Seven Pieces of Advice for a Young Designer
The second issue of Tecnologias Cognitivas is devoted to Digital Design and Networks. The issue is edited by Lucia Leão, who interviewed me about my professional path, concepts and…
Writing
From Readymade to Ready Media
From Readymade to Ready Media: Opening lecture for the MIS-SP open course in Art History (January 30, 2010).The lecture presents methodological parameters for situating media art within art…
From Ready-Made to Ready-Media (Inaugural Lecture)
MIS-SP invited me to give the inaugural lecture for the open art history course the institution will run over the next year and a half. I took the opportunity to consider methodological…
Video After the Tube
Gary Hill, 58, is a leading figure in contemporary art. His work is a touchstone in the history of media art. Born in California, he has been developing video projects since the 1970s.In…
New Book: Urban Screens
The Urban Screens Reader is the fifth book published by the Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam, directed by the masterful Geert Lovink. The books can be ordered by mail and…
Just What Is It that Makes Today’s Delusions So Different, So Appealing? (Factoría)
¿QUÉ ES LO QUE HACE A LOS ESPEJISMOS DE HOY TAN DIFERENTES, TAN ATRACTIVOS? is the title of the inaugural exhibition at Factoría (Santiago de Compostela, Spain). I am participating with…
Spaces of contemporary art
Spaces of contemporary art was the topic I was invited to speak about at Red Bull House of Art, at the invitation of the curators, Lucas Bambozzi e Maria Monteiro. I was there at a…
We Must De-template
“Interface Design for Reprogramming Uses: We Must De-template” is the workshop I am running today at IxDA 09 - South America. In the workshop, I discuss projects proposing critical and…
Art & Photography
Last week, on the 13th, I took part in the Fourth Art & Photography Seminar organized by Tadeu Chiarelli’s research group at ECA-USP. In addition to lectures and papers, this fourth edition…
From a critique of use to the critical use of media
Yesterday, at the Digital Culture Forum, I presented some ideas about what I consider the conditions for digital art’s existence. Daniel Hora published such a good summary of my talk that I…