Alex Mackin Dolan is an artist living in New York. He co-directs Grand Century and previously co-curated Appendix Project Space. His work, concerning objects influenced by contemporary sources of stress, has been shown at Swiss Institute and Portland Institute for Contemporary Art. Dolan was the first Visual Artist in Residence at Park Avenue Armory’s Under Construction Series (89plus, 2013), and the agnès b. / Tara Oceans Polar Circle Artist in Residence.
Holly White is an artist currently living and working in London, www.holly-white.com
Emily Jones (born 1987, London). Enough. Theory. History. Raw Spa, Ramadan Mubarak, take me higher #orientate, What is a human being? Unfortunately, It Was Paradise, LIVESTRONG, AIR. Forests, Oceans, Toxics, Peace. Ṣanʿāʾ. Theotokos. North Atlantic. Arctic Biosphere. The role of the shaman. Pray. [emilyjones.info]
A blood rite/ mourning ritual/gift ceremony for tomorrow & tomorrow. JD uses a pencil and a needle in a distributed ink drawing practice that takes place between bodies in a space of mutual exchange. The custodian of each drawing makes the first sketch in words as part of a conversation process where narratives are shared and compared, and where the groundwork is laid in language for making a meaningful ritual. Finally, the image is etched in ink on the body, where it will stay - on the cellular level at least - until the death of that body and beyond. The practice is a way of manifesting networked kinship in precarious times; it is also an attempt to contain the accumulated trauma of a life through externalising scar tissue as a badge of what we have already survived. Above all it is a 'despite-everything' gesture of defiance to death (of physical bodies, community and communities), commoditisation, pointless posterity, monolithic art praxes that echo the totality of state sovereignty, and a way to embrace the inevitable, together.
Jesse Darling is an artist living in London. Their work addresses the human condition and how it is mediated through the structures, narratives and technologies that govern life as we know it, considering the social and physical body as a site where they manifest and become transformed. JD works in sculpture, installation, text and ‘dasein by design’ – where performance and unmediated experience meet. Exhibitions include Private Settings: Art After the Internet (Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw), Preteen Gallery’s It’s been four years since 2010 and Not Long Now at LIMAZULU, London, 2014. JD is represented by Arcadia_Missa.
Julian Oliver is a New Zealander, Critical Engineer and artist based in Berlin. His projects and the occasional paper have been presented at many museums, international electronic-art events and conferences, including the Tate Modern,Transmediale, Ars Electronica, FILE and the Japan Media Arts Festival. Julian's work has received several awards, most notably a Golden Nica at Prix Ars Electronica 2011 for the project Newstweek. He has been actively exhibiting worldwide since 1996.
Kari Altmann is one of the most influential and innovative artists in the currently titled 'post-internet' genre. Her work is focused on ideas of rapid mimicry and mutation in the name of survival and virality. She has done projects for and with Art Dubai, The Goethe Institute, The New Museum, FadetoMind, Dis Magazine, Nero Magazine and many more.
The Ongoing Collapse is a growing collection of data sources and links positioned as a reflection of the state of the world in the terms that it likes to use. It's a gentle ticking of the crumbling weird at the base of civilisation, quoting e.g. the present value of crude oil, the number of parts per million of carbon in the atmosphere or the number of man-made objects in space. The Ongoing Collapse forms a central platform of The Serpentine's EXTINCT.LY.
Tobias Revell is a critical designer, researcher and futurist seeking alternative narratives for technologies and change. He lectures at the Royal College of Art and London College of Communication and is a senior associate at Superflux design studio. He has given talks and exhibited internationally, including at Ars Electronica; the Science Gallery, Dublin; Z33, Hasselt, Belgium; the Milan Design Week and HMKV Dortmund.
Alex Mackin Dolan is an artist living in New York. He co-directs Grand Century and previously co-curated Appendix Project Space. His work, concerning objects influenced by contemporary sources of stress, has been shown at Swiss Institute and Portland Institute for Contemporary Art. Dolan was the first Visual Artist in Residence at Park Avenue Armory’s Under Construction Series (89plus, 2013), and the agnès b. / Tara Oceans Polar Circle Artist in Residence.
