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As countless exhibitions, books and conferences like to remind us, for the first time in our history, more people are living in cities rather than outside of them. Cities have grown and tried to adjust. New suburbs have emerged, new condos have risen, public transport has expanded, etc. The adjustments don’t always go smoothly. Cities [...]

Justin Lui trained as an architect before earning an MFA degree from the UCLA Design | Media Arts in Los Angeles where i met him last Spring. He also has experience in web design, DJing and music production. He’s so versatile, i wouldn’t know whether i should define him as an interaction designer, media artist [...]

Who would have thought i’d end up blogging about a splatter movie on wmmna? I’m not talking about any horror flick, i’m talking “gay-porn zombie film“, a genre which i assume is under-represented in contemporary art. Written and directed by Bruce LaBruce and starring porn actor François Sagat, LA Zombie is on view at the [...]

How about more works from the Design Interactions work in progress show? Fashion Design by Aephie Huimi + Photography by Hitomi Yoda Crowbot Jenny is a reclusive girl who prefers to spend time surrounded by technology and animals rather than with humans. To better communicate with the birds, she built the Crowbot. Perched on her [...]

On Wednesday i had an alas far too short look at the Work in Progress show of the Design Interactions department Royal College of Art in London. One of the projects i liked is by James Chambers . Chambers postulates the existence of an experimental research group within Texas Instruments. Mostly active in the ’70s [...]

5 days in Berlin is a frustratingly short time if you’re planning to follow half-closely what is happening at Transmediale and want also to see some exhibitions around town. I’ll bring back what i can. Such as this lovely exhibition titled East Side Stories. German Photography 1950s-1980s at the Kicken Gallery. View of the exhibition [...]

Previously: Community Performance in Google Street View and 20.12.53 – 10.08.04. Beate Gütschow, S#14, 2005 Last week i introduced briefly Manipulating Reality, a show that ran until January 17 at CCCS in Florence. This truly enjoyable exhibition explored the way photographic images and videos represent reality as much as they can construct and betray it. [...]

I spent quite a bit of virtual ink on Manipulating Reality, a show that closed about a week ago at CCCS in Florence: Community Performance in Google Street View and 20.12.53 – 10.08.04. This exhibition explored the way photographic images and videos represent reality as much as they can construct and betray it. One of [...]

Lyon’s 10th Biennale for Contemporary Art, titled The Spectacle of the Everyday, closed on January 3, 2010. There were so many works and ideas i wanted to blog about that i didn’t write anything. So far. While i’m working on the big Biennale post, here’s a few words about two works by one of today’s [...]

Craftwerk 2.0: New Household Tactics for the Popular Crafts, an exhibition curated by Clara Åhlvik and Otto von Busch for the Jönköping county museum in Sweden, has been prolonged to March 21, 2010. Image by Cross-stitch ninja a.k.a. Maria Halvarson I’m going to get out of my comfort zone and write about an exhibition which, [...]