From Commons to NFTs: Digital objects and radical imagination
From Commons to NFTs is an (expanded) writing series initiated by Shu Lea Cheang, Felix Stalder & Ewen Chardronnet. First text by Felix Stalder.
From Commons to NFTs: Introduction to a series of seven essays
"From Commons to NFTs" is an (expanded) writing series initiated by Shu Lea Cheang (KOP), Felix Stalder & Ewen Chardronnet (Makery). Every last day of the month during the next six months Makery will publish a new contribution of this "chain essays".
Art4Med: Reappropriating personal history through writing in Copenhagen
At the Center for Art and Mental Health in Copenhagen, Ida Bencke, Birgit Bundesen and Nazila Kivi organized writing workshops and an exhibition around the theme of maternity.
MakersXchange: Waag, an interview with Miha Turšič
MakersXchange is conducting in-depth interviews of makers about mobility, good practices for social inclusion and skills development. Meet Miha Turšič from Waag.
MakersXchange: Buinho, an interview with Carlos Alcobia
MakersXchange is conducting in-depth interviews of makers about mobility, good practices for social inclusion and skills development. Meet Carlos Alcobia from Buinho.
Emilia Tikka: Transformation with the ‘more than human’ in the Arctic
In the framework of the ART4MED program, designer and film maker Emilia Tikka collaborates with artist and reindeer herder Leena and Oula Valkeapää to question biomedical enhancement and posthuman survival. Correspondence.
MakersXchange: Digijeunes, an interview with Simone Ferrecchia
MakersXchange is conducting in-depth interviews of makers about mobility, good practices for social inclusion and skills development. Meet Simone Ferrecchia from Digijeunes.
MakersXchange: Foreningen Maker, an interview with Malte Hertz Jansen
MakersXchange is conducting in-depth interviews of makers about mobility, good practices for social inclusion and skills development. Interview with Malte Hertz Jansen from Foreningen Maker (DK).
SYN Fab Lab, an interview with Olivia Kotsifa for MakersXchange
MakersXchange is conducting in-depth interviews of makers about mobility, good practices for social inclusion and skills development. Meet Olivia Kotsifa from SYN Fab Lab.
At UrsuLaB in Bourges, the world is a forest
Antre Peaux hosted the second (post-pandemic) opening of its new UrsuLaB: an artistic biolab dedicated to living things and ecologies.
MakersXchange : Interview with Enrico Bassi from OpenDot in Milano
MakersXchange is conducting in-depth interviews of makers about mobility, good practices for social inclusion and skills development. Meet Enrico Bassi from OpenDot in Milano.
How to draw with sound, opening-up the creative usage of laser projections
Projekt Atol was hosting Modul@rnice by Bernhard Rasinger (New Jörg) and Václav Peloušek (Bastl Instruments) in Ljubljana. Makery discussed the project with Tina Dolinšek (Projekt Atol) and Václav Peloušek.
MakersXchange: Interview with Mika Cimolini and Urška Krivograd, from the Centre for Creativity in Slovenia
MakersXchange is conducting in-depth interviews of makers about mobility, good practices for social inclusion and skills development. Interview with Mika Cimolini and Urška Krivograd, from the Centre for Creativity (Slovenia).
Kongo Astronauts: “the astronaut feels like a foreigner on his own planet, exiled by fate”
Kongo Astronauts was founded in Kinshasa in 2013 by Eléonore Hellio and Michel Ekeba. Their transmedia art practice includes performance, video and networked art.
MakersXchange: Interview with André Rocha, FabLab Benfica
MakersXchange is conducting in-depth interviews of makers about mobility, good practices for social inclusion and skills development. Meet André Rocha from FabLab Benfica.
What can we learn from the makers who organized to locally produce open source respirators?
Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, makers across France and Belgium got organized to prototype open source ventilators. A research study by Interreg FabricAr3v.
Hopeful Monsters: Dreaming of Airships as the Future of Transportation
In Airship Dreams: Escaping Gravity exhibition and publication, artist Mike Stubbs explores Britain’s Imperial Airship programme, as well as reflecting on our sense of place, belonging and ownership of our society and its direction.
Domingo Club: “We’d like to share fabrication recipes like we share food recipes”
Designers Maud Bausier and Antoine Jaunard, co-founders of the Domingo Club in Barcelona, made a tempeh incubator that was awarded at this year’s Distributed Design Awards.
Human germline gene editing is bioart: an open letter to Lulu and Nana
Adam Zaretsky’s last essay in his summer series of speculative texts is a letter to Lulu and Nana, the controversial "CRISPR babies" born in November 2018.
Behind the scenes at the wrapping of the Arc De Triomphe
One of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s most ambitious projects is due to be completed posthumously in September, the wrapping of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.