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Painting on and painting off ISIS propaganda
Navine G. Khan-Dossos, Expanding and Remaining Very few of us would have heard of Dabiq, a town of over 3000 inhabitants in northern Syria, were it not for the magazine of the same name published by...
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Culture Jamming. Activism and the Art of Cultural Resistance
Culture Jamming. Activism and the Art of Cultural Resistance, edited by Associate Professor of Communication Studies Marilyn DeLaure and author Moritz Fink. With a foreword by cultural critic Mark...
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Critical investigation into the politics of the interface. An interview with...
Joana Moll, AZ: move and get shot, 2012-2014 Joana Moll is a young artist and researcher whose work critically explores the way post-capitalist narratives affect the alphabetization of machines,...
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Presumed Guilty: stereotypes of female criminals
Robert Capa, Just after the liberation of the town, a French woman who had a baby with a German soldier was punished by having her head shaved, Chartres, France, 18 August 1944 Carl Mydans, A tondue,...
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Upcoming online classes: A mapping of socially-engaged creative practices
This is a public service announcement! The USS Iowa firing during target exercises near Vieques, Puerto Rico, 1984. Photo: Phan J. Alan Elliott. Via wikipedia In May, i will be giving online classes at...
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Airports: forerunners of a new world or microcosms of their own?
Jonathan Monk, Waiting for Famous People (Marcel Duchamp), 1997. Photo: Galleri Nicolai Wallner Aéroports / Ville-monde, an exhibition open until 21 May at the Gaîté Lyrique in Paris, invites visitors...
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The Edge of the Earth. Climate Change in Photography and Video
The Edge of the Earth. Climate Change in Photography and Video. Critical essays by author and historian TJ Demos and curator Bénédicte Ramade. Introduction by Director of Ryerson Image Centre Paul...
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What if you could listen in on the chemical communication within your body?
Mike Thompson, Susana Cámara Leret and Dave Young, The Rhythm of Life, 2017. Exhibition view at STRP Biënnale 2017 in Eindhoven. Photo: Hanneke Wetzer for STRP We all glow. All living cells of...
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Valerio Spada. Photographing the invisible mafia
Valerio Spada, Serena Uccello and Marzia Sabella at Camera in Turin Last Thursday i spent the evening at the Camera photo center in Turin for a round table that bore the very intriguing title...
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The Seed Journey to preserve plant genetic diversity. An interview with Amy...
Seed varieties have declined significantly since the beginning of time. First, with plant domestication and now, increasingly, through homogenization, industrialisation, privatization and...
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Teds and clerics
Chris Steele-Perkins, Italy. Rome. Feburary 2009. Vatican. The Clericus Cup. Matches played at Oratorio St Pietro. Goal keeper for Redemptoris Mater. The Clericus Cup is a Vatican-backed football...
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The Dead Minitel Orchestra
Graffiti Research Lab France, The Dead Minitel Orchestra Graffiti Research Lab France, The Dead Minitel Orchestra Graffiti Research Lab France, The Dead Minitel Orchestra Graffiti Research Lab France,...
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8 things i’ve learnt during the last edition of the STRP biennale
Conference for the Curious. Photo © Blickfänger Steve Maher, Heavy Metal Detector. Photo: © Boudewijn Bollmann Outside the historic Philips Klokgebouw where the biennale unfolds A few weeks ago, i...
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The Ascent: dynamics and geometries of the workplace
Ilona Gaynor, The Ascent. Exhibition view at the International Biennial of Design in Saint Etienne. Photo: Ilona Gaynor Ilona Gaynor, The Ascent. Exhibition view at the International Biennial of...
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Breeding a Planetary Community Chicken
Koen Vanmechelen, Planetary Community Chicken project (hatched chicks in the hanging cage.) Photo courtesy of Goele Schoofs Koen Vanmechelen, Planetary Community Chicken project, Socle du Monde...
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Interview with James Bridle about human deskilling and machine understanding
James Bridle, Untitled (Autonomous Trap 001) Tesla customers who want to take advantage of its cars AutoPilot mode are required to agree that the system is in a “public beta phase”. They are also...
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Book review: Forensic Architecture. Violence at the Threshold of Detectability
Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability, by Eyal Weizman, founder of Forensic Architecture, founding member of the architectural collective DAAR in Beit Sahour/Palestine,...
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Medusa FPS, the game that subverts the logic and goals of the FPS genre
Karolina Sobecka, Medusa FPS (caption from the video game) The military is increasingly using smart robotic weapon systems that distribute agency between a team of men, an algorithm and a machine....
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Economia, a festival on economy without the economists
Zachary Formwalt, the Three Exchanges trilogy. Photo by Diewke van den Heuvel A couple of weeks ago, Baltan Laboratories invited artists, philosophers, scientists, film makers and members of the...
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Economia festival: short films about finance
Nathaniel Sullivan, Before the Nation Went Bankrupt (still), 2016 Adam Curtis, The Century of the Self. Photo by Diewke van den Heuvel On Monday, i took you on a quick walk through the exhibition of...
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