On 13th June, the artists Revital Cohen and Tuur van Balen (winners of VIDA 14.0) will be presenting, at Work Space Brussels, their recent project 75 Watt, which explores the dynamics of industrial production of consumer goods and in particular the coordination of workers on an assembly line. The artists have created a product specifically designed to be...
Leer másBalance-Unbalance: the future of nature and culture
From 31st May to 2nd June, the Central University of Queensland (Australia) welcomes the Balance-Unbalance International Congress, dedicated to exploring the nexus between nature, science, technology and society. This is the third edition of this Congress, which was previously held in Argentina (2010) and Montreal (2011) and which has the support of...
Leer másVIDA 15.0: Interview with Mónica Bello
This year is the 15th edition of a competition that was initially dubbed VIDA 2.0, in reference to a “second form of life”, meaning artificial life. Fifteen years on, is the debate on artificial life still ongoing? What do the works which have taken part in this contest tell us? Over the intervening years we have seen the artists apply the principles of...
Leer másDavid Bowen: the tele-present ocean in Marseille
Until 9th June, the art and culture space La Friche la Belle de Mai in Marseille is hosting the exhibition La Dernière Vague, part of the festival ‘This is (not) Music’, which explores how the cultures of surfing, skateboarding and kustom kulture have seeped into contemporary art. The exhibition, which brings together hundreds of works by 58...
Leer másAfter life. De anima and unhuman politics. Eugene Thacker
Since the 1960s, the NASA programme has supported research into the exploration of life on other planets. Currently, their astrobiology programme involves multiple institutions and research programmes, including the NASA Astrobiology Institute. Eugene Thacker is an author and associate professor of Media Studies at The New School in New York. Thacker...
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