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Perpetual Uncertainty. Inhabiting the atomic age
Susan Schuppli, Trace Evidence (video still), 2016. ©-Polly-Yassin Nuclear cultures, its promises, dangers and dilemmas, are never far away from media headlines. Sometimes the stories are terrifying...
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Underwater sound pollution and jellyfish communication. An interview with...
Robertina Šebjanič, Aquatocene / Subaquatic Quest for Serenity Deep Blue, field work and research at Institute of Marine science and technologies, Izmir, Turkey Robertina Šebjanič is one of those rare...
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RAF. No Evidence / Kein Beweis: From criminal to artistic investigation
RAF. No Evidence / Kein Beweis, by photographer Arwed Messmer. On amazon US and UK. Publisher Hatje Cantz writes: Numerous accounts of the RAF and the German Autumn in 1977 have been chronicled over...
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Ecovention Europe: Art to Transform Ecologies, 1957-2017 (part 1)
Paul Chaney, Breast Plough’o’metric, 2014. Photo via THG (Thelma Hulbert Gallery) Scientist, curator and philosopher Sue Spaid coined the term ‘Ecovention’ in 1999 and went on to illustrate its...
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Ecovention Europe: Art to Transform Ecologies, 1957-2017 (part 2)
As promised, here’s a follow-up of Monday’s first foray into Ecovention Europe: Art to Transform Ecologies, 1957-2017 which you can currently visit at De Domijnen in Sittard (NL). The exhibition...
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How artists and designers are “materialising the Internet”
Joshua Citarella & Brad Troemel, Ultraviolet Production House, 2015 – ongoing. Photo by Hanneke Wetzer Morehshin Allahyari & Daniel Rourke, The 3D Additivist Cookbook, 2016. Photo by Hanneke...
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Janez Janša, Janez Janša and Janez Janša explore the “collateral effects” and...
Janez Janša® at +MSUM. Photo: Dejan Habicht / Moderna galerija In 2007, three artists officially changed their names and adopted the one of Janez Janša, a very powerful, right-wing and generally...
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Artists Re:Thinking the Blockchain
Artists Re:Thinking the Blockchain, edited by Ruth Catlow, Marc Garrett, Nathan Jones and Sam Skinner. On amazon USA and UK. Publisher Liverpool University Press writes: The blockchain is widely...
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Pazugoo, the 3D printed evil spirits of nuclear waste storage
Speculative Demonology as Deep Geological Repository Marking Strategy, 2016. 3D-additive design and printing workshop with invited guests, Bildmuseet, Umea, Sweden, 8th-10th November 2016 Part of...
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Proper and Improper Names: Identity in the Information Society
Janez Jansa, director of Aksioma introducing Proper and Improper Names. Identity in the Information Society. Photo: Miha Fras / Aksioma Marco Deseriis at Proper and Improper Names. Identity in the...
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DocLab exhibition asks “Are robots imitating us or are we imitating robots?”
DocLab Expo: Uncharted Rituals. Exhibition view in de Brakke Grond, part of the International Documentary Film festival Amsterdam. Photo Nichon Glerum Jonathan Harris exhibition in de Brakke Grond,...
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Smart guide for connected objects, activism on the dance floor, cooking with...
The DocLab Interactive Conference closed at De Brakke Grond in Amsterdam on Sunday 19th of November. An integral part of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), DocLab looks at...
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IDFA DocLab: my favourite interactive documentaries
Over the course of its 10-ish years of existence, the IDFA DocLab festival has been gaily exploring the narrative potentials of augmented reality, virtual reality, interactive documentaries and...
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Using respiration to mine crypto-currencies
Max Dovey, Breath (BRH), 2017 Max Dovey is an artist, researcher and lecturer whose performances explore how the human experience is affected by data and algorithms. His works include a bar which...
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Exploitation Forensics. Interview with Vladan Joler
Vladan Joler and Kate Crawford, Anatomy of an AI system (detail) If you find yourself in Ljubljana this week, don’t miss SHARE Lab. Exploitation Forensics at Aksioma. The exhibition presents maps and...
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Public Space? Lost and Found
Public Space? Lost and Found, edited by Gediminas Urbonas, Ann Lui and Lucas Freeman. On amazon USA and UK. Publisher MIT Press writes: “Public space” is a potent and contentious topic among artists,...
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Gambiologia magazine: “The gambiarra movement”
My recommendation for anyone who’s looking for something smart, exciting and FREE* to read during the coming Winter break: Facta Revista de Gambiologia #4 – Gambiologia magazine – “Gambiarra em...
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Lyon Biennale. Floating Worlds: an ambivalent review
Pratchaya Phinthong; Damián Ortega; Marco Godinho; Nairy Baghramian. ©Blaise Adilon Apichatpong Weerasethakul, The Vapor of Melancholy, 2014. Courtesy Kick the Machine Films, Bangkok et kurimanzutto,...
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SOS Brutalism. A Global Survey
SOS Brutalism. A Global Survey, edited by Oliver Elser, Philip Kurz and Peter Cachola Schmal. On amazon UK. Publisher Park Books writes: A global survey of brutalist architecture of the 1950s, 1960s...
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Artissima 2017: A quick run through some of my favourite photo works
My usual long overdue review of the Artissima art fair which took place in Turin back in early November 2017. Artissima 2017. Photo: © Perottino-Alfero-Bottallo-Formica Artissima 2017. Photo: ©...
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