In 2018-2020 I am taking up a post-doctoral research project on ‘expanded reality’ at The New School and the City University of Hong Kong. The research is focused on a trajectory of (emotional) change occurring in our human relationship with…
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I was invited by MUTEK to moderate this panel during the MUTEK_IMG Festival in Montreal, for which MUTEK had invited a number of creators and curators from Montréal and abroad to present their work, including Thibaut Duverneix, Jean-François Larouche, Max…
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In January and February 2018 I took up a curatorial residency at AVXLab in São Paulo, directed by Demétrio Portugal and Lucas Bambozzi. During the residency I examined current tendencies and trajectories of urban media art in the Brazilian context,…
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Keynote, Elektronika Festival Belo Horizonte, January 2018 The keynote addresses a foundation for examining how urban art can challenge and participate in processes of urban change. In light of a current global paradigm in urban art that sees the potential…
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Digital culture profoundly influences how artists work today, the intuitions and imaginations they work from, their orientations and inquiries. Based on interviews with 78 artists belonging to the Nordic art context, this book examines art’s changing trajectories, meanings and roles…
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My research and projects examine how (media) art and the media arts as contingent phenomena engage with processes of change in different urban contexts and environments, in a global perspective. Since ancient times, art and the arts have been considered…
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How may art, as autonomous manifestation and a domain intimately related to human experience, take part in the technological development of cities today? The Screen City Biennial developed out of curiosity and attention to the meeting between expanded moving image…
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The Urban Media Art Academy is a networked, global educational initiative that investigates and intermediates urban media art as an interdisciplinary domain of practice, theory and knowledge sharing. The academy facilitates an educational model around art that supports its conceptualization,…
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This article departs in the observation of a worldly phenomenon of media-aesthetic visual character that followed the terrorist attacks in Paris on September 13, 2015. In the days that followed the attacks, colors of blue, white and red, the colors…
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PhD Dissertation, 2017 Abstract The dissertation unfolds through an inquiry into human perceptual experience in media aesthetic conditions of our contemporary communicative existence. This aesthetic condition is approached in a process-philosophical, Bergsonian framework in the notion of aesthetics in terms…
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Sep 29 – Oct 1, 2016 Media Architecture Summit, Toronto MAS 2016 explores the role of urban screens, interactive media façades, and large-scale public projections in architecture, public art, civic engagement and urban renewal. Beyond mere decoration, civic spectacle and…
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Edited by Susa Pop, Tanya Toft, Nerea Calvillo and Mark Wright Urban media art is possibly one of the most momentous expansions within the field of contemporary public art. Referring to various forms of media-aesthetic, artistic engagement in urban environments…
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June 7, 2016 Keynote Live The City, Bangkok Title: What Urban Media Art Can Do Co-organized by Connecting Cities, Goethe Institut Thailand, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, and Siam Center. Live The City
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March 11, 2016 Connecting Cities Symposium Panelists: Loraine Furter, Nerea Calvillo and Darko Fritz This Connecting Cities Symposium offers an overview of the previous activities dedicated to the curatorial topics of the Networked City 2013, the Participatory City 2014 and the…
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October 30, 2015 City Link 2015: Reimagining the City City Link 2015 contains talks and debates, workshops, exhibitions, dinner and pop-up concerts. It explores new ways of thinking about creativity and social communities, and is focused on gaining new insights and perspectives on…
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January 2012 In this video interview I ask French media artist Maurice Benayoun about his artistic practice, about the postdigital and the future of the museum, as we walk down Wall Street, Zuccotti Park, the World Trade Center, Trinity Church and…
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