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Mediterranean. Portrait of a region in turmoil
Ghadaffi's compound Bab Al-Aziziya, Tripoli Saint-Tropez, France. © Nick Hannes Photographer Nick Hannes spent four years traveling around the Mediterranean looking for the traces left by mass...
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Vampires, crucifixion and transfusion. BLOOD is not for the faint-hearted
Shaun McCann, A human placenta from 'Stem Cell Transplantation. Part of BLOOD at Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin It flows throughout our bodies and yet some of us faint when they see a drop...
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A Simple Line. A zebra finch ponders upon abstraction
Exhibition view at MU, Eindhoven, 2014. Photo by Hanneke Wetzer Jalila Essaidi, A Simple Line, 2014 I'm sure you've heard about Jalila Essaidi's work before. She is an artist who uses biology as an...
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Panamarenko Universum
Panamarenko, Scotch Gambit Panamarenko, Pahama, Spitsbergen, Nova Zemblaya, 1996 courtesy Collection Fondation Cartier, Paris photo M HKA Panamarenko, the artist and inventor who builds zeppelins,...
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Book review: Experimental Eating
Experimental Eating, edited by Thomas Howells. With introductory essay by Zach Denfeld, Cathrine Kramer and Emma Conley from The Center for Genomic Gastronomy. Available on amazon UK and US. (Image via...
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Conflict, Time, Photography
Conflict, Time, Photography, an exhibition which opened in November at Tate Modern, looks at over 150 years of conflict around the world, since the invention of photography. It could have been one of...
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Objection!!! Court cases with added drama
Queen's Coat of Arms, in Neon, 2014. Photo by Luke Hayes Photo by Luke Hayes In the playhouse, as in the courtroom, an event already completed is re-enacted in a sequence which allows its meaning to...
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Book review: A Theory of the Drone
A Theory of the Drone, by philosopher Grégoire Chamayou Publisher The New Press writes: In a unique take on a subject that has grabbed headlines and is consuming billions of taxpayer dollars each year,...
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A 'mild kind of activism.' Interview with Karl Philips
Scenography for 'Medée / Vivez comme vous voulez' (performance with Naomi Velissariou) Karl Philips is a Belgian (h)activist, performance and conceptual artist. I discovered his work a couple of years...
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Matter of Life. Growing new Bio Art & Design
FATBERG. Photo by Boudewijn Bollmann Špela Petrič, Naval Gazing. Photo by Boudewijn Bollmann A bio art exhibition is a rare occurrence. A good bioart exhibition -one that makes you marvel at the art,...
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Printing Things. Visions and Essentials for 3D Printing
Printing Things. Visions and Essentials for 3D Printing, edited by Dries Verbruggen and Claire Warnier. Available on amazon USA and UK. Publisher Gestalten writes: 3D printers will soon be found in...
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Disnovation, an inquiry into the mechanics and rhetoric of innovation
The so-called Centennial Light has been burning for 113 years. It graces the ceiling of the Livermore-Pleasanton Fire station (in California), has its own live cam and is often cited as evidence for...
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Book review: Staging Disorder
Staging Disorder, edited by Christopher Stewart and Dr Esther Teichmann. (available on amazon USA and UK) Publisher Black Dog writes: Staging Disorder brings together work that considers the...
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Make+, Art & Technology program in Shanghai
Stacked rooms. Performance Make+ is a Shanghai-based programme that stimulates collaborations between creativity, technology and science. Its main motivation is to 'make ideas happen'. The recipe is...
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Copie Copains Club, a community of artists who copy each other
During the last edition of the GAMERZ festival, i discovered the existence of the Copie Copains Club (Copy Companion Club), a community of artists who copy each other. To become a member of the club,...
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PIGS, structures of surveillance, metabolic landscape, a quiet USA, etc. My...
I'm drowning in really good books this year. Unsurprisingly, half of them are photography books. And because i'm short on time and these publications deserve a review, i'm going to take the lazy road:...
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The sound of empty space
Adam Basanta, The sound of empty space If you happen to be in Montreal this week, drop by the Galerie B-312 where composer and sound artist Adam Basanta has installed a series of works that play with...
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DIYsect. A series about the DIY Biology & Biology-Art intersection
DIYsect is s documentary series 'about the DIY Biology & Biology-Art intersection' and it is rather good. Baltimore's Underground Science Space (BUGSS), Nurit Bar-Shai's bacteria sculpture (top...
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Staalplaat Soundsystem and the book that's also a paper turntable and a music...
A quick post to let you know about the really REALLY nice book i received the other day. I can't stop playing with it. The publication celebrates Staalplaat Soundsystem's brilliant work. Yokomono....
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The 3D Additivist Manifesto + Cookbook
The 3D Additivist Manifesto A few days ago, i was at Parsons Paris for reFrag: glitch, a series of workshops, talks and performances that address the multifold ways in which glitches manifest and/or...
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