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“Chinternet”
“Internet Plus” is a strategy that was proposed by China’s Premier of the State Council, Li Keqiang, in 2015; its goal is to apply cloud computing and big data to traditional industries with an aim of rebooting them. Introduced shortly
“Chinternet”
“Internet Plus” is a strategy that was proposed by China’s Premier of the State Council, Li Keqiang, in 2015; its goal is to apply cloud computing and big data to traditional industries with an aim of rebooting them. Introduced shortly
BB9 – Reviews
Hyperallergic: http://hyperallergic.com/306932/the-9th-berlin-biennale-a-vast-obsolescent-pageant-of-irrelevance/ The guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/jun/13/berlin-biennale-exhibition-review-new-york-fashion-collective-dis-art Art Agenda: http://www.art-agenda.com/reviews/“the-present-in-drag”-9th-berlin-biennale/
BB9 – Reviews
Hyperallergic: http://hyperallergic.com/306932/the-9th-berlin-biennale-a-vast-obsolescent-pageant-of-irrelevance/ The guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/jun/13/berlin-biennale-exhibition-review-new-york-fashion-collective-dis-art Art Agenda: http://www.art-agenda.com/reviews/“the-present-in-drag”-9th-berlin-biennale/
The Control Revolution Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society – 1989 – James Beniger
BLURB: “Why do we find ourselves living in an Information Society? How did the collection, processing, and communication of information come to play an increasingly important role in advanced industrial countries relative to the roles of matter and energy? And
The Control Revolution Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society – 1989 – James Beniger
BLURB: “Why do we find ourselves living in an Information Society? How did the collection, processing, and communication of information come to play an increasingly important role in advanced industrial countries relative to the roles of matter and energy? And
labour of love – exhibition
http://www.weltkulturenmuseum.de/en/content/exhibition-5 EXHIBITION A LABOUR OF LOVE Only until 24th July 2016! A LABOUR OF LOVE presents more than 150 works from the Weltkulturen Museum’s collection, produced in the 1980s by black South African artists, together with twenty new artistic productions
labour of love – exhibition
http://www.weltkulturenmuseum.de/en/content/exhibition-5 EXHIBITION A LABOUR OF LOVE Only until 24th July 2016! A LABOUR OF LOVE presents more than 150 works from the Weltkulturen Museum’s collection, produced in the 1980s by black South African artists, together with twenty new artistic productions
Morehshin Allahyari – MATERIAL SPECULATION: ISIS (2015 – 2016)
Material Speculation is a digital fabrication and 3D printing project by Morehshin Allahyari that inspects Petropolitical and poetic relationships between 3D Printing, Plastic, Oil, Technocapitalism and Jihad. “Material Speculation: ISIS” is a 3D modeling and 3D printing project focused on the reconstruction of
Morehshin Allahyari – MATERIAL SPECULATION: ISIS (2015 – 2016)
Material Speculation is a digital fabrication and 3D printing project by Morehshin Allahyari that inspects Petropolitical and poetic relationships between 3D Printing, Plastic, Oil, Technocapitalism and Jihad. “Material Speculation: ISIS” is a 3D modeling and 3D printing project focused on the reconstruction of
DIGITAL THRESHOLDS FROM INFORMATION TO AGENCY – Daniel Rourke and DATA
This four-week series will explore the politics and potential of big data and art Data is the lifeblood of today’s economic and social systems. Drones, satellites and CCTV cameras capture digital images covertly, while smartphones we carry feed data packets into the cloud,
DIGITAL THRESHOLDS FROM INFORMATION TO AGENCY – Daniel Rourke and DATA
This four-week series will explore the politics and potential of big data and art Data is the lifeblood of today’s economic and social systems. Drones, satellites and CCTV cameras capture digital images covertly, while smartphones we carry feed data packets into the cloud,
Full-Size Replica of Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Kicks Off Mexican Tour
Full-Size Replica of Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Kicks Off Mexican Tour
Full-Size Replica of Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Kicks Off Mexican Tour
Full-Size Replica of Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Kicks Off Mexican Tour
What’s the Value of Recreating the Palmyra Arch with Digital Technology? – Claire Voon
What’s the Value of Recreating the Palmyra Arch with Digital Technology?
