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While the role of new technologies has often been downplayed in many art historical accounts of sensory environments in the visual arts >> Read more

Manifestations is Philippe Parreno’s eighth solo exhibition with Esther Schipper. It includes works spanning various media: a granular soundtrack, a CGI film, atmospheric sensors, robotic systems, computer code, ice and water. >> Read more

The last two decades of precipitous change have provided much grist for recent exhibitions, artist talks, and essays. The pre-eminence of digital technologies in society, the unpredictable advances in biotechnology and Artificial Intelligence, and irreversible environmental degradation encapsulated under the banner of the Anthropocene all speak to a certain disquiet towards unproblematic notions of progress. >> Read more

Tissue engineering and regenerative biology are usually discussed in relation to biomedical research and applications. >> Read more

Have you ever imagined what it would like to be something other than human—a hawk gliding through the air or a monkey swinging from a tree? >> Read more

In their project “Stone” Korean artists Shin Seung Back and Kim Yong Hun examine this persistent human interest in “self-improvement” through technological prostheses—applying this theory of “perception extension” to something as inert as a volcanic rock. >> Read more

People crowd the raft of empty Coke cans and Pepsi bottles. Tourists, clubbers, musicians, students, sun bathers. Protestors are matched with actors, mendicants with diners, a photographer and his model with a mugger and his victim. The flag is red, the sky is grey, but unlike Delacroix’s "original", there is no ship on the horizon, blind or otherwise. >> Read more

As one of Japan's leading contemporary artists, Tatsuo Miyajima's three principles of “keep changing, connect with everything, and continue forever”—precedes any survey presentation of his art. >> Read more

(中文) 公开征集项目 “奇点” 是 “上海种子” 特别设立的青年板块。其名谐音“起点”，旨在挖掘出生于 “89后” 的中国新生代人才，收集他们关注的议题，激励他们将奇思妙想落地。 >> Read more

Chronus Art Center (CAC) is pleased to present Haptic Field, an exhibition by the American artist Chris Salter from July 9th to September 4th. >> Read more