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Artissima 2017: Butts, superheroes and flaccid guns
Part 2 of my cursory review of the Artissima art fair which took place in Turin back in early November. Yesterday, i talked photos, today will be a rapid fire of paintings, drawings, installations,...
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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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Inside Private Prisons. An American Dilemma in the Age of Mass Incarceration
Inside Private Prisons. An American Dilemma in the Age of Mass Incarceration, by Lauren-Brooke Eisen. It’s on amazon USA and UK. Publisher Columbia University Press writes: When the tough-on-crime...
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Artists explore the ethical aspects of commercial DNA ancestry testing
Last month, i attended an evening of ethical debates and artistic comments related to ancestry DNA testing, a commercial service offered by competing private companies to individuals who are eager to...
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Palm oil, peatfires, Nutella and the anthropocene
Armin Linke, Fighting fire in the peatland, Kecematan Bataian Kabupaten Rokan Hilir (Sumatra) Indonesia, 2017. Photo: © Armin Linke Although Charles Darwin is usually the only name that springs to...
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Disappearing Legacies: The World as Forest
As i mentioned on Monday, a fabulously perceptive and captivating exhibition titled Verschwindende Vermächtnisse: Die Welt als Wald / Disappearing Legacies: The World as a Forest opened at the...
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Watching You Watching Me. A Photographic Response to Surveillance
If you happen to be in Belgium this week, don’t miss Watching You Watching Me. A Photographic Response to Surveillance, a show at BOZAR which makes it clear that technology has left us with nowhere to...
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Activestills. Photography as Protest in Palestine/Israel
Activestills. Photography as Protest in Palestine/Israel, edited by Vered Maimon, a Senior Lecturer in the Art History Department at Tel Aviv University, and by Shiraz Grinbaum, a curator and photo...
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Photography and its ghostly footprints
If you find yourself in Amsterdam these days, don’t miss the fascinating exhibition Back to the Future at FOAM. I actually wish i could go back and visit it a second time. Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs,...
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Speculative Taxidermy. Natural History, Animal Surfaces, and Art in the...
Speculative Taxidermy. Natural History, Animal Surfaces, and Art in the Anthropocene, by Giovanni Aloi. On amazon UK / USA. Publisher Columbia University Press writes: Taxidermy, once the province of...
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Forensic Fantasies, online scams and the fragilities of IoT. An interview...
Many of you have probably heard of Agbogbloshie, the biggest and most infamous e-waste dump in the world. That’s where most of the “Western” world’s electronics is (illegally) sent to rest and be...
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Algorithms of Oppression. How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
Algorithms of Oppression. How Search Engines Reinforce Racism, by Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble, a co-founder of the Information Ethics & Equity Institute and assistant professor at the faculty of the...
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Tomorrow’s tailor-made cows
Management Polled, Doon just the job. © Maria McKinney Production Graph, Cloondroon Calling (QCD) © Maria McKinney The delicate and colourful sculptures that the bulls above are carrying on their back...
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Book review: Nonhuman Photography
Nonhuman Photography, by Joanna Zylinska, a writer, lecturer, artist, curator and Professor of New Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London. On amazon UK and USA. Publisher MIT...
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Politics of Design: critical positions from FH Potsdam
A much belated review of Politiken des Designs / Politics of Design, an exhibition i saw back in January at Kunstraum Potsdam, a forum for fine arts near Berlin. The exhibition showcased the work of...
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Cellout.me: What does it mean to own someone else’s DNA data?
Jeroen van Loon, Cellout.me, exhibition view at Aksioma Project Space. Photo: Janez Janša / Aksioma Jeroen van Loon, Cellout.me, exhibition view at Aksioma Project Space. Photo: Janez Janša / Aksioma...
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K-9_topology, on the human/ dog co-evolution. An interview with Maja Smrekar
Maja Smrekar, K-9 topology ARTE_mis . Photo: Anze Sekelj and Hana Josic Maja Smrekar has spent the past few years investigating human/dog/wolf co-evolution, co-habitation as well as the possibility to...
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Handbook of Tyranny: a guide to everyday cruelties
Handbook of Tyranny, by Theo Deutinger, an architect, writer, lecturer, illustrator and designer of socio-cultural maps. On amazon UK and USA. Publisher Lars Müller writes: Handbook of Tyranny portrays...
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A bodily experience of man-made earthquakes
Sissel Marie Tonn, The Intimate Earthquake Archive. Installation view STUK. Photo: ©Joeri Thiry, STUK The province of Groningen in The Netherlands has the largest gas field in Europe. Since the early...
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Vapour Meat: a helmet to vape the essence of ‘clean meat’
Animals that fake their appearance to blend in their surrounding and attract their prey, people who fake a delirious state of bliss on social media, girls who prefer fake fur (or ‘fantasy fur’ as...
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