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Lost Utopias, documenting the remains of World’s Fair sites
Lost Utopias. Photographs by Jade Doskow, with essays by Richard Pare and Jennifer Minner & an interview of Doskow by Vladimir Belogolovsky. On amazon UK and USA. Black Dog Publishing writes: Since...
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Inheritance, a precious heirloom made of gold and radioactive stones
Erich Berger and Mari Keto, INHERITANCE, 2016 If there’s one exhibition i’m dying to see at the moment, it’s Perpetual Uncertainty / Contemporary Art in the Nuclear Anthropocene at Bildmuseet in Umeå....
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Magazines to make you forget that we’ve just entered the Dark Age: The...
Police officers celebrating an evangelical cult leaded by the commander of the military police battalion of Belo Horizonte during the Youth & Police project. Photo by Susana Durão, via The...
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Heavy Metal Detector, an interview with Steve Maher
Steve Maher, Heavy Metal Detector. Photo courtesy of Minna Tarka – M-Cult Steve Maher, Heavy Metal Detector While clicking around the other day, I discovered a rather puzzling association of words:...
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I’m just back from a short trip to Dublin where i visited Design and Violence at the Science Gallery. I’ve LOTS to tell you about the exhibition. It’s dense, brilliant and sometimes also a bit...
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Design My Privacy. 8 Principles for Better Privacy Design
Design My Privacy. 8 Principles for Better Privacy Design, by Tijmen Schep. With foreword by Mieke Gerritzen, Director of MOTI, the Museum of the Image in Breda. On amazon usa and uk. BIS Publishers...
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The artist with a super-computing mind
Sunday’s Crash, 2005 George Widener, Friday Disasters George Widener, Titanic, 2007. Image Henry Boxer Gallery The Art et Marges museum in Brussels has spent the past 25 years showing the work of...
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Design and Violence. Part 1: ambiguous violence
Gregory Green, Untitled (2 Remote-Controlled Gas Bombs), 2005. At Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin Zip Gun, at Science Gallery Dublin Sako, Green Bullets at Science Gallery Dublin One of the...
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Design and Violence. Part 2: violence where you wouldn’t expect it
Previously: Design and Violence. Part 1: ambiguous violence. DESIGN AND VIOLENCE at Science Gallery Dublin (trailer) Violence, in particular, permeates everything around us, as one of the central...
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Predictive Art Bot. A call for artworks that interpret AI-generated concepts
There’s a weird account on Twitter. Its author sounds like someone who’s desperately looking for a cyberpunk scenario, trying to impress its tutors of media art with a ‘subversive’ idea for a...
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Ecologies of Power: Counter Mapping the Logistical Landscapes and Military...
Ecologies of Power: Counter Mapping the Logistical Landscapes and Military Geographies of the U.S. Department of Defense, by landscape architect and urbanist Pierre Bélanger and doctoral student in...
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HYBRID MATTERs: The urks lurking beneath our feet
The HYBRID MATTERs symposium, which was organized by the Bioartsociety and took place at the University of the Arts in Helsinki a couple of weeks ago, investigated the intentional and unintentional...
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Unthanksgiving and the occupation of Alcatraz by American Natives
One post about two important stories: a series of excellent webinars dedicated to art&activism and a few words about the origins of Unthanksgiving Day! John Trudell, a Sioux poet and activist,...
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Drawing the Line: Maps that shaped the 20th century
Photo: The British Library The British Library in London is currently running one of its typically satisfying exhibitions where you learn a lot, discover exquisite artifacts and exit questioning what...
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The Christmas tree, your typical postnatural organism
Laura Beloff and Jonas Jørgensen, The Condition, 2016. Photo by Anna Autio The Condition might look like a standard (media) art installation but don’t let its playful appearance fool you. The deeper...
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Albedo Dreams. Experiments in DIY climate manipulation
Mari Keski-Korsu, Albedo Logger (part of Albedo Dreams) Albedo is the measure of the “whiteness” of a surface and its ability to reflect the sunlight. When applied to the Earth, the albedo effect is a...
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The Occult, Witchcraft & Magic. An Illustrated History
The Occult, Witchcraft & Magic. An Illustrated History, by art historian Christopher Dell. It’s on amazon USA and UK. Publisher Thames & Hudson writes: Our belief in some form of magic runs...
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HYBRID MATTERs exhibition: when biological and technological entities escape...
Exhibition opening. Photo by Anna Autio Exhibition opening. Photo by Anna Autio The focus of the Nordic art&science network program HYBRID MATTERs is the hybrid ecology that emerges when our...
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13th. Repackaging slavery
13TH | Official Trailer A couple of days ago, film director Lucy Walker published a short list of documentaries to unleash the activist in you. I thought i’d make my way through the list. Starting...
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Unauthorized images: when absurd gag laws call for absurd (but witty) artworks
Daniel Mayrit, Authorized Images Daniel Mayrit, Authorized Images Daniel Mayrit, Authorized Images One of the benefits of being a citizen with a cheap camera phone is that it is possible to record...
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