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SAMIZDATA: Evidence of Conspiracy. Talking secrets and pandas with Jacob...
Jacob Appelbaum, Julian Assange, (Undisclosed location near Bail Mansion outside of London), 2012 Next week, NOME, one of those too rare galleries exploring art, politics, and technology, is going to...
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KLOK, the 100 kg bungee jumping church bell
Mike Rijnierse, KLOK, 2015 I only went once to the festival TodaysArt in The Netherlands. It was a long time ago, i was in The Hague for a totally unrelated conference and decided to spend the evening...
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Identity squatting and spy training. A conversation with Simon Farid
Simon Farid is a visual artist interested in the relationship between administrative identity and the body it purports to codify and represent. In practice, this means that the artist is 'squatting'...
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The Shock of the Anthropocene. Or what does it mean to have the future of the...
The Shock of the Anthropocene: The Earth, History and Us, by historians Christophe Bonneuil and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz. Pre-order on amazon USAand UK Publisher Verso writes: Scientists tell us that the...
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Drones, pirates, everyday racism. An interview with graphic designer Ruben Pater
Using the Drone Survival Guide to blind the viewer, 2014. Drone Survival Guide Ruben Pater is, imho, one of the 10 most interesting designers to follow at the moment. You might have encountered his...
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Oil company nationalizes artwork critical of the oil industry
Image courtesy Matt Kenyon/SWAMP Oil industry and artists with a conscience don't usually make for happy pairings. Liberate Tate ambitions to free Tate (and other BP-sponsored art museums) from dirty...
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Book review: Bio Art. Altered Realities
Bio Art. Altered Realities, by writer, teacher, and curator William Myers. Find it on amazon UK and USA Publisher Thames & Hudson writes: In an era of fast-paced technological progress and with the...
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Project Nimbus. Cinema in the clouds
Image courtesy of Dave Lynch Project Nimbus is the outcome of several years of collaborative research by artist and inventor Dave Lynch together with physicist Mike Nix and maker Aaron Nielson. Using...
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The Venice Biennale reports. Part 1: Angels, giant lizards and a Trojan horse
Voyage - Trokomod. Photo by Luciano Romano Courtesy of Bumi Purnati Indonesia Voyage - Trokomod. Photo by Luciano Romano Courtesy of Bumi Purnati Indonesia I finally made it to the Venice Bienniale...
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Terrazza: Artists, Histories, Places in Italy in the 2000s
Terrazza: Artists, Histories, Places in Italy in the 2000s, by Laura Barreca, Andrea Lissoni, Luca Lo Pinto and Costanza Paissan You can find it on amazon USA Publisher RIzzoli writes: What's hot and...
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The Venice Biennale reports. Part 2: Abu Bakarr Mansaray's UFO and other...
One of the artists whose work impressed me the most at the Arsenale exhibition of the Venice Art Biennale is Abu Bakarr Mansaray. An autodidact from Sierra Leone, the artist has always been equally...
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The Venice Biennale reports. Part 3: Protests and modern slavery at the Arsenale
Xu Bing, The Phoenix, 2015. Photo by Alessandra Chemollo / la Biennale di Venezia The Venice Art Biennale is 120 years old and i can't believe they've waited that long to give the reins of the event...
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Urban bee activism
Living 3D printers. Bees at work in the Brussels Urban Bee Lab A third of the food we eat depends on pollinators -especially bees- for a successful harvest. Which means that the decline of bees and...
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From knitted meat to obsolete supermarket. Rethinking our food system
I've just spent the past few days in Eindhoven to participate to the Age of Wonderland, a social innovation program set up by Dutch organization for development Hivos, platform for future thinking...
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Identity squatting and spy training. A conversation with Simon Farid
Simon Farid is a visual artist interested in the relationship between administrative identity and the body it purports to codify and represent. In practice, this means that the artist is ‘squatting’...
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Project Nimbus. Cinema in the clouds
Image courtesy of Dave Lynch Project Nimbus is the outcome of several years of collaborative research by artist and inventor Dave Lynch together with physicist Mike Nix and maker Aaron Nielson. Using...
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Oil company nationalizes artwork critical of the oil industry
Image courtesy Matt Kenyon/SWAMP Oil industry and artists with a conscience don’t usually make for happy pairings. Liberate Tate ambitions to free Tate (and other BP-sponsored art museums) from dirty...
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Book review: Bio Art. Altered Realities
Bio Art. Altered Realities, by writer, teacher, and curator William Myers. Find it on amazon UK Publisher Thames & Hudson writes: In an era of fast-paced technological progress and with the impact...
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The Venice Biennale reports. Part 1: Angels, giant lizards and a Trojan horse
Voyage – Trokomod. Photo by Luciano Romano Courtesy of Bumi Purnati Indonesia Voyage – Trokomod. Photo by Luciano Romano Courtesy of Bumi Purnati Indonesia I finally made it to the Venice Bienniale...
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Terrazza: Artists, Histories, Places in Italy in the 2000s
Terrazza: Artists, Histories, Places in Italy in the 2000s, by Laura Barreca, Andrea Lissoni, Luca Lo Pinto and Costanza Paissan You can find it on amazon USA Publisher RIzzoli writes: What’s hot and...
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