In 2017, a quintessential White Cube was built and inaugurated on a former Unilever palm oil plantation in Lusanga, DR Congo. The white cube attracts the capital and visibility needed to invent a new ecological and economic model on site: the post-plantation. Credit: Human Activities and the plantation workers’ art league Cercle d’Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise (CATPC)

Ethical Engagement with NFTs – Impossibility...

Ethical Engagement with NFTs – Impossibility or Viable Aspiration?

Published 31 March 2022 by Michelle Kasprzak

“From Commons to NFTs” is an (expanded) writing series initiated by Shu Lea Cheang, Felix Stalder & Ewen Chardronnet. Third text by Michelle Kasprzak.

Generativemasks #4683 and #1446 by Shunsuke Takawo

Can NFTs be used to build (more-than-human)...

Can NFTs be used to build (more-than-human) communities? Artist experiments from Japan

Published 28 February 2022 by Yukiko Shikata

“From Commons to NFTs” is an (expanded) writing series initiated by Shu Lea Cheang, Felix Stalder & Ewen Chardronnet. Second text by Yukiko Shikata.

Lucile Haute presenting the program and the speakers of the workshop

Biomaterials, Fermentation and Kombucha...

Biomaterials, Fermentation and Kombucha at Nimes University

Published 16 February 2022 by Maya Minder

A two-week Bachelor of Design class at the University of Nîmes (France), initiated by artist and academic Lucile Haute, experimented with biofabrication using kombucha cellulose, novel material.

Lucy Ojomoko, Helena Nikonole, Art4Med residents at Kersnikova, Ljubljana © Hana Jošić, Kersnikova Institute

Art4Med: Smelling as a multipurpose sense...

Art4Med: Smelling as a multipurpose sense of the future

Published 9 February 2022 by Dare Pejić

Quorum sensing, an investigative art science project by Helena Nikonole and Lucy Ojomoko, proposes smelling as potential detection activity to track diseases and becomes a (self)diagnosing tool.

The Real Crypto Movement