18.07.2024
ISSUE #24 Digital Materialities
This issue brings together contributions that question the materialities of digital technologies, and the ecological, class, racial and gender concerns that run through them.
Category : Fine arts
15.07.2024
The milieu is the message.
Digital materialities and the new theatre of visual operations
Today there is a plane on which the battle of images is raging, an infra-iconic plane on which the fate of images and of those who look at them – but also…
15.07.2024
AIAIA Sweatshop
The AIAIA Sweatshop exhibition (held from May 17 to June 21, 2024 at the artist-run space àDuplex, in Geneva) explored through the means of art, behind the media resonances of the acronym…
15.07.2024
Bedrocks for Digital Systems
This video by Mabe Bethônico, edited in collaboration with Victor Galvão, who also created its sound, derives from a text constructed using a cut-up technique on an article by Lee Mackinnon titled…
15.07.2024
The Future in Unmanned
Why does the future dream of being mapped out, gridded, and automatically piloted by the culture of high technology? How does technology manage to present itself as a marker of civilisation, affirming…
16.04.2024
The Long History of Trans Identities
Building trans archives, historicizing gender
We have heard enough from the people who complain about an “epidemic of transgenders.” This harmful termcompares being trans with a contagious illness and ignores an entire swath of history. The controversies…
20.11.2023
Some Draft Guidelines Towards a Sustainable Sensibility for Creative Practice
These thoughts cohered further to a talk I gave in November 2022 for a series on ecopedagogy hosted by MASTER TRANS– Socially Engaged Artistic Practices (HEAD – Genève). The gap between that…
20.11.2023
The Undiscussed University
Art practice and institutional transformation towards ecopedagogy
As an artist working in collaboration, my art practice activated reciprocal actions and responses in public contexts, while working in universities has paid my wages and supported my art practice with research…
20.11.2023
Micropolitical and Holistic Makings of Ecopedagogies
Today’s cognitive capitalism operates on the logic of separationism that demands self-commodification and self-representation: a logic of exteriority that, as we know, is also engraved e.g., by social media. Equally, omnipresent media…
20.11.2023
Play in that void. Eco-pedagogy
I am interested in writing about my performance-based pedagogy in relation to the text-based research that more directly signals its politics. This, in order to highlight important practice-based tensions and signal something…