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
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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
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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
Jose Luis de Vicente invited Manuel Lima from Visual Complexity as well as the ueber-talented Santiago Ortiz and Aaron Koblin to discuss the beauty of data
Get a free pass to Mediabistro Circus and send your proposals for the upcoming Conflux festival
For the 500.000 Chinese who have emigrated to the ‘dark continent’ there is the promise of a 21st century Wild West. Some have struck gold and run large conglomerates that span whole regions of Africa, others are still selling cheap goods on the burning hot roadsides of the poorest countries in the world
Daphne Dragona about the relationship (or lack thereof) between commercial and art games, the distinction between game and play
The designer and artist talked about his sources of inspiration, latest works, favourite Malaysian tourist spots, crazy hotel carpets and his new fondness for random assistants
I talked with the director of a documentary which explores the life of young people in China who earn a living by playing online games for 10 to 12 hours a day, and produce virtual goods which are sold to richer gamers all over the world for real money.
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
In her installation and book, Ines Doujak criticizes the way multinational corporations reap profits by taking out patents on indigenous plants, food, knowledge, even human tissues from developing countries and turn them into lucrative products. Without sharing the benefits with the country of origin