David and Googliath
reviews 25.11.09 Erik van Tuijn
Amsterdam
Society of the Query conference
13/11/09 - 14/11/09
At the Society of the Query conference PHD researchers, cultural historians/analysts, new media specialists and artists all shared in the goal of critically assessing Google’s position as an information monopolist and the effect this has on us – Google users.
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features 02.11.09 Erik van Tuijn
Interview with Tijs Teulings and James Burke, founders of NARB.me, the online platform for ‘people filtered art’ which offers a micro blog and art agenda as well as an interactive list of ‘hottest exhibitions’ all rolled into one.
It's always six o'clock: Bonny & Clyde do Disneyland
reviews 03.06.08 Clare Butcher
Eindhoven
MU
24/05/08 - 29/06/08
'It's about what happens if Philip K. Dick takes control of your mind, if time stands still, if ordinary things become mysterious and fantasy creatures overturn the order of your soul.
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01/12/07 Trevor Smith
She is one of the most well-known Indian artists at the moment, having shown her work in all the major cities – most recently in Horn Please in Bern and at the Lyon Biennial. Sheela Gowda (1957), who lives in Bangalore, makes drawings, sculptures and installations which despite their unmistakable tenor of social criticism are executed with great care and formal subtlety.
01/12/07 Nancy Adajania
Unlike the unassuming elder generations, many young Indian artists simply claim their place on the international art front, whether the West is ready for them or not. Their art is ‘transnational’ and ‘multimedial’ and is a welcome contribution to the many new practices being developed between established cultures and disciplines throughout the world.
01/12/07 Nathalie Zonnenberg
Praneet Soi (born in India, residing in Amsterdam) brings to his art a sensitivity to diverse traditions – both Eastern and Western. His most recent work blends Mogul miniatures with stinging present-day press photos, etchings of Goya and the realism of Dutch seventeenth-century painting.
01/10/07 Michał Woliński
The Polish artist Artur Żmijewski recently published a manifesto calling upon us to become aware of the politicization of our actions and choices. Artists should use their art to effect social change. His film Them (2007), shown at documenta 12, gives a foretaste for now.
Just recently he created a newspaper which perfectly matched the design of the newspaper in which it was inserted, namely, the Belgian dailt, De tijd. The editors of De Tijd were shocked when they arrived at their desks in the morning to find an unknowninsert in their own newspaper. Sven Augustijnen plays with the veracity of fact by presenting his fiction as documentary. On the off chance that it is the truth, then it's the truth about stealing.
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