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BLACK SWAN DAO: Can blockchain democratise arts commissioning?
So far, blockchain systems have been mostly used in the world of finance or supply chain but they have so much more potential. Over the past few years, artists have been working with blockchains to...
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The Antilibrary: artists’ books and our bizarre future
After almost a month of total silence on the blog, I’m very happy to publish an interview with Oscar Salguero, a researcher, critical designer and independent book curator based in Brooklyn, where he...
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Data Action. Using Data for Public Good
Data Action. Using Data for Public Good, by Sarah Williams, Associate Professor of Technology and Urban Planning at the MIT School of Architecture and Planning. Published by MIT Press. Many books...
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How to prototype the artworld with blockchain
The DAOWO Sessions: Artworld Prototypes, a series of events that took place online over the past few weeks, explored “the possibilities for the future of the artworld with blockchain by investigating...
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A Bestiary of the Anthropocene. Hybrid plants, animals, minerals, fungi and...
A Bestiary of the Anthropocene. Hybrid plants, animals, minerals, fungi and other specimens, edited and introduced by Nicolas Nova & DISNOVATION.ORG, with texts by Geoffrey C. Bowker, Alexandre...
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Using art to study endangered indigenous rituals and music
Sébastien Robert is an artist and researcher whose practice presents a rare combination of visual and sound art, technology, science and ethnographic research. A few years ago, he embarked on a...
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Can technology bring back long-lost nature?
An increasing number of projects claim that they will “bring back”, de-extinct, revive or resurrect long lost animal and plant species. Or at least close versions of them. This scientific movement has...
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Photography Off the Scale: Technologies and Theories of the Mass Image
Photography Off the Scale: Technologies and Theories of the Mass Image, edited by Tomáš Dvořák and Jussi Parikka. Part of the Technicities book series published by Edinburgh University Press. The book...
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UFA – University of African Futures
You often read that the future belongs to Africa. If you think that future equals Western technological ideas of progress and you are a fairly pragmatic observer then indeed Africa is the future. The...
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Augmented Exploitation. AI, Automation and workers who fight back
A review of the book Augmented Exploitation. Artificial Intelligence, Automation and Work, by Phoebe V. Moore and Jamie Woodcock. Published by Pluto Books. Algorithms are now involved in hiring...
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Alex Nathanson: the “poetics of photovoltaics”
Alex Nathanson is one of those rare artists who makes solar power sounds exciting rather than utilitarian. Magical rather than just eco-friendly. Nathanson is a multimedia artist, engineer, educator...
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Richard Mosse: using weapons to photograph ecocide and erosion of human rights
Richard Mosse‘s practice has been described as a prime example of “sensor realism.” He appropriates and subverts equipment designed for surveillance in order to challenge documentary tropes and force...
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Kyriaki Goni. Speculating on climate crisis, interspecies relationships and AI
Throughout her research-based practice, artist Kyriaki Goni constructs stories about machine learning, climate crisis, data sovereignty and the many connections between human and non-human life (both...
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Re:Humanism. Using AI to question anthropocentrism
Two weeks ago, I was in Rome to see the Quadriennale d’arte (entrance is free and that’s the most positive comment I’m prepared to write about the show) and Re:Humanism, an exhibition that explored the...
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The Gulf War monument
In 1990, during the First Gulf War, American, British and other coalition troops arriving in Saudi Arabia on their way to Kuwait had been trained to navigate in the desert as if they were at sea: their...
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Bigger than Myself. Heroic Voices from ex-Yugoslavia
One of the most exciting exhibitions I saw this year (not that I’ve seem many due to you know what) is Bigger than Myself. Heroic Voices from ex-Yugoslavia at the MAXXI, the national museum of...
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Art in the Age of Anxiety
Art in the Age of Anxiety, edited by writer, curator and cultural historian Omar Kholeif. Publisher MIT Press describes the book: Every day we are bombarded by information, misinformation, emotion,...
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Covid-19 might not follow us online but our carbon footprint does
Digital technology has enabled some of us to survive mentally and professionally over these past few pandemic months. We’ve been streaming movies, attending Zoom meetings, sweating through online...
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Interview with Pippin Barr, maker of witty and infuriating video games
If you happen to find yourslef in Limassol, Cyprus, this week, do check out Working towards our own obsolescence, an exhibition I curated with and for the NeMe Arts Centre. The show features the work...
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On the obsolescence of cognitive and creative labour
Back in 2006, I discovered Eric Maillet’s Art Criticism Generator in an exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo. As its name suggests, the work consisted in an automated art critic delivering statements...
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