Insight: Brad Nath, swaying along with the sinister whispers of the rubble
Chalky rustling fills the room. The dark stage reveals an assemblage of thirteen cored building bricks stacked on top and beside each other like a…
Exhibition: ‘Liquid Love & Sound Meridians’ at MoCA Taipei
TheCube Project Space presents the joint international group exhibitions Liquid Love & Sound Meridians that will open to the public from November 14 through January…
Exhibition: ‘Reality Errors’ at Nam June Paik Art Center
Reality Errors speculates in the near future where the pace of technological advancement would outstrip human comprehension, seeking ways to coexist with diverse alterities such…
MONIRA AL QADIRI, iridising the tragedy of Petroculture
In the early 1950s, when the business with the ‘black gold’ took off at an enormous pace, the Arab states of the Persian Gulf became…
Exhibition: ‘Emeka Ogboh. The Way Earthly Things Are Going’ at Kunstmuseum Ravensburg
Nigerian sound and installation artist Emeka Ogboh lives in Berlin but he is best known for his soundscapes of life in contemporary Lagos. In his…
Exhibition: ‘Healing Pieces. Offerings of Art, Expression and Nature’ in Dallas, USA
Healing Pieces: Offerings of Art, Expression and Nature is a collaborative multi-year arts and engagement initiative led by SMU Meadows School of the Arts’ Ignite/Arts…
Column: ‘In principle, yes… covitizing the past’
Do you know this subtle unease when watching a movie scene where people cram into a street, bus or shopping mall while disregarding social distancing?…
Events: York Mediale, cutting-edge digital art projects reacting to 2020
International new media arts organisation York Mediale is returning to the city of York (UK), for the second time with six major new commissions, including…
Column: ‘In principle, yes… make the Arctic great again’
In the Northern hemisphere, a sunny summer fades away. Its merit was to feign a soon-to-come return to normal. Now, rising Covid-19 infection rates remind…
‘Mark Mothersbaugh and Beatie Wolfe’s Postcards for Democracy’ by Charlotte Kent
Some argue mail art waned in the 1990s when the internet provided an alternate collaborative space, suggesting it is a kind of proto-net art [1]….
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Study Programme: Terraforming 2021 by Strelka Institute
The Terraforming is a three-year design research initiative and think-tank of Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design directed by Benjamin H. Bratton. Each program…
Exhibition: ‘Critical Zones: Observatories for Earthly Politics’ at ZKM Karlsruhe
Over a period of several months, ZKM is hosting the exhibition Critical Zones: Observatories for Earthly Politics. curated by Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel with…
Column: ‘In Principle, yes… signing the check for hurricane Laura’
The strongest hurricane since 150 years has just hit Louisiana, Texas and Haiti, leaving nearly half a million people without electricity and 200,000 without water….
New column: ‘In principle, yes…’ will explore and exploit technology for social justice
Next week we’ll be starting a monthly column dedicated to speculative political interventions. Contributor Yunus will bring a series of short texts aiming to spark…
Exhibition: Trevor Panglen at PACE Gallery London
PACE Gallery London is re-opening their physical space on 10th September with an exhibition exploring artificial intelligence, the politics of images, facial recognition technologies, and…
Insight: Video art meets architectural politics, Rob Heppell’s short film for Nazar’s ‘Bunker’
In recent years contemporary political art seems to be experiencing a substantial upturn, contemporary artists are deeply concerned with the current social and political issues…