Art & the Oil giant, an interview with Liberate Tate
Today is the last day to witness the week-long performance from Liberate Tate at the Tate Modern gallery. Filming devices strapped on to their bodies, performers are reading aloud sections of the...
View ArticleCultural Hijack
Cultural Hijack explores the role of art and the artist in contemporary society and offers the opportunity to rethink the growing field of intervention in relation to cultural activism and social...
View ArticleKit de Libertad de Expresión (Freedom of Speech Kit)
KLE - Kit de Libertad de Expresión (or Freedom of Speech Kit) is a portable digital device that allows people from all over the world to participate to remote protests by sending and displaying text...
View ArticleThe Pirate Cinema, A Cinematic Collage Generated by P2P Users
In the context of omnipresent telecommunications surveillance, "The Pirate Cinema" makes visible the invisible activity and geography of peer-to-peer file sharing. The project is presented as a...
View ArticleUnder the Shadow of the Drone
Under the Shadow of the Drone is a life-size depiction of a Reaper drone, one of a number of such weapons in service with US and UK forces. The Reaper is used for surveillance and bombing missions, in...
View ArticleLa Cosa Radiactiva / The Radioactive Thing
La Cosa Radiactiva is a "research on transparency and nuclear secrets. A performance to demystify radiation while building awareness of its risks. An imagination exercise to reflect on how it would be...
View ArticleOil City, ‘a spy thriller for the post-Occupy era’
Oil City takes audiences into the underbelly of London's oil economy, looking at UK finance for Canadian tar sands projects. By eavesdropping on business people and seeking out secret documents hidden...
View ArticlePost Cyberwar Series
Post Cyberwar proposes 3 methods to prepare for the time after a cyberwar: one is an open navigation system that uses seismic activity, the second one uses analogue television broadcasting to provide...
View Article#A.I.L – artists in laboratories, episode 37: James Bridle
I'm sure many of you have heard of James Bridle. Either because he coined and formulated the concept of New Aesthetic. Or because you're interested in drone warfare. A few months ago, Bridle launched...
View ArticleAnalyze Dat: TOR Visualization & online black markets
I knew about Bitcoin, i had heard of the Tor software that enables online anonymity but other than that, i felt that there was precious little i knew about the Deep Web, the vast submersed side of the...
View ArticleBook review – Sensible Politics. The Visual Culture of Nongovernmental Activism
Drawing on the work of a diverse group of contributors, from art historians, anthropologists, and political theorists to artists, filmmakers, and architects, Sensible Politics situates aesthetic forms...
View ArticleThe New Weathermen
In the face of impending climate crises, environmentalists are standing with the Bio-Conservatives or with the Techno-Progressives. However, a number of emerging factors suggest possible alternatives...
View ArticleDisobedience Archive (The Republic)
a video archive of global dissent which explores four decades of social disobedience: from the uprising in Italy in 1977 to the anti-globalization protests and to the insurrections in the Middle East...
View ArticleThis Will Have Been: Art, Love, and Politics in the 1980s
Art of the 1980s oscillated between radical and conservative, capricious and political, socially engaged and art historically aware continue
View Article#A.I.L – artists in laboratories, episode 41: Financial subversion with Brett...
Scott is the author of The Heretic's Guide to Global Finance. Hacking the Future of Money. The book "applies economic anthropology, gonzo exploration, hacker philosophy, DIY culture, and a bit of...
View Article#A.I.L – artists in laboratories, episode 46: Free Art and Technology Lab...
Today's guests are Evan Roth, Becky Stern, Geraldine Juárez and Magnus Eriksson from the Free Art and Technology Lab (F.A.T. Lab), a network of artists, engineers, scientists, lawyers, and musicians...
View Article"How to Expropriate Money from the Banks"& other Displaced Legal...
Nuría Güell has an impressive portfolio: she wrote a manual on How to Expropriate Money from the Banks, married a man from Cuba to give him her nationality, collaborated with a famous bank robber to...
View ArticleF.A.T. GOLD Europe – Five Years of Free Art & Technology
Showcasing a comprehensive selection of the group's diverse output, the exhibition includes video, software, net art, installation, and performance. F.A.T. Lab members will also be creating and...
View ArticleArt Turning Left: How Values Changed Making 1789-2013
The main preoccupation of the exhibition is not the militant commentaries behind artworks but the effect that political values and social movements have had on the production modes, aesthetics and...
View ArticleCritical Exploits. Interrogating Infrastructure
Critical Exploits showed how a new generation of artists, designers and engineers are taking a highly critical approach to the development and use of the engineered systems and infrastructures that we...
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