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China’s first design hub launches this week with Mining the Digital, Values of Design curated by London's V&A Museum and Nurturing Dreams, dedicated to the center's renowned architect Fumihiko Maki >> Read more

For a world that we cannot perceive, what does it matter whether it exists or not? Perhaps you can further demonstrate that, though an autonomous world is imperceptible, it can still think for us. Yet in this sense, such a world becomes one stipulated by human thought, and ultimately cannot escape the fundamental relationship between thinking and being. >> Read more

In Tang Yongxiang's work, objects and scenes are first captured unconsciously by camera, establishing a contingent relationship with the artist’s lived-experience. >> Read more

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

Thinking about the future has evolved differently, however; envisioning what might be is niche work normally reserved for “professional futurists” in the small worlds of academia and industry, for example through speculative design. >> Read more

Samdani Art Foundation announces Seismic Movements: Dhaka Art Summit 2020, the fifth edition of the bi-annual research and exhibition platform focused on art and architecture connected to South Asia, to be held from 7 - 15 February 2020 in the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. >> Read more

Titled As We May Think, Feedforward, extending this seminal text’s far-reaching ramifications into the artistic domain as a way to reflect on the trajectories of technological advances and their reverberations throughout the social sphere over the past decades, the 6th edition of Guangzhou Triennial seeks to address the multiple implications engendered by such a technologically constructed time-space - in the real and through the virtual - by examining creative endeavors both from geographical purviews and from cosmic prospects in responding to the challenges and opportunities at stake and to think, once again, through a new alliance of visions by humans and nonhumans alike, machines and flesh with equal footing, organic and inorganic hand in hand, an alternative outlook for a new possibility of ecology whereby a retooled humanism may thrive in a Parliament of Things (to borrow a term from Bruno Latour) in symbiosis and reciprocity. >> Read more

I try to understand how an artist, a designer, an architect, a writer, a poet, or any other “creative” individual should go about this kind of activity in order to bring his or her own work and practice into this kind of context. >> Read more

“We run an art magazine and a photography agency, but we aren’t journalists...The magazine is a platform for our artistic practice, for our friends, and for people who interest us.”
 

 
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Site-specific installation based on 3D scans of Shanghai city, CGI archives and ongoing research into the art and technology dialogue. >> Read more