Recent modernization of the whole world has had a profound impact on all aspects of our lives, from our eating habits to our way of thinking, to our attitude toward traditional values. It has prompted me to reflect on our living space. I have attempted to understand, through visual means, finer details of these significant […]

Celebrities live in the realm of memory, existing entirely as snap-shots in our minds. The identity of Paris Hilton, for example, is defined by its perpetual absence. Like a ghost, her existence rests always on the reality of un-reality, on the unseen and the untouched. In this way, her image is her being; she begins […]

I. Ya no sé como empezó. Tengo recuerdos, sí. Pero a la luz de los acontecimientos ¿fueron esos hechos los desencadenantes? Guardo imágenes muy potentes desde mi primera infancia. Imágenes que son totalmente diferentes de las que vinieron después. Imágenes de antes de la palabra.   Luciana Cesari  Courtesy of the artist. I. Ya no […]

I love contradictions. I think that the only thing that holds life together is the constant necessity to contradict oneself. What would art and death be without them? I remember going back to a time when I was a fetus; this was during a hypnosis session, of course. I had the feeling that it was […]

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 […]