Silas Inoue’s “mold paintings” set a dark, suggestive mood.
Eduardo Kac
Post-Internet Artists Crack Open Our Technological Past
A group show at Paris’s Galerie Charlot uses bygone tools and techniques to explore modern media.
Happy Darwin Day! Signs that the Art World is Evolving, or Devolving
Celebrating what would be (if he was not in fact a mortal and evolved human) Charle’s Darwin’s 204th birthday, today’s Darwin Day is an international extravaganza with events around the world. If you’re not lucky enough to be near a party serving primordial soup (a recipe with open interpretation based on the mixing of molecules to form life on earth) or a heated reenactment of the were-people-ever-monkeys Scopes Trial, you can celebrate Darwin Day with us by looking at signs that the art world is evolving into a glorious techno-future or devolving into prehistoric simplicity.
A Taste of Beijing’s Large New Media Art Triennial
Last night, the National Art Museum of China (中国美术馆) launched Translife (延展生命), their triennial of new media art from around the world. Curated by Zhang Ga (张尕), Translife is divided into four parts and three floors: Sensorium of the Extraordinary, Sublime of the Liminal, Zone of the Impending and, outside, The Weather Tunnel.