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Jul 09

#A.I.L – artists in laboratories, episode 37: James Bridle

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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 Dronestagram which uses Google Earth images and data collected by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism to document systematically the locations of deadly U.S. drone strikes. Bridle has also been traveling from Istanbul to Brighton to Washington DC to paint crime scene-style outlines of UAVs continue

Jul 04

Post Cyberwar Series

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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 a wireless communication infrastructure and the last one would use London’s sewerage system to store data continue

Jun 12

Oil City, ‘a spy thriller for the post-Occupy era’

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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 in dead-drops, you will help piece together a puzzle that interweaves government files with financial deals continue

Jun 06

A Practical Guide to Squatting

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The order of the book is based on necessity, for instance it is important to know what to do to avoid arrest immediately after breaking into a building. And how to get access to drinking water, heat and cook food before dealing with issues of public space and establishing a communal economy continue

Jun 03

The Reposition Matrix

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The Reposition Matrix is an investigation into the military-industrial production and trading networks of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (also commonly referred to as Drones). The workshop aims to reterritorialise the drone as a physical, industrially-produced technology of war, and consequently explore how this affects our understanding of the covert drone campaigns in the Middle East continue

May 27

La Cosa Radiactiva / The Radioactive Thing

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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 like to live with radiation and above all this, a call about the importance of citizens having their own tools to be able to verify public health data provided by governmental authorities.” continue

May 20

Under the Shadow of the Drone

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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 the declared war zones of Afghanistan and Iraq, and in the illegal wars of assassination taking place in Pakistan, Yemen and elsewhere. Such wars are made possible by the invisibility of drones to most people continue

May 18

The Pirate Cinema, A Cinematic Collage Generated by P2P Users

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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 control room that reflects P2P exchanges happening in real time on networks using BitTorrent protocol. The installation produces an improvised and syncopated arrangement of files currently in exchange continue

May 13

Kit de Libertad de Expresión (Freedom of Speech Kit)

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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 messages in public space. The interactive banner is (unsurprisingly) inspired by the record number of social protests that took place in Spain in 2011. It is estimated that over 23.000 demonstrations have been organised that year around the country continue

May 07

Cultural Hijack

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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 change continue

Apr 26

Art & the Oil giant, an interview with Liberate Tate

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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 transcripts of the trial which started in February in New Orleans and sees BP stand accused of gross negligence over the Deepwater Horizon disaster, the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry continue

Apr 05

Book review – Unpleasant Design

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From enhanced-CCTV surveillance to bench handles, various tracking and prevention systems are employed in controlling the users of public space. These systems are often neatly designed and seamlessly integrated in the existing architecture, acting in a persuasive way on its users. While preventing unwanted interactions between the authorities and citizens, these systems leave no space for discussion or disobedience continue

Jan 17

#A.I.L / artists in laboratories, episode 16: Julian Oliver

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Our radio interview will focus on the Critical Engineering Manifesto that Julian wrote a year ago together with Gordan Savi?i? and Danja Vasiliev. Expect explanations about why Engineering is the most transformative language of our time, questions about how to adopt the critical engineering ethos if you have next to zero technical skills, and details about Julian Oliver’s upcoming projects continue

Jan 11

Critical Making

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A handmade book project by Garnet Hertz in the field of critical technical practice and critically-engaged maker culture. Critical making is defined by Ratto as exploring how hands-on productive work – making – can supplement and extend critical reflection on the relations between digital technologies and society. It also can be thought of as an appeal to makers to be critically engaged with culture, history and society continue

Nov 06

#A.I.L – artists in laboratories, episode 9

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Today in the radio show Neal White from The Office of Experiments will be talking declassified materials, underground bunker housing alternative Cabinet War rooms, cold war archive footage, Atomic Weapons Establishment, sites used by the UK Nuclear peace protestors, etc. I’d tune in if i were you continue

Oct 25

The Individual and the Organisation: Artist Placement Group 1966-79

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Between 1966 and the turn of the 1980s, APG negotiated approximately fifteen placements for artists lasting from a few weeks to several years; first within industries (often large corporations such as British Steel and ICI) and later within UK government departments such as the Department of Health and the Scottish Office continue

Oct 23

Brighton Photo Biennial – Agents of Change: Photography and the Politics of Space

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BPB12 explores how space is constructed, controlled and contested, how photography is implicated in these processes, and the tensions and possibilities this dialogue involves. This year’s Biennial provides a critical space to think about relationships between the political occupation of physical sites and the production and dissemination of images continue

Oct 14

My Labor is My Protest

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Some artists comment on real estate, some real estate developers are interested in art but i doubt that many people can be both artists and real estate developers. Actually i only know of one: Theaster Gates. He is an urban planner, a visual artist, a musician, a curator and an activist continue

Aug 28

Mind the System, Find the Gap

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Our society is governed by all sorts of systems and structures that organise and steer life. No system, however, whether political, judicial, economical, socio-cultural or spatial, can comprise life in its entirety. Every system has gaps, leaks and ambiguities.

The artists in the exhibition Mind the System, Find the Gap seek out these gaps. They set forth from this intermediate position to unveil, circumvent or criticise ruling systems and structures continue

Aug 23

dpr Barcelona – Looking for ‘gaps in the thinking’

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i’ll take the publication of the book “Weaponized Architecture: The Impossibility of Innocence” as an excuse to talk to Ethel Baraona Pohl and César Reyes Nájera who are both architects, bloggers and heads of the publishing house dpr-Barcelona continue

Hasta La Creative!

#A.I.L – artists in laboratories, episode 37: James Bridle

Post Cyberwar Series

Oil City, ‘a spy thriller for the post-Occupy era’

A Practical Guide to Squatting

The Reposition Matrix

La Cosa Radiactiva / The Radioactive Thing

Under the Shadow of the Drone

The Pirate Cinema, A Cinematic Collage Generated by P2P Users

Kit de Libertad de Expresión (Freedom of Speech Kit)

Cultural Hijack

Art & the Oil giant, an interview with Liberate Tate

Book review – Unpleasant Design

#A.I.L / artists in laboratories, episode 16: Julian Oliver

Critical Making

#A.I.L – artists in laboratories, episode 9

The Individual and the Organisation: Artist Placement Group 1966-79

Brighton Photo Biennial – Agents of Change: Photography and the Politics of Space

My Labor is My Protest

Mind the System, Find the Gap

dpr Barcelona – Looking for ‘gaps in the thinking’

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