What’s the Value of Recreating the Palmyra Arch with Digital Technology? – Claire Voon
What’s the Value of Recreating the Palmyra Arch with Digital Technology?
The Making of Jeremy Corbyn – Hilary Wainwright – Jacobin
“The sudden electoral success of a handful of radical left leaders — Greece’s Alexis Tsipras and Spain’s Pablo Iglesias in the European periphery, and now Jeremy Corbyn in Britain, a heartland of market politics — is more a testament to the hollowing out of the political
The Making of Jeremy Corbyn – Hilary Wainwright – Jacobin
“The sudden electoral success of a handful of radical left leaders — Greece’s Alexis Tsipras and Spain’s Pablo Iglesias in the European periphery, and now Jeremy Corbyn in Britain, a heartland of market politics — is more a testament to the hollowing out of the political
“Thinking Care” – Egbert Alejandro Martina
“Anti-racist spaces are messy sites of emotions. Emotions play a crucial role in political action. We can’t deny that we have strong emotional relationships with what we do and with whom we work. And yet, emotions are often not considered,
“Thinking Care” – Egbert Alejandro Martina
“Anti-racist spaces are messy sites of emotions. Emotions play a crucial role in political action. We can’t deny that we have strong emotional relationships with what we do and with whom we work. And yet, emotions are often not considered,
The Poisons, Potions, and Charms of Shakespeare’s Plays – Allison Meier (Hyperallergic)
Potions, poisons, and symbolic herbs are frequent plot devices in the plays of William Shakespeare, and reflect the medical knowledge of his time. Herbals recorded the plant-based concoctions, and through these rare books we can connect his references to remedies of the 16th and 17th century,
The Poisons, Potions, and Charms of Shakespeare’s Plays – Allison Meier (Hyperallergic)
Potions, poisons, and symbolic herbs are frequent plot devices in the plays of William Shakespeare, and reflect the medical knowledge of his time. Herbals recorded the plant-based concoctions, and through these rare books we can connect his references to remedies of the 16th and 17th century,
Ultra-embedded; ultra-heronomy? “Toil and trouble” By Timotheus Vermeulen
“Toil and trouble” By Timotheus Vermeulen TANK – How art can create alternative spaces of resistance within the market logic of the globalised world. — “ Reading the papers these days, listening to lectures or podcasts, watching the news, it would
Ultra-embedded; ultra-heronomy? “Toil and trouble” By Timotheus Vermeulen
“Toil and trouble” By Timotheus Vermeulen TANK – How art can create alternative spaces of resistance within the market logic of the globalised world. — “ Reading the papers these days, listening to lectures or podcasts, watching the news, it would
closing the loop – aria dean
“The black female’s body needs less to be rescued from the masculine “gaze” than to be sprung from a historic script surrounding her with signification while at the same time, and not paradoxically, it erases her completely.” —Lorraine O’Grady MAYBE 2013 felt
closing the loop – aria dean
“The black female’s body needs less to be rescued from the masculine “gaze” than to be sprung from a historic script surrounding her with signification while at the same time, and not paradoxically, it erases her completely.” —Lorraine O’Grady MAYBE 2013 felt
Cubitt – A public resource
http://cubittartists.org.uk/2016/02/12/a-public-resource/ Click to access A-Public-Resource-events-schedule1.pdf
Cubitt – A public resource
http://cubittartists.org.uk/2016/02/12/a-public-resource/ Click to access A-Public-Resource-events-schedule1.pdf
The Met Breuer Traces the Unfinished to the Deliberately Incomplete in Western Art
— standard art history ” In a way, the story here is about how art — again, almost exclusively Western — evolved from building an image to breaking it apart. It illustrates this historical point with mostly under-the-radar works by established artists. In Met style,
The Met Breuer Traces the Unfinished to the Deliberately Incomplete in Western Art
— standard art history ” In a way, the story here is about how art — again, almost exclusively Western — evolved from building an image to breaking it apart. It illustrates this historical point with mostly under-the-radar works by established artists. In Met style,
