Joan Fontcuberta and Pilar Rosado give politicians an orgasm while Zane Cerpina and Stahl Stenslie expose their research on Ecopornography in Digital Arts
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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 Agreement, that cultural space were to cut its energy use by 50%?
If you click around Santamaria’s website and feel like you’re falling down the rabbit hole, that’s part of his plan. He wants you (and the data) to go to places where you’re not supposed to go
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Joana is an artist and a researcher whose work critically explores the way post-capitalist narratives affect the alphabetization of machines, humans and ecosystems. Her main research topics include Internet materiality, surveillance, online tracking, critical interfaces and language
The 11th edition of this festival of unconventional and radical art was anchored into the most banal manifestations of our networked society, one that is made of surveillance, social bullying, aesthetics of power, communication guerrilla and disintegration of the space of free speech and ideas that internet was meant to be
YES! !Mediengruppe Bitnik. Love these guys. I didn’t realize how much at first. I knew several of their works. The parcel for Assange, the architectural bug at HeK in Basel, the bot that shops on the darknet. I just didn’t realize these works were from the same 2 people
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I was going to post this story next month but i just realized that the show closes this weekend already. If you are in Barcelona at the moment, DON’T MISS IT!
Annie Machon is an intelligence expert and author who worked for 6 years as an intelligence officer for MI5, the UK domestic counter-intelligence and security agency. Together with her ex-partner, David Shayler, she resigned in the late 1990s to blow the whistle on the spies’ incompetence and crimes
Have you ever tried to imagine how a fish soup tastes whose recipe is based on publicly available local fishing data? Or what a pizza would be like if it was based on Helsinki’s population mix? Data Cuisine explores food as a means of data expression – or, if you like – edible diagrams
Given my notoriously campy taste in music, you will be relieved to know that i’m going to carefully avoid reviewing the music side of Barcelona’s International Festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Art. What’s left then? Fashion, a bit of advertising and the SonarMàtica exhibition
The German independent filmmaker has been investigating the relationship between technology and information for decades. His talk in Barcelona explored the way blurry, raw images from surveillance and sophisticated computer-generated images are now competing with “the real thing”
LOOP art fair understands the importance of the comfort factor for video art lovers. The fair took place inside the snug rooms of a 4 stars hotel right in the center of Barcelona during 3 afternoons. Videos were displayed on big screens inside bedrooms and some galleries added a smaller screen in the bathroom to show another piece. So here we were all cosying into armchairs, spreading over beds, taking notes in the dark and chatting in the corridors of the hotel
When i met the talented and sexy video artist in Barcelona we discussed forms of control, men desiring to perform the tasks of robots and why video artists shoudln’t be afraid to share their work on you tube
For his video series, War Tourist, Licha traveled to five cities which have recently been through war, deep crisis, natural catastrophe or which are known to be dangerous. There, he hires a professional tourist guide and asks him to organize a guided tour of the worst destruction or the most dangerous zones of the city
Just back from LOOP video art festival and fair in Barcelona. The event is for video art lovers only. So what was a video art sceptic like me doing there? Well, i was busy becoming a convert. I’ll come back with the why and how in a lengthier post. In the meantime, here’s an example of an artwork i discovered (and unsurprisingly liked) at LOOP
A spectacular exhibition currently on view at the CCCB in Barcelona gives an overview of the recent processes of construction and implacable deconstruction that China is undergoing. The contemporary urban design, architecture, landscape and infrastructure of various Chinese cities is analyzed in the light of the country history and culture
El Bòlit, a brand new Contemporary Art Center located in Girona (SP), is still waiting for a proper building, but that doesn’t prevent the center to have strong personality, dauntless attitude and a very promising exhibition programme
Xavier Ribas’s photos explore the phenomenon of entertainment, of leisure, of what people do in their ‘free’ time, showing the extent to which such activities take place in Barcelona’s residual spaces
84 giant pieces that had to be suspended from the tower’s ceiling by a total of 140 cables -some of them as thin as 3 mm- form Splash, a sculpture which freezes in solid form the kinetic properties of water hitting a surface
Some of my favourite artists, activists and architects were in Barcelona for an amazing conference. And where was i that week?
A selection of graphic design studios from Spain
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Mario Klingemann seems like a cheerful guy from Munich but is actually a heavyweight of the Flash-scene and […]
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So there’s this designer called Gori de Palma who paid her models to wear this fancy accessory on […]
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Jens Brand‘s G-Player (Global player) works like a CD-player. But instead of playing CDs, it plays the globe. […]
Drew Hemment created the Futuresonic International Festival in 1995. As AHRC Research Fellow at University of Salford, he […]
Well… when i write Blast Theory, i mean one of its members: Matt Adams (i took some extremely […]
Blast Theory is presenting their latest work, the Day Of The Figurines, at Sonar. The game, set in […]
As i wrote two months ago, i’ve been invited to curate the Digital Art a la Carte section […]
For his diploma project (work in progress) at the University of art & Design Lausanne, Valerio Spoletini decided […]