Holly White is an artist currently living and working in London, www.holly-white.com
Emily Jones (born 1987, London). Enough. Theory. History. Raw Spa, Ramadan Mubarak, take me higher #orientate, What is a human being? Unfortunately, It Was Paradise, LIVESTRONG, AIR. Forests, Oceans, Toxics, Peace. Ṣanʿāʾ. Theotokos. North Atlantic. Arctic Biosphere. The role of the shaman. Pray. [emilyjones.info]
A blood rite/ mourning ritual/gift ceremony for tomorrow & tomorrow. JD uses a pencil and a needle in a distributed ink drawing practice that takes place between bodies in a space of mutual exchange. The custodian of each drawing makes the first sketch in words as part of a conversation process where narratives are shared and compared, and where the groundwork is laid in language for making a meaningful ritual. Finally, the image is etched in ink on the body, where it will stay - on the cellular level at least - until the death of that body and beyond. The practice is a way of manifesting networked kinship in precarious times; it is also an attempt to contain the accumulated trauma of a life through externalising scar tissue as a badge of what we have already survived. Above all it is a 'despite-everything' gesture of defiance to death (of physical bodies, community and communities), commoditisation, pointless posterity, monolithic art praxes that echo the totality of state sovereignty, and a way to embrace the inevitable, together.
Jesse Darling is an artist living in London. Their work addresses the human condition and how it is mediated through the structures, narratives and technologies that govern life as we know it, considering the social and physical body as a site where they manifest and become transformed. JD works in sculpture, installation, text and ‘dasein by design’ – where performance and unmediated experience meet. Exhibitions include Private Settings: Art After the Internet (Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw), Preteen Gallery’s It’s been four years since 2010 and Not Long Now at LIMAZULU, London, 2014. JD is represented by Arcadia_Missa.
Julian Oliver is a New Zealander, Critical Engineer and artist based in Berlin. His projects and the occasional paper have been presented at many museums, international electronic-art events and conferences, including the Tate Modern,Transmediale, Ars Electronica, FILE and the Japan Media Arts Festival. Julian's work has received several awards, most notably a Golden Nica at Prix Ars Electronica 2011 for the project Newstweek. He has been actively exhibiting worldwide since 1996.
Kari Altmann is one of the most influential and innovative artists in the currently titled 'post-internet' genre. Her work is focused on ideas of rapid mimicry and mutation in the name of survival and virality. She has done projects for and with Art Dubai, The Goethe Institute, The New Museum, FadetoMind, Dis Magazine, Nero Magazine and many more.
The Ongoing Collapse is a growing collection of data sources and links positioned as a reflection of the state of the world in the terms that it likes to use. It's a gentle ticking of the crumbling weird at the base of civilisation, quoting e.g. the present value of crude oil, the number of parts per million of carbon in the atmosphere or the number of man-made objects in space. The Ongoing Collapse forms a central platform of The Serpentine's EXTINCT.LY.
Tobias Revell is a critical designer, researcher and futurist seeking alternative narratives for technologies and change. He lectures at the Royal College of Art and London College of Communication and is a senior associate at Superflux design studio. He has given talks and exhibited internationally, including at Ars Electronica; the Science Gallery, Dublin; Z33, Hasselt, Belgium; the Milan Design Week and HMKV Dortmund.
Global warming, natural disasters and extinction aren't bad news for everyone. They open up new frontiers for financial markets in terms of investment but also on a infrastructural level. Financial markets can quantify and price everything. The melting Arctic ice uncovers new lines for trading algorithms, future hurricanes are compressed into CAT bonds, endangered species are vaporised into speculative financial products. For traders it is not relevant if and why places become colder, dryer, wetter or stormier, it is the rising weather volatility that counts. Rising weather volatility generates an increasing number of events which means more opportunities to speculate. Catastrophe is a safe bet.