The Politics of Being a Parent in the Art World
The Politics of Being a Parent in the Art World http://www.projectspace-efanyc.org/the-let-down-reflex/
The Politics of Being a Parent in the Art World
The Politics of Being a Parent in the Art World http://www.projectspace-efanyc.org/the-let-down-reflex/
3d cultural net-appropriation and “legitimisation”
Hyper allergic — Read More → Rhizome — The Distributed Monument: New Work From Morehshin Allahyari’s ‘Material Speculation’ Series
3d cultural net-appropriation and “legitimisation”
Hyper allergic — Read More → Rhizome — The Distributed Monument: New Work From Morehshin Allahyari’s ‘Material Speculation’ Series
even tank
post state confused with off shoring http://tankmagazine.com/issue-66/features/atossa-araxia-abrahamian
even tank
post state confused with off shoring http://tankmagazine.com/issue-66/features/atossa-araxia-abrahamian
Avoiding False Problems: Politics of the Fluid, Hybrid, and Flexible – Suley Rolnik
Hybrid cultural cartographies of all kinds are being sketched out alongside new and complex existential territories that are made and unmade in an irreversibly globalized world.1 To present within these dynamics a choice between refusing or celebrating cultural universes marked by
Avoiding False Problems: Politics of the Fluid, Hybrid, and Flexible – Suley Rolnik
Hybrid cultural cartographies of all kinds are being sketched out alongside new and complex existential territories that are made and unmade in an irreversibly globalized world.1 To present within these dynamics a choice between refusing or celebrating cultural universes marked by
“A Prehistory of The Cloud: an interview with Tung-Hui Hu” BY JAMIE SUTCLIFFE – Rhizome
Tung-Hui Hu’s A Prehistory of the Cloud, published by MIT Pressin August 2015, is a necessary excavation of the material infrastructures that undergird the fantasies of freedom proposed by cloud connectivity. Hu charts the evolution of the user as a synthetic
“A Prehistory of The Cloud: an interview with Tung-Hui Hu” BY JAMIE SUTCLIFFE – Rhizome
Tung-Hui Hu’s A Prehistory of the Cloud, published by MIT Pressin August 2015, is a necessary excavation of the material infrastructures that undergird the fantasies of freedom proposed by cloud connectivity. Hu charts the evolution of the user as a synthetic
“Horizon scanning: helping policy makers in an uncertain world” – Civil Service Quarterly
https://quarterly.blog.gov.uk/2016/01/25/horizon-scanning-helping-policy-makers-in-an-uncertain-world/ The future. In sci-fi films, it’s living with cyborgs in a sleek metropolis or a rust-coloured sandscape and violent struggles for dwindling resources. In technology magazines, it’s gadgets and gizmos. For our ancestors, it was a mystery only revealed
“Horizon scanning: helping policy makers in an uncertain world” – Civil Service Quarterly
https://quarterly.blog.gov.uk/2016/01/25/horizon-scanning-helping-policy-makers-in-an-uncertain-world/ The future. In sci-fi films, it’s living with cyborgs in a sleek metropolis or a rust-coloured sandscape and violent struggles for dwindling resources. In technology magazines, it’s gadgets and gizmos. For our ancestors, it was a mystery only revealed
Reading List: September 2014 – poetry foundation
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2014/09/reading-list-september-2014/ The Reading List is a feature of Poetry magazine’s Editors’ Blog. This month contributors to the September issue share some books that held their interest. Susan Barba It’s been a great summer for reading. While at the beach, I made my way through Edward
Reading List: September 2014 – poetry foundation
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2014/09/reading-list-september-2014/ The Reading List is a feature of Poetry magazine’s Editors’ Blog. This month contributors to the September issue share some books that held their interest. Susan Barba It’s been a great summer for reading. While at the beach, I made my way through Edward
Morgan Quaintance / Cubitt: ART CRITICISM: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
