“Is an ephemeral image, a moment in a streaming video, a thing? Or if the image is frozen as a still, is it now a thing? Is a dream, a city, a sensation, a derivative, an ideology, a decay, a kiss? I haven’t the least idea.”

Extract from David Miller, Materiality : An Introduction [1]

In A Thing Like You and Me, Hito Steyerl plays out her ongoing obsession with the copy, skirting briefly over her wider, yet more implicit concern: the digital. Echoing the work of Bruno Latour, Steyerl acknowledges the materiality by which… ]]> Sat, 11 Jun 2011 04:02:00 -0700 http://art-research.co.uk/digital-autonomy-a-reponse-to-hito-steyerl/is-an-ephemeral-image-a-moment-in-a-streaming-video-a http://www.chisenhale.org.uk/events/21st_century_event.php?id=47 Chisenhale Gallery - 21st Century Events: And There It Is:

Goldsmiths MFA Art Writing colleagues present an evening of performances, readings, projections, objects and contemplation. And there it is will chart the outcome of a sustained collective engagement with the decisive enigma of disaster and its many possible presences. 

What if the word and its manifestations are perceived as events? The word might be a thing in the world, said, written or performed, the word might mark both a place of effort and a failure of presence. If the word is an event, a… ]]> Wed, 27 Apr 2011 08:31:00 -0700 http://www.chisenhale.org.uk/events/21st_century_event.php?id=47/chisenhale-gallery-21st-century-events-and-there-it-is http://glti.ch

Saturday 2nd April : Come and join us a for an afternoon of GLTI.CH KARAOKE!

GLTI.CH KARAOKE will be hosting this live karaoke event in conjunction with the citizens of Kumamoto City, Japan. All proceeds raised at Glitch Karaoke will go to The Japan Society Tohoku Earthquake Relief Fund.

Defy human spacetime by warbling Elvis, the Spice Girls, and Beat Crusaders with friends in London and Kumamoto at the Meanwhile Space (Whitechapel) at the End of the Universe with the power of Skype, hand-me-down computers, and mutual love of amateur live singing.

Free to attend, donations encouraged. There… ]]> Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:38:00 -0700 http://glti.ch/Gltich-Karaoke http://io9.com/5608671/3quarksdaily Seeing the truth of the world via science fiction:

Science fiction takes us out of our own time and place, and confronts us with alien objects as well as incomprehensible future artifacts. By doing this, argues Daniel Rourke, SF brings us closer to seeing things as they really are.

Mid-way through H.G.Wells’ The Time Machine, the protagonist stumbles into a sprawling abandoned museum. Sweeping the dust off ancient relics he ponders his machine’s ability to hasten their decay. It is at this point that The Time Traveller has an… ]]> Tue, 10 Aug 2010 04:10:00 -0700 http://io9.com/5608671/3quarksdaily/seeing-the-truth-of-the-world-via-science-fiction http://rattlejournal.org.uk/issue-one-contents/

first issue of rattle journal

I have an article in the first issue of rattle journal, available now

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