Author Archives: jolanta

I see it every day. Technology has the potential to be both creative and destructive. Telecommunications, for example, while used for entertainment, also carries with it the news of disaster, human fatality, and war. Yet these horrors reach the eyes of Americans in the form of innocuous electronic communications that can be muted, or simply […]

I’m interested in situations; I’m interested in life itself. Nevertheless, I do not trust in the appearance of reality as it is showcased to us in mainstream culture. I like to believe that the surface hides deeper clues and essential mechanisms. Like archeologists, we need to dig in order to excavate what lies beneath. I […]

LX 2.0 is a curatorial project developed by Lisboa 20 Arte Contemporânea, a commercial contemporary art gallery based in Lisbon. LX 2.0 is one of the direct consequences of the regular program presented by the Upgrade! Lisbon, a monthly gathering of new media artists, curators, and interested people, also held at Lisboa 20.       […]

Introduction 1 is a series of seven Introductions, in the form of a conversation, later edited by New York-based Portuguese artists, Pedro Barateiro and Ricardo Valentim, to be published in the book What Is Content? in February 2009. The collaboration between the two artists is centered on the construction and the form that content has […]

Recently the CIA assured us that the destroyed videotapes of hundreds of hours of the interrogations of two detainees in 2002 no longer had intelligence value and that their destruction was nothing but standard procedure to protect the identities of the interrogators. They claim that there is no need for the tapes since the agency […]

Nicky Coutts uses imagery that might be recognized from elsewhere. She appropriates paintings, photographs, objects, and stories, some easy to recognize, others lodged more deeply in our collective memory. These borrowed forms are then altered in some way and returned, often seamlessly, to impersonate what they replace. Currently, Coutts is interested in how we visit […]