Current Cubitt Curatorial Fellow and critic Morgan Quaintance leads a course on art criticism, focusing on its past, present and future. Devised to give participants practical information and an understanding of the discipline’s history and current possibilities, emphasis will also
Morgan Quaintance / Cubitt: ART CRITICISM: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
Current Cubitt Curatorial Fellow and critic Morgan Quaintance leads a course on art criticism, focusing on its past, present and future. Devised to give participants practical information and an understanding of the discipline’s history and current possibilities, emphasis will also
In Acts of Resistance, Artists and Scholars Digitally Reconstruct the Past – Claire Voon – Hyperallergic
(image: Piers Secunda, “ISIS Bullet Hole Painting (Assyrian Horse)” (2015)) “In the past year alone, members of ISIS have marred cultural treasures in Iraq and Syria, taking sledgehammers and drills to statues at the Mosul Museum and delivering numerous blows to the ancient site
In Acts of Resistance, Artists and Scholars Digitally Reconstruct the Past – Claire Voon – Hyperallergic
(image: Piers Secunda, “ISIS Bullet Hole Painting (Assyrian Horse)” (2015)) “In the past year alone, members of ISIS have marred cultural treasures in Iraq and Syria, taking sledgehammers and drills to statues at the Mosul Museum and delivering numerous blows to the ancient site
A Show of Over 100 Women Artists Offers Redress but No Resolution – Susan Silas – Hyperallergic
(image: Cady Noland, “This Piece Has No Title Yet” (1989)) “MIAMI — The exhibition of over 100 women artists currently on view at the Rubell Family Collection is difficult to review because the works do not all fit into the space and the decision
A Show of Over 100 Women Artists Offers Redress but No Resolution – Susan Silas – Hyperallergic
(image: Cady Noland, “This Piece Has No Title Yet” (1989)) “MIAMI — The exhibition of over 100 women artists currently on view at the Rubell Family Collection is difficult to review because the works do not all fit into the space and the decision
Programming the Visible: Harun Farocki at Paco das Artes
“Paco das Artes is pleased to present the exhibition Programming the Visible, curated by Jane de Almeida, with six works by the artist and filmmaker Harun Farocki: Parallel I-IV (2012-2014), Interface (1995), and the interview Catch Phrases – Catch Images,
Programming the Visible: Harun Farocki at Paco das Artes
“Paco das Artes is pleased to present the exhibition Programming the Visible, curated by Jane de Almeida, with six works by the artist and filmmaker Harun Farocki: Parallel I-IV (2012-2014), Interface (1995), and the interview Catch Phrases – Catch Images,
Logged In – Ursula Huws – Jacobn
Great article. More, individual resistance is made in exactly the same terms as this operates: on individual choice and dependent on the ability to make such a choice. It is maximally devicisve; creating the conditions of division from which —in these
Logged In – Ursula Huws – Jacobn
Great article. More, individual resistance is made in exactly the same terms as this operates: on individual choice and dependent on the ability to make such a choice. It is maximally devicisve; creating the conditions of division from which —in these
“real things about real things” American Medium
Realism etc. “In keeping with Morton’s ideas, the works in Real Things About Real Things speak directly to a reality that exists without foreground or background—a reality where all things are deeply entangled and are constantly both acting and being acted upon”
“real things about real things” American Medium
Realism etc. “In keeping with Morton’s ideas, the works in Real Things About Real Things speak directly to a reality that exists without foreground or background—a reality where all things are deeply entangled and are constantly both acting and being acted upon”
Future Welfare?
Blog-post from design as politics (http://designaspolitics.nl): is this what the paternalistic model of welfare state will look like? Deploying those who fall out the end of geoplitical conflict, environmental change or economic deprivation (as in those who were deported to
Future Welfare?
