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Relics of the Cold War
Bunker in the Baltic Sea, near the former Soviet naval base of Liepāja, Latvia, 2002. © Martin Roemers West Germany, Lorch, Former depot of the Bundeswehr in a fallout shelter, Lorch 2008. © Martin...
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Hortum Machina, B, the garden that rolls across the city
Hortum Machina, B on Hampstead Road in London. Photo by William Victor Camilleri Passersby reactions to Hortum Machina, B. Photo by William Victor Camilleri Although they don’t have what we call...
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Book Review: Out of Now. The Lifeworks of Tehching Hsieh
Out of Now. The Lifeworks of Tehching Hsieh (updated edition), by Tehching Hsieh and Adrian Heathfield. Available on amazon UK and USA. Publisher MIT Press writes: In the vibrant downtown Manhattan art...
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Confessions of a Data Broker and other tales of a quantified society
The White Room, Opening of Nervous Systems. Photo: © Laura Fiorio/HKW !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Reconstruction of Julian Assange’s study room at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. Opening of Nervous...
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Order+Noise, a tug of war for motors, strings and rubber bands
Ralf Baecker, Order+Noise (Interface I), 2016. Photo by Bresadola+Freese/drama-berlin.de for NOME Ralf Baecker, Order+Noise (Interface I), 2016. Photo by Bresadola+Freese/drama-berlin.de for NOME I’ve...
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cellF, the world’s first neural synthesiser
Front View of cellF (neurons are located in the top black box, in the incubator) Guy Ben-Ary has spent 4 years collaborating with scientists and other artists to develop a musical instrument...
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Pictoplasma focus: Jim Avignon
Jim Avignon, Nachtwache Jim Avignon, Den Zähnen das Schicksai Zeigen, 2014 Jim Avignon is an illustrator, painter, performer and conceptual artist. His work is witty, pop, cheerful and at times also...
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Art in the Making. Artists and their Materials from the Studio to Crowdsourcing
Art in the Making. Artists and their Materials from the Studio to Crowdsourcing, by Glenn Adamson, Director of the Museum of Arts and Design (New York), and Julia Bryan-Wilson, Associate Professor of...
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Strange and Familiar: Britain as Revealed by International Photographers
Bruce Gilden, Factory in the Midlands, from the series The Black Country, 2014 Evelyn Hofer, Crossing Guard, London, 1962 A man lost in his thoughts in the London underground, a family barely smiling...
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Eulogy for the weeds. An interview with Ellie Irons
Field work in a research meadow at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Gothic, Colorado, photo credit Dan Phiffer Ellie Irons is one of those rare artists whose work opens your eyes to what is...
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Persona. Or how objects become human
Wang Zi Won, Mechanical Avalokitesvara, 2015 Ghost Hunter suitcase and alphabet for ouija, 1926-1940 Surnatéum, Bruxelles. Photo Claude Germain Kenji Yanobe, Sweet Harmonizer II , 1995 The Musée du...
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Tanks, drones, rockets and other sound machines. An interview with Nik Nowak
Booster 2.13, 2013. Courtesy Hubertus von Hohenlohe Es Kommt Nicht Immer Eine Grille Geflogen, 2015. Installation view: Alexander Levy Es Kommt Nicht Immer Eine Grille Geflogen, 2015 This week, i’m...
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Open source estrogens and other hormonal tales
Artefacts from the University of Dundee’s Collections Egstrogen Farms, 2015 The term ‘hormonal’ is sometimes used as an insult. It is always (ALWAYS!) hurled at women to criticize any behaviour deemed...
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Performance-driven Fabrication
Syuko Kato and Vincent Huyghe, Fabricating Performance Syuko Kato and Vincent Huyghe, Fabricating Performance Syuko Kato and Vincent Huyghe from the Interactive Architecture Lab have designed a...
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Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter
Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter, edited by Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton. On amazon USA and UK. Publisher Verso writes: Combining firsthand accounts...
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The Next Big Thing is Not a Thing
Entrance to the exhibition The Next Big Thing is Not a Thing. Photo: Pauline Doutreluingne Last week i was in The Netherlands for the Week of New Maastricht, an event organised by Maastricht-LAB to...
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Biometric Capitalism
ATMs fingerprint-based biometric technology in Malawi. Photo via African Business Back in April, i was in Berlin for the Anthropocene Curriculum and very much looking forward to Truth Measures, an...
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House Guests: where even plugs and bread crumbs have a mind of their own
Another of my long overdue festival reports…. Image Share Festival Automato, Politics of Power. Image Share Festival This year, the Share festival in Turin shed its new media art skin and became a...
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The Politics of Design. A (Not So) Global Manual for Visual Communication
The Politics of Design. A (Not So) Global Manual for Visual Communication, by Ruben Pater. BIS Publishers write: Many designs that appear in today’s society will circulate and encounter audiences of...
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Grayson Perry. Flying penises, rude vases and teddy bears
Grayson Perry, Motorbike Grayson Perry (together with the architect firm FAT), A House for Essex. Photo: Jack Hobhouse. Via we heart Earlier this month, during the Week of New Maastricht, i visited...
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