This essay contextualizes Jasper Griepink’s solo exhibition EARTHSHRINE. EARTHSHRINE offers an eco-fictional sacred space with multi-media artworks and public gatherings inviting us to redefine our relationship with soil. This essay unpacks the exhibition’s prompt “Sensing Sacred Soils” in light of...
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As the bright, translucent greens of spring gradually deepen to robust summer shades, a spacecraft has landed in – or is ready to fly away from - MU’s dark exhibition hall. The large concrete space is transformed into an EARTHSHRINE,...
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To those who can see, light shapes the universe from the distant stars to the smartphone screen. It is the basis of life on Earth; our entire existence depends on light and still, most people take it for granted. Indeed,...
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LAWKI, Life As We Know It, is connected directly to the main artery of our age: the endless stream of online videos where we can lose ourselves completely — and refind ourselves again. To billions of people, video is a...
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Emotions are core to human experience. Love them or hate them, they influence the directions our individual lives and society take. In the 21st century, technology has begun engaging with emotions as never before. Ranging from artificial intelligence, robotics and biometrics...
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For the past decade the fields of bioart and biodesign have flourished, as evidenced by numerous works, from material prototypes and completed architecture, to elaborate art installations and imaginative science-fiction-like speculations in video. Educators have been...
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Essay commissioned by MU Hybrid Art House for the exhibition‘Polarities: the psychology and politics of being ecological’ IntroductionThe first time I encountered overwhelming feelings of sadness, mixed with powerlessness and anger related to something other than human loss...
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‘Free will is overrated. I do not make decisions outside the Universe and then plunge in, like an Olympic diver. I am already in. I am like a mermaid, constantly pulled and pulling, pushed and pushing, flicked and flicking, turned...
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Civilization is often regarded as a process of transforming raw material – what is found in nature – into culture and its accoutrements, from cities and musical scores, to cuisine and the rule of law. But of course, each...
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Artists, architects, theatre makers, musicians, they all can perform the act of journalism just as well as – and maybe better than – the ‘real’ journalists. Take for example Forensic Architecture, a London-based multidisciplinary collective with art exhibitions all...
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From May 11 to July 8 2018, MU presents The Objectivist Drug Party and Genomic Intimacy, two solo-exhibitions of the internationally acclaimed artists Zach Blas and Heather Dewey-Hagborg. The Objectivist Drug Party shows recent work of Zach Blas: the film Jubilee 2033 (2018), the latest...
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For as long as humans have been compelled to coordinate, telling time has been an all-important enterprise. Technologies from sundials and calendars to maritime chronometers and atomic clocks burst forth to make it possible to do both the profound, such...
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Charlotte Jarvis won the Bio Art & Design Award 2012 with her project Ergo Sum. Together with Hans Clevers she wrote Et in Arcadia EGO: Addressing Cancer, Death and Immortality Using Science that was published by The MIT Press in Leonardo, Volume...
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"Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You...
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In the film Trapped in the Dream of the Other a camera navigates through what the artists themselves have called a performance: in the summer of 2016, bespoke fireworks were set off in an open-air mine near Numbi in the...
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The internet has transformed the world of graffiti. Offering writers and their audiences seemingly limitless opportunities to push the envelope, and in the process radically changing the way we understand this art form. In this MU podcast RJ Rushmore and...
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Ebbs and Flows in Art and ScienceThe moon is our biggest mover of liquid, pulling at the seas with its gravity to create the rising and falling of the tides. Its 28-day cycle of waxing and waning has continued for...
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Educated as a journalist and film critic, and curating experimental film programmes in Moscow, in the mid-1990s Olia Lialina quickly embraced the Web and started experimenting with its unique qualities. She made her first net art piece, My Boyfriend Came...
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The art of deceptionInterview with Isaac Haines & Toby KiersQ: The hearts: are they human?Isaac: No: We used pig hearts, because pig organs will be used in the near future to be implanted in the bodies of human beings. The...
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Microbiome Security AgencyQ: Emma, your work, called The MSA, is about bacteria traces we pick up and leave behind in our daily lives. Why is this a privacy-issue? Why should we be concerned about it? What do you fear?Emma: Well,...
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Drones with desiresQ: Agi, your work, what is it? It looks like a giant floating brain!Agi: Well actually that is kind of what it is! It is a Drone that is working through my brain data in order to learn...
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AbstractArt and design have become platforms for discussing the long-term implications of technology and modernity, most recently in relation to ecological crisis and the Anthropocene. While artists, designers and curators seek to raise awareness of the Anthropocene, it is important...
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Fascinating. Fake. Aesthetic. Unethical. Interesting. Banal. Not-art. Not-science. Elitist. Cute. Blank stare. Impressions linger as I begin this essay on living systems and the art that desires their vitality. Truthfully, the public’s opinion has little to do with the transformative experience...
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The aim of art is not to show how or why an effect is produced (that would be science) but literally to produce it.If there is one thing that the exhibition Matter of Life demonstrates, it is that the bio...
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