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AL and AL, Incidents of Travel in the Multiverse
AL and AL. Incidents of Travel in the Multiverse. Installation view. Photo credit Simon Liddiard. Image courtesy HOME HOME in Manchester have recently opened a solo show by filmmakers and artists AL...
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Machine Wilderness: a world of ecological robotics
Sketch for Machine Wilderness by Theun Karelse Machines as we know them are man-made infrastructures that usually encroach into nature. They extend the internet of things to the animal kingdom,...
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Grafters: Industrial society in image and word
Burlers and menders, Scott Mills, 1948. Courtesy of Museums and Galleries, City of Bradford MDC Trafford Park, 1976. Courtesy of John Bulmer Located in a former hydraulic pumping station in...
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Big Eye Kabul. Surveillance blimps over Afghanistan
Antonio Ottomanelli, Big Eye Kabul Antonio Ottomanelli, Big Eye Kabul Every single day and every single night, rain or shine, the movements of people living in Kabul and Kandahar in Afghanistan, are...
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140 years of crime and policing: Scotland Yard’s Black Museum goes on show
Postcard from The Siege of Sidney Street, the first armed siege to be recorded on film, 1911. Museum-of-London Mask from the murder case of PC George Gutteridge by Frederick Browne and William...
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DADABOT. The role of algorithms in cultural production
DADABOT. An Introduction to Machinic Creolization, by Nicolas Nova and Joël Vacheron. Published by IDPure and designed by Raphaël Verona. Joël Vacheron is a writer, a cultural theorist and a lecturer...
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Different Ways to Infinity and other artefacts of science fiction
Different Ways to Infinity Different Ways to Infinity Félix Luque Sánchez is one of those rare artists who quietly follows his own creative inquiry and vision, seemingly oblivious to trends and...
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Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition
Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition, by photographer Edmund Clark and counterterrorism investigator Crofton Black. With essay by Eyal Weizman. Available on amazon UK and USA....
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A curious outsiders view into the world of science
Daniel Stier, Institut für Angewandte Trainingswissenschaft, Universität Leipzig (Institute for Applied Training Sciences, University of Leipzig, Germany). From the series ‘Ways of Knowing 1’ Daniel...
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Prototype II (after US patent no 6545444 B2) or the quest for free energy
Nick Laessing Prototype II (after US patent no 6545444 B2 by John Bedini), Talk Radio with John Bedini (excerpts from 1980s radio show Open Mind), 2009 Nick Laessing Prototype II (after US patent no...
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Pictoplasma focus: Mr Bingo, rude postcards and dirty queens
Hate Mail Dirty Queen, via Erotic Review Hair Portraits I suspect that Mr Bingo is not as odious as he’d like us to think. And even if he were, i’ll forever admire his typically English touch of...
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Global Activism: Art and Conflict in the 21st Century
Global Activism: Art and Conflict in the 21st Century, edited by Peter Weibel. It’s on amazon USA and UK. Publisher MIT Press writes: Today political protest often takes the form of spontaneous,...
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Destructables, DIY for protest and creative dissent
GMO Food Warning Labels I’ve just started working on a new talk i’ll be giving in the coming days at the Art Activism Easter School. The theme is the dissemination of artistic/activist practices....
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Gloom and broken windows. A time travel to Thatcher-era Glasgow
The Barbican in London has recently opened Strange and Familiar: Britain as Revealed by International Photographers, an exhibition exploring the way international photographers have been portraying the...
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The Promise of Total Automation
Installation view The Promise of Total Automation. Image Kunsthalle Wien Cécile B. Evans, How happy a Thing Can Be, 2014. Image Kunsthalle Wien The word ‘automation’ is appearing in places that would...
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Bits, Pieces and blooming plastic
Nils Völker, Bits and Pieces, 2016. At NOME Gallery. Photo by Bresadola+Freese/drama-berlin.de Nils Völker, Bits and Pieces, 2016. At NOME Gallery. Photo by Bresadola+Freese/drama-berlin.de Plastic is...
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Book review: The New Curator
The New Curator, by Natasha Hoare, Coline Milliard, Rafal Niemojewski, Ben Borthwick and Jonathan Watkins. On amazon USA and UK. Publisher Laurence King writes: How many times have you heard the term...
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MENACE 2, an artificial intelligence made of wooden drawers and coloured beads
Julien Prévieux, MENACE 2 (Machine Educable Noughts and Crosses Engine), 2010. Image Jousse Entreprise In 1961, Donald Michie, a British WWII code breaker and a researcher in artificial intelligence,...
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e-waste, porn, ecology & warfare. An interview with Dani Ploeger
Firing a Kalashnikov assault rifle. Photo by Maja Dubowska Dani Ploeger studied music in various conservatories across Europe, performed as a trombonist with symphony orchestras in Stuttgart and...
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Pictoplasma focus: Julian Glander
Like all Pictoplasma guests, Julian Glander creates little fellows. His have been dipped in cotton candy and other similarly sugary substances. They live a merry life, star in comic strips, music...
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