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From what i’ve seen the other week in Sao Paulo, FILE, the International Festival of Electronic Language, is extremely popular with the broad public. It’s easy to understand why. The event is not only free, it also offers extremely good works and mainstream entertainment (a few pieces even manage to be both). Some works delighted [...]

Berliner Luft by Benjamin Tafel and Dennis Orel (available on Amazon UK and USA.) Publisher Hatje Cantz Verlag writes: Cavalry captain and riding games, Coziness Colony, Mariendorf trotting professionals, Zehlendorf glazes, boarding in Eden House, Erich Mielke’s house plant, hurdy-gurdy man and curry sausages on Alex, Neverland in Plänterwald, prêt-à-porter in Wedding, Dad’s old basement [...]

No matter how often i go to The Museum of Photography in Antwerp, i never seem to find any fault with their exhibitions. American Documents is no exception. While writing a report about it this afternoon, i realized that one of the body of works i discovered at FoMu deserved its own post. Mitch Epstein, [...]

I never paid much attention to the machinima genre so far. The FILE Machinima section of the FILE festival in Sao Paulo proved me how wrong i was. Many of the movies selected by Curator Fernanda Albuquerque de Almeida are indeed little gems. I’ll just mention Wizard Of OS: The fish incident by Tom Jantol, [...]

Previously: What is American Power? Stephen Shore, La Brea Ave. & Beverly Bvd., Los Angeles, California, 6/21/1975 1950, Robert Frank published the seminal book The Americans in the United States. The photos showed a country that his peers had mostly overlooked so far: workers in a Detroit assembly line, an exhausted waitress in Hollywood, an [...]

I was gutted to miss it at Pixelache Helsinki back in March. Last Thursday however, Sao Paulo’s FILE festival mercifully gave me a second chance to experience Heart Chamber Orchestra. In this performance by Erich Berger and PURE from TERMINALBEACH, 12 classical musicians use their heartbeats to control in real time a computer composition and [...]

Previously: Feeding the Tardigotchi. Fast, furious and merry images from Sao Paulo and the 11th edition of the FILE Electronic Language International Festival, i think the report will have to wait till i’m back in Europe. Sao Paulo. Exotic plants, skyscrapers and where did i leave that picture showing helicopter landing pads on top of [...]

Quick post before i embark on the Eurostar. If you have time to spare while waiting for the train back to ‘the continent’ at Saint Pancras station, there’s an exhibition of Magnum photographer Chris Steele-Perkins a five minute walk away from the station. England, My England is a collection of the pictures Steele-Perkins has taken [...]

Pittsburgh… A city of little more than 300,000 inhabitants. Until now i wasn’t even able to locate it precisely on a map of the USA. The place is nevertheless popping up on my radar for the second time this year. It’s high time i do something about my ignorance. A few months ago artists John [...]

Leigh Ledare’s photo portray of his relationship with his mother, currently on show at Guido Costa Projects in Turin, is everything a PC family album should not be. Leigh Ledare, Mother As Baby Jane, 2004 Ledare’s mother, Tina Peterson used to be a delicate and precocious ballerina performing with the New York City Ballet. As [...]