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The first-ever Binominale opens simultaneously at La Becque , Switzerland, and San Francisco’s Bass & Reiner gallery. A curatorial nod to 1960s conceptual art, instigating Swiss collective Fragmentin tasked two artist pairs from the respective countries, Bertille Laguet & Sherwin Rio and Bruno Aeberli & Rhonda Holberton , to recreate each other’s work remotely. The stated goal: minimizing the ecological impact by removing transportation.
“A neon-rose coloured room stinking nauseatingly of salmon farms; a series of melting ice blocks releasing the aromas of seeds from Svalbard Global Seed Vault; and a wall, which, upon being rubbed, releases the odours of 21 men who are afraid of being touched.”
Wolf Lieser’s DAM Gallery , one of the longest running entirely dedicated to digital art, reopens in a new location in Berlin Charlottenburg with “Discoveries” of never-before-seen plotter drawings from the early oeuvre of genre pioneers Vera Molnar and Manfred Mohr . Recovered during recent visits to the artists’ studios, the exhibited works date back to the early 1970s and 80s. Also on view: a new software homage to Vera Molnar, created by fellow pioneer Frieder Nake .
“As the camera keeps pixelating this fluctuating plane of oversaturated grays, a GPS dot tracks movements and we hear the buzzing of a device that makes electromagnetic radiation humanly audible.”
– Writer
Alexander Scrimgeour , parsing
Rosa Menkman ’s 2020 video piece
Whiteout , in which the Dutch artist narrates the loss of sensory reference points as she hikes up a mountain during a snowstorm—a sensation “theorized in hindsight with a riff on lines, scales, and reterritorialization”
“Terror Contagion” opens at Montréal’s MAC. Centre stage is Forensic Architecture ’s Digital Violence: How the NSO Group Enables State Terror , which probes the Israeli technology firm behind Pegasus , malware used to monitor the calls, emails, texts, and sensor data of activists and dissidents worldwide. At MAC, these findings are presented in an immersive installation featuring data sonification by Brian Eno and narration by Edward Snowden, and complemented by Laura Poitras ’ latest film, documenting the research.
“Through NTFs and the gold rush around them the term digital art has become less understood. It’s been reduced to singular digital images that don’t reflect the breadth of the medium, be it algorithmic drawing, software art, or installation art.”
– Digital art curator
Christiane Paul , detailing the “enormous confusion” that NFTs have created. “To be honest, it has been really, really frustrating for me,” Paul says.
“I think about it almost like big gusts of wind. The artists are in these small sailboats and can take the wind and go in the direction they want—or the wind is really overpowering.”
– Computational artist
Zach Lieberman , on how digital artists sail against (trade) winds emanating from Big Tech, and must either strike out on their own or be carried in the same direction as everyone else.
“The Modern Exorcist,” an exhibition steeped in techno-animism, opens at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan. Ten interdisciplinary artists including Yin-Ju Chen , Kate Cooper , Cécile B. Evans , Sidsel Meineche Hansen , Pakui Hardware , and Po-Chih Huang (image: Chair, Sandpaper, Cockroach, Ocean, Seven, Termite and Banana , 2021) interpret posthumanist vantage points through virtual bodies and networked systems that link people to objects and other species. After all, “what is human?”
OUT NOW :
Ludger Brümmer (ed)
The Hub: Pioneers of Network Music
ZKM
Hertz-Lab head
Ludger Brümmer contextualizes the work of American computer network music and live coding ensemble
The Hub in a monograph featuring annotated scores and extensive expert commentary.
“Every day you wake up in this country and you have a new problem. It isn’t our fault our governments are enemies. It’s already hard enough for us to survive.”
– An Iranian cab driver, on escalating cyber attacks between his country and Israel. Last month, Iran’s fuel distribution was hacked by Israel—causing massive disruptions; Iranian hackers responded by posting the personal data of 1.5 million Israelis on Telegram.
OUT NOW :
Disruption Network Lab
Whistleblowing for Change
29 luminaries including
Os Keyes ,
Trevor Paglen ,
Joana Moll , and
Charlotte Webb reflect on exposing systems of injustice and whistleblowing as an act of dissent in politics, society, and in the arts
“With crypto we’ve decided to do the most American thing ever, to commoditize our rage at the financial system into a financial product. After all, we’re just temporarily embarrassed millionaires and the only problem with CDOs wasn’t the moral hazard, but that you didn’t have a piece of the action.”
– Software engineer
Stephen Diehl , linking crypto to the trauma of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis
“Taskoch pipon kona kah nipa muskoseya, nepin pesim eti pimachihew | Like the winter snow kills the grass, the summer sun revives it” opens at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery (RMG) in Oshawa, Canada. Curated by Missy LeBlanc , the show features Joi Arcand (image: ekawiya nepewisi , 2017), Susan Blight , Tsēmā Igharas , and four other artists working in languages representing the seven major geographic regions of the land now known as Canada, ”celebrating and centering Indigenous language revitalization.”
“Past attempts to colonize space were spurned by civilization for being too boring. My goal is not only colonizing Mars, but entertaining everyone along the way.”
– Co-writers
Daniel Rourke &
GPT-3 , invoking the world’s richest man in
WHY I WANT TO FUCK ELON MUSK , a text for the upcoming “
All of Your Base ” exhibition at Aksioma (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
The Fall, a site-specific installation by Susan Philipsz , opens at Amsterdam’s Oude Kerk. Building on the former church’s acoustics and legacy, the Scottish artist has derived a ‘sonic tribute’ to composer and organist Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck , who was buried on site in the 17th century. Philipsz’ installation adds her voice to Sweelinck’s music, and suspends organ pipe forms in space, creating “descending scale sounds, which swell and evoke a sense of collapse, fragmentation, and absence.”
“You will still have your heart broken in a world without capitalism, but maybe you don’t have to have that and also be stressed out about your loan debt.”
– Artist and writer
Ingrid Burrington , discussing the merits (and nuances) of utopian narratives with science fiction writer
Tim Maughan at Oddstream’s “
Goodbye Internet ” mini-festival. “To me, any dystopia is hopeful,” notes Maughan. “Because it’s presenting something as being wrong.”
OUT NOW :
Bugniot, Dubačová, Hoppan
Stockpiling Food for Thought
“Imagining New Sensibilities During Quarantine,”
Sensorium Festival ’s Lucia Dubačová, Juraj Hoppan, and Célia Bugniot parse the pandemic through the lens of art and digital culture
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