For Spike #77 – Field Guide to AI, we discussed “AI’s weirder implications for the labor of art-making” with Vladan Joler & Sebastian Schmieg, moderated by Christian Kobald
We are grateful to have received a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship for 2023! That’s New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) and the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA)
Please join for the first public gathering of Weird Economies in Lisbon, Portugal. Weird Economies Portfolio will be a program of talks, screenings, and conversations by its organizers, board of advisors and associates. All are welcome. The event is organized in partnership with Carpintarias de São Lázaro Cultural Center in Lisbon. The inaugural gathering will […]
We will be conducting a seminar titled Silicon Valley Dreams and Hallucinating Machines at Maumaus Independent Study Programme.
We will be participating in “Chat GPT, Language & the Future of Thinking & Writing” hosted by ESAP, Porto Lisbon & The New Center On June, 2nd, 3PM, at ESAP, it will take place (we will be remote). Please fill out the form to attend (10am-noon EST)ChatGPT and other developments in Large Language Models have taken […]
Our essay “Sketches from a Secession” will be published by MIT Press for the Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art series Speculation edited by Marina Vishmidt. Engaging with the question of speculation in ways that encompass the artistic, the economic, and the philosophical, with excursions into the literary and the scientific, this collection approaches the theme […]
We will have a conversation with fellow artists Agnieszka Kurant and Joshua Citarella to consider the impact of today’s fast-changing technological reality, moderated by Makayla Bailey Development Director of Rhizome.
We are participating in the project On Abstraction which includes an international colloquium, a bilingual publication and four exhibitions: (I) Paris (II) Porto (III) Barcelona (IV) Porto. Curated by Eduarda Neves.
The New Centre for Research & Practice, in collaboration with Richmond Art Gallery, will host the Incredible Machines 2022: Model Is the Message on October 1 and 2, 2022. The event will be followed up with the publication of a volume on the topic by the conference guests. http://thenewcentre.org/incredible-machines-2022/
We will be conducting a seminar at Maumaus Independent Study Programme.
We will be presenting at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. The symposium is titled, Institutional Critique at the Post-Digital Turn: Museums and Databases.
“Photographs of a Master Plan,” in Contemporânea
Infrahauntologies Part II Opening: January 27, 6pm January 28-March 12, 2022 La Box Galerie de l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Art de BourgesBP 297, 9 rue Édouard-Branly, Bourges Tél : 02 48 24 78 70 [email protected] https://www.ensa-bourges.fr/index.php/en/14-box Artists: Bahar Noorizadeh / João Enxuto and Erica Love / Vermeir & Heiremans Curated by Bassam El Baroni Infrahauntologies is an […]
On Wednesday, December 22, Renzo Martens’ White Cube (2020) was available for viewing on the Weird Economies platform and coincided with this recent text and interview by us. https://weirdeconomies.com/contributions/white-cube
Our essay “The Currency of Contemporary Art” will be published by Sternberg Press for the book Between the Material and the Possible: Infrastructural Re-examination and Speculation in Art edited by Bassam El Baroni. From questions around space settlements to the possibility of repurposing blockchain infrastructures and financial instruments for redistributive purposes, and from the diagrammatic potential […]
Our work will be exhibited at the Palazzo De Gualtieris, Castrignano de’ Greci (Lecce), Italy for Home Sweet Home curated by Paolo Mele, Claudio Zecchi, Alessandra Pioselli, Davide Quadrio. “Lastation is dead! Long live Lastation” was the last shout with which we left the house that hosted us for six years from 2014 to 2020. […]
ESAP Seminar: Rerouting Capital July 14 – 16, 2021 Through a critical analysis of the art world’s global infrastructure, this seminar looks at artistic methodologies which operationalize financial speculation to creatively redirect flows of capital. We will focus on long-term (affective and research-based) commitments by artists and communities who have recognized that undoing structural violence […]
Exhibition walkthrough with Bassam El Baroni and Vermeir & Heiremans: July 7, 5pm Opening: July 7, 7pm Edith-Russ-Haus for Media ArtKatharinenstraße 23D-26121 OldenburgGermany www.edith-russ-haus.de Artists: A.S.T., Bassam El Baroni and Constantinos Miltiades (in collaboration with Georgios Cherouvim and Gerriet K. Sharma), João Enxuto and Erica Love, John Gerrard, Assem Hendawi, Bahar Noorizadeh, Vermeir & Heiremans Curated by […]
We will be conducting a seminar at Maumaus Independent Study Programme.
We excited to announce that we are Core Members and Stakeholders in the new online platform Weird Economies. It was launched today, June 12th. https://weirdeconomies.com Our first set of contributions will include a film screening of Kink Retrograde accompanying text by Bassam Saad, a digital platform and essay on Experiments with Autonomous Ecosystems by terra0, […]
We are in residence again at AiR 351 in Cascais, Portugal for June, July, and August, 2021
Commissioned for 2038 – The New Serenity at the German Pavilion for the 17th International Architecture Exhibition — Venice Biennale. Curated by Arno Brandlhuber, Olaf Grawert, Nikolaus Hirsch, and Christopher Roth the exhibition is May 22 to November 21, 2021. https://www.2038.xyz https://www.labiennale.org/en/architecture/2021
2038 – The New Serenity was released March 20, and is available online. The reader is based on and expands on ideas of 2038, the German Pavilion of the 17th Architecture Biennale di Venezia. The compendium includes contributions by Audrey Tang, Christopher Roth, Erica Love and João Enxuto, Erik Bordeleau, Evgeny Morozov, Jacob Goldman, Jennifer Jacquet and Becca Franks, Joanna Pope, Leif […]
Thanks to support from FLAD (Luso-American Development Foundation) we are in residence in beautiful Cascais, Portugal about a 30 minute drive from Lisbon. “AiR 351´s activities started in late 2016, with the artist-in-residence Gary Hill. Since then the organization has hosted international artists and curators. Its studio based professional development program anchors itself on the […]
We will be conducting a seminar the week of June 22 at Maumaus Independent Study Programme.
We were recently interviewed in Artforum.