The future Arctic is described as the discovery of a new continent with untapped resources, exotic ecosystems and new trade lanes. Global warming will literally open up faster routes for trading algorithms in the Arctic. The melting ice will make it possible to lay submarine cables onto the Arctic sea floor. These Arctic submarine cables will be solely constructed for increasing speed. In the near future should shortcut the data connection between the financial markets of London and Tokyo that are now linked via the Middle-East and Pacific. Latency is expected to drop substantially, data traffic is expected to be 30% faster. Less ice means more – and faster – money.
“The best investment opportunities in the last 12,000 years,” is how investors are describing the Arctic region. For financial markets the Arctic is the Next Big Thing: a new frontier of imagination and investment opportunities. Melting ice will make massive gas and oil fields in the Arctic sea more accessible, will make the now frozen tundras suitable for agriculture and valuable minerals of which the Arctic is rich – such as sink, iron, gold and nickel – more easy to mine. Investing in the Arctic brings along massive financial and ecological risks, but financial markets thrive on risks. Currently investors are trying to get a foothold by making Arctic land deals and planning new infrastructures. Participating in the Arctic chess game will make a lot of people rich.
On October 18th 2014 Hurricane Ana is expected to hit Hawaii. When it does is can create big profits and losses in the financial markets. Catastrophe bonds turn floods, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis into financial products. Financial risks from natural disasters are highly concentrated in a few places. With a rising weather volatility and number of natural disasters, insurers and governments increasingly have problems covering big catastrophic risks. Instead they sell catastrophe bonds to spread the risk. The buyer of this bond invest his money in a catastrophe insurance and loses it all when a specified natural disaster happens within a predetermined number of years. This way the seller ensure himself against extreme losses and pays the buyer a high interest rate. Spreading risks in broader markets via cat-bonds is like distributing an earthquake of the highest level across the planet so no one will feel it. Cat-bonds deal with rare events and there’s a great uncertainty involved, yet when a natural disaster hits it hits hard. These moments of disruption are perfect for investors: taking very high risks can return a lot of profits when the coin fall on the right side.
It can be profitable for speculators to contribute to the depletion of animal stocks thereby speeding up the extinction process: e.g. Atlantic blue tuna fish are frozen in anticipation of future prices. When going extinct stockpiles of a specie (or its body parts) become of infinite value. New anticipated financial products – the so called “species swap” – are derivatives that should preserve endangered species. Fiscal and debt crisis withhold states back from investing in biodiversity and gives way to the financialisation of animals. Species swap contracts secures the efforts of investors to look after a specific habitat of an endangered species. If the species goes up in number the state pays the investor interest, if the number declines the state receives money from the investor. Species as renewable or non-renewable resources, betting on extinction or survival works either way.
The oil of the 21st century is too cheap and undervalued, and governments have only started to realise this by criminalising the harvesting of grey water. Collecting rainwater is, for example, illegal in the US and will put you in jail. Investing in water companies and infrastructure helps securing its value in the future, just as making land and water deals in undeveloped areas of the world. Yet, trading water as a commodity opens a new perspective for international financial markets. Usable water will become scarce and will need to mined, processed and stored. Local shortages and surpluses around the world and the highly political prices that differ per country creates a need for water to be moved around the world. This generates a competitive landscape for a international water futures market. When water is disconnected from its local territory and its ownership can be traded in exchanges, then water truly becomes liquid, global and directly convertible to cash.
Femke Herregraven's work traverses global finance, information and geopolitics. Works exist online and as installations, video, prints, drawings, and games, often exploring geographies of avoidance and the ways in which financial systems carve out new geographies through spatial organisation. Currently researching high-frequency trading, Herregraven’s ongoing projects include Geographies of Avoidance, addressing the offshore escape of financial regulation and The All Infrared Line, revolving around the physical backbone of global finance.
