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Book Review – Open 20: The Populist Imagination
The Populist Imagination comes in a timely moment. The 20th issue of Open, the cahier on art and the public domain published by NAi, is a collection of essays dealing with “the role of myth, narratives...
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The Populist Front: Artists and Contemporary Politics
Last Friday’s event at De Balie, The Populist Front, was useful to clear up some ideas – or renew some doubts – about art and politics, which had been on my mind since early 2009, when I went to Berlin...
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Introducing the European School of Social Imagination
When it comes to imagination and its social implications, both empowering and dangerous, few are as experienced as Franco “Bifo” Berardi. As a media activist, the Italian philosopher and agitator was...
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Augmented Reality: The Boundaries of Invisible Worlds
Augmented Reality – that is, the real-time, tridimensional mixing of real and virtual elements, interacting with each other on a display – has been around for a long time in popular culture. From the...
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Golan Levin’s Infoviz Graffiti, or Communicating Dissent in a...
Sometimes you come across a project that, in its simplicity, manages to hit not one, but several important knots in the contemporary cultural landscape. It doesn’t necessarily need to be a...
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Cognitive Cities: How Network Technology is Changing the City
I moved to Amsterdam a couple years ago, with a background in multimedia art and an acquired interest in architecture. It turned out that, if you like both new media and the built environment, the...
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