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“I’ve heard horrifying anecdotes of audio speakers left unplugged for the duration of an exhibition, dimmed projector bulbs, and VR headsets in permanent Kiosk mode.”
“My work as a cultural connector and public programmer was being used to distract funders, donors, and constituents from seeing where the real issues lie in the museum: in its overwhelming white permanent collection, in its ongoing harmful colonial narratives, and worst, its tokenistic approach to community partnerships.”
– Rea McNamara, in an open letter to Toronto’s Gardiner Museum, where she worked for three years
“Limeflower Heterodoxy,” Sharona Franklin’s new exhibition opens at grunt gallery in Vancouver. Centred around the decomposition of one of her “bioshrine” gelatin sculptures, Franklin’s installation centres the experience of rural illness, and “embodies tensions and contradictions held for those whose treatments include both natural medicine and—sometimes ethically controversial—biopharmaceutical care.”
“This work was so timid and discreet I’m ashamed of its quietude today. We can do so much better. First, the statues, symbols, then the cultural heritage, then the actual wealth, in the form of reparations, together with education about our actual history. Nothing less will do.”
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James Bridle , on the anniversary of his Victoria and Albert Museum installation
Five Eyes (2015), a piece that “uses objects and archive files from the V&A’s collections to explore the nature of structural and institutional power”
Canadian artist and architect Andrea S. Ling is awarded the 2020 STARTS prize for Artistic Exploration for her project Design by Decay, Decay by Design (2019). Acknowledging the inevitability of waste in her practice, she proposes to “design waste that I can live with, garbage that retains some desirability,” as yielded from a custom material palette of a biocomposites of chitin, cellulose, and pectin, derived from the exoskeletons of shrimp, tree pulp waste, and fruit skins.
The geolocation of Bristol’s statue of 17th-century slave trader Edward Colston is changed to the Bristol Harbour mere minutes after protesters dumped it there.
A satellite image shared by Planet Labs Inc. reveals that the words “Black Lives Matter” that Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser had painted in giant yellow letters along a street leading to the White House on June 5th are visible from space.
“I guess [they] were unaware or decided to ignore Dutch precedents like V2, Montevideo, The Waag, Steim, TodaysArt, and NMAI (NIMk). It’s dumb to continue to pretend that new media is new.”
– Mexican-Canadian media artist
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer , blasting
The Art Newspaper for heralding the forthcoming
Nxt Museum in Amsterdam as the Netherland’s first venue for new media art
“Many bands have sought to confront the relationship between mankind and technology, but they have built on Kraftwerk’s pioneering accomplishments while placing emphasis on the human interaction inherent within both society and music rather than either celebrating or accepting as a given the subordination of man to machine.”
– Paul Bond, on the recent passing of Florian Schneider
“Blogging is akin to stand-up comedy—it’s not coherent drama, it’s a stream of wisecracks. It’s also like street art—just sort of there, stuck in the by-way, begging attention, then crumbling rapidly. A blog evaporates through bit-rot.”
– Bruce Sterling, on the closure of his long-running WIRED blog “Beyond the Beyond”
Carrie Mae Weems, Christine Sun Kim, Duke Riley, Jenny Holzer, Pedro Reyes, and Xaviera Simmons are among three dozen artists producing digital billboards to thank New York City, Boston, and Chicago’s essential service workers.
Combining the talents of Araiz Mesanza (illustration) and Raquel Meyers (animation), Inattention is a short film that revels in the anxiety of our current moment. Initiated during a residency at Irudika earlier this year and completed during lockdown, the Teletext-animated short was just released on YouTube.
“Because astral stories can exist without the telescope, they are both woefully unreal and extraordinarily resilient narrative technology for institutional memory—perhaps one of the few intergenerational computers we’ve managed to construct so far.”
– Writer and researcher
Kei Kreutler , on astrology—the “oldest and most impactful science fiction ever created” [quote edited]
Given the transition that art galleries, fairs, and all manner of cultural producers have made in switching from IRL events to online content, Rhizome Artistic Director Michael Conner has begun a timely multi-part essay project cataloguing essential history and clarifying what is at stake. The first installment, on ‘performance, variability, objecthood’ is up and more are promised in the coming weeks.
“Palatnik’s device made us think about the artwork in terms of its livelihood, forcing us to consider its mortality and need for rest and repair.”
– MoMA’s Karen Grimson , on Abraham Palatnik’s Kinechromatic Apparatus S-14 (1958), exhibited as part of “Sur moderno: Journeys of Abstraction—The Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Gift,” in a tribute published following the artist’s passing
Abraham Palatnik (1928–2020)
Brazilian artist, inventor, and designer Abraham Palatnik, a giant of kinetic and Op art who harnessed technology to create painterly images with light, movement, and shadow in his groundbreaking series Kinechromatic Devices (1951–2004), dies from COVID-19 in Rio de Janeiro.
“It is one of the great ironies of the present situation that what may be the only exhibition in London that you can currently go and visit ‘in the flesh’ consists entirely of work meant originally to be experienced online.”
Inspired by the Choose Your Own Adventure book series first popularized in the 1980s, Russian artist Dasha Ilina and screenwriter Sofia Haines launch Choose Your Own Quarantine , a browser game about navigating the uncertainties of the pandemic. “The user is presented with a scenario that initially follows the real timeline of COVID-19 development,” write the authors, “but as the game goes on, users will notice that the options become increasingly speculative and fictitious.” Which values, practices, and cultures will ultimately be enduring, and which may become outdated remnants of the pre-pandemic world?
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