The Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal (MACM) purchases artworks from local creators

Wishing to take concrete action to support local art and artists, the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal (MACM) has acquired 18 works by 13 creators "active and established" in Québec.

ARTnews in Brief: Bangkok Art Biennale Reveals Artist List for Second Edition—and More from August 28, 2020

Solomon and Selvin highlight some of the artists and events of the Bangkok Art Biennale.

The poetics of urban media surfaces

Manovich explores "what are the historical precedents of urban media surface phenomena and what can we expect in the future?"

Hypersurface And Mediafacade - Urban Screen And Nu Former

Monteverdi argues that screens are now ubiquitous and gigantic, as opposed to Manovich's argument that screen would become virtual.

Identity, memory find expression in new media designer Kadambari Sahu’s multi-sensorial installations

Varghese reviews "Sniffing Out The Differences", installations that privilege the sense of smell to tell stories touching on many themes, from racism to connectedness.

Survival of the fittest - Nature and high-tech in contemporary art

Debatty reviews the "Survival of the Fittest" exhibition at the Kunstpalais in Erlangen.

Re-Connecting Art And Science. In Conversation With Victoria Vesna

Contemporary Lynx spoke to Vesna, a media artist and a professor, whose work explores how communication technologies can affect collective behaviour in relation to scientific innovation.

Back And Forth Between Real And Virtual - An Interview With Daito Manabe

Tanni interviewed Daito Manabe, the versatile Japanese artist who made the video clip for Kazu, the singer of Blonde Redhead.

The Crossover of New Media Immersion and Site-Specificity: Contemporary Art and Spatial Experience

Bock proposes a critical theory around the issues at stake in the crossover, particularly with regard to contemporary spatial experience and its implications for subjectivity.

Choreography and Gesture in Robotic Artworks

John Lucy investigates the work of William Forsythe as it inspires him.

Subjective Media: A Historic Context for New Media in Art

Media art has become increasingly widespread in academia, while paradoxically its status and legitimacy as a discipline is an on-going problem.