Artists have always played a key role in the realization and critical negotiation of new technological affordances. How has this process taken shape within artist residency contexts?
Brazil,1973. In a country going through one of the most brutal moments of its dictatorship, a woman under impact of news from the Chilean coup thinks about the sinister fate that menaces her whole generation.
Artist Léa Porré is fascinated by deserts and oases. For the web residencies by Solitude & ZKM, she explores how the landscape became an icon, questioning the fetishized image by the West.
Aesthetic objects like Marcel Duchamp's readymades deny any affordance that was usually associated with the object. Through the development of interactive, virtual objects this denial is challenged and transformed.
The art-research duo FRAUD examines the genealogy and affordance of the white paper, regarding the ideology of financial self-determination, by performing its scripted erasure.
A brief introduction to J.J. Gibson’s initial theorization of affordance, its importance and why it still needs to be rethought in relation to the algorithmic.
A fragmentary time travel around the globe to the origins and counterorigins of the digital.
How do we search for the potential meanings of affordance? A collection of thoughts on affordance’s definition by Douglas Rogerson
In 1995, artist Ilana Salama Ortar placed her installation »Wadi Nis-Nas« dealing with the visible and the invisible in Israeli and Palestinian history inside a shopping mall.
Web resident, Indian artist Sahej Rahal claims that every day new myths are created. As a consequence, he builds the myths of the future, that truly resist a truth claim.
What if the magical powers of the 3D scanner and the Mesoamerican ancient god of rain came together to fight digital colonialism? An interview with artist and web resident Juan Covelli
What’s left of transient cultural spaces – their art and music, excesses and fantasies – after they are gone? An essay by Nora O Murchú on the digital art work by Nicolas Sassoon
As part of their »Offshore Investigation Vehicle,« the Demystification Committee engaged an unknown man in Cyprus to direct a company in the Seychelles.
Tax-free beachwear sold through the Offshore Investigation Vehicle.
Tax-free beachwear sold through the Offshore Investigation Vehicle.
Tax-free beachwear sold through the Offshore Investigation Vehicle.
Dananayi Muwanigwa, a self taught digital painter from Zimbabwe, creates strong Afrofuturistic paintings challenging Western notions of beauty.
What is a contemporary definition of a dramaturg when it comes to topics like intermediality and digitization? An interview with Jeffrey Döring by Carmen Kovacs.
The child’s perspective in literature is full of prejudices due to the popular perception of childhood as innocence. Author Ines Berwing on a different approach.