Alex Mackin Dolan is an artist living in New York. He co-directs Grand Century and previously co-curated Appendix Project Space. His work, concerning objects influenced by contemporary sources of stress, has been shown at Swiss Institute and Portland Institute for Contemporary Art. Dolan was the first Visual Artist in Residence at Park Avenue Armory’s Under Construction Series (89plus, 2013), and the agnès b. / Tara Oceans Polar Circle Artist in Residence.
Holly White is an artist currently living and working in London, www.holly-white.com
Emily Jones (born 1987, London). Enough. Theory. History. Raw Spa, Ramadan Mubarak, take me higher #orientate, What is a human being? Unfortunately, It Was Paradise, LIVESTRONG, AIR. Forests, Oceans, Toxics, Peace. Ṣanʿāʾ. Theotokos. North Atlantic. Arctic Biosphere. The role of the shaman. Pray. [emilyjones.info]
A blood rite/ mourning ritual/gift ceremony for tomorrow & tomorrow. JD uses a pencil and a needle in a distributed ink drawing practice that takes place between bodies in a space of mutual exchange. The custodian of each drawing makes the first sketch in words as part of a conversation process where narratives are shared and compared, and where the groundwork is laid in language for making a meaningful ritual. Finally, the image is etched in ink on the body, where it will stay - on the cellular level at least - until the death of that body and beyond. The practice is a way of manifesting networked kinship in precarious times; it is also an attempt to contain the accumulated trauma of a life through externalising scar tissue as a badge of what we have already survived. Above all it is a 'despite-everything' gesture of defiance to death (of physical bodies, community and communities), commoditisation, pointless posterity, monolithic art praxes that echo the totality of state sovereignty, and a way to embrace the inevitable, together.
Jesse Darling is an artist living in London. Their work addresses the human condition and how it is mediated through the structures, narratives and technologies that govern life as we know it, considering the social and physical body as a site where they manifest and become transformed. JD works in sculpture, installation, text and ‘dasein by design’ – where performance and unmediated experience meet. Exhibitions include Private Settings: Art After the Internet (Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw), Preteen Gallery’s It’s been four years since 2010 and Not Long Now at LIMAZULU, London, 2014. JD is represented by Arcadia_Missa.
Julian Oliver is a New Zealander, Critical Engineer and artist based in Berlin. His projects and the occasional paper have been presented at many museums, international electronic-art events and conferences, including the Tate Modern,Transmediale, Ars Electronica, FILE and the Japan Media Arts Festival. Julian's work has received several awards, most notably a Golden Nica at Prix Ars Electronica 2011 for the project Newstweek. He has been actively exhibiting worldwide since 1996.
Kari Altmann is one of the most influential and innovative artists in the currently titled 'post-internet' genre. Her work is focused on ideas of rapid mimicry and mutation in the name of survival and virality. She has done projects for and with Art Dubai, The Goethe Institute, The New Museum, FadetoMind, Dis Magazine, Nero Magazine and many more.
The Ongoing Collapse is a growing collection of data sources and links positioned as a reflection of the state of the world in the terms that it likes to use. It's a gentle ticking of the crumbling weird at the base of civilisation, quoting e.g. the present value of crude oil, the number of parts per million of carbon in the atmosphere or the number of man-made objects in space. The Ongoing Collapse forms a central platform of The Serpentine's EXTINCT.LY.
Tobias Revell is a critical designer, researcher and futurist seeking alternative narratives for technologies and change. He lectures at the Royal College of Art and London College of Communication and is a senior associate at Superflux design studio. He has given talks and exhibited internationally, including at Ars Electronica; the Science Gallery, Dublin; Z33, Hasselt, Belgium; the Milan Design Week and HMKV Dortmund.
Alex Mackin Dolan is an artist living in New York. He co-directs Grand Century and previously co-curated Appendix Project Space. His work, concerning objects influenced by contemporary sources of stress, has been shown at Swiss Institute and Portland Institute for Contemporary Art. Dolan was the first Visual Artist in Residence at Park Avenue Armory’s Under Construction Series (89plus, 2013), and the agnès b. / Tara Oceans Polar Circle Artist in Residence.
