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Jan 30

Critical Exploits. Interrogating Infrastructure

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Critical Exploits showed how a new generation of artists, designers and engineers are taking a highly critical approach to the development and use of the engineered systems and infrastructures that we increasingly rely on for daily life continue

Jan 06

F.A.T. GOLD Europe – Five Years of Free Art & Technology

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Showcasing a comprehensive selection of the group’s diverse output, the exhibition includes video, software, net art, installation, and performance. F.A.T. Lab members will also be creating and hacking on new, cutting-edge projects to be added to the exhibition on the fly continue

Dec 20

All That is Solid Melts into Air: Jeremy Deller

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n All That Is Solid Melts Into Air (a title that refers to a passage in Marx and Engels’ Communist Manifesto. ) Deller takes a personal look at the impact of the Industrial Revolution on British popular culture, and its persisting influence on our lives today. continue

Dec 11

Lumiere festival in Derry / Londonderry

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A couple of weeks ago, i was in Derry/Londonderry. Beautiful landscapes, super friendly people, vegan-approved yummy food at the Legenderry Warehouse, stunning socially-engages exhibitions i’ll tell you about later and a city-wide event called Lumiere. Lumiere is a festival of 17 projections and installations that lit up as the night came onto the city. It is a crowd-magnet, a place to bring your family and marvel at what artists and designers can do with light. Some of the works, however, had depth and bite continue

Oct 23

Brighton Photo Biennial – Agents of Change: Photography and the Politics of Space

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BPB12 explores how space is constructed, controlled and contested, how photography is implicated in these processes, and the tensions and possibilities this dialogue involves. This year’s Biennial provides a critical space to think about relationships between the political occupation of physical sites and the production and dissemination of images continue

Sep 20

Abandon Normal Devices 2012

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Finally! An art & tech festival that makes sense. A festival that resonates with the media art expert and the casual passerby alike. An event that values art above in-your-face tech prowess. It was my first visit to an AND festival. I found it witty, surprising, often thought-provoking and enlightening continue

May 22

Subversion in the Arab Art world

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There’s an exhibition featuring sci-fi, history, video games, homosexuality, soap operas, censorship and a powerful sense of humour at Cornerhouse in Manchester right now. The show is called Subversion and it questions and knocks around whatever assumption you might have about an homogenous ‘Arab world’, whatever image politicians and the media might have given you about its culture and identity continue

Apr 04

‘Robots and Avatars’ exhibition at FACT, Liverpool

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Robots and Avatars invites visitors to imagine a future -not so distant from now- when the advance of technology will bring us in even closer contact with artificial intelligence and machines and force us to re-assess what we now define as ‘life.’ How do we envisage our future relationships with robotic and avatar colleagues and playmates, and what point does this evolution cross our personal boundaries of what it is to be a living, feeling human being? continue

Feb 27

The Kinetica Art Fair (part 2)

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Some of the works on show at Kinetica this year are candidly whimsical, others explore responsive architecture, pay homage to Jean Tinguely or to Newton’s third law, take the form of small models of celestial mechanics, or of experimental music gigs on modified Fisher Price Turntables continue

Dec 31

Gamerz report

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I like GAMERZ because it’s eclectic, because it makes me discover plenty of artists i had never heard about before but also because it reminds me that festivals should be left more often in the hands of artists. They take risk, follow their whim, trust other artists barely out of the academy, and care little about sticking to genres and formulas continue

Dec 11

50 years of Dutch media art at the STRP festival in Eindhoven

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This year, the organizers and curators at STRP had the admirable and timely idea of setting up an exhibition that brought the spotlight on the history of Dutch art and technology. The show was both a celebration of the talent of media artists in The Netherlands but also a gesture of support towards the Dutch new media institutes (namely V2_, Waag Society, STEIM, Mediamatic, WORM, Submarine Channel, NIMk) whose survival is threatened by drastic (and short-sighted) governmental cuts continue

