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The Woodpecker: Could fake birds save our forests?
Rihards Vitols, Woodpecker, 2016. Image courtesy of the artist Rihards Vitols, Woodpecker, 2016. Image courtesy of the artist In his ongoing research, artist Rihards Vitols is exploring the...
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Béton: The history of a concrete-clad utopia
Werner Feiersinger, Untitled (Corviale), 2015 Long reviled, brutalism seems to be everyone’s favourite architectural style at the moment. The nostalgia for the late modernist architecture manifests...
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Bergen Assembly: The End of Oil, the end of the world as we knew it
A few months ago, i watched the geopolitical thriller TV series Occupied. The show starts shortly after a hurricane, provoked by effects of climate change, has ravaged Norway. During the following...
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Infinite Ear. On the practices of un- or para-hearing
As hinted on Tuesday, i’m just back from the opening of Bergen Assembly, a triennial that boldly attempts to challenge and reformulate the good old biennial (or triennial) model. The event is...
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Book review: Drone. Remote Control Warfare
Drone. Remote Control Warfare, by anthropologist Hugh Gusterson. It’s on amazon USA and UK. Publisher MIT Press writes: Advocates say that drones are more precise than conventional bombers, allowing...
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Within: Instruments that challenge the way we understand hearing
Tarek Atoui / WITHIN II. Performance, Bergen Assembly 2016. Sentralbadet, Bergen. Photo: Thor Brødreskift Tarek Atoui/ Sonic Therapy Sessions, Deep Listening with Pauline Oliveros and...
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Book review: Artificial Intelligence. What Everyone Needs to Know
Artificial Intelligence. What Everyone Needs to Know, by computer scientist, researcher and futurist Jerry Kaplan On amazon USA and UK. Publisher Oxford University Press writes: The emergence of...
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Pixelache 2016: The Science of Empathy
The Pixelache Festival opened last night in Helsinki. It is, as usual, full of good surprises and inspiring shenanigans. The theme this year is: The whole program is dedicated to exploring how empathy...
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Because sometimes all you need is BATS
Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, Bat Opera, 2013 Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, Bat Opera, 2005 Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, who used to be called Spartacus Chetwynd, was born Alalia Chetwynd. That’s a lovely name of course but...
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Childhoods under the lens of humanist documentary photography
The only photography venue in the UK exclusively devoted to documentary, Side Gallery, is about to re-open with an exhibition dedicated to children. Children! Now this is definitely not my favourite...
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When erased data come back to haunt you
Peters Riekstins, Back to the Light, 2016. Exhibition opening at RIXC Gallery in Riga. Photo: Kristine Madjare for RIXC Everyone knows about cybercrime and how owning networked computers and mobile...
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Pattern Recognition and young Palestinian art
Noor Abed, The Air Was Too Thin to Return the Gaze, 2016. Video stills. Image courtesy of the artist The collaborative contemporary art biennial Qalandiya International is opening this month across...
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Man Made Clouds: atomic, phantasmagoric and political
Nuage Vert, Ivry-sur-Seine, 2010 I was planning to write a fluvial post that lists some of the most interesting artist books i’ve received over the past few months. HeHe‘s book Man Made Clouds was...
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Pixelache 2016: Architectures for the Other Side
Honey combs and instructions. Melliferopolis Workshop Architectures for the Other Side at Pixelache Festival 20-22nd September. Photo Ulla Taipale One of the six locations for The Other Side audio...
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Anthropocene, wars and greed. This must be the World Press Photo contest
David Guttenfelder, North Korea: Life in the Cult of Kim Each year, i try and find a moment to browse through the dozens and dozens of winning images from the World Press Photo competition. Since...
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Pixelache 2016 – Interfaces for Empathy
Otso Lähdeoja and Josué Moreno, IN SITU: Sonic Greenhouse, 2016. Photo: Uupi Tirronen Another year, another brilliant Pixelache Festival in Helsinki! This year’s edition took place mostly inside a...
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Book review – Goodbye iSlave. A Manifesto for Digital Abolition
Goodbye iSlave. A Manifesto for Digital Abolition, by Jack Linchuan Qiu, Assistant Professor at the School of Journalism and Communication at Chinese University of Hong Kong and he is also part of the...
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Drumming, e-drumming, book fights and shock waves in Maribor
Good Luck, Archaeologists! is an exhibition that reflects on the 10 years of OTTO-Prod‘s programme of shows, concerts, art residencies and performance in Maribor. You might have never been to Maribor,...
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Open Fields. Big and small data reinvented by flies, weeds and kisses
Līvija Daudze in collaboration with Valters Grišāns, Handmade, 2016. OPEN FIELDS, RIXC Art Science Festival 2016, opening at the National Library of Latvia. Photo: Kristīne Madjare for Rixc RIXC Art...
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To Flavour Our Tears – A restaurant where insects can feast on us
Image Center for Genomic Gastronomy A few years ago, entomologist discovered that some moths and bees suck the tears from underneath the eyelids of birds and mammals (including humans) while they...
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