Interview with a multimedia artist, engineer, educator and designer whose practice focuses on the practical and experimental applications of sustainable energy technologies, particularly photovoltaic solar power
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The Antilibrary looks closely at artists’ books in order to identify atypical trends and future attitudes. Its material of choice tends to be very speculative, decidedly science-inspired, slightly bizarre and never without a touch of humour
I never thought i’d ever read a dictionary from A to Z but this one is witty, original and wonderfully opinionated. Plus it’s the abridged version
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Navine G. Khan-Dossos‘ painting series Expanding and Remaining is looking at the Dabiq magazine under a whole new perspective. Eschewing the indoctrinating articles and apocalyptic illustrations, the artist stripped back the pages of their content and laid bare the main graphic composition of its layout
Ellie Irons is one of those rare artists whose work opens your eyes to what is just under your nose but remains unnoticed. Some artists bring the spotlight on data collecting, others on corruption, corporate malpractice, or land grabbing. Ellie forces us to consider the wild and often reviled urban ecology that sprouts all around us. She uses galleries to provide asylum to wild and invasive plant species, extracts the pigments from local weeds to paint their map-like portraits, photographs the vigorous life growing inside vacant lots, and is actively collecting the seeds of the most humble but robust plants that mirror population growth and flux in globalized cities
In Prager’s part film noir, part fashion shoot work, heroines wear impeccable make-up, pose as if they were in a Hitchcock movie, breathe through an atmosphere worthy of David Lynch, and are submitted to ordeals inspired by the images of crime photographers Weegee and Enrique Metinides. The stories might take place in Hollywood-like settings but they promise to never end on a happy note
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In the coming weeks, i’m going to cure my nostalgia for Pictoplasma with a series of posts focusing on several character designers/artists. As you will see, they are quite different from each other.
I’ll kick off the series with Joshua Ben Longo. I can’t remember having smiled so much while reading an interview i was about to post on the blog
Following in the footsteps of a Marco Polo-esque spice trade, an expedition led by artist Jon Cohrs traveled by canoe past massive cargo ships and factories in search of the numerous artificial flavoring factories of New Jersey, the flavoring capital of the U.S.
Wafaa Bilal’s latest project addresses the issue of the invisibility of Iraqi civilian deaths during the war. The artist will submit his body to a 24-hour live performance. His back will be tattooed with a borderless map of Iraq covered with one dot for each Iraqi and American casualty near the cities where they fell
New York-based Lebanese artist Walid Raad has been working as The Atlas Group for the past 14 years. His new work critically reflects on the the recent emergence of a new infrastructure for the visual arts in the Arab world
All logic and circuitry is pre-engineered, so you can play with electronics without knowing electronics. Tiny magnets act as connectors and enforce polarity, so you can’t put things in the wrong way. And all the schematics will be shared under an opensource license so you can download, upload, suggest new bits and hopefully see them come to life
Last Thursday was my merry day walking around Chelsea art galleries. Here’s a tiny selection of what i saw
One always has a good reason to take the L train from Manhattan to Brooklyn. I give you two of them, the first is an exhibition that explores Brooklyn’s immigrant communities, the other is a show dedicated to Ward Shelley’s time-line drawings
Broadcast explores the ways in which artists since the late 1960s have engaged, critiqued, and inserted themselves into official channels of broadcast television and radio. Hurry up! the show closes on May 2nd
A sculpture garden of everyday objects deprogrammed of their original function, embedded with new intelligence and transformed into surrealist and surprising readymades.
Gosh! Was it hot that day! That didn’t prevent Lucas to hide inside a cabinet waiting for passersby to roll him home, Jenny walked around in black jacket monitoring wifi signals and Gerry morsed around the neighbourhood
Little kids frolicking on rice paper, porn images getting a needlework treatment and Chechnya Women’s parachute jumping
The International Center of Photography had an exhibition about Bill Wood, a commercial photographer in Fort Worth, Texas, whose negatives were bought by Diane Keaton
13 Japanese artists explore themes such as the tension between individual expression and collective identity in contemporary Japan, the relationship of the adult to the child and the fight between human culture and nature
Peter Thaler & Lars Denicke started to get interested in characters ten years ago. They were fascinated by the very anti-Pixar essence of these characters: they have no background, no purpose nor story to tell. Yet, they have a soul and a clear personality, they manage to communicate no matter the country where they are shown. Demonstration
No ars for me. Instead i’ll be covering the Pictoplasma conference and screenings in New York and the Media City biennale in Seoul. Any tips about Seoul is more than welcome
Where i discover the gloomy sublime world of Anthony Pontius and get to see yet another exhibition of Tom Sachs and get to loose some of my enthusiasm about his work
Native American girls attacked by spaceships, spaceships assaulted by cavemen, textile carcasses, military equipments, and cargo a gogo
A traveling exhibition featuring thirteen recent artworks that use private information as raw material and subject matter
When Japan attacked the U.S. in the Pacific, every Japanese American family, most of them American citizens, was thought of as suspect, spies and dangers to the U.S. 120,000 people were sent to one of the many camps to spend the war years
Medical robots and mannequins humanized into subjects by the personnel charged with their care. They name them, dress them in holiday attire and construct a narrative through their care
Everything is cute in Murakami’s world, even the handbag store, the atomic mushroom, the Persian monk and the eerie robot with a tiny penis
50s pulp fiction-style images as a way to exposes the insecurities and fears of a society struggling to come to terms with its past and its present
Get a free pass to Mediabistro Circus and send your proposals for the upcoming Conflux festival
A robot is dreaming, others are struggling to make a decision, an elevator appears to be self-aware and a vintage radio relentlessly searches for God. Welcome to the world of Fernando Orellana
Traditional craft sexed up with activism, celeebrity mugshots, politics and virus. On view through Arpil 27 at the MAD in New York
Cute and cruel, the best solo show i’ve seen in New York this week
Chinese Contemporary had a group show with many of the big names of Chinese young art world: Wang […]
Wandering around Brooklyn at the search of a Theft and Rescue puppet to adopt, i stumbled upon a […]
The day had not started well. I was on the plane, laptop on my knees waiting for the […]