Not too long ago, global warming was science fiction. Now it has become hard science, and a reality we already live in. According to the Copernicus Climate Change Service, average global temperature…
Complex belonging question: how about “the transformation profonde de la condition humaine”? The stories of the postanthropocene are (of course always) studies of new inequalities, of holographic pop singers, faceless factory workers.…
This presentation speaks about air and the lack of air. The air is full of nitrogen, oxygen, light, clouds, wind, pollution, radio, airplanes, satellites, signals, dust, birds and more.
Most interactions between humans and the Earth are mediated through technological objects, often influenced by a dualism that separates nature from culture; they filter out a wide range of data streamed from…
Major Gentl and the Achimota Wars, the third novel written by the Ghanaian novelist and poet Kojo Bernard Laing in 1992, is the most sustained science fiction yet written in which the…
Khalil Joreige presents his most recent collaborative project with Joana Hadjithomas, Unconformities, which works on temporalities and confronts the idea of the city in relation to its complex histories of inhabitation. The…
J. G. Biberkopf (Gediminas Žygus) works within the paradoxical relationship between club music and art music. Assembling a collage spanning a vast range of influences from dark ecology, sound studies, architecture, media…
Kevin Slavin works at the crossing of biology and art. Here, Slavin introduces us to the emerging investigative field of “urban metagenomics.” The reduction in costs of DNA sequencing has opened up…
Feeling For You is an ongoing, frequently updated performative lecture that reverse engineers the artist’s practice through a series of personal anecdotes, google searches, images, audience reactions, and video clips. Meandering through…
Using examples of “caves” he created, including some for an exhibition at the Centre Pompidou, the architect Michael Hansmeyer explains how algorithmic programming allows for unrivalled complexity in architecture. The division of…