Holly White is an artist currently living and working in London, www.holly-white.com
Emily Jones (born 1987, London). Enough. Theory. History. Raw Spa, Ramadan Mubarak, take me higher #orientate, What is a human being? Unfortunately, It Was Paradise, LIVESTRONG, AIR. Forests, Oceans, Toxics, Peace. Ṣanʿāʾ. Theotokos. North Atlantic. Arctic Biosphere. The role of the shaman. Pray. [emilyjones.info]
A blood rite/ mourning ritual/gift ceremony for tomorrow & tomorrow. JD uses a pencil and a needle in a distributed ink drawing practice that takes place between bodies in a space of mutual exchange. The custodian of each drawing makes the first sketch in words as part of a conversation process where narratives are shared and compared, and where the groundwork is laid in language for making a meaningful ritual. Finally, the image is etched in ink on the body, where it will stay - on the cellular level at least - until the death of that body and beyond. The practice is a way of manifesting networked kinship in precarious times; it is also an attempt to contain the accumulated trauma of a life through externalising scar tissue as a badge of what we have already survived. Above all it is a 'despite-everything' gesture of defiance to death (of physical bodies, community and communities), commoditisation, pointless posterity, monolithic art praxes that echo the totality of state sovereignty, and a way to embrace the inevitable, together.
Jesse Darling is an artist living in London. Their work addresses the human condition and how it is mediated through the structures, narratives and technologies that govern life as we know it, considering the social and physical body as a site where they manifest and become transformed. JD works in sculpture, installation, text and ‘dasein by design’ – where performance and unmediated experience meet. Exhibitions include Private Settings: Art After the Internet (Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw), Preteen Gallery’s It’s been four years since 2010 and Not Long Now at LIMAZULU, London, 2014. JD is represented by Arcadia_Missa.
Julian Oliver is a New Zealander, Critical Engineer and artist based in Berlin. His projects and the occasional paper have been presented at many museums, international electronic-art events and conferences, including the Tate Modern,Transmediale, Ars Electronica, FILE and the Japan Media Arts Festival. Julian's work has received several awards, most notably a Golden Nica at Prix Ars Electronica 2011 for the project Newstweek. He has been actively exhibiting worldwide since 1996.
Kari Altmann is one of the most influential and innovative artists in the currently titled 'post-internet' genre. Her work is focused on ideas of rapid mimicry and mutation in the name of survival and virality. She has done projects for and with Art Dubai, The Goethe Institute, The New Museum, FadetoMind, Dis Magazine, Nero Magazine and many more.
The Ongoing Collapse is a growing collection of data sources and links positioned as a reflection of the state of the world in the terms that it likes to use. It's a gentle ticking of the crumbling weird at the base of civilisation, quoting e.g. the present value of crude oil, the number of parts per million of carbon in the atmosphere or the number of man-made objects in space. The Ongoing Collapse forms a central platform of The Serpentine's EXTINCT.LY.
Tobias Revell is a critical designer, researcher and futurist seeking alternative narratives for technologies and change. He lectures at the Royal College of Art and London College of Communication and is a senior associate at Superflux design studio. He has given talks and exhibited internationally, including at Ars Electronica; the Science Gallery, Dublin; Z33, Hasselt, Belgium; the Milan Design Week and HMKV Dortmund.
Alex Mackin Dolan is an artist living in New York. He co-directs Grand Century and previously co-curated Appendix Project Space. His work, concerning objects influenced by contemporary sources of stress, has been shown at Swiss Institute and Portland Institute for Contemporary Art. Dolan was the first Visual Artist in Residence at Park Avenue Armory’s Under Construction Series (89plus, 2013), and the agnès b. / Tara Oceans Polar Circle Artist in Residence.
