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The Venice Biennale reports. Part 3: Protests and modern slavery at the...
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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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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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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NEUNUNDNEUNZIG (99) balloons of claustrophobia
Martin Bricelj Baraga and Olaf Bender, NEUNUNDNEUNZIG (99) NEUNUNDNEUNZIG (99) is a kinetic sound sculpture by Martin Bricelj Baraga and Olaf Bender (raster-noton). The work takes the shape of a...
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Home catastrophes, wandering mining hole and limbo embassy. (My) best of the...
A week or so ago, i was in Eindhoven for the Age of Wonderland festival and realized the city was in full Dutch Design Week swing. There was far far too much to see for someone like me who has only a...
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The Influencers: Former MI5 spy Annie Machon on why we live in a dystopia...
I’d always wanted to go to the The Influencers festival. So i went. Last week. No, i’ve no idea what took me so long. Based in Barcelona, the event looks at some of the most radical, provocative and...
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Mexican Lucha Libre Wrestling: Family Portraits
Lourdes Grobet, Vilano dentist I was going to post this story next month but i just realized that the show closes this weekend already. If you are in Barcelona at the moment, DON’T MISS IT! So, yes,...
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Book review: Visual Impact. Creative Dissent in the 21st Century
Visual Impact. Creative Dissent in the 21st Century, by Liz McQuiston. Available on amazon UK and USA Publisher Phaidon writes: An accessible and richly illustrated exploration of how art and design...
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Age of Wonderland – Balancing Green and Fair Food
If you wanted to explore new, intelligent avenues to think about food this year, you might have rushed to Milan to visit the world expo. The event, which proposed to explore the theme ‘feeding the...
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Merge Simpson, Spongebool and Matthew Plummer-Fernandez are in Berlin
Matthew Plummer-Fernandez, Gogogogogoku, 2015 Matthew Plummer-Fernandez is probably one of the most interesting artists slash designers of the moment. When he’s not developing art critic bots that do...
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Slaughtered caimans, threatened orangutans and other tragedies at the World...
A few days ago i popped by the The World Press Photo exhibition at the Royal Festival Hall in London. It’s a show i always look forward to visiting. The quality of the prints is often ridiculously low...
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Can organs be objects of design?
Designer Isaac Monté has been pushing ideas of beauty and deception to their most ‘visceral’ limits using decellularization, a process which consists of removing all of the cells from an organ leaving...
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Sheriff Software: the games that allow you to play traffic cop for real
Over the past few years, artist Dries Depoorter has been exploring issues of privacy in ways that are at times thought-provoking and at times almost comical (often both.) He started by looking into his...
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Obfuscation. A User’s Guide for Privacy and Protest
Obfuscation. A User’s Guide for Privacy and Protest, by Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University Finn Brunton and Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication...
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Drones with Desires. A machine with inbuilt human memories
Drones With Desires, 2015. Image courtesy of Agi Haines Agi Haines seems to be anesthetized to the most visceral and crude guises of the future human body. She designed hybrid organs custom-designed...
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Zofia Rydet, the old lady who wanted to photograph the inside of every single...
Zofia Rydet was 67 years old when she set herself the herculean task of photographing the inside of every single house in Poland. From 1978 until her death in 1997, she would frantically travel by bus...
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The Pirate Book, ‘cultural content outside the boundaries of local economies,...
The Pirate Book, A compilation of stories about sharing, distributing, and experiencing cultural content outside the boundaries of local economies, politics, or laws. By Nicolas Maigret and Maria...
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Swatting, vintage VR and virtual museum for stolen art. My notes from DocLab:...
Another year, another intense and satisfying DocLab: Interactive Conference in Amsterdam. The event is a one-day meeting for filmmakers, producers, artists, designers, entrepreneurs and anyone else...
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MSA: The Microbiome Security Agency
Emma Dorothy Conley is an artist, designer and also a producer at the Center For Genomic Gastronomy. Concerned by newspaper stories about the microbiome and how we shed bits of it wherever we go, she...
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