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Ed Atkins. Kunsthalle Zurich

In his work, which includes videos, video installations, texts and drawings, British artist Ed Atkins (born 1982, lives and works in London) explores the virtuality of our contemporary visual world and its profound effect on the reality of our embodied lives. His High-Definition videos and powerful soundtracks question their own technical accomplishments, promises and ideologies.... READ MORE...

Alexandra Bachzetsis, Claire Hooper. Bonner Kunstverein

Contemporary pop culture as expressed for example in R&B occupies both Alexandra Bachzetsis and Claire Hooper in their works. While Alexandra Bachzetsis deconstructs in a rather analytical manner, Claire Hooper employs its inherent seductive aspects for her own purposes. The artists explore the increasing significance given by social media to the staging of “personality” and “life.”... READ MORE...

Artefact Festival 2014

Artefact is STUK's (media art center in Leuven, Belgium - http://www.stuk.be/) annual arts festival, focusing on (visual) culture, current affairs and scientific challenges. The programme consists of an extensive thematical exhibition with international artists, and lectures and performances linked to the central theme - both at STUK and in the centre of Leuven. Next to that, STUK and Het Depot present an ingenious music line-up during a three-day music festival.... READ MORE...

Shiro Takatani: Camera Lucida. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography

This first-ever museum exhibition by Shiro Takatani presents a survey of his endeavors, both as artistic director of the internationally known performance art collective Dumb Type, doing video, lighting, graphics and set design for the group, and as a solo visual artist whose imaging [video and photo] works offer deep insights into the natural environment and diverse physical phenomena... READ MORE...

Cinema in the time of workflow. The digital revolution and film criticism’s Ancien Régime

In 2007, when I started my collaboration with Digicult and writing for Digimag, I discussed with its editor, Marco Mancuso, about what could be the areas of intersection between digital art and cinema. At the time I was still rather fresh from a university degree course in film studies that was largely, if not entirely, based on textbooks using a terminology that was light-years far from actual, hands-on film-making. Six years later cinema was fully digitalized, but the language of film criticism has remained virtually unchanged.... READ MORE...