Interview by Penny Rafferty – in Berlin; Monday, Feb. 29, 2015.
In recent decades many artists have turned their studios into offices from which they organize a multiplicity of operations and interactions. Others use the studio as a quasi-exhibition space, or abandon it completely for a flexible and mobile laptop…
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Interview by Celia Wickham; Friday, Feb. 26, 2016.
Through the creation of the online exhibition space
Art Baby Gallery, artist and curator
Grace Miceli has pioneered an inclusive and supportive network for the young female artists. Focusing on showcasing…
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Andreas Nicolas Fischer
by Alice Bardos // Feb. 25, 2016
Across the street from the once multifunctional studio space, nightclub, canvas for street ar Stattbad Wedding stands a hidden hinterhaus where Andreas…[read on]
Interview by April Dell – in Berlin; Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016.
BLUNTxSKENSVED are an artist duo made up of Canadian artists
Grégoire Blunt and
Emmy Skensved. With their online exhibitions, video works and installations, the Berlin-based pair…
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Interview by TL Andrews – in Berlin; Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2016.
This February acclaimed architect
Liam Young brought his storytelling event ‘Hello, City!’ to the
transmediale festival in Berlin. Like a modern day prophet Isaiah he uses the medium of film to cry out in the wilderness about the destruction our world is headed…
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Article by Benjamin Busch – in Berlin; Friday, Feb. 12, 2016.
In the last keynote conversation of
transmediale 2016,
Hito Steyerl presented a perplexing image to the audience. The classified material leaked by
Edward Snowden seemingly presents little more than static, or noise. Encrypted, the image would traditionally require machine decryption…
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Article by Alice Bardos – in Berlin // Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2016
To close your eyes is to forget her perfectly symmetrical yet generic face. To try to sing one of her hundreds of thousands of songs becomes a loss of words. It is no easier to try to replicate any of her
MikuMikuDance freeware …
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Lindsay Lawson
by Alison Hugill // Feb. 9, 2016
During the visit to Lindsay Lawson’s studio, we spent a significant amount of time searching for the perfect word to describe her heterogeneous practice,…[read on]
Interview by Alena Sokhan – in Berlin; Friday, Feb. 05, 2016.
Italian-born artist
Quayola has developed a practice around bringing back to life what are conventionally understood to be classical, and admittedly outdated images, particularly from the Italian Renaissance. Quayola’s works explore the composition of these images using programs…
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Interview by Lee Escobedo – in Berlin; Wednesday, Feb. 03, 2016.
It consumes, absorbs, appropriates, without hesitancy and without judgment. The net is an impartial landfill for all our latent desires and anxieties. When harnessed, it can be a beautiful simulacrum of abstraction, a place where our dreams and nightmares become bedfellows, exploring what was, is, and can be. Iranian-born new media artist and thinker …
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Interview by Penny Rafferty – in Berlin; Monday, Feb. 01, 2016.
Hatsune Miku is the Japanese sweetheart that’s hitting stages all over the world, albeit digitally. The 16 year old, Lolita-styled, sugar-pumping, singing synthesizer application developed by
Crypton Future Media has become a world famous pop idol. With her long turquoise hair and catchy lyrics she is dubbed the first humanoid…
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