Blog-post from design as politics (http://designaspolitics.nl): is this what the paternalistic model of welfare state will look like? Deploying those who fall out the end of geoplitical conflict, environmental change or economic deprivation (as in those who were deported to
Polyphilo’s Dream
“In the 1940s Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer defined the culture industry as a combination of cinema and radio. How has the Internet affected new definitions of a contemporary culture industry? The imaginary architecture in a 15th-century book may
Polyphilo’s Dream
“In the 1940s Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer defined the culture industry as a combination of cinema and radio. How has the Internet affected new definitions of a contemporary culture industry? The imaginary architecture in a 15th-century book may
Edward Shenk / Momentum 8 – “Tunnel Vision”
…perspective presumably http://www.edwardmarshallshenk.com http://www.momentum.no
Edward Shenk / Momentum 8 – “Tunnel Vision”
…perspective presumably http://www.edwardmarshallshenk.com http://www.momentum.no
Protesters Rain Down Thousands of Bills in Guggenheim Rotunda
“the action also coincided with G.U.L.F.’s inauguration of their “sustainable design” competition, announced Friday on a spoof website, and followed a New York Times op-edpublished by the group’s Andrew Ross, a professor at New York University (NYU). (Though Ross was not at the Guggenheim,
Protesters Rain Down Thousands of Bills in Guggenheim Rotunda
“the action also coincided with G.U.L.F.’s inauguration of their “sustainable design” competition, announced Friday on a spoof website, and followed a New York Times op-edpublished by the group’s Andrew Ross, a professor at New York University (NYU). (Though Ross was not at the Guggenheim,
Migrating origins – TAP
“The engagement with digital media is now normalised in developed countries, what’s more we are seeing a generation grow up that has never known the world without the internet. How this network is sometimes perceived, as an entity with no
Migrating origins – TAP
“The engagement with digital media is now normalised in developed countries, what’s more we are seeing a generation grow up that has never known the world without the internet. How this network is sometimes perceived, as an entity with no
Test Centre
http://testcentre.org.uk/publications.html >>>> I Love Roses When They’re Past Their Best | Poetry Anthology Edited by Harry Burke with poems by Rachael Allen, Jayinee Basu, Gabby Bess, Crispin Best, Harry Burke, Sophie Collins, Carina Finn, Cassandra Gillig, Francesca Lisette, Luna Miguel,
Test Centre
http://testcentre.org.uk/publications.html >>>> I Love Roses When They’re Past Their Best | Poetry Anthology Edited by Harry Burke with poems by Rachael Allen, Jayinee Basu, Gabby Bess, Crispin Best, Harry Burke, Sophie Collins, Carina Finn, Cassandra Gillig, Francesca Lisette, Luna Miguel,
Andrew O’Hagan – Ghosting
“On 5 January 2011, at 8.30 p.m., I was messing about at home when the phone buzzed on the sofa. It was a text from Jamie Byng, the publisher of Canongate. ‘Are you about?’ it said. ‘I have a somewhat left-field
Andrew O’Hagan – Ghosting
“On 5 January 2011, at 8.30 p.m., I was messing about at home when the phone buzzed on the sofa. It was a text from Jamie Byng, the publisher of Canongate. ‘Are you about?’ it said. ‘I have a somewhat left-field
Publishing: Ricochet
http://ricochet.cc/ ” 1st ABOUT Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of literature, music, or information — the activity of making information available to the general public. 2nd LOGISTICS Micropublishing This term is used to describe the use of
Publishing: Ricochet
http://ricochet.cc/ ” 1st ABOUT Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of literature, music, or information — the activity of making information available to the general public. 2nd LOGISTICS Micropublishing This term is used to describe the use of
Graham Harwood / Endless Machine – Afgan War Diaries
“How does the way war is thought relate to how it is fought? As the Afghan war unfolds, it produces vast quantities of information that are encoded into database entries and can, in turn, be analyzed by software looking for
Graham Harwood / Endless Machine – Afgan War Diaries
“How does the way war is thought relate to how it is fought? As the Afghan war unfolds, it produces vast quantities of information that are encoded into database entries and can, in turn, be analyzed by software looking for
Bratton – The Black Stack
“For this, it’s critical to underscore that Cloud platforms (including sometimes state apparatuses) are exactly that: platforms. It is important as well to recognize that “platforms” are not only a technical architecture; they are also an institutional form. They centralize (like
Bratton – The Black Stack
“For this, it’s critical to underscore that Cloud platforms (including sometimes state apparatuses) are exactly that: platforms. It is important as well to recognize that “platforms” are not only a technical architecture; they are also an institutional form. They centralize (like
3D modelling – Extra Dimensional: Primitive London.
“Following on from the last editorial that Primitive styled for Tank Magazine we have again collaborated to create a series of images that were created using a 3-D scanner. The latest issue is out now in stores.”
3D modelling – Extra Dimensional: Primitive London.
“Following on from the last editorial that Primitive styled for Tank Magazine we have again collaborated to create a series of images that were created using a 3-D scanner. The latest issue is out now in stores.”
Tom Clark 