Article by Alan Smart in Berlin // Jul. 06, 2017
The exhibition ‘Ladies Night in Lascaux’ by Hope Esser and Liz McCarthy, now on display at Exgirlfriend Gallery in Steglitz offers a new narrative explaining the Lascaux cave in Southern France. The cave’s… [read on]
Article by Alan Smart // June 13, 2016
Michael Mandiberg is a Brooklyn-based software artist and media scholar. Mandiberg has written software that parses the entirety of the Wikipedia database and programmatically lays it out into thousands…[read on]
Blog post by Alan Smart – in Berlin; Monday, Dec. 21, 2015.
Regarding Spectatorship: Revolt and the Distant Observer, curated by
Marianna Liosi and
Boaz Levin, is the latest in a series of exhibitions at
Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, which offers an account of the contemporary condition by pulling works and practices from out of history and into the present. Unlike…
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By Alan Smart // Sept. 16, 2015
Over Skype, I spoke with Fred Scharmen of the Working Group on Adaptive Systems from his Baltimore studio to discuss his latest “speculative utopian design proposal” for a Nonhuman Autonomous Space Agency…[read on]