Logbook Z33

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I was as flattered as i was surprised when my favourite art center in Europe got in touch and asked me if i’d like to curate the catalogue of their 2011 activities. 2011 was a vintage year at Z33. They opened a show about manipulated nature, had some spectacular tape and suspended nets events, hosted a solo show of theater genius Kris Verdonck and investigated the the firm grip that fear has on contemporary society continue

#A.I.L – artists in laboratories

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The first episode of the radio show about art & science i’m recording for Resonance FM is broadcast today Monday 21 May at 16.30 (London time.) There will be a repeat on Thursday at 22.30. You can catch it online if you don’t live in London.
This week i’m talking with the lovely and lively Anna Dumitriu, visual artist and respected founder and director of The Institute of Unnecessary Research continue

If this blog became a radio programme

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On Friday at 4pm, set your radio to 104.4fm if you live in London and your browser to http://resonancefm.com/ if you don’t. That’s when the pilot for programme i’ve recently recorded for Resonance104.4fm, London’s edgy, radical, art radio is going to be aired. The focus of the programme is art & science/technology.

Critical designers Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen were kind and kamikaze enough to join me in the studio for the first episode. We’ve discussed topics as diverse as the beauty of life support machines, pigeons that poop soap, using design to infiltrate synthetic biology, collaborating with scientists and communicating the complexities of a projects that explores critically the impact of science on society continue

Book sprinting in Pittsburgh

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Right now i’m wrapped up inside a Book Sprint, a one week-long collective authoring of a book. Our A/S/T Book Sprint explores the work of contemporary artists who are working at the intersection of art/science/technology, with a focus on the recent shift from artist/inventor dependent on industry or academy (as embodied by pioneering programs from the 1960s such as Art and Technology at LACMA and Experiments in Art & Technology), to independent agent (artists conducting scientific research or technological experiments outside the framework and discourse of an institution) continue

Reminder: Postopolis Los Angeles

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Join us in Los Angeles for a series of discussions, interviews, slideshows, panels, talks, and presentations about architecture, landscape, urbanism, art and space continue

Postopolis, the Los Angeles edition

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Postopolis is a 5-day blogathon with discussions, interviews, panels, slideshows, films and parties designed to push the architecture, urbanism and landscape conversation from virtual to reality. It’s hosted by bloggers which means that the event will also be an opportunity to reflect on how blogs participate, and sometimes even redefine and lead the architectural discourse continue

Best wishes and a tour of your favourite posts in 2008

Happy new year dear readers!

2008 has been a bit of a ‘detox’ year for wmmna as i’ve been slowly drifting away from what had made the success (it’s all relativity) of my blog: new media art. 6 months ago i didn’t think i would write this but here we go: ‘i’m starting to miss you, new media art. I still have my doubts and a few issues to settle with you but i would love it if you could give me another try.’

Some of you might have noticed that the rss feed of wmmna is severely ill. It’s been almost 3 weeks already. We are trying to fix it so bear with us.

Let’s kick off this year with a top 10 of the stories which you have clicked the most in 2008. Starting with a quick comment on the categories you’ve most perused: architecture (yes! yes! good choice!), sex (can’t pretend i’m much surprised), then design (a category i’ve been trying to kill for almost 2 years now but it appears to be much stronger than i), art from japan, installation, wearable, art in berlin, art, gadgets and finally my new favourite: activism.

Now for the most popular posts:
Virtual Transgender Suit, avatar termination and other online world tales
Robot ‘plays back’ dreams
Automatic door… Japan style (an oldie from 2005)
24c3: The history of guerilla knitting
Pricked: Extreme Embroidery
Interview with Riitta Ikonen
DIY tractor culture in Poland
SUPERDOME at the Palais de Tokyo
Conflux: Vertical Bed
and Visualizing: tracing an aesthetics of data.

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Caribbean Pirates, 2001-05. Courtesy Hauser & Wirth

I couldn’t help but think at what my own top 10 would be. I was unable to list my 10 favourite posts of 2008 but i can tell you which exhibition has blown me away like nothing else ever did before. It was the Paul McCarthy retrospective at the S.M.A.K. I wish i could see that one again and again. I wish i could blog it again.

Join us for a panel on genetically modified art at the New Museum on Friday

0aaaabrcgui9.jpgDear friends and readers living in New York, i’m going to hit your turf soon for a panel rhizome has kindly asked me to set up at the New Museum in Manhattan. If you know me a tiny bit you might have guessed that my first thought was for biotech art. I wasn’t sure my proposal would be accepted as the topic is far less popular than interactive screens in public spaces or “sustainable” gadgetry. It’s a bit more risky as well. But they said yes and i’d love to meet you on Friday 14, at the New Museum theater, 235 Bowery (map).

The Media Art in the Age of Transgenics, Cloning, and Genomics panel is scheduled at 7,30 pm. There will be the cream of biotech art: Caitlin Berrigan, Adam Zaretsky, Brandon Ballengee, and Kathy High.

If Caitlin doesn’t bring her chocolates, i will bring some yummy chocolate cat tongues from Belgium because we’re having a party after the panel (details about that will follow.)

Image on top left by Brandon Ballengee: Cleared and Stained Multi-limbed Pacific Tree frog, Aptos, California. Digital imaging courtesy The Institute for Electronic Arts, School of Art and Design NYSCC at Alfred University, Alfred, New York.