Meanwhile, at NOME Gallery

Marjolijn Dijkman ELECTRIFY EVERYTHING Friday, 10 September, 5–9pm / English version / German version below Berlin, 24 August 2021 NOME is pleased to present Electrify Everything, a solo exhibition of new works by the Dutch artist Marjolijn Dijkman. Dijkman’s multi-disciplinary, research based practice is concerned with the residues of enlightenment ideology, manifestations of collective memory, […]

Petra Cortright interview

*Let Petra be Petra, that’s my philosophy. https://www.thecaret.co/interviews/petra-cortright Hi Petra! It’s great to chat. How has the last year been for you? I mean, I had a great year, which I know is an obnoxious thing to say. But I made so much work because I didn’t have any excessive social obligations. I’d work out […]

In the studio with Manfred Mohr, 2021

*A pioneer of digital art for over fifty years.

Olia Lialina: “An Infinite Seance, Part Four”

*If this is the sort of net-dot-art discussion that you like, you’re really going to like this. http://art.teleportacia.org/observation/infinite_seance_4/ An Infinite Séance 4 Impatience This essay concludes the series and will become part of the book An Infinite Séance, to be published by Light Industry in early 2022. “A medium survives as long as the form […]

Five hundred dollars per shop person per day

*He’s making professional sense here. *Also the transition from “sculptor” to “special effects artisan” is quite interesting.

Bruno Munari justifies useless machines

MUNARI Che cosa sono le macchine inutili e perché Mettiamoci prima d’accordo sulla funzione delle macchine inutili: che siano macchine non c’è dubbio, dato che è una macchina la leva, volgarmente detta “quel pezzo di ferro lì”. Resta da chiarire l’aggettivo “inutile”: inutili perché non fabbricano, non eliminano manodopera, non fanno economizzare tempo e denaro, […]

The Giovanni de Dondi “Astrarium,” built in Padua 1348-1364.

*Destroyed in the War of the Mantuan Succession after three hundred years of impressing Italian viewers.

Don’t lose those valuable metal components

*If you decide to make a lathe out of wood off the grid.