exhibited at the RCA graduation show, this time in the Design Products department (Platform 13.) Zhenhan Hoa explored China's copy culture...
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Manufactured Britishness
The Life in the United Kingdom test is a computer-based test which must be passed by would-be British citizens to qualify for indefinite leave to remain in Britain or to naturalise as a citizen. It...
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#A.I.L - artists in laboratories, episode 38: Marco Donnarumma
The new episode of #A.I.L - artists in laboratories, the weekly radio programme about art and science i present on ResonanceFM, London's favourite radio art station, is aired this Wednesday afternoon...
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Analyze Dat: TOR Visualization & online black markets
A few weeks ago, Sight and Sound, a festival produced by Eastern Bloc in Montreal, ran a workshop titled Analyze Dat: TOR Visualization. Headed by someone who presents himself (or herself) as Arthur...
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Keep Your Timber Limber
Judith Bernstein's Fucked By Number at the Keep Your Timber Limber exhibition at the ICA, London. Photograph: Mark Blower/ICA Keep Your Timber Limber (Works on Paper) explores how artists since the...
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Glitch Moment/ums - From tech accident to artistic expression
Only a few days left to see Glitch Moment/ums at Furtherfield Gallery in Finsbury Park! The show is about glitches or those malfunctions, bugs or sudden disruptions to the normal running of machine...
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The Language of Cetaceans at the Arts Catalyst
On 12 July, the Arts Calalyst organised one last evening of discussions in its Clerkenwell Road HQ. Ariel Guzik, Resonador espectral armónico The Language of Cetaceans brought together two men who...
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'Thermal', audiovisual performance of an overheating microwave
One last project exhibited a few weeks ago at the Sight + Sound festival in Montreal. You might remember that a while ago I interviewed Arthur Heist about the workshop Analyze Dat: TOR Visualization...
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Red Never Follows
On Wednesday, the Saatchi Gallery will open Red Never Follows. The exhibition features 20 contemporary artists and celebrates the 20th anniversary of HUGO. In fashion speak, the show has been called a...
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Book review - Sensible Politics. The Visual Culture of Nongovernmental Activism
Sensible Politics. The Visual Culture of Nongovernmental Activism, edited by documentary filmmaker Meg McLagan and art critic Yates McKee. Available on Amazon UK and USA. Publisher MIT Press write:...
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Making It Up: Photographic Fictions
If you're as horrified as i have been by the endless queues to see the David Bowie exhibition at the Victoria and Albert museum, maybe you could walk by and try the ticket-free and crowd-free Making It...
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Book review: Anti-Media. Ephemera on Speculative Arts
Anti-Media. Ephemera on Speculative Arts, by researcher and theorist Florian Cramer. Soon available on amazon USA and UK. Publisher NAI Booksellers writes: Literature written in the style of computer...
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At the Moment of Being Heard
Baudouin Oosterlynck, Aquaphone Cornemuse Opus 143, 2001. Photo © Leopold Oosterlynck The photo above lured me to take the train to Peckham Rye and visit the South London Gallery. The image is the one...
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The Broken Hill skull
Pratchaya Phinthong, Broken Hill, 2013. Commissioned by Chisenhale Gallery. Photo: Mark Blower The first early human human fossil found in Africa that provides a key evidence to support Darwin's...
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The New Weathermen
The Weather Underground -also called the Weathermen- were a 1970s American radical left organization characterized by positions that included the opposition to the Vietnam War, the achievement of a...
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Fully Booked. Ink on Paper. Design and Concepts for New Publications
Fully Booked: Ink on Paper: Design and Concepts for New Publications. Edited by Robert Klanten, Matthias Hübner, Andrew Losowsky. Available on amazon USA and UK. Publisher Gestalten writes: Fully...
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