An exhibition in Turin challenged 11 architectural studio to design a prison cell and from then on engage in a reflection about the prison system and its corollaries: the restriction of freedom, human rights, instruments of surveillance and control
The continuous withdrawal of mental health funding has turned jails and prisons across the U.S. into the default mental health facilities
I’ve been covering a few editions of the Interactivos? workshops so far and have usually focused on a couple of my favourite projects. Today however, i thought i’d ask two of the workshop leaders/teachers to give us a broader overview of the workshops, how they evolve, why certain directions are being taken, what the mood is like over these two intense weeks of work, etc.
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The prototype of a portable image recording system based on cheap, disposable multiple cameras positioned along a path. Each camera can be assigned an individual time delay and enable creators to experiment with all kinds of temporal-spatial experimentation
Situated just off Leicester Square in London, The Photographers’ Gallery is launching an annual exhibition presenting the most striking works by visual arts graduates from BA and MA courses across the UK
Part of the pharmaceuticals, chemicals and food we ingest eventually end up in waste water. As treatment plants haven’t been designed to filter them, the content of our medicine cabinets are eventually passed into the water supply. In London, tap water comes from surface water which implies that traces of our medicine can end up in our drinking water. This results in local differences in tap water which reveals potential local city-body ecologies or biotopes
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When no one needs him, the overworked Emergency Exit pictogram takes a well earned break
A project presented at the Royal College of Art graduation show wonders whether a transgenic animal could function as a whole mechanism for external organ replacement and not simply supply the parts. Could humans become parasites and live off another organism’s bodily functions?
Is the grass really greener in your neighbour’s garden?
A group exhibition at the Haunch of Venison in London focuses on images and invocations of landscape which explore contemporary South Africa. As its curator writes, ‘The particular historical trajectory of South Africa and the politics of race and place have left their mark upon the landscape through monuments, structures, maps and borders. These, in turn, have found their way into pictures, often providing the keys to the identification and interpretation of events, legacies and locations.’
Inspired on the first visualization and optical devices from XVIII century, this optical instrument shows an interactive panorama of pollution and trash that surrounds us
The last two themes of the Beijing exhibition are questioning technologically-mediated reality and tackling the issues raised by the network
The bitter-sweet protagonist of the photo festival currently held in Madrid
A toy train chasing sound, a hammer that reveals dormant sounds, a 5 arms turntable, and some wearable sound devices
One of the highlights of PHotoEspaña, this exhibition displays the work of ten photographers who use the genre of topography photography as a medium to go beyond the representation of physical places and reflect on a series of social, historical or political issue.
Through artificial life graphics software, it visualizes the changing reticular self-organization of atoms and molecules. This project gives a visual form to the network as the structural, dynamic, and evolving basis for life
Beijing is the capital of media arts this month. Among the events organized is a show which has been dubbed “the biggest exhibition of new media art in the world.” That’s the kind of superlative that rubs me the wrong way. The exhibition nevertheless turned out to be a wonderful panorama of contemporary media art practice
Artist and taxidermist Reid Peppard asks what would happen if we just ended today.
Descubrimientos is PHotoEspaña Festival’s portfolio review and launching platform for new talents in international photography. This year the exhibition highlighted 70 photographs coming from 42 countries. A selection
The latest installation of Dutch wonder artist Marnix de Nijs spectacularly recreates a visual and dynamic body experience of the city of Florence. Jump on the treadmill and walk through its 3D cobbled streets…
Swedish artist Albin Karlsson works with time and makes beautiful installations which steadily change their environment or themselves in the process.
The gallery asked Santiago Sierra, Alicia Framis, Elmgreen and Dragset and James Casebere to reflect on the issue and be as caustic as ever
Running around Photo Espana in Madrid and encountering serene and luminous portraits of the Mennonite communities
How to export the dynamics of Free Culture and the Copyleft philosophy to general processes of knowledge generation and transmission among citizens. The contents generated are Copyleft, and can be copied, redistributed or modified freely
In Hitchcock’s film, architecture plays a key role. Having worked as a set designer in the ’20s, Hitchcock remained intensely concerned with the art direction of his films. He also made some remarkable single-set films that deal with the way the confines of the set relate to those of the architecture on screen
An augmented reality device to visualize nodes of free access to wi-fi networks in the city but also the intimate links existing between urban space and virtual communication connections
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Swedish physician Gustav Zander’s institute in Stockholm, founded in the late nineteenth century and stocked with his custom-built machines, was the first “gym” in the sense that we know the word today
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
In a project that addresses the problem of future human food production and the ongoing consequences of the breeding, manipulation and mistreatment of plant and animal species, corn seeds are submitted to a new, broad educational curriculum
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
A look at the best of 2007’s photojournalism shows that what makes the news these days is not for the faint-hearted but does our sensibility really deserve to be handled with delicacy?
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
Modernist public spaces are in decline in our cities. The privatisation of the analogue commons has been blamed for this process, victim of a form of capitalism in which markets are understood as strategies for seizing and remaining in power by pressure groups. Freire’s brilliant talk sees beyond the current situation and deals with the reinvention of public spaces, the “hyper-realistic” culture of the network society and the re-birth of the notion of the commons
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
Barking coats, hidden messages in the tablecloth, fermented dresses, sensitive shoes and sensual switches
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
Kumao’s performative technologies generate artistic spectacles in order to visualize the unseen: psychological states, emotions, compulsions, thinking patterns, and dreams
Some of my favourite artists, activists and architects were in Barcelona for an amazing conference. And where was i that week?
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