How ISEA2020 in Montreal evolved from the physical to the virtual
On the eve of the opening of ISEA2020 in Montreal, Makery spoke to Erandy Vergara, Programming Director and Artistic Co-Chair of this year’s edition.
by Rob La Frenais
Since November 2015, the independent curator and critic Rob La Frenais conducts Future of Transportation, a research project in art and design with the Srishti Institute of Bengalore in India.
Ars Electronica 2020: tales of a Traveling Plant
Sharpen your thorns and you will travel safely! How a Traveling Plant challenged the restrictions of a post-virus Ars Electronica.
Manifesta, the European Nomadic Biennale, drops anchor in Marseille
After Palermo in 2018, Manifesta organises its thirteen edition in Marseille, in the context of a year marked by Covid-19. For the first time organised in France, Manifesta will last until November 29.
Dasha Ilina: DIY, humour, yoga, martial arts and human-machine interactions
Dasha Ilina recently got an honorary mention at Ars Electronica for her faux corporation offering therapy for those constantly on their phones, the ‘Center For Technological Pain’.
‘Art as We Don’t Know It’: Against the Unbearable Whiteness of Bioart
The recently published 'Art as We Don’t Know It' catalogue showcases art and research that has grown and flourished within the wider network of both the Bioart Society and Aalto University's Biofilia lab in Finland during the previous decade. Review.
Slower travel: new post-viral geographies in Europe
The independent curator and critic Rob La Frenais runs the "Future of Transportation" group on Facebook. New chronicle about mobility after the lockdown.
New mobilities after the lockdown: How about retooling the airline industry?
Independent curator and critic Rob La Frenais runs the "Future of Transportation" group on Facebook. He writes in Makery his thoughts about mobility after the lockdown.
Spring at Science Gallery London: Attention Reproducers!
The new exhibition at London’s Science Gallery, "considers gender in relation to fashion, reproductive technologies, gaming and changing ecologies".
Devastation becomes a Continuum that can be Gamed, a review of the 2020 Transmediale Symposium
The 2020 edition of Transmediale was on the subject of ‘networks’. Rob La Frenais followed the 'End to End' symposium for Makery.
Big Data in the Snow, Davos unravelled
For the last few days people have been flocking to the elite resort of Davos, Switzerland, where every year the World Economic Forum is held. Climate change activists also converge, but how to persuade industry and governments to listen to science data? Rob la Frenais talked to activists present in Davos.
A Tale of Two Boats: How the world changed direction to get to COP25
The United Nations had moved COP 25 from Santiago to Madrid. What does it mean for climate activists who went on slow travel to the COP?
She can see land! Cross the Atlantic Like Greta
While Greta Thunberg just arrived in New York on a sailing boat to attend UN Climate Action Summit 2019, Makery has investigated options how to "Do It Like Greta".
Rising water, new projects for the new flood age in Avignon
Visiting the BigTorrent exhibition, July 4th on the Rhone river, on the occasion of the opening of the 73rd theater Festival of Avignon.
Traincamp, or why go by train to Green Culture festival in Montenegro
Makery spoke to the organisers of the Train Camp that goes by train this week to the Green Culture festival in Montenegro.
Extinction Rebellion organises its first “die-in” in Paris
On Sunday March 24th, a loose coalition of scientists, climate campaigners, churchgoers, anti-capitalist activists and makers arrived, symbolically in front of Paris’s Bourse.
Stig A. Nielsen: “making use of local resources of energy, elegantly”
Unusual approaches of Danish artist, architect and maker Stig Anton Nielsen and his interest to off-grid energy leads to an exploration of kite mills with his Kiteborne start-up.
COP24: how artists commit to the climate
Does watching ice melt help us talk about the climate emergency? A critical view on artists commitment at the end of COP24.
In London, scientists, artists and activists surge to save the Humans
On the eve of COP24 in Poland, the role of artists in thinking long-term about the future of the human species on this planet, alongside a new surge of scientist-led activism.
Digifest, a life hacking festival in South Africa
From June 23-30 in Durban, South Africa, the digital festival Digifest welcomed the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA). With a lot of discussions on the future of makerspaces.
How Wolfgang Tillmans is rebranding Europe
Following an initiative by Wolfgang Tillmans and Rem Koolhaas, designers, experts and artists participated in Eurolab from May 31 to June 3 in Amsterdam. A creative forum to “act for democracy”.