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I found it was already a chilly day when "Tokion Creativity Now Tokyo" took place at Laforet Museum Harajuku on October 23rd. Last year, there were many interesting hosts and panelists, including, Yuuya Uchida, Hirosh...
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The pro-test lab was initiated by VILMA (Vilnius Interdisciplinary Lab for Media Arts) at the cinema Lietuva in Vilnius and was testing the understanding of possible and/or impossible forms of protest. Protest,...
PLACE
Back in the autumn of 2003, I reported on the sad forced relocation of Amsterdam's 'laboratory for cultural production', SMART Project Space. Following a 3 year battle to save their home in the former Swammerdam Insi...
PEOPLE
A small group of artists got together to create a virtual gallery for more and more people whose goals are to make connections through art, and to make art possible for everyone. This people have opened a new door not...
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Illustration: Femke & Inge Do you have children aged between 0 and, say, 10? Are they into 'traditional', i.e. offline, games? Do they still draw on paper and read books or do they prefer to play with their elect...
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Bagpipes for a welcome: when entering the opening of Katharina Gschwendtner current exhibition in Hamburg, visitors were greeted by live-music and a massively huge eye, cut, pasted and painted onto the window of Galle...
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In Berlin, there were four art fairs held from the end of this September to the beginning of this October - Berlin Art Forum, which will be the 10th anniversary this year; Berliner Kunstsalon, which has been started s...
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The 32nd edition of the FIAC opened on Wednesday October 5th and closed on Monday October 10th. I was invited by Eric Dupont Gallery at the professional day, so thank you Eric, and thank you Sarah (his beautiful assis...
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Not only museums or galleries are places for art. So many art fairs are going on in London this Autumn, with rooms that are pretty unusual. For starters, let's have a look at St Martin's Lane, off Trafalgar square. O...
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A curious question proposed by Philip K. Dick in his landmark 1968 book of the same title, later adopted to became the sci-fi epic "Bladerunner". The concept of computers evolving to obtain consciousness seems almost ...
HAPPENING
Looking at the photographs currently on display at the trendy Blk/Mrkt Gallery in Culver City, Los Angeles you get the feeling that here we have a photographer who, as a teenager, looked more at the Kiss album c...
PLACE
"Behind the innocent facade of fun, rides, shows and cotton candy are the powerful themes of fear, lust, abandon, adventure, irony, comedy, salvation, gluttony, mystery, pain, monsters, gambling, and voyeurism." - Quo...
