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Crystal forming robots
Christian Faubel, Crystal forming robots on overhead The Crystal Forming Robots are little autonomous robots that are placed on an overhead projector. Each robot is powered by the light of the...
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Science Fiction: New Death
Science Fiction: New Death seeks to provoke the question - have the Sci Fi visions we once imagined of the future since become a reality? I guess we all know the answer to that one. Dario Solman,...
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Black Diamond. The internet is full of loopholes and leaks
Mishka Henner has a solo show at the Carroll/Fletcher gallery right now. How come i never paid more attention to his work so far? Just like Edward Burtynsky, he looks at how industries shape...
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Phonotube, making music with light
Arcangel Constantini, Phonotube In 1880 Alexander Graham Bell Invented the Photophone. While his earlier invention, the telephone, uses electricity to transmit voice communications, the photophone...
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Magazine review: HOLO
HOLO - a magazine about emerging trajectories in art, science, and technology. Published twice per year, and weighing in at more than 200 pages, each issue of HOLO provides intimate views into...
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Branding Terror. The Logotypes and Iconography of Insurgent Groups and...
Branding Terror. The Logotypes and Iconography of Insurgent Groups and Terrorist Organizations. Available on amazon UK and USA. A book about the visual identity of some of the world's main terrorist...
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Glitches and vintage baby monitors
Darsha Hewitt, Feedback Babies, 2011 The Fisher-Price Nursery Monitor, sold in North America in the early 1980s, was engineered to transmit any noise from the nursery to a wireless receiver...
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Tattooists, tattooed
Herbert Hoffmann, Navy-men on a fleet visit in Hamburg, 1966. Photo: © Courtesy Herbert Hoffmann and Galerie Gebr. Lehmann Dresden/Berlin View of the exhibition space. Image AFP via Le Matin The musée...
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$8,793 Worth of [digital] art
Pau Waelder has recently published at Merkske $8,793 Worth of [Art], a collection of 159 real and false certificates of authenticity, culled from S[edition], an online platform that sells limited...
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Piratbyrån and Friends
Manifesta Bus Trip installation. Part of the Piratbyrån and Friends exhibition at Furtherfield Gallery. Photo Furtherfield Now that I'm back from a series of trips, i might finally be able to catch up...
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Book review: The Secret World of Oil
The Secret World of Oil, by Ken Silverstein. Available on amazon USA and UK. Publisher Verso writes: Oil is the lifeblood of modern civilization, and the industry that supplies it has been the subject...
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Pixels of Paradise: Image & Belief (Part 1)
This year, BIP2014, the 9th International Biennial of Photography and Visual Arts in Liège, looks at the ambiguous relationship between images and belief. Image seduce, persuade, deceive and lie. And...
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Graphic design for social change
Rutger Termohlen, Super A and Collin van der Sluijs at Achter De Lange Stallen. Photo GDFB GDFB2014-Resolute. Photo: Rene de Wit Architectuurfotografie The Graphic Design Festival Breda, that event...
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Synthetic Aesthetics. Investigating Synthetic Biology's Designs on Nature
Synthetic Aesthetics. Investigating Synthetic Biology's Designs on Nature, by designer Alexandra Ginsberg Daisy, social scientists Jane Calvert and Pablo Schyfter, bioengineers Alistair Elfick and Drew...
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Social Mining Union - From London scrapyards to Glencore general meeting
The Social Mining Union. Image courtesy of Tearlach Byford-Flockhart Last weekend was the Goldsmiths degree show at the Truman Brewery in London. There were quite a few interesting projects but the...
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FIELDS, positive visions for the future
Cécile Babiole, BZZZ! The sound of electricity, 2012. Image courtesy RIXC Raitis Smits, Rasa Smite (RIXC), Voldemārs Johansons and Jānis Jankevics, Biotricity, 2013 - 2014. Image courtesy RIXC Last...
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Harold Edgerton, "the man who made time stand still"
Mauser and Bullet, 1938 The Michael Hoppen Gallery has just opened an exhibition featuring a selection of vintage prints by Dr. Harold Edgerton, a photographer whose works are found hanging in art...
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Book review - The Sick Rose: Disease and the Art of Medical Illustration
The Sick Rose" Disease and the Art of Medical Illustration, by academic medical historian Dr Richard Barnett. Available on Amazon UK and USA. Publisher Thames and Hudson writes: The Sick Rose is a...
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A guide to life forms altered by the human species
I'm spending a couple of days in Lodz for the Photo Festival. Or rather, the Fotofestiwal. I haven't seen all the exhibitions yet but so far, so good. I've been particularly fascinated by Zhao Renhui's...
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A visit to the largest wind tunnel in Great Britain
Guest exploring wind turbine in Q121. Image György Kőrössy Outside view of Q121. Image György Kőrössy I know you're not supposed to ever be tired of London but if you feel like a change of atmosphere,...
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