Holly White is an artist currently living and working in London, www.holly-white.com
Emily Jones (born 1987, London). Enough. Theory. History. Raw Spa, Ramadan Mubarak, take me higher #orientate, What is a human being? Unfortunately, It Was Paradise, LIVESTRONG, AIR. Forests, Oceans, Toxics, Peace. Ṣanʿāʾ. Theotokos. North Atlantic. Arctic Biosphere. The role of the shaman. Pray. [emilyjones.info]
A blood rite/ mourning ritual/gift ceremony for tomorrow & tomorrow. JD uses a pencil and a needle in a distributed ink drawing practice that takes place between bodies in a space of mutual exchange. The custodian of each drawing makes the first sketch in words as part of a conversation process where narratives are shared and compared, and where the groundwork is laid in language for making a meaningful ritual. Finally, the image is etched in ink on the body, where it will stay - on the cellular level at least - until the death of that body and beyond. The practice is a way of manifesting networked kinship in precarious times; it is also an attempt to contain the accumulated trauma of a life through externalising scar tissue as a badge of what we have already survived. Above all it is a 'despite-everything' gesture of defiance to death (of physical bodies, community and communities), commoditisation, pointless posterity, monolithic art praxes that echo the totality of state sovereignty, and a way to embrace the inevitable, together.
Jesse Darling is an artist living in London. Their work addresses the human condition and how it is mediated through the structures, narratives and technologies that govern life as we know it, considering the social and physical body as a site where they manifest and become transformed. JD works in sculpture, installation, text and ‘dasein by design’ – where performance and unmediated experience meet. Exhibitions include Private Settings: Art After the Internet (Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw), Preteen Gallery’s It’s been four years since 2010 and Not Long Now at LIMAZULU, London, 2014. JD is represented by Arcadia_Missa.
Julian Oliver is a New Zealander, Critical Engineer and artist based in Berlin. His projects and the occasional paper have been presented at many museums, international electronic-art events and conferences, including the Tate Modern,Transmediale, Ars Electronica, FILE and the Japan Media Arts Festival. Julian's work has received several awards, most notably a Golden Nica at Prix Ars Electronica 2011 for the project Newstweek. He has been actively exhibiting worldwide since 1996.
Kari Altmann is one of the most influential and innovative artists in the currently titled 'post-internet' genre. Her work is focused on ideas of rapid mimicry and mutation in the name of survival and virality. She has done projects for and with Art Dubai, The Goethe Institute, The New Museum, FadetoMind, Dis Magazine, Nero Magazine and many more.
The Ongoing Collapse is a growing collection of data sources and links positioned as a reflection of the state of the world in the terms that it likes to use. It's a gentle ticking of the crumbling weird at the base of civilisation, quoting e.g. the present value of crude oil, the number of parts per million of carbon in the atmosphere or the number of man-made objects in space. The Ongoing Collapse forms a central platform of The Serpentine's EXTINCT.LY.
Tobias Revell is a critical designer, researcher and futurist seeking alternative narratives for technologies and change. He lectures at the Royal College of Art and London College of Communication and is a senior associate at Superflux design studio. He has given talks and exhibited internationally, including at Ars Electronica; the Science Gallery, Dublin; Z33, Hasselt, Belgium; the Milan Design Week and HMKV Dortmund.
Alex Mackin Dolan is an artist living in New York. He co-directs Grand Century and previously co-curated Appendix Project Space. His work, concerning objects influenced by contemporary sources of stress, has been shown at Swiss Institute and Portland Institute for Contemporary Art. Dolan was the first Visual Artist in Residence at Park Avenue Armory’s Under Construction Series (89plus, 2013), and the agnès b. / Tara Oceans Polar Circle Artist in Residence.
