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Scrapbook from the ongoing FILE festival

Previously: Feeding the Tardigotchi.

Fast, furious and merry images from Sao Paulo and the 11th edition of the FILE Electronic Language International Festival, i think the report will have to wait till i’m back in Europe.

Sao Paulo. Exotic plants, sk…

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Feeding the Tardigotchi

Quick update from FILE, the Electronic Language International Festival in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Proper report will land on your desk soon but here’s a quickie before i head back to the exhibition.

Yesterday, i participated to the conference and got to …

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Magazine review: T-post

Next week we’ll be in August. I’ll stay home, hunt mosquitoes, own a ghost city called Turin (all the Torinesi will be at the sea or the mountain, yeah!), count the days until Autumn finally comes and saves me from the sun and take advantage of the qui…

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Sushi-cyborg and menstruation machine

Hiromi Ozaki is some kind of hybrid between Laurie Anderson and Maywa Denki.

She’s not only a graduate of Design Interactions (RCA, London), she’s also Sputniko!, a Japanese pop star whose music, videos, performances and electronic devices explore th…

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Building Blocks at Färgfabriken, Stockholm

While in Stockholm i finally got a chance to visit Färgfabriken, an ex-colour factory turned contemporary art and architecture space with a relentlessly good programme.

There are only very few and inconspicuous guiding signs to help you find your wa…

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International Festival

Last month i was in pretty Stockholm thanks to Iaspis, a Swedish network that supports international exchange for practitioners in the areas of visual art, design, craft and architecture.

The main purpose of my visit was to give a talk at Iaspis b…

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How to Make Pizza… North Korea style

Never a dull post with the graduates from Platform 13, Design Products Department, Royal College of Art.

Hwang Kim (also the author of a spectacular CCTV Chandelier) was one of the superstars of the whole RCA exhibition for me.

He was showing a wi…

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Ceci n’est pas un Casino

Stéphane Thidet, Untitled (Je veux dire qu’il pourraît tres bien, théoriquement, exister au milieu de cette table), 2008. Photo: Marc Dommage

The title of the exhibition, Ceci n’est pas un Casino (This is not a Casino), refers to a sentence that t…

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Herbologies/Foraging Networks at Pixelache Helsinki

In the mountain of ludicrously overdue posts that prevent me from getting the sleep of the righteous is a report on the first chapter of Herbologies/Foraging Networks which took place at the Kiasma museum during Pixelache Helsinki in March.

Told yo…

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Susan Meiselas

I recently came back from London and my head is still full of images shot by documentary photographer Susan Meiselas.

Susan Meiselas, Mistress Catherine after the Whipping I, The Versailles Room, Pandora’s Box, 1995

It started at The Wapping Project…

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