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Retail poisoning, a disruption of consumerism
Sabine Keric and Yvonne Bayer, Urban Camouflage I'm just back from a few days at accĆØs)s(, the festival of digital culture in Pau. It was packed with good ideas and i'll definitely blog more about it...
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Because i always wondered what an artistic residency in the Arctic might be...
This week, i'm talking with French artist Benjamin Pothier who is currently frost-bound for an ARS BIO ARCTICA residency organized by the Finnish Bio Art Society at Kilpisjarvi Biological Station in...
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CRAF, the paperplane machine for protests
Eizo Ishikawa and Tamon Sawangdee, CRAF, 2014 Examples of different themed projectiles Third (and last) project from the graduation show of The interactive Architecture Lab, a Bartlett School of...
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James George's talk at the DocLab Interactive Conference
As the title of this post implies, i was in Amsterdam on Sunday for the DocLab Interactive Conference, part of the Immersive Reality program of the famous documentary festival. James George at the...
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A few of my favourite books in 2014
It's the end of the year and yet again, i'm looking at a huge pile of books i've enjoyed but never found the time to review on the blog. So i'm going to file them here and you can think of this list as...
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The House of Electronic Arts Basel reopens its doors
A few days ago, the Haus der elektronischen KĆ¼nste Basel (House of Electronic Arts) inaugurated its new premises with a three-day festival of drones, music performances, immersive data explorations and...
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What would you say to the NSA if you could send them an anonymous message?
Christoph Wachter & Mathias Jud, Can You Hear Me, 2014. Antenna pointing at the Embassy of the U.S. Christoph Wachter & Mathias Jud, Can You Hear Me, 2014. Pariser Platz Berlin-based artists...
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FATBERG: Building An Island of Fat
Last week Matter of Life, an exhibition that showcases exciting new works of bioart and bio design, opened at MU in Eindhoven. And a few weeks earlier, MU had also hosted the launch of the FATBERG...
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My notes from DocLab: Interactive Conference 2014
Finally! I found some time to type down my notes from the DocLab: Interactive Conference, a one-day event that looked at how artists, film makers, designers and entrepreneurs are exploring digital...
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DocLab Expo: Immersive Reality & Digital Storytelling
Exhibition DocLab 2014. Photo by Nichon Glerum Exhibition DocLab 2014. Photo by Nichon Glerum I was supposed to publish this post yesterday. Only i started exploring Serial, one of the works selected...
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The Plant Sex Consultancy
Tumeric. Turmeric On the Move. Photo PSX Abutilon Mallow's Makeover Goes Viral. Photo PSX Here's one last post about a work i discovered at BIO50, the 24th Biennial of Design that closed in Ljubljana...
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Cobalt 60 Sauce, a barbecue sauce made from 'supermarket mutants'
For over 60 years, scientists have been deliberately exposing plants and seeds to radiation in order to mix up their genetic material and speed up mutations. The results are unpredictable and only the...
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Life, tissue culture and ethical ambiguities. An interview with Svenja Kratz
The Immortalisation of Kira and Rama: The Temporary Resurrection and Second Death of Kira, 2011 Svenja Kratz. Photograph: Dan Cole (via) This week (or rather semester since i so seldom do proper...
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Book review: Come Together. The Rise of Cooperative Art and Design
Come Together. The Rise of Cooperative Art and Design, by writer, artist and cultural historian Francesco Spampinato (available on amazon USA and UK.) Publisher Princeton Architectural Press writes:...
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Meeting the founder of the EDL (English Disco Lovers)
Photo: English Disco Lovers Photo: English Disco Lovers For most people, EDL is the acronym of the English Defense League, a far-right group that regularly and vehemently protests in the street...
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Survival Kit Festival in UmeƄ
Anthony Clair Wagner. Photo: Fanny Carinasdotter UmeƄ Skafferi / UmeƄ Pantry at Pilgatan 16 (photo) It's almost 2015 and i still have to write reviews of a couple of festivals i've visited over the...
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Techno-Ecologies II. Acoustic Space #12
Techno-Ecologies II. Acoustic Space #12, edited by Rasa Smite, Armin Medosch and Raitis Smits. (available on amazon USA or by ordering directly from RIXC via e-mail: rixc @ rixc.lv.) Publishers RIXC...
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Vegetation as a Political Agent
I finally made it to the PAV - Parco Arte Vivente (park of living art) in Turin and visited Vegetation as a Political Agent. The exhibition charts a history of the plant world, by looking beyond the...
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The 10th edition of GAMERZ. From dancing trash bag to dichotomic perception
View of the Fondation Vasarely. Photo Luce Moreau for GAMERZ Adelin Schweitzer, Dichotomie #Eyeswalking, 2013 Here's my -as usual- very belated and -as usual- very enthusiastic review of the GAMERZ...
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Prison Gourmet
Karla Diaz is an activist, artist, writer and one of the founders of the artist group Slanguage Studio. A couple of years ago, she got interested in the prison food system in California and in...
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