Holly White is an artist currently living and working in London, www.holly-white.com
Emily Jones (born 1987, London). Enough. Theory. History. Raw Spa, Ramadan Mubarak, take me higher #orientate, What is a human being? Unfortunately, It Was Paradise, LIVESTRONG, AIR. Forests, Oceans, Toxics, Peace. Ṣanʿāʾ. Theotokos. North Atlantic. Arctic Biosphere. The role of the shaman. Pray. [emilyjones.info]
A blood rite/ mourning ritual/gift ceremony for tomorrow & tomorrow. JD uses a pencil and a needle in a distributed ink drawing practice that takes place between bodies in a space of mutual exchange. The custodian of each drawing makes the first sketch in words as part of a conversation process where narratives are shared and compared, and where the groundwork is laid in language for making a meaningful ritual. Finally, the image is etched in ink on the body, where it will stay - on the cellular level at least - until the death of that body and beyond. The practice is a way of manifesting networked kinship in precarious times; it is also an attempt to contain the accumulated trauma of a life through externalising scar tissue as a badge of what we have already survived. Above all it is a 'despite-everything' gesture of defiance to death (of physical bodies, community and communities), commoditisation, pointless posterity, monolithic art praxes that echo the totality of state sovereignty, and a way to embrace the inevitable, together.
Jesse Darling is an artist living in London. Their work addresses the human condition and how it is mediated through the structures, narratives and technologies that govern life as we know it, considering the social and physical body as a site where they manifest and become transformed. JD works in sculpture, installation, text and ‘dasein by design’ – where performance and unmediated experience meet. Exhibitions include Private Settings: Art After the Internet (Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw), Preteen Gallery’s It’s been four years since 2010 and Not Long Now at LIMAZULU, London, 2014. JD is represented by Arcadia_Missa.
Julian Oliver is a New Zealander, Critical Engineer and artist based in Berlin. His projects and the occasional paper have been presented at many museums, international electronic-art events and conferences, including the Tate Modern,Transmediale, Ars Electronica, FILE and the Japan Media Arts Festival. Julian's work has received several awards, most notably a Golden Nica at Prix Ars Electronica 2011 for the project Newstweek. He has been actively exhibiting worldwide since 1996.
Kari Altmann is one of the most influential and innovative artists in the currently titled 'post-internet' genre. Her work is focused on ideas of rapid mimicry and mutation in the name of survival and virality. She has done projects for and with Art Dubai, The Goethe Institute, The New Museum, FadetoMind, Dis Magazine, Nero Magazine and many more.
The Ongoing Collapse is a growing collection of data sources and links positioned as a reflection of the state of the world in the terms that it likes to use. It's a gentle ticking of the crumbling weird at the base of civilisation, quoting e.g. the present value of crude oil, the number of parts per million of carbon in the atmosphere or the number of man-made objects in space. The Ongoing Collapse forms a central platform of The Serpentine's EXTINCT.LY.
Tobias Revell is a critical designer, researcher and futurist seeking alternative narratives for technologies and change. He lectures at the Royal College of Art and London College of Communication and is a senior associate at Superflux design studio. He has given talks and exhibited internationally, including at Ars Electronica; the Science Gallery, Dublin; Z33, Hasselt, Belgium; the Milan Design Week and HMKV Dortmund.
This work of net.art is a corporate and institutional cross-projection and a brutal manifestation of Newspeak. The destruction of common meaning in language drives extinction and creates collateral damage when Data Mining industries talk and act on ‘Real-Time Anti-Fraud’ and ‘Counter-Terrorism Financing’. Real meaning disappears behind profit-seeking and every transaction is under suspicion. The never-ending tracking of people’s actions is (mis)labeled as customer service.
The video shows a tracking shot of aerial images of BP’s 'Deepwater Horizon’ oil-spill in the Gulf of Mexico, beautifully wrapped around a sphere. The source images are from the massive oil-painting on an 80.000 square-mile canvas with over 800 million liters of oil. This piece cements the position of oil-painting as the supreme discipline of art, but at the same time gives evidence of the delicate and endangered position of painting if the discipline refuses to radically embrace technology.
