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Packing my baby blue (going alarmingly dirty grey) suitcase again. Not sure how much i’ll be able to update the blog over the coming week so here’s a quick one for the road. Elvis Was Here, 2008, Photograph by Thierry Bal In June 2008, Onkar Kular (a designer making regular guest appearances on the blog) [...]

Art in the Age of Technoscience: Genetic Engineering, Robotics, and Artificial Life in Contemporary Art, by Ingeborg Reichle (available on Amazon USA and UK.) Publisher Springer writes: Is science the new art? Starting from this provocative question, art historian Ingeborg Reichle examines in her book fascinating responses of contemporary artists when faced with recent scientific [...]

In The Loop: Knitting Now by Jessica Hemmings (available on amazon USA and UK.) Black Dog Publishing writes: In the Loop shows the different aspects of contemporary knitting practice and transforms our understanding of knitting away from retro hobby to mainstream craft and artform. In the Loop features essays and images that show the progression [...]

My most sincere apologies for being so silent this week. I’m currently in Stockholm where the lovely Sara and Magnus of IASPIS, an artist-in-residence program and institution that facilitate creative dialogues between artists from Sweden and from other countries, have scheduled 3 full days of seminars, meetings with graphic designers and visits to artists studios. [...]

Previously: Postopolis DF – Kumbia Queers and Postopolis DF – notes from day 2. Some of the Postopolis bloggers brought a unique, extremely well-curated perspective on the event. Wayne Marshall is one of them. One by one the speakers he had invited drew a picture of Mexico’s hip hop and street art culture. On Thursday, [...]

Day 2 of Postopolis was non-stop sun, the biggest artichoke i’ve ever eaten and free metzcal. We had a dozen of speakers but i’m only going to mention a couple of them. Wayne had invited DJ Alí and Tomás Brum Álvarez to talk about the Hip Hop local scene. Tomás Brum Álvarez gave us some [...]

First dispatch from Postopolis! DF. The Live Stream of our presentations and discussions broadcasts daily according to the schedule of Postopolis! DF. Today we kick off at 4 pm in Mexican local time (GMT -6). Yesterday was day 1 of the event. The courtyard of the museum El Eco filled up quite quickly with stylish [...]

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 [...]