Article by Alice Bardos in Berlin // Jul. 01, 2016
Swaying robotic arms and bending frequencies are features in the playground of Joris Strijbos. His goal in tinkering with the potential of each digital and mechanical element is to produce a generative system—to make a…[read on]
Article by TL Andrews in Berlin // Jun. 23, 2016
Inasmuch as a stoic, blue-jeans wearing, pavement spitting man in the 70s would be considered a man’s man, the production of ‘Mephistoland’ at Maxim Gorki Theater…[read on]
Article by TL Andrews // June 21, 2016
The term “Afrofuturism” was coined in the 1990s by the cultural critic Mark Dery, who recognized a preoccupation with the future in the work of a number of black artists. Ever since, it has remained a term…[read on]
Article by Caitlin Eyre in Berlin // Jun. 20, 2016
Celebrated contemporary German photographer Thomas Struth is renowned for his wide-ranging documentation of urban and natural landscapes, portraits, museums and places of worship…[read on]
Article by Julianne Cordray // June 17, 2016.
Permitting an intimate glimpse into the lives of girls coming of age in China at a moment in which the role of women is evolving and changing, Luo Yangs photographs illuminate the simultaneous independence…[read on]
Article by William Kherbek // June 15, 2016
‘Utopia Banished’ is the title of an album by the legendary British death metal band, Napalm Death. The album explores the psychic consequences of a political space in which idealism dies with a…[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]
Article by Nathaniel Marcus in Berlin // Jun. 10, 2016
The term neo-tribe is a sociological concept first used in a scholarly context by Michel Maffesoli, who posited that human beings have evolved to exist in tribal groups rather than mass society. The methods of…[read on]
Interview by George Nebieridze // June 08, 2016.
For some people, Berlin is a fast-paced party place. Trends and art movements are constantly changing. A select few manage to master this chaos by working hard and pursuing their passions…[read on]
Article by Alice Bardos // June 07, 2016
New York-based new media artists Alfredo Salazar-Caro and William James Richard Robertson, are using their gamer backgrounds to shed light on current issues within the domain of art…[read on]
Article by Penny Rafferty // June 04, 2016
When we think of the future we are often draw to images of white, anarcho-capitalist machinery, our only lifeline a Soylent drip three times a day. But what if our future wasn’t so far away? In fact, what if…[read on]
Article by Caitlin Eyre // May 30, 2016
Austrian contemporary artist Erwin Wurm has explored the boundaries between sculpture, object and performance since the late 1980s. His latest solo exhibition, Bei Mutti (‘At Mum’s’), at the Berlinische Galerie…[read on]