Founded in 1995 by lizvlx (b. 1973, Austria) and Hans Bernhard (b. 1971, USA), UBERMORGEN is a net.art duo with a research-based practice. Open-ended investigations focus on corporate and governmental authority, institutional and individual responsibility. Sampling and sourcing materials, UBERMORGEN hack or infiltrate the net and mass media. Once in circulation, their interventions evolve; moulded and manipulated by different agents, before eventually becoming artworks.
Alex Mackin Dolan is an artist living in New York. He co-directs Grand Century and previously co-curated Appendix Project Space. His work, concerning objects influenced by contemporary sources of stress, has been shown at Swiss Institute and Portland Institute for Contemporary Art. Dolan was the first Visual Artist in Residence at Park Avenue Armory’s Under Construction Series (89plus, 2013), and the agnès b. / Tara Oceans Polar Circle Artist in Residence.
Holly White is an artist currently living and working in London, www.holly-white.com
Emily Jones (born 1987, London). Enough. Theory. History. Raw Spa, Ramadan Mubarak, take me higher #orientate, What is a human being? Unfortunately, It Was Paradise, LIVESTRONG, AIR. Forests, Oceans, Toxics, Peace. Ṣanʿāʾ. Theotokos. North Atlantic. Arctic Biosphere. The role of the shaman. Pray. [emilyjones.info]
A blood rite/ mourning ritual/gift ceremony for tomorrow & tomorrow. JD uses a pencil and a needle in a distributed ink drawing practice that takes place between bodies in a space of mutual exchange. The custodian of each drawing makes the first sketch in words as part of a conversation process where narratives are shared and compared, and where the groundwork is laid in language for making a meaningful ritual. Finally, the image is etched in ink on the body, where it will stay - on the cellular level at least - until the death of that body and beyond. The practice is a way of manifesting networked kinship in precarious times; it is also an attempt to contain the accumulated trauma of a life through externalising scar tissue as a badge of what we have already survived. Above all it is a 'despite-everything' gesture of defiance to death (of physical bodies, community and communities), commoditisation, pointless posterity, monolithic art praxes that echo the totality of state sovereignty, and a way to embrace the inevitable, together.
Jesse Darling is an artist living in London. Their work addresses the human condition and how it is mediated through the structures, narratives and technologies that govern life as we know it, considering the social and physical body as a site where they manifest and become transformed. JD works in sculpture, installation, text and ‘dasein by design’ – where performance and unmediated experience meet. Exhibitions include Private Settings: Art After the Internet (Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw), Preteen Gallery’s It’s been four years since 2010 and Not Long Now at LIMAZULU, London, 2014. JD is represented by Arcadia_Missa.
Julian Oliver is a New Zealander, Critical Engineer and artist based in Berlin. His projects and the occasional paper have been presented at many museums, international electronic-art events and conferences, including the Tate Modern,Transmediale, Ars Electronica, FILE and the Japan Media Arts Festival. Julian's work has received several awards, most notably a Golden Nica at Prix Ars Electronica 2011 for the project Newstweek. He has been actively exhibiting worldwide since 1996.
Kari Altmann is one of the most influential and innovative artists in the currently titled 'post-internet' genre. Her work is focused on ideas of rapid mimicry and mutation in the name of survival and virality. She has done projects for and with Art Dubai, The Goethe Institute, The New Museum, FadetoMind, Dis Magazine, Nero Magazine and many more.
The Ongoing Collapse is a growing collection of data sources and links positioned as a reflection of the state of the world in the terms that it likes to use. It's a gentle ticking of the crumbling weird at the base of civilisation, quoting e.g. the present value of crude oil, the number of parts per million of carbon in the atmosphere or the number of man-made objects in space. The Ongoing Collapse forms a central platform of The Serpentine's EXTINCT.LY.
Tobias Revell is a critical designer, researcher and futurist seeking alternative narratives for technologies and change. He lectures at the Royal College of Art and London College of Communication and is a senior associate at Superflux design studio. He has given talks and exhibited internationally, including at Ars Electronica; the Science Gallery, Dublin; Z33, Hasselt, Belgium; the Milan Design Week and HMKV Dortmund.
