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Category Archives: Art

Transtechnology Research Public Dialogues 2013: At the Interlude Between Body, Artifact and Discourse

13-Apr-13

The Transtechnology Research Group have a CFP out. All the blurb is HERE. I’ve pasted the short version below. Transtechnology Research Public Dialogues 2013: At the Interlude between Body, Artifact and Discourse 12-14 July 2013, Transtechnology Research, Plymouth University  Transtechnology Research is pleased to invite paper submissions and panel participation for dialogues at the Interlude between [...]

Exeter Talk PDF: Anti-Anthropocentrism: Politics, Art and Aesthetics beyond Thought.

23-Mar-13

Ok here is the talk I gave at Exeter this week. It’s the same deal – the PDF is HERE , but I’ve pasted the text underneath for those who prefer to read on phones, etc. The talk won’t make too much sense without the slides, so here is the movable mov. file too. (give [...]

Graham’s thoughts on art and SR

03-Mar-13

Graham’s weighed in with a few thoughts on some of the SR/art conferences / speculative themes going on at the moment (of which one, D.U.S.T’s Weaponizing Speculation, is still going as I speak). I think he’s spot on of course, but what some readers may not know is that I have a 10,000 word essay [...]

Video + PDF: Continental Realism and Computation: Turing’s Propaganda

03-Mar-13

So here’s the talk I gave yesterday. It got a good response I think, so that was better than I could have hoped for. Its been a great conference and exhibition –  and also just a great energy here in Dublin. Everyone is on top form, with top quality ideas and tremendous creative lo-fi experimentation [...]

Weaponising Speculation webcast

01-Mar-13

The event will be live streamed HERE. I’ll be live-streamed approximately 10.15 am GMT (thank god I’m first up – I’ll enjoy everything afterwards).

BWPWAP and that.

01-Feb-13

Unfortunately due to other commitments and finances (again) I couldn’t attend Transmediale this year. I caught little pieces and titbits from the online streaming, but I’ve been working for most of this week. But the DARC guys at Aarhus have been busy again producing another peer reviewed newspaper (the third one now I think) – [...]

International Art English (IAE) = Academic Mumblespeak

29-Jan-13

For yesterday’s Guardian Online, Andy Beckett published an article lamenting the type of language contemporary art galleries use to describe their exhibits and artworks more generally. It’s not exactly a fair minded article, nor does it have anything new to say – but it is, in places, extremely funny. In short, the article asks why so much [...]

Georgio Morandi: Lines of Poetry

23-Jan-13

There is a new exhibition on Georgio Morandi at the Estorick Collection, London, called Lines of Poetry. I’ve heard that they’ve brought together quite a few drawings and watercolours not previously seen in the UK – and more excitingly it collects all of the most important graphic work he did, including drawings there weren’t characteristically [...]

Bad at Sports: “What is there”, An Introduction to OOO and art

22-Jan-13

Starting from today, I’ll be writing a regular blogpost/article/piece on OOO for the Chicago-based arts blog ‘Bad at Sports” The first text is already online. It is the first part of an Introduction to OOO and its possible relation to art and aesthetics – called ‘What is there?”

Various Stuff happening in Dublin

16-Jan-13

So I’ll be in Dublin at the start of March for two very special events; First, I’ll be doing something at the NCAD on March 4th together with Francis Halsall on SR / art – not sure what, but I’ve been itching to get over there for some time now. Second, I’ll be at D.U.S.T’s [...]