The Future of Technology
I participated in the latest edition of the Museu da Vale International Seminars. Alongside an impeccable program, the event produced a web series featuring all the guests. This is “my”…
Writing
Essays, criticism, lectures, news and activity records, organized by publication date.
Mobile Art — Links
Interventions in Urban Networks (cybrid and expanded spaces in contemporary art and the city) is the graduate course I teach at FAU-USP.The course syllabus is here. Links to the art…
A museum of great (old) novelties
Pop culture celebrates the past in music, fashion, design, architecture, and entertainment, turning the moment into a monument to a present that never was Everything is restored, from…
Django!
Want to take Tarantino seriously? Don’t take Tarantino seriously Django confirms it: Tarantino is the master of Avant-Pop. An ironic, anthropophagic scourge of the Hollywood industry and…
Three Junctures of Remix
Three Junctures of Remix, curated by Eduardo Navas.It runs Jan. 17 to March 15 in the gallery@calit2.The exhibition THREE JUNCTURES OF REMIX features the art of Mark Amerika & Chad…
Memories of the Future of an Art Without a Past
Net art has always been a problem in space, failing to fit exhibition traditions. It became a problem for time, disappearing along with the sites it linked to, the servers that hosted it,…
Liquid Memories
Some thoughts. Inspired by our Symposium "Possible Futures – Art, Museums and Digital Archives" www.fau.usp.br/digitalmemory Few words have become as commonplace as “memory”. Memory, which…
Arte. BR: Technophagic, Adhocratic, and Radicant
[Bilingual catalog]DownloadArte. BR: Tecnofágica, adhocrática e radicante [English version: Download catalog] Technophagy is neither a trend nor a movement, but a personal concept developed…
III Mostra 3M de Arte Digital
Tecnofagias was the central concept of the III Mostra 3M de Arte Digital. Held at Instituto Tomie Ohtake in São Paulo from August 15 to September 16, 2012, the exhibition brought together…
From Page Culture to Data Culture
The migration from page culture to data culture is the topic I address today in the series Graphic Design Today: Testimonies and Related Topics, organized by Centro Universitário Maria…
Cinecidades
The documentary Cinecidades premieres today. Directed by André Costa, it discusses the relationship between technology, cinema, and urban space, presenting works and interventions by…
Codings
Curated by Nick Montfort, Codings shows the computer as an aesthetic, programmed device that computes on characters. The works in the show continue and divert the traditions of concrete…
GB @UbuWeb
The year has started well. Some of my better- and lesser-known projects, including videos and visual poems, have been incorporated into the rigorous and generous collection of UbuWeb,…
Nomadismos Tecnológicos
Nomadismos tecnológicos (dispositivos móviles: usos masivos y prácticas artísticas), G. Beiguelman and Jorge La Ferla (eds.). Barcelona: Ariel, 2011. DownloadThe Portuguese edition of…
Txt, txt, txt
Since August — more precisely, since the Timthumb disaster — this site has been limping along.I still haven’t managed to get organized again. I had to reformat the server (what a pain!),…
SeLecT on Newsstands
[facebook] SeLecT is a cultural journalism publication committed to the 21st century.It embraces convergence among the visual arts, technology, design and behavior, activating a broad…
From Interaction to Agency
The 21st century will enter history books as the starting point of the post-virtual era: an age in which networks have become so present in everyday life, and the digitization of culture so…
Information Curation
Among the many terms and roles born with Web 2.0, information curator deserves attention. This discussion, virtually—if not entirely—absent from media art, where debates about online…
Counter-information design
The international Design and Politics seminar took place in Belo Horizonte this weekend.The slides from my presentation at the closing panel are here. Highlights of the symposium: Saskia…
Realengo: Wholesale and Retail
Like everyone, I am shocked by the attack on a public school in Rio de Janeiro by a madman who shot the students. He killed 12 children, injured 10 and traumatized thousands.Today I…