Mar 19

BIP 2010 – Equilibrium and Accident

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The Biennial of Photography and Visual Arts has invited about a hundred artists to question society’s growing desire for control, surveillance, and regulation. A worrying tendency which leaves space for accident, irrationality, for the unexpected and the absurd continue

Mar 03

Japan Media Arts festival – The Art Division

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Onion scanners, tv screens used as percussion instruments, storm inside a transparent cylinder, genetically modified blue carnations brought back to their original white, techy Japanese-style glockenspiel, etc. continue

Jan 31

Lyon Biennale – The ex-sugar factory

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Paintings on silos, a new capital of Asia, typographic wallpapers, replica of Shanghai hardware store, EU Green card lottery and porcelain human bones for a biennale that celebrated contemporary artists who believe that art has to offer more than a spectacle continue

Dec 24

Open City: Designing Coexistence – Part 1, Community

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It seems that, given a choice, most Americans choose to live in a homogenous community over an heterogenous one. However, the suburban landscape of semi-public spaces that exist in between these homogenous communities reveal, here and there, what Interboro calls “spaces of encounter” where diverse social and ethnic groups coexist, interact and generate complex relationships and networks continue

Dec 09

Rien Ne Va Plus at Bureau Europa in Maastricht

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Whether they take the Skyscraper Index seriously or not, people agree that Architecture is conditioned by the economical climate. Architectural projects were the first casualties of the current financial crash, and architects, along with bankers, were the first who suffered collective layoffs. Rien ne va Plus, an exhibition taking place at Bureau Europa in Maastricht, delves into the economic crisis and its intricate relation with architecture continue

Dec 04

The Art of Fashion: Installing Allusions (Part 2)

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The exhibition The Art of Fashion: Installing Allusions explores the intersection between fashion designers’ boldest experiments and the world of contemporary art. 25 international artists and fashion designers participate to this exhibition. 5 of them were commissioned new pieces that investigate the convergence of art and fashion continue

Dec 01

The Art of Fashion: Installing Allusions (Part 1)

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The exhibition at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam investigates the borders between fashion and art. Today’s fashion designers use installations and performances, and their designs are often more sculptural than wearable. Five of them have been commissioned to make new work specifically for the exhibition continue

Nov 02

A Guest + A Host = A Ghost – Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection at DESTE Foundation in Athens

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In a series of symbiotic encounters and parasitic relationships, the solo presentations are often interrupted by incongruous presences or perturbed by unusual juxtapositions: drawings by Kara Walker surround a tomb by Urs Fischer; Maurizio Cattelan’s homeless man kneels down in front of Kiki Smith’s Bat Woman; Robert Gober’s haunted rooms incorporate Gregor Schneider’s architectural fragments, etc. continue

May 11

Positions in Flux – Panel 1: Art goes politics – Hans Bernhard from UBERMORGEN.COM

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Hans Bernhard on why UBERMORGEN.COM are not activists, but ‘actionists – in the communicative and experimental tradition of viennese actionism – performing in the global media, communication and technology networks’ continue

Hasta La Creative!

Critical Exploits. Interrogating Infrastructure

F.A.T. GOLD Europe – Five Years of Free Art & Technology

All That is Solid Melts into Air: Jeremy Deller

Lumiere festival in Derry / Londonderry

Brighton Photo Biennial – Agents of Change: Photography and the Politics of Space

Abandon Normal Devices 2012

Subversion in the Arab Art world

‘Robots and Avatars’ exhibition at FACT, Liverpool

The Kinetica Art Fair (part 2)

Gamerz report

50 years of Dutch media art at the STRP festival in Eindhoven

BIP 2010 – Equilibrium and Accident

Japan Media Arts festival – The Art Division

Lyon Biennale – The ex-sugar factory

Open City: Designing Coexistence – Part 1, Community

Rien Ne Va Plus at Bureau Europa in Maastricht

The Art of Fashion: Installing Allusions (Part 2)

The Art of Fashion: Installing Allusions (Part 1)

A Guest + A Host = A Ghost – Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection at DESTE Foundation in Athens

Positions in Flux – Panel 1: Art goes politics – Hans Bernhard from UBERMORGEN.COM

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