The organizer of Pixelache, a very peculiar and engaging festival of electronic art and subcultures held in Helsinki and many other cities over the world
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In socialist Poland it was almost impossible to acquire a tractor. Farmers were thus forced to construct their own machines using bits and pieces from whatever machines they could find
Anime movie and paintings starring superheroes, grim warriors and elfish heroines
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3 artists had a peak in the Museum of Technology’s storage facility in Stockholm and tried to position this technological cultural heritage in relation to their own artistic expression
Parr’s photographies show the tasteless and the unpolished, the essence of “english-ness” and the garish effects of mass tourism. Yet, I found more tenderness than bitterness in his work
The photographer presented 2 specific projects: “The Innocents” and “An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar”
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Monday, January 28, 2008 at c-base: electronic gadgets, flexible & washable circuitry and cheap beers.
Bjarke Ingels from BIG about a super harbour visible from the space, buildings shaped like Chinese characters and social housing with premium view on football fields
Production-oriented workshop: how we “tag the world” with new devices and how the digital and the physical world interact, creating new artistic tendencies as well as new kinds of human relations
Kazys Varnelis, Richard Saul Wurman, Charles Renfro from Diller, Scofidio + Renfro and Patrik Schumacher from Zaha Hadid Architects discuss the impact of the new media on cities and architecture
Being aware of the current environmental crisis doesn’t mean being able to comprehend its extent and complexity. A few words with Brooke Singer and Michael Mandiberg
A modern monument to the forgotten workers and their anonymous contribution to supplying the electricity to power modernity.
A visit to the Cloaca retrospective at the Casino de Luxembourg. How works of art can mechanically produce other works of art that some might want to flush down the loo
tweetPad visualizes Twitter feeds in a dynamic fashion. The idea is to not only be on the receiving end of these feeds but to be able to manipulate them; to react and to interact with what we are reading.
Cat Mazza, the founder of microRevolt, develops projects which combine knitting with machines, and digital social networks to investigate and initiate discussion about sweatshop labour.
Meet the hamster that plays cards with the family, the t-shirts that sweats, the singing flower pot and other projects that reflect on the definition of life.
The dark, surreal and sometimes pet-unfriendly fables and parables of Ericailcane are currently on show in Florence, Italy
An exhibition in Paris suggests an alternative way to think about living creatures, questioning their place in our society and proffering ideas about cohabitation that might inspire the world of the future.
When graphic design enters the third dimension and plays with our perception of space
Mapping global migrations in a bid to understand their causes
From Napoleon’s campaign in Russia to teenagers’ heartbreaks. Jose Luis de Vicente tells you all you ever wanted to know about data visualization
Berlin is looking for dorkbot-ers and activists are descending upon the pages of a brit design magazine.
Second part of the report from Ecomedia. The projects presented in the exhibition are founded on progressive ecological models and conceive utopian horizons in the process.
Yes, we had a few injections of Botox. What do you think?
Alessandro Ludovico is a media critic and editor in chief of Neural magazine. He also collaborate on art projects which have toured the world such as Amazon Noir and Google Eat Itself.
Endy campaigns for a more open culture of biological technology, where biological engineering would not have to be confined to the laboratories of high-end industry laboratories.
The exhibition presents artistic projects founded on progressive ecological models. Besides, the show examines the role of art and new media over and above science, technology, and ecoactivism
A Spanish language portal proposes a vote in the US presidential elections for the millions of (il)legal Mexicans who currently live and work in the United States
Rose White’s talks at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin looked at the overlapping issues in the knitting and hacking worlds.
The U.S.-Mexico border: too often its complexities are viewed through the lens of illegal immigration, ignoring a multitude of critical issues such as health, the environment, drug trafficking, free trade, and post-9/11 security
One of the best shows i’ve seen in 2007. You’ve got until Feb. 17 to run to Ghent and enjoy a feast of mechanical pigs, filthy pirates and ketchup-infested cooking-show.
4 curators introduce new emergent talent from Japan while juxtaposing their works alongside influential Japanese artists from the 1960s and 1970s
A low profile (that’s their words) artist group whose work focuses on the research and creation of open-source minor architectures and low-tech modifications of everyday life
Lidy Jacobs‘s fluffy “sex rabbits” are often presented in groups and are interactive. They are attached to the […]
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Natural Architecture, by Alessandro Rocca (Amazon USA and UK). Publisher Princeton Architectural Press says: Natural Architecture presents sixty-six […]
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