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Nonument, the hidden, abandoned and forgotten monuments of the 20th century...
Last month, i had the chance to attend the Nonument Symposium dedicated to hidden, abandoned and forgotten monuments of the 20th century at CAMP, Prague’s Centre for Architecture and Metropolitan...
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Nonument symposium part 2: How artists deal with old monuments that polarize...
Second part of an overview of the Nonument Symposium dedicated to hidden, abandoned and forgotten monuments of the 20th century which took place last June at CAMP, Prague’s Centre for Architecture and...
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This Is Not an Atlas. A Global Collection of Counter-Cartographies
This Is Not an Atlas. A Global Collection of Counter-Cartographies, edited by kollektiv orangotango+. Published by transcript Verlag. “More indigenous territory has been claimed by maps than by guns....
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Turning human waste into beer and fruit trees
Ayumi Matsuzaka‘s work is both magical and literally down to earth. It uses the most mundane material you can think of but it also has the potential to have a big impact on food production and on the...
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Street Dreams. How Hiphop took over Fashion
While in Rotterdam for the Malware exhibition, i crossed the Museum Park and visited Street Dreams. How Hiphop took over Fashion at Kunsthal Rotterdam. Christopher Wallace (Biggie) & Sean Combs...
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A Dictionary of the American Avant-Gardes
A Dictionary of the American Avant-Gardes, by author and artist Richard Kostelanetz. On amazon USA and UK. Publisher Routledge writes: For this American edition of his legendary arts dictionary of...
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Dance of Urgency. Political power on the dance floor
“How do the Rave-o-lution of 12 March 2018 in front of the Georgian Parliament in Tbilisi and anti-fascist protests in Berlin relate to ancient Dionysian rituals, and why does the soundtrack to these...
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Lynn Hershman Leeson. Genetics and biopolitics
Lynn Hershman Leeson. Anti-Bodies, with texts by geneticist and molecular engineer George Church, Curator of media arts Rudolf Frieling, biomedical researcher Thomas Huber and Sabine Himmelsbach, the...
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A collection of pre-9/11 memorabilia, meditation with a bit of Anthropocene...
Already in its sixth edition, the Fotopub festival invaded once again a series of mostly disused spaces in Novo Mesto: a crumbling hotel, a school swimming pool left empty by the Summer holiday, a...
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Danilo Milovanović: acts of resistance to the alienation of public space
As promised earlier this week, here’s a few notes about Danilo Milovanović, a super talented artist whose work i discovered at the Fotopub, the festival of young art and “unconventional curatorial...
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Can you design a website on a (very) limited energy budget? An interview with...
What happens to design when it has to evolve from a world where designers do wonders with (seemingly) unlimited resources and energy to a world where their creativity can only rely on limited ones?...
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János Brückner. Making visible the influence of politics on culture
I don’t have the time to write about many of the interesting artworks i discover over conversations or even through my visits to galleries, festivals and museums. So i put them in a digital drawer that...
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Bas van de Poel. Interview with a connoisseur of computer villainy
Computer viruses are nefarious, chilling and increasingly sophisticated. The way their makers constantly reinvent the tactics that will bypass all security measures and infect our privacy, businesses...
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Linguistic capitalism. Has Google become an all powerful usurer of language?
Google Ads (formerly AdWords) is an advertising platform that allows businesses to bid on the keywords they are interested in. The higher your bid, the more prominent your clickable ad on the search...
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Entangle. Contemporary art and physics
Entangle. Physics and the Artistic Imagination, a book edited by Ariane Koek, with essays by science writer Philip Ball, Ariane Koek, art historian Gavin Parkinson, physicist Carlo Rovelli, curator and...
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Paul Destieu. Like a trip inside the brain of a drum player
A couple of weeks ago i took the train to Marseille to see the first monographic exhibition of works by Paul Destieu at the Galerie des Grands Bains Douches de la Plaine. The French artist has an...
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A guided tour of Dublin’s physical Internet infrastructure
Microsoft, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, Paypal, Google, LinkedIn, etc. Each of these tech companies has chosen to install its European headquarters or at least major offices in Dublin. The U.S. giants,...
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Diagrams of Power: Visualizing, Mapping, and Performing Resistance
Diagrams of Power: Visualizing, Mapping, and Performing Resistance, edited by Patricio Dávila. Onomatopee describes the book: We draw diagrams to help us think, communicate and put forth what we think...
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Julian Charrière. The world without us
One of the most visually seducing exhibitions i visited this year was All We Ever Wanted Was Everything and Everywhere, Julian Charrière‘s solo at MAMbo, Bologna’s Modern Art Museum. Julian Charrière,...
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Tales from the Crust. Portraits of extractive violence and resistance
During a brief encounter with London two weeks ago, i visited as many exhibitions as i could. Only one made me want to write a review. Ignacio Acosta, Demonstration outside Antofagasta PLC Annual...
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