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Icebergs, Zombies and the Ultra Thin: Architecture and Capitalism in the...
Icebergs, Zombies and the Ultra Thin: Architecture and Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century, by Matthew Soules, associate professor of architecture at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver,...
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Who owns the clouds and the water they contain?
We have dammed, diverted and managed water resources for centuries and yet many regions in the world are still trying to increase access to water supplies. With severe droughts, increasingly erratic...
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Snow cannons and other Alpine beasts
Hundreds of ski resorts across the Alps are now either abandoned or looking with concern at the effects of climate change on their touristic attractiveness: shorter snow season, unreliable snowfalls,...
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SYSTEMS. User or Used?
Over the past year and a half, cultural organisations have deployed efforts and resourcefulness to keep their audiences intellectually and emotionally stimulated. Believe it or not, I’m easily bored...
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The Families of Man. An Italian perspective on contemporary society
A few weeks ago, I took the train to Aosta. I had walked through the small Alpine city once before. That was many many years ago. It was cold, tourists were eating all sorts of dried meat and I was on...
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Radical Gaming – Immersion. Simulation. Subversion
Video games regularly hit the news for a number of reasons. Some of them justified. Other less so. Games are accused of corrupting young people, causing spikes of violence, hosting a culture of sexism...
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An artistic toolkit for the apocalypse
Public announcement! Another semester, another online class with the School of Machines, Making & Make-Believe. After 2 editions of Art & Animals in the Age of CRISPR, Cloning and Cellular...
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Métaboles. On the need to decolonize nature
The drastic drop in biodiversity. The deforestation in the Amazon and the acidification of the oceans, the melting glaciers and the microplastics inside babies, the sea level rises and the reduced...
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Radicalization Pipeline
I discovered Theo Triantafyllidis‘ work while reading my favourite game art blog but I experienced it for the first time a couple of weeks ago at the opening of Radical Gaming at HEK (House of...
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INFORMATION (Today): Data diktats and human complacency
The generation, handling, propagation and control of information orchestrate our lives. For better or worse. Digital technology has granted us wider access to knowledge and to all kinds of services...
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Foto/Industria. The political, technological and cultural dimensions of food
The exciting city of Bologna and a biennial dedicated to photography on Industry and Work. Say no more, I’m in! This year’s edition of the Foto/Industria biennial explores the food industry and its...
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Book review: Great Adaptations. In the shadow of a climate crisis
Great Adaptations. In the shadow of a climate crisis, by Morgan Phillips, co-director of the charity The Glacier Trust, an NGO that works towards climate change adaptation in Nepal. The book was...
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The Ends of Everythings. Mental strategies to deal with the Apocalypse
Far from being the sole appanage of religious narratives, the concept of the Apocalypse has been adopted by mainstream culture. In 1995 already, philosopher and semiotician Umberto Eco said: «Everyone...
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GoldenNFT. Freedom of Movement is a Capitalist Right
If you are from a non-European state, own a small fortune and wish to live in the EU, you can purchase the right to do so thanks to the “golden visa” schemes. In many cases, it won’t matter much...
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Post-Capital. Art and the Economics of the Digital Age
In 1993, a management professor and sociologist called Peter Drucker published Post-Capitalist Society. The book predicted that the impact of information technology on the labour market would be so...
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Whistleblowing for Change. Exposing Systems of Power & Injustice
Whistleblowing for Change. Exposing Systems of Power & Injustice, edited by Tatiana Bazzichelli, from the Disruption Network Lab. Publisher Transcript Verlag writes: The courageous acts of...
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Who said romance was dead? 3 AM Classics
Using traditional crafts to comment on digital phenomena is always going to get everyone’s attention. Combining the two in a meaningful and pertinent way is much harder though. Éva Ostrowska achieved...
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An exhibition about labor: can we still want it all?
Back in 1971, Nanni Balestrini wrote about the struggles of the Italian working class and the conflicts that took place in the FIAT car factory in Turin. The title of his book was Vogliamo tutto (We...
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Device_art festival of art, robotics and new technologies
The seventh edition of Device_art festival of art, robotics and new technologies closed a few weeks ago at the Museum of Contemporary art in Zagreb. Branimir Štivić, B E L L O W S, 2021. Photo by Vanja...
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THE GREAT OFFSHORE
THE GREAT OFFSHORE. Art, argent, souveraineté, gouvernance, colonialisme, edited by the RYBN collective. With contributions by Wilfried Bartoli, James Bridle, Ewen Chardronnet & Bureau d’études,...
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