Jessica Law In the age that denies that very existence of society, to insist on the scandal of the world’s increasingly grotesque ‘connectedness’, hidden merciless grinding away beneath the slick superficial liquidity of markets, is akin to putting oneself in…
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Beyond Beyond Locative Media: Art, Data and the Politics of Place
Jessica Thompson In the influential text Beyond Locative Media published in 2006, Marc Tuters and Kazys Varnelis contextualized a growing body of artworks that used locative apparatuses to generate situated experiences in public space.[1] Written following the ‘demise’ of net.art,…
Hawk Eye View: Shifting the ‘Surveillant’ Gaze
Stéphanie McKnight (Stéfy) Since the start of the War on Terror, scholars, journalists, and artists have been actively engaging and contending with theories of privacy, preemption, data security, and contemporary surveillance.[1] Drawing from ongoing conversations relating surveillance to concepts of…
A Collaborative Diagram
matthews AND allen DIAGRAM FOR A COLLABORATIVE GAME Players: matthews and allen. Each player will select a word from the preceding text. The word will be placed under erasure. The selected word will be used to generate a dialogic response.…
Topological Diagrams
Gregory Minissale While the novice senses a beautiful idea the imperial astronomer elaborates a vision of a celestial physics come down to earth in the form of music. The notion of the music of the spheres, passed down from Plato…
Thoughts on Susan Giles’ Scenic Overlook
Allison Peters Quinn Spires, arches, and architectural fragments define the language through which interdisciplinary artist Susan Giles communicates our technology-driven worldview. She makes sculptures, installations, and video work to examine our relationship to known architecture and geographic locations: how we…
Orders of Magnitude
Adrian Göllner All images by and courtesy the artist. In the spring of 2015, I set myself the goal of casting an explosion in bronze. This would not be a representational endeavour, but the casting of an actual rapidly expanding…
Drawing Directions In an Age of the Ready-made Map
Rebecca Noone In the early 1960s, artist Stanley Brouwn stood on a street corner in Amsterdam and asked people for directions. ‘Could you draw that out for me?’ Now, in the age of Google Maps and the always-locating app, I…
Although I Understand The Hierarchy
Hannah Karsen All images by and courtesy the artist, Untitled, 2016, Archival Inkjet Print. Although I understand the hierarchy is a series of work that explores the borrowed language of painting within found makeup marks. While a signifier for the…
Use(ful/less) Schematics
Maxwell Hyett All images by and courtesy the artist. Boredom Studies, open, 2016, Acetate. ‘[A] signifier that has lost its signified has thereby been transformed into an image.’ – Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism and Consumer Society INTRODUCTION Agreement, objectivity, perfect communication:…