Berlin, February 2 – March 5, 2017, http://www.transmediale.de This was a very nice new media art exhibition. Everything was perfectly set up, with theatrical spot lighting in a dimly lit spacious hall. There was a perfect balance of different media, as well as artwork sizes. There were some screens with videos, but not too many,…
Berlin, 6pm-8pm, February 5, 2017, https://2017.transmediale.de Johannes Paul Raether was talking first. His artwork Protektor.x.x has been also part of the transmediale exhibition. All his thought seem to be channeled through the set of colorful clown-like alter ego performances, where he addresses the questions of gender and biotechnology. He talked about witches preventing a rationalization…
Berlin, February 04, 2017, http://transmediale.de First the three panelists each had 10-15 minute presentations, followed by a longer discussion, all moderated by Krystian Woznicki. Jutta Weber talked about technology, the fact that technology is not neutral. She talked about databases and their never-ending-list-like structure that is very different from the narrative storytelling inherent in prior,…
Berlin, Febuary 4, 2017, http://transmediale.de This session was dedicated to the “others” that help to mediate between humans and the “real” whatever that is: Non-human agents that could emerge in the form of algorithms, but also technological layers, and, actually, anything. Even a stone could be an actor, if we go by the new materialism…
Berlin, February 03, 2017, http://transmediale.de/ A busy panel with lots of people: Jessie McLean, media artist, presenting eternal Photoshop climbing video. Grada Kilomba, writer and artist, focusing on colonial and postcolonial topics, emancipation of marginalized groups. Susan Schuppli, media artist, utilizing found footage of massacres to question mediated evidence. Ryan Bishop, media/political theorist talking about…
Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Feb 3, 2017, https://transmediale.de Felix Stalder (moderator): Tracing Information Society Timeline exhibited at NGBK. If we feel that a new paradigm is “here”, isn’t it already too late to think about it? Doesn’t it mean we are already right in the middle of it? Jutta Weber: Technosecurity, globalization of…
Prague, National Gallery, Trade Fair Palace, October 5, 2016 – February 2, 2017 (Jiri Kovanda), October 5, 2016 – February 19, 2017 (Moving Image + Megan Clark), http://www.ngprague.cz
Prague, February 1 – March 7, 2017, http://www.dscgallery.com Entering Viktor Freso’s show felt not like being in Prague, but rather at some international art fair location, somewhere, someplace on the annual trajectory followed by the nomadic art crowd of gallerists, dealers, curators and collectors. The sculptures were large, bright and assertive, pointing to a capital-intensive…
Prague, November 8, 2016 – March 12, 2017, https://www.galerietancicidum.cz/ Jan Kaplicky is a Czech emigree architect and designer who spent most of his life in the UK. He is mostly known for buildings that he did not build, and a retrospective showcase of these comprised the core of the exhibition. In the latter part of…
