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Nothing is Lost: Art and Matter in Transformation
The Elementary Treatise on Chemistry, published in 1789 by Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier, is considered to be the first modern chemical textbook. Until then, only alchemists were probing the secrets of...
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Shibboleth. The geopolitics of phonetics
There is an anecdote that, during the rebellion of the Sicilian Vespers in 1282, the inhabitants of Sicily identified the French occupiers who were hiding among the rest of the population by showing...
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Caps Lock – How Capitalism Took Hold of Graphic Design, and how to Escape...
Caps Lock – How Capitalism Took Hold of Graphic Design, and how to Escape from it. Author: designer and researcher Ruben Pater. Publisher: Valiz. Ruben Pater‘s The Politics of Design. A (Not So) Global...
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T Zero: A Roman view on art, science and society
Three Stations for Art-Science, an ambitious exhibition programme at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome, explored the encounter between art, science and society. The project was articulated around 3...
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Role Play: when artists gender-bend and time-travel
An ultra-rich and ultra-bored lady in a fallout shelter, the feminist version of a mythological Phoenician princess, future inhabitants of a detention camp for immigrant teleporters but also avatars,...
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Would you close an art center in the name of the climate emergency?
What would happen if the development, running and all the activities associated with a major art center were guided by an energy budget and not just by a financial one? If, in accordance with the Paris...
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Recording studio for bees and other sound oddities
Félix Blume is a sound artist and sound engineer. His sound pieces, videos, actions and installations make you see the fantastic in the mundane and the poetical in the every day. Over the course of his...
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Cold Cases. How temperature is used to assert violence on racialised people
When Jussi Parikka, curator together with Daphne Dragona of the exhibition Weather Engines at Onassis Stegi in Athens, introduced Susan Schuppli at the conference that accompanied the exhibition, he...
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Weather Engines. The poetics, politics and technologies of the environment
Weather Engines, which opened at Onassis Stegi and the National Observatory of Athens a couple of weeks ago, is looking at the climate crisis through the prisms of social justice, technology and the...
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Routledge Handbook of Art, Science, and Technology Studies
Routledge Handbook of Art, Science, and Technology Studies, edited By Hannah Star Rogers, Megan K Halpern, Dehlia Hannah and Kathryn de Ridder-Vignone. The book introduces Art, Science and Technology...
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Next Cloud Atelierhaus. An online residency for Marxist oracles, Algorithmic...
In 2021, servus.at, a Linz-based network culture initiative that promotes the use of free open source software for collaborative work, launched a one-month online residency program for digital artists....
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Metaspore, a look into the “biopolitics of the senses”
We are getting increasingly comfortable with the idea of having a community of bacteria living inside and on our bodies. Health experts have convinced us that we need to care for the “friendly”...
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Tiny Mining. Extracting minerals from our own body
While the demand for minerals to produce electronics, clean energy and the infrastructures that support them is skyrocketing, it is getting increasingly difficult, environmentally damaging and...
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The Red Thread: making visible the connections between people at opposite...
In early May, from 8 am until 1.30 pm, anyone entering The Complex art space in Dublin could encounter six industrial sewing machines that appeared to be self-operating. Needles were going up and down,...
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Embracing ticks and other disgusting creatures
The second talk* that particularly impressed me during the Meta.Morf 2022 – Ecophilia conference organised by TEKS in Trondheim a few weeks ago, was Laura Beloff‘s The Dark Side of Evolution; On Ticks....
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Meta.Morf 2022: What does it mean to love nature when many of us doubt that...
What does it mean to be an ecophile, a true lover of nature in an age when most of us struggle to even recognise nature? When landscapes are artificialised, when the distinction between natural and...
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Absolute Beginners: making the basic goods you might need when economies...
In 2017, Tom James collaborated with Alex Hartley to build a geodesic dome from reclaimed materials on the grounds of a country mansion. Then they invited various experts and members of the public to...
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Book review: Body Am I. The New Science of Self-Consciousness
In Body Am I. The New Science of Self-Consciousness, neuroscientist and writer Moheb Costandi examines how the brain generates maps and models of our body, how those maps translate into our conscious...
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Lithium lore and relentless extractivism in the Democratic Republic of the...
An exhibition at Z33 in Hasselt explores the ecological and humanitarian dimensions of the raw materials necessary to sustain our modern, digital and so-called green lifestyle. Alexis Destoop, The...
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Prepper Paradise. Designing for the end of the world
During the Cold War, everyone knew what the apocalypse would look like: a nuclear war or a nuclear accident. Today, the threats are multiple and ubiquitous. TEOTWAWKI (The End of the World As We Know...
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