Dictatorships in the neoliberal age
The idea of dictatorship straightaway evokes a political regime in which the authority mostly rests in the hands of a single person. In just two centuries, this mode of power has risen in parallel (…)
karen elaine spencer, always the same, 2013
karen elaine spencer, in her ephemeral interventions, her paintings, drawings, prints and texts as well as spoken word works, explores the power relationships that pervade people’s daily lives, particularly (…)
Sculpture of Steel, City of Nerves. A review of Dendrites by Michel de Broin
Dendrites, a public artwork recently inaugurated along with its site— Place de l’Aviation-Civile-International —is a fascinating and consistent extension of Michel de Broin’s ongoing and prolific art practice (…)
De la destruction : un entretien avec Jean Pierre Raynaud
[text available in French only]. The editor-in-chief (and member of the Editorial comity of ESPACE art actuel magazine) André-Louis Paré interviews Jean Pierre Raynaud (…)
FIFA 2020 | Stéphane Ghez : Charlotte Perriand, pionnière de l’art de vivre
To meet a stranger in chance circumstances and then realize that the many affinities you share might just spark a nascent friendship is indeed a precious (…)
FIFA 2020 | Joris Gijsen : Wild Gene
[text available in French only] The art critic and curator (and member of the Editorial comity of ESPACE art actuel magazine) Bénedicte Ramade publishes a review of the film (…)
Creating in the Era of Artificial Intelligence
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if Artificial Intelligence could remedy our shortfalls and help us to surmount our hesitations and fears? If it could relieve us of the burden of existence. If AI could become (…)
Landscape Past Future: An interview with Adam Basanta
As artificial intelligence rapidly becomes omnipresent in our daily lives—from predictive writing to self-driving cars—it is only natural that an increasing number of artists have (…)
Adam Basanta, Collaged 19th century photographic landscapes with trees, palms, and observers, 2019
Using various mediums, Adam Basanta explores technological practices as socially-mediated performances, distributed and intertwined throughout a variety of human, cultural, material and computational (…)
Inordinate Images.
On the machine aesthetics of AI-based art
The current rush of attention to technologies of “artificial intelligence” (AI), ranging from governmental funding programmes to advertising campaigns for consumer products and mainstream movies, is indicative of a fundamental concern about the societal repercussions
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Displacement, destruction, protection: views on endangered heritage (about a round table on Dominique Blain’s exhibition).
[text available in French only] Ariane Lemieux is a doctor of art history specializing in the history of museums and publishes here a review of “Displacement, destruction, protection: views on endangered heritage”, a round table on November 5th, 2019 with artist Dominique Blain (…)
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