BIP2010 - The Acrobatic Squad

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The 7th International Biennial of Photography and Visual Arts in Liege is one of the most exciting art events i've seen in a while. This year's theme is (Out of) Control. It oscillates between the cheerful and the somber, between the mundane and the extraordinary. I'll get back to you with a proper report but i couldn't help singling out a quirky series of photos i discovered at the biennial continue
Sensity V & A, an interview with Stanza

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Or how an exhibition i disliked gave me the opportunity to interview an artist whose work i've been admiring ever since i started the blog continue
Book Review - Data Flow 2: Visualizing Information in Graphic Design

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Data Flow 2 expands the definition of contemporary information graphics. The book features new possibilities for diagrams, maps, and charts. It investigates the visual and intuitive presentation of processes, data, and information. Concrete examples of research and art projects as well as commercial work illuminate how techniques such as simplification, abstraction, metaphor, and dramatization function continue
Japan Media Arts festival - The Art Division

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Onion scanners, tv screens used as percussion instruments, storm inside a transparent cylinder, genetically modified blue carnations brought back to their original white, techy Japanese-style glockenspiel, etc. continue
Exhibition tip - GaMe! at the [DAM] gallery in Berlin

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The exhibition presents six international positions on the subject of computer games and electronic toys. The spectrum includes interactive computer games, developed by artists, a film collage of modified content of commercial games as well as small toy robots; furthermore four photos from a series showing male adolescents during a LAN-party continue
Book Review - World of Giving

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Acknowledging that each of us is inclined to give, this illuminating publication reveals how a beneficent deed contributes to an environment of increasing generosity in addition to enhancing the capabilities of its recipient. As a shared value, giving can grow to be a meaningful collective force that affects the world in surprising ways continue
Golden Orb Spider Farm

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In the years to come, might the best employers encourage women to work longer by offering them the means to unlimited fertility in the form of a golden orb spider farm from which to harvest silk for their luxury spare womb? continue
Art and Medicine at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo (Part 2)

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In light of the latest developments in biotechnology, cybernetics and neuroscience, the mixture of medical exhibits and works of art introduces visitors to developments in bioscience and issues they entail. Can our definition of life remain unchallenged? Is the human commitment to reproduce going to remain the same? How much can medical and scientific developments impact the way we love and live? continue
Art and Medicine at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo (Part 1)

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Prosthetics, anatomical drawings by Michelangelo, ornate amputation saw from ca. 1650, disturbing videos by Patricia Piccinici, Tibetan anatomical figures, a painting by Damien Hirst. Some 150 medical artifacts from the Wellcome Collection in London and works of old Japanese and contemporary art are exhibited side by side. Without any hierarchy nor anxiety continue
...and Counting

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Wafaa Bilal's latest project addresses the issue of the invisibility of Iraqi civilian deaths during the war. The artist will submit his body to a 24-hour live performance. His back will be tattooed with a borderless map of Iraq covered with one dot for each Iraqi and American casualty near the cities where they fell continue
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