Author Archives: jolanta

Margot Jacobs is an interaction design researcher who is dedicated to the playful, emotional incorporation of technology in everyday life. She develops innovative design methods and experimental prototypes for social interventions in public space. An American, she now works with the Interactive Institute in Sweden specifically with the former PLAY Studio (recently split and renamed […]

What excites me about this body of work is how it connects Sowon Kwon?s ongoing investigation of the body and subjectivity to her newest thinking about how electronic media shapes the space of memory. Questioning Memory Christina Yang, curator What excites me about this body of work is how it connects Sowon Kwon’s ongoing investigation […]

What is beautiful? How do we even attempt to create a criteria? And if something fits that prescription, can it still be beautiful? Stefania Carrozzini explores: Beauty in Art, Art in Beauty Rebecca Seefen-Soliman Exhibition view of "The most beautiful thing I ever saw" currated by Stefania Carrozzini at the Berliner Kunstprojekt. What is beautiful? […]

What is the opposite of a one-man show of my own fingernail parings, signatures, and unique medical waste? Collage! A mixture of fragments (I know: "no mo’ po-mo, mo-fo") assembled in the gallery from the many, many, many places where I "found" them. Rhythm Science, by Paul D. Miller, a.k.a. DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid […]

The mythic, iconic figure, Joseph Beuys has waited over twenty years for a retrospective in the United States with only one venue, the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas. Overseas in London, the Tate Modern will be the second and last stop of an engaging and timely show that asks almost as much of the viewer […]

The relationship between human and animal is a theme that has threaded itself through art and literature since ancient times. MART?s recent exhibition offers a journey across the centuries: from ancient art to medieval bestiaries; from symbolist representations to contemporary artworks. We are used to hiding our instincts, the dark or weaker sides of ourselves. […]

Like many contemporary artists who work at the improbable yet frequented nexus of Minimalism and Representationalism, Arcady Kotler seeks to create new narrative possibilities by appropriating the pared-down aesthetic of Minimalism as his formal point of departure. As with Felix Gonzalez-Torres? stacks of printed paper, Kotler adopts the white cube as an object, rather than […]

Maja Bajevic left Sarajevo in the early 90s to study in Paris, and then found she couldn’t return because of the war. Much of Bajaevic’s work is about this exile and the social and political conditions surrounding it. She had her US solo premier at P.S.1 in Fall 2004, in which she set up thirty […]

When I walk into a gallery playing French New Wave music, the last thing that I expect to see are large-scale lightboxes illuminating images of naked women rolling around in blood or posing with pregnant bellies and chartreuse feather headdresses. The titles don’t help much–the latter piece is called Next in Green, its counterpart, hanging […]

Since the birth of the Chinese Media Movement in 1997, the hastened proliferating networks engendered a large group of new media artists that, unlike their predecessors, didn?t engage only with flat and static forms of art like oil painting, prints or sculpture. As the methods of communication rapidly transformed, people became comfortable with sending e-mailing […]