Marc Böhlen‘s website has provided me with some amazing stories ever since i started blogging: from the Open […]
Category Archive: activism
Whitney Independent Study Program is setting up Image War, an exhibition of artistic works that remix, transform, or […]
An advanced new technology will keep corporate managers safe even when climate change makes their life “impossible.” Global […]
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When in Paris i fell in love with the Palais de Tokyo. Yummy food at the bar, great […]
Joseph DeLappe has developed dead-in-iraq as an online gaming performance/protest. The artist entered the online US Army recruiting […]
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This week, WHITE BOX’s gallery space has become a creative asylum where 10 successful applicants (from Mexico, Ukraine, […]
The Tactical Ice Cream Unit, a project of the Center for Tactical Magic, distributes ice cream but also […]
(A)Bugs is an interactive ceramic sculpture –at a time when working with ceramics is regarded as “totally lame, […]
(P) LOT, an ongoing project by Michael Rakowitz (of the notorious paraSITE), questions the occupation of public space […]
The 24th issue of Neural is available in english. The cult magazine for new media art and emusic […]
Carried by a twenty foot blimp, Movable Feast / Fête Mobile is an autonomously controlled vehicle that, nevertheless, […]
A bit similar to Harmut Stockter’s Plant Backpack, the EarthMan is a self-contained, self-sustaining bio-environment survival suit featuring […]
Perhaps the best surprise for me so far at the Salone del Mobile was the Ahrend show. They […]
Commenting on the Invisible Coat, Jesse Pearlman Karlsberg to Daniela Kostova‘s Invisible Suits performance. The suits are made […]
Corporate Sabotage, by Kok-Chian Leong, examines the private politics behind the corporate world, an environment where competitiveness turns […]
I’m back in Europe, yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! PORTA2030 is a performative urgency network exercise with PORTA-porters. For NodeLondon, PORTA2030 is […]
The Soil Sampling Shoes are part of a larger project, Gardening Superfund Sites. They attempt to covertly take […]
Wishing to reintroduce Chechnya to an international audience while reacting to the proliferation of international biennales, the Emergency […]
In Detroit, large numbers of buildings and homes have been abandoned and many have been torn down or […]
Judi Werthein has designed a special “crossing trainer” to help illegal immigrants cross the border from Mexico to […]
In the week after 9/11/2001, George Bush Jr attempted to roust world support with his declaration “you’re either […]
Pneumatic Parliament, an installation by Peter Sloterdijk, Gesa Mueller von der Hagen and architect Dierk Jordan (Global Instant […]
Another Spanish project (which isn’t part of the New York show) that intrigued me: the city of Basauri […]
The Million Dollar Blocks project will display maps, diagrams, charts and images of prison populations in various US […]
Italian artists/activists Molleindustria is releasing a new anti-advergame (games that challenge players to rethink their relationship with consumption […]
The Racismomaton is an autonomous computarized cabin that, by means of a computer game, allows passersby to take […]
Right wing groups in France and Belgium have for weeks been handing out pork soup to homeless people […]
be[am], by Marie Sester (see also Access one of her previous works that tracks pursues individuals in public […]
A new project by La Fabricadecosasbonitas (The Factory of Pretty Things) has recently been awarded money as an […]
In the ongoing conflict between the Japanese whaling activities and environmental activists, Greenpeace yesterday pulled off a great […]
Last episode of Laura Baigorri’ essay for GAME as CRITIC as ART. 2.0. (see Part I, II, III […]
Episode IV of the summary/translation of Laura Baigorri’ essay for GAME as CRITIC as ART. 2.0. (see Part […]
Episode III of the summary/translation of Laura Baigorri‘ essay for GAME as CRITIC as ART. 2.0. (see Part […]
GAME as CRITIC as ART. 2.0., part II (see Part I.) Simulated violence to denounce real violence You […]
I’m adding a new category to the blog: ’90s. Dedicated to art works from the 80s and 90s. […]
Global information technologies are producing new territorial principles of order and new logics of space, as well as […]
Dentimundo offers citizens of the U.S., a wealthy country where 42 million people do not have health benefits, […]
Micro Dwellings are low cost movable housing modules that can form different configurations on land, on water and […]
Homeland Security plans to finish a job begun in 1996: building a 14-mile-long wall, 10 to 15 feet […]