Astarte Rowe Introduction: Art is Amoebic This essay was largely written in concert with an exhibition I curated at the Critical Distance gallery in Toronto, Ontario, titled The Amoebic Workshop: A Submerged Exhibition, which opened on 21 September 2016.[1] Along…
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Uninhabiting the Corrosive Littoral of the Anthropocene in the Levelled Sands of Being
Justin Clemens ‘The poetry of earth is never dead’ — John Keats Like many other people, I believe we are living in the end times — at least for the earth as a habitable place for humans and, indeed, for so…
Microontologies of Art, Design, and Architecture
by Myra J. Hird When Martyn Tranter, a biogeochemist at the University of Bristol, forgot his glacier goggles whilst conducting research in Greenland, he discovered something breathtaking. Without his color-filtering eyewear, Tranter encountered a kaleidoscope of mauve, green, red, and…