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Feeding the Tardigotchi

The latest project from New Zealand-based artists SWAMP is the Tardigotchi, a toy which houses two pets: a living organism called tardigrade and an alife avatar with a partially autonomous behaviour continue

Magazine review: T-post

More than just a fashion piece, T-post uses great design as a subversive tool to instigate meaningful thought, conversation, and action continue

Sushi-cyborg and menstruation machine

As her pop musician alter ego "Sputniko!" Hiromi Ozaki showcases 3 manga-inspired characters who design objects to fulfil their own particular complex needs -- Crowbot Jenny builds a crow-shaped robot to communicate with crows, Sushiborg Yukari, a sushi-serving cyborg who modifies her body to become a lethal weapon, and Menstruation Machine (Takashi's Take), a boy desiring to become more 'feminine' who builds a suit in an attempt to experience the bleeding of menstruation continue

Building Blocks at Färgfabriken, Stockholm

Building Blocks is a fresh way to open discussions about the accepted norms for all buildings. Is dull architecture a product of a client's lack of imagination, the architect's failure to inspire or the restraints of the planning process? continue

International Festival

Loosely defined as a long-term project initiated between architecture and performance presenting work in several cultural contexts, IF keeps coming up with projects and ideas that could not be more diversified: videos, perfumes, arabic courses inside Copenhagen's Temporary National Theater, TV-programs, a mini Mobile Disco. The even shot a remake 1949 musical film On The Town as an alternative way to explore the social and spatial geographies of New York City continue

How to Make Pizza... North Korea style

Hwang Kim's sbtly subversive fake documentary aims to introduce North Koreans to diverse aspects of western culture: pizza, Christmas, suitcase packing and dancing on pop music. The film also explores how design can contribute and impact on a social and cultural level, subtly challenging an ideological status quo continue

Ceci n'est pas un Casino

Enter the Casino art center and you will find video consoles, a trampoline, a pin-ball machine, games of dart, a billiard table, a playground, etc. Yet, every single work is playing with you rather than the opposite. You instantly loose every single game of Mortal Kombat, the ceiling of the room where a huge trampoline lies is far too low for you to even stand on your feet, the hula hoop is monopolized by a plastic cactus, the mohair bascketball net is 130 m long, fences deny any access to the playground