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Constructing Worlds: Photography and Architecture in the Modern Age
Bas Princen, Cooling plant, Dubai, 2009 Iwan Baan, Torre David #2, 2011 (Caracas) Yesterday was the press view of Constructing Worlds: Photography and Architecture in the Modern Age at the Barbican...
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Friction Atlas, a choreographed debate about public space, law and legibility
Giuditta Vendrame and Paolo Patelli (La Jetée), Friction Atlas Giuditta Vendrame and Paolo Patelli (La Jetée), Friction Atlas One of the themes of the BIO 50 design Biennial which opened last week in...
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The Deadly Life of Logistics. Mapping Violence in Global Trade
The Deadly Life of Logistics. Mapping Violence in Global Trade, by Deborah Cowen, an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Toronto. Her work focuses on the politics of...
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Amore e Piombo: The Photography of extremes in 1970s Italy
This is Giulio Andreotti, a legend in Italian politics: Giulio Andreotti, Rome, 1970s © TEAM Editorial Services/Alinari For almost half a century, Andreotti occupied all the major offices of state. He...
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The Terminator Studies
The Terminator Studies Somewhere between military robots, Amazon drones knocking on your door to deliver a parcel, and the rise in machine intelligence, lies what some call The Terminator Scenario....
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Politika. Art, social justice and activism
I've known for a while that Manchester is far cooler than London. The Northern Quarter, the art festivals (FutureEverything, Abandon Normal Devices), affordable vegan places, genuine love of...
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Self-combusting communication for the Wikileaks era
Last year, news emerged that Russia's agency responsible for the Kremlin security was buying electric typewriters and "expanding the practice of creating paper documents" in a bid to prevent leaks...
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Eye Catcher, the frame that responds to your emotions
Eye Catcher Behind the Wall a UR Robot running IAL's own "Scorpion" Software puppeteers the frame A few weeks ago, i visited the graduation show of The interactive Architecture Lab, a research group...
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Book review: Imagine Architecture. Artistic Visions of the Urban Realm
Imagine Architecture. Artistic Visions of the Urban Realm, by Lukas Feireiss and Robert Klanten. Available on amazon UK and USA Publisher Gestalten writes: Contemporary developments in the visual arts...
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Invasive. "What if your tax money is used to kill animals?"
Invasive. What if your tax money was used to kill animals? At first sight, there's something inherently funny in a headline that claims: Warning as alien mussels found near Heathrow airport. But it...
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How a decaying boat bought on eBay becomes a new underwater eco-system
It took Simon Faithfull 3 years to be granted permission to sink a boat off the Isle of Portland, a few km south of Weymouth, in Dorset, England. © Simon Faithfull. Photo: Gavin Weber What might sound...
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Cogito. Exploring the cosmos by means of radio waves
Over the past two years, artist Daniela de Paulis has been working with radio astronomers, radio amateurs, neuroscientists and philosophers to develop Cogito, a research project that speculates on the...
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After The Flash. Photography from the Atomic Archive
Margaret Bourke-White, Crewmen of B-36 Bomber Posing in Artic Equipment The WORK Gallery in London has recently opened a fascinating exhibition that looks at the role that photography has played in...
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Undocumented: The Architecture of Migrant Detention
There are three designated "holding" centres for immigrants in Canada but more than one third of detainees are incarcerated in rented beds in provincial prisons, some of them maximum security prisons...
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A dystopian performance for drones
Nicolas Maigret, Drone.2000, 2014. Photo Luce Moreau for GAMERZ Nicolas Maigret, DRONE.2000, 2014 GAMERZ in Aix-en-Provence is probably the only festival in Europe that doesn't bat an eyelid when an...
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Last minute list of shows to see in London this weekend
Another hasty post as i'm trying to emerge from an intense marathon of moving house, giving talks, crying over irregular German verbs and generally wasting far too much time reading crime books. So...
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Furl: Soft Pneumatic Pavilion
Bijing Zhang & Francois Mangion, Furl: Soft Pneumatic Pavilion. Close up of furling air muscles Furl: Soft Pneumatic Pavilion is another* project i discovered at the graduation show of The...
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A screaming comes across the sky. Drones, mass surveillance and invisible wars
Notes about A screaming comes across the sky. Drones, mass surveillance and invisible wars , Laboral's new exhibition that addresses the ethical and legal ambiguity of drones, mass surveillance and war...
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Fired but Unexploded
Zsolt Asztalos, Fired but Unexploded, 2011 Zsolt Asztalos, Fired but Unexploded, 2011 This weekend i'm in Turin for the Artissima art fair. I'll get back with a proper story about the event later. I...
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Post-Photography: The Artist with a Camera
Post-Photography: The Artist with a Camera, by Robert Shore, arts journalist and editor of quarterly Elephant. Available on amazon USA and UK. Publisher Laurence King writes: The real world is full of...
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