Tom Moody began his career painting (with brushes on canvas) and has worked with techniques from photo-realistic to something that would fall under the heading of "bad painting." He still paints, but for most of the past decade, he has done it with digital tools to create an ever-expanding body of work that also includes […]

In the pitch dark basement?so dark there?s no way of telling the difference between the floor, walls, and ceiling?you hear the strange rustling of some kind of nest, and the cold hard clanking of a chain. Then, for a split-second, a stark white light from a flashgun illuminates the room, revealing a naked, slobbering creature […]

Apprehending this summer?s architecture installation in P.S.1?s courtyard is very difficult: it?s a plasticy, skeletal, undulating, and strangely sci-fi sculpture that snakes off into other sections of the compound, and it refuses to resolve into a legible pattern along the way. It?s both an alien landing and an archeological dig. Big-head Sur: sculpture v. architecture […]

When I first moved to New York, a friend took me to the Odessa Caf� on Avenue A in the East Village. At the time, I saw the rundown caf� through the lens of sardonic hipsterdom?as a self-consciously authentically grubby hangout to wet the palates of bobos searching for a genuine experience. I assumed that […]

The Flood is a metaphor. It is the metaphor for the Netherlands as phenomenon: for the culture, for the landscape and for the architectural and planning traditions. The Flood Adriaan Geuz J. Ouburg & S. Schoemaker, IMAGE Building, Het Strand 85.000m2. The Flood is a metaphor. It is the metaphor for the Netherlands as phenomenon: […]

Apprehending this summer’s architecture installation in P.S.1’s courtyard is very difficult: it’s a plasticy, skeletal, undulating, and strangely sci-fi sculpture that snakes off into other sections of the compound, and it refuses to resolve into a legible pattern along the way. It’s both an alien landing and an archeological dig. Big-head Sur: sculpture v. architecture […]

Division Ave. in Grand Rapids Michigan is not an area that one would categorize as conducive to creative production. For one thing, the material conditions simply do not exist; outside of Morningstar 75, a coffee shop in what is known as the heartside district is a sandwich board that reads "Coffee, Its What?s for Dinner," […]

Even when deformed by the multitude of clothespins fastened to the flesh of his face, or masked by a flaming paper bag over his head, it is evident that Wladyslaw Kazmierczak knows what he?s doing. What is Political Performance? clothespins, fingerprints and burning straws Anna Kerrigan Ewa Rybska & Wladyslaw Kazmierczak performance, Poznan, Poland, 2005 […]

On the list of what a writer needs to produce great works, a room of one?s own is at the top. In Novel: A Living Installation, the newest project put on by the Flux Factory, an artist’s collective in Queens, New York, three separate writers have been provided with what some might consider an artist’s […]

What are the trends and paths of contemporary audiovisual production? How does it unfold into different formats, supports, and genres? How does it convey the contemporary experience? These are some of the questions we have asked to elicit responses in the forms of artworks for the Videobrasil International Electronic Art Festival. The Risk of the […]