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Book review: The Story of Life in 10 1/2 Species
The Story of Life in 10 1/2 Species, by author, illustrator and photographer Marianne Taylor, must be the most interesting, beautifully designed and enlightening book about biology I’ve ever read....
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POST GROWTH. Ideas and toolkit for a world in crisis
De-growth is a term most people find unpalatable. If not alarming. We were brought up with the idea that relentless growth is the only economic force that matters. Growth, we’ve been told, means...
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AI in the Wild. Sustainability in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
AI in the Wild. Sustainability in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, by Peter Dauvergne, author, environmentalist and Professor of International Relations at the University of British Columbia. MIT...
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WhiteFeather Hunter, “The Witch in the Lab Coat”
The easiest way to introduce WhiteFeather Hunter is to write that she is a multiple-award winning artist. Adding that she is a bioartist and a scholar wouldn’t still quite cover her practice. It’s more...
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The Cost of Free Shipping. Amazon in the Global Economy
The Cost of Free Shipping. Amazon in the Global Economy, edited by Jake Alimahomed-Wilson and Ellen Reese. Publisher Pluto writes: ‘One-click’ instant consumerism and its immense variety of products...
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UNINVITED. A “horror experience by and for machines”
On 31 October, the Furtherfield Gallery in London launched an exhibition centered around “the world’s first horror experience by and for machines”. In true horror movie style, a pandemic is keeping the...
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AMBIVALENCES #1: A History of Ecological Art
The MAINTENANT Festival in Rennes is probably going to be my favourite digital art event of 2020. First, because it’s been one of the very very few cultural festivals I attended physically this year....
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Ambivalence, part 2: On the uneasy relationship between digital art and the...
With considerable delay and only pitiful excuses to justify it, here’s the second part of the notes I scribbled down during the conference AMBIVALENCES #1 which took place in early October in Rennes in...
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Taking data packets for a ride. An interview with Mario Santamaria
I can’t remember how I stumbled upon Mario Santamaria‘s collection of blobs and splotches. Shapeless and also probably clueless, the little blimps are representations of the internet as they are drawn...
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The Women of Science Tarot
Women of Science Tarot by Massive Science. The MIT Press summary: The Women of Science Tarot Deck is a card game that helps us tell stories about our future based on principles of science. Each major...
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What does outer space sound like in your country?
Deep space is a vacuum, it doesn’t carry sound waves as air and water do. With no medium to travel through, outer space remains (mostly) silent. Except of course in the universe of film and television!...
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Ambivalence, part 3: the necessary dialogue between art and environmental...
3rd and final part of my report from the conference AMBIVALENCES #1 which took place in early October in Rennes in the framework of the Maintenant digital art festival. Part 1 outlined Bénédicte...
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Bank Job: debt, Big Bang and banknotes
Bank Job, a book by Hilary Powell and Daniel Edelstyn. Chelsea Green Publishing describes the book: Art hacks life when two filmmakers launch a project to cancel more than £1m of high-interest debt...
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Upcoming online classes: Art & politics for plants
Public announcement! Mathieu Asselin, Monsanto. A Photographic Investigation, 2013 Charlotte Jarvis, Blighted by Kenning, 2011 Next month, I’ll be giving online classes titled Art & Politics for...
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How to Blow Up a Pipeline. Learning to Fight in a World on Fire
How to Blow Up a Pipeline. Learning to Fight in a World on Fire, by Andreas Malm, an associate professor of human ecology from Lund University, Sweden. Publisher Verso Books writes: The science on...
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Unseen Stars. What if satellites were art objects?
Do you remember when Trevor Paglen, with the help of the Nevada Museum of Art and NASA, launched an inflatable reflective sculpture into space as a temporary satellite? The project had the objective of...
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Two Sides of the Border. The region that Mexico and the US share
Two Sides of the Border. Reimagining the Region, edited by architect Tatiana Bilbao, designer Nile Greenberg, designer and curator Ayesha S. Ghosh, in collaboration with Yale School of Architecture....
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Using AI to question the power structures of Western museums. Interview with...
For years, Egypt has been trying to convince European museums to return Egyptian antiquities that left their country illegally. One of the most famous disputed artifact is the bust of 14th-century BCE...
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Maggie Kane: On the role of creativity when helping marginalised communities...
Maggie Kane is an academic, a self-learner, an activist and an artist. She works in user experience design, illustration, technology accessibility, interaction design but you can also meet her at...
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Imperialist narratives around climate. From the 15th to the 20th Century
Warning: the book I’m about to review is in French and yes, I misled you when i gave an english title to this post. Apologies for that but I found the research of its authors so interesting, I wanted...
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