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‘DocLab Expo: Seamless Reality’ explores the future of storytelling
DocLab Expo: Seamless Reality, IDFA International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam. Photo Nichon Glerum The DocLab Expo: Seamless Reality exhibition takes place each year in Amsterdam in the...
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Burden of Proof: The Construction of Visual Evidence
Rodolphe A. Reiss, Demonstration of the Bertillon metric photography system with a man posing as a corpse. Copyright and courtesy of R.A. Reiss, coll. IPSC Photography extract from Decoding video...
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!Mediengruppe Bitnik’s talk at The Influencers festival
Oh great! A mere 30 seconds after i had finished painfully and belatedly writing down my notes from the presentation that !Mediengruppe Bitnik gave at The Influencers festival in Barcelona in October,...
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The Influencers. Internet doesn’t exist
The Influencers 2015 (teaser) Final post and attempt to wrap up The Influencers, an art & activism festival curated by researcher and producer Bani Brusadin and by artists Eva & Franco Mattes...
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A Subjective Atlas of Modern Architecture
Nicolas Grospierre, Multi-function Hall, House of Culture, Lubartow, Poland, 2002. From the series Void This year, like each and every year at this time, i’m doing my best to publish something...
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Book review: Future War
Future War, by Christopher Coker, Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. It’s on amazon UK and USA. Publisher Polity writes: Will tomorrow’s wars...
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A Moroccan hand-crafted copy of a Mercedes-Benz V12 engine
Eric van Hove, V12 Laraki Gear Box, 2015. View of the exhibition Eppur si muove . Art and technology, a shared sphere, Mudam Luxembourg. Photo: Rémi Villaggi, Metz / Mudam Luxembourg There is a truly...
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Famous Deaths. Step inside a mortuary chest and experience of the final...
Famous Deaths, IDFA International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam. Photo Nichon Glerum Would you like to know or even experience what John F. Kennedy felt right before he was shot in Dallas, Texas...
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GAMERZ Part 1: Playing is a serious business
Pippin Barr, Let’s play : the Shining and The junior mint. Photo Luce Moreau for GAMERZ Pippin Barr, Let’s play : the Shining In his influential 1938 book Homo Ludens, cultural theorist Johan Huizinga...
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A People’s Art History of the United States. 250 Years of Activist Art and...
A People’s Art History of the United States. 250 Years of Activist Art and Artists Working in Social Justice Movements, by artist and author Nicolas Lampert. It’s on amazon USA and UK. Publisher The...
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GAMERZ. “Playing is a serious business” (Part 2)
For a proper intro to the event, please check out: GAMERZ Part 1. Playing is a serious business. Second and last chapter of my report from the GAMERZ festival, one of the very few French festivals that...
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Jon Satrom, conversation with a bug maker and tamer
Jon Satrom. Screenshot from the SAIC Alumni profile video Jon Satrom, Doc1 I’ll never forget the first time i first saw one of Jon Satrom‘s Prepared Desktop performances. It was at the access festival...
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VOLVO 240 Transformed into 4 Drones
Zuzanna Janin, VOLVO240 Transformed into 4 Drones, 2014. Photo: lokal_30 Gallery Warsaw Zuzanna Janin, VOLVO240 Transformed into 4 Drones, 2014. Photo: lokal_30 Gallery Warsaw Just what the title...
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Post-anthropocentric art. An interview with Maja Smrekar
Survival Kit for the Anthropocene (Trailer), co-designed with Andrej Strehovec, produced by Aksioma Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2015. Photo by Borut Peterlin I first discovered Maja Smrekar‘s work...
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Plastic trash, rotting rubber & wonky skeleton. Maarten Vanden Eynde’s...
Maarten Vanden Eynde, Homo Stupidus Stupidus A few days ago, the MU art center in Eindhoven organized a Body of Matter / BAD Award weekend of talks, masterclasses, panels and performances. The event...
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A weekend of bio art and bio design at MU in Eindhoven (part 1)
Agi Haines, Drones with Desires. Body of Matter – Body based bio art & design, MU Eindhoven, 2015. Photo by Hanneke Wetzer Kristin Neidlinger, Wearable garments that give you goosebumps when...
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A weekend of bio art and bio design at MU in Eindhoven (part 2)
A couple of weeks ago, MU in Eindhoven invited the public to a 2 day long immersion into all things bio art and bio design. The Body of Matter / BAD Award Special weekend lined up a series talk,...
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From drone garden to cheeky surveillance networks. An interview with Martin...
Martin Reiche, Drone Garden (installation part 1.) Part of NN – Computability, Survival, Cybergenesis Solo Exhibition January/February 2015, Berlin. Photo by Martin Reiche I discovered Martin Reiche‘s...
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Loners in America. Photographs by Alec Soth
Alec Soth, The last snow globe repairman, Northfield, Minnesota, 2012. Courtesy Mack. © Alec Soth Impala, Canada, 2005. From the series Niagara Melissa, Flamingo In, 2005. From the series Niagara Alec...
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Book review: Mass Effect. Art and the Internet in the Twenty-First Century
Mass Effect. Art and the Internet in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Lauren Cornell and Ed Halter. On amazon USA and UK. Publisher The MIT Press writes: Since the turn of the millennium, the...
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