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Combining robotic painting methods with Arabic artisanal practices, Liat Grayver and Nora Al-Badri ’s 4-day exhibition “Continuum” opens at Berlin’s transmediale Studio. Together with graffiti artist and computer scientist Daniel Berio , the two Berlin-based media artists explore, reconnect with, and reappropriate the aesthetic(al) heritage of their families’ Baghdad origins through the computational reproduction of calligraphy and ornamentation.
“I would really suggest experimenting with IBM’s public quantum computers using their Qiskit textbook, extracting data from various algorithms and then using that to generate forms using Processing or Unity or another digital software package.”
– Artist
and quantum physicist
Libby Heany , providing a
workflow that anyone (code savvy) could use to start experimenting with quantum computing
Deji Art Museum in Nanjing, China, opens with its inaugural exhibition “In the Line of Flight, for Possible Worlds.” Presenting installations, video, and interactive works by key artists including Pierre Huyghe , Tomás Saraceno , and “father of Chinese video art” Zhang Peili , curator Zhang Ga creates a “post-pandemic microcosm” for reflection. Peili’s XL Chamber (2017, image), for example, is an algorithmic ‘trap’ whose shutter doors open and close randomly.
“These withering years are killing trees,” writes climate and ecosystem researcher Daniel Griffin in the New York Times opinion pages. Not your usual op-ed, Griffin’s analysis is bolstered by graphics from Nathaniel Lash , that pan horizontally across the rings of a 500-year-old Mount Pinos Douglas fir, charting its 1538 saplinghood through stifling droughts over the centuries to, troublingly, its missing rings and slivers of growth in several post-2010 years.
“Something that struck me about Dr. Manhattan, is that he’s a melancholic figure. To me this didn’t align with his origins as a white physicist. I began to entertain the idea that Dr. Manhattan had been Black in his past life as a human.”
–
American Artist , on the origins of the metaphysical avatar featuring in his 2019 video
Blue Life Seminar and installation
I’m Blue (If I Was █████ I Would Die) that is modelled after the blue
Watchmen super-being and former LAPD officer
Christopher Dorner
Celebrating the 90th anniversary of the birth of the trailblazing Korean American media artist, “Nam June Paik: Super Baroque” opens in Seoul. Featuring late career works, it includes Sistine Chapel (1993), Paik’s Venice Biennale media architecture ‘update’ to Michelangelo’s frescoes, his similarly architecture-focused Baroque Laser One Candle (1998, image) with a video camera and five CRT projectors.
“In June of 2022, she streamed an average of 76.7 hours a week, which isn’t even on the high end for the creator. (In certain months, she exceeds 100 hours.)”
– Games journalist
Ana Diaz , describing the prolific streaming schedule popular Twitch personality
pokimane is taking a break from due to burnout
OUT NOW :
Elvia Wilk
Death by Landscape
A collection of “fan nonfiction” essays about living and writing during the age of extinction
In his ongoing pursuit of automating his artistic practice, Swedish artist Jonas Lund turned to AI to self-replicate into an army. Feeding a respective text prompt to OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 , a sea of Lunds emerged, making art on laptops in signature blue shirts and hats. “Me and my 50+ clones working in the studio on the next master piece,” he writes on Twitter as concerns over AI-powered image generators impacting artists negatively become ever louder.
Bringing her RGB eccentricity to French Canada, Sara Ludy ’s solo exhibition “Swimmer’s Canyon” opens at Art Mûr Montréal. In the titular VR piece, curated by Samuel Arsenault-Brassard , the American artist and composer sends viewers on a journey “through a star-filled canyon to a swimming hole, presenting a world populated by the absurd and the unknown.” Not in Montréal? The six VR scenes included can be viewed—and owned—as NFTs as well.
“Among the drivers’ complaints were the obscure way in which their accounts were blocked and the inequitable way in which fees earned by drivers were unilaterally decided and implemented by Uber.”
– University of Witwatersrand researchers
Hannah J. Dawson & Ruth Castel-Branco , on the conditions causing a December 2020 Johannesburg protest—Uber drivers disabled the app and refused new rides. Platform capitalism “threatens to extend informality into new sectors through ‘algorithmic insecurity,’” in the Global South
in particular , the duo argue.
Featuring 100 works by international designers and artists, “Unknown Unknowns,” an exhibition “whose boundaries are hazy and permeable” opens at Triennale Milano. Curated by astrophysicist Ersilia Vaudo , the show features new commissions from designer Irene Stracuzzi , architects SOM , and artist Refik Anadol . A fourth, Yuri Suzuki ’s Sound of the Earth: Chapter 3 (2022, image), is a globe comprised of 300 speakers that play an ambient megamix of crowdsourced geotagged field recordings.
What Just Happened :
Megan MacLaurin Centres “The Air We Share” by Taking GIF Art to the Streets
The Canadian curator discusses her new exhibition, glitch aesthetics, and the 2022 edition of Vector Festival
“And if we’re in a race between bad catastrophe and some kind of beginning prosperity for all—when you’re in a race that intense, you don’t want to sit down on the ground and start crying. ‘Oh, we’ve lost already.’ That would be a bad thing to do, because you’re in a race.”
– Science fiction author
Kim Stanley Robinson , on refusing to fall into despair or cynicism no matter how high the stakes of the climate crisis are
“The usual stories about disability teach us that disability is the exception when in fact it is the rule,” writes Rosemarie Garland-Thomson , introducing freshly published Manual 17. The credo carries through the issue of the RISD Museum periodical (its theme: ‘variance’), which includes a rumination on how body mods and tattoos are a form of Crip Futurism, and an ode to the ingenuity of the plywood leg splint Charles and Ray Eames designed during WW2 (1941-2, image).
“Seeing the dystopias of your own imagination being created is not the best thing you could wish for.”
– Surviving
Superstudio member Piero Frassinelli, expressing his contempt for the resemblance between
The Line , a region of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s ‘city of the future’ Neom and the
Continuous Monument (1969-70) proposal his studio dreamt up decades ago
DOSSIER :
“When I look at Molnar’s many ‘transformations’ of the square, I see not only the automation of composition through algorithms, but also a celebration of the everyday beauty of the vitally imperfect.”
– Art historian, curator, and
Weaving Variations guest voice
Tina Rivers Ryan , on Vera Molnar’s “corrupted squares” and “challenging the modernist cult of rationality
with its own tools ”
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