What Design Can’t Do. Essays on Design and Disillusion
What Design Can’t Do. Essays on Design and Disillusion, by writer, artist and designer Silvio Lorusso. Published by Set Margins. Graphic design: Federico Antonini. Do you remember when design vowed to...
View ArticleInterview with Nicolás Kisic Aguirre: building a disobedient robotic world
Nicolás Kisic Aguirre builds rolling, gyrating, unruly machines that have been exhibited all over the world. Sometimes, however, they escape gallery spaces and take to the streets of Valparaíso or...
View ArticleImages at Work. A cinematic view on the working class
In 1895, Louis Lumière presented a private demo of what is often called “the first motion picture of cinematographic history”: La Sortie de l’Usine Lumière à Lyon (usually translated in English as...
View ArticleMy Favourite Game. Photo and videogames
My favourite game. Fotografia e videogioco, by artist and teacher Simone Santilli. Published by Postmedia Books. The books i enjoy the most cover topics i know very little about in an entertaining, yet...
View ArticleRayyane Tabet. Weaving together glass, war and dispossession
Over the past few weeks, I have been thinking again and again about Trilogy, an installation by Rayyane Tabet at MUDAM in Luxembourg. I wasn’t planning to write about it but the work is haunting me. I...
View ArticleAlgorithms of Resistance. The Everyday Fight against Platform Power
Algorithms of Resistance. The Everyday Fight against Platform Power, by Tiziano Bonini, associate professor of Sociology of Culture and Communication at Università di Siena, and Emiliano Treré, Reader...
View ArticleWhen forbidden flowers escape from the lab
Petunias can be red, blue, violet and white. Not orange. Never. Unless they have been genetically modified. Klaus Pichler, The Petunia Carnage, 2022 Klaus Pichler, The Petunia Carnage, 2022 Klaus...
View ArticlePSA: an “art & politics for plants” online course
Our indifference to plants is odd. Odd and dangerous. First, because without the plants, humans and other animals would have no oxygen to breathe. Meals would be remarkably boring too. Second, because...
View ArticleKIP. A theatre performance for chickens
Who says that only humans can enjoy art? How about other animals? Chickens, for example. Would they appreciate a theatre performance designed specifically for them? Anne Hofstra, KIP, 2023 Artist Anne...
View ArticleThis Is NOT An Artifact
This Is NOT An Artifact catalogs 15 years of investigation by the Center for PostNatural History. Featuring essays and photography by founder Rich Pell, and a catalog of PostNatural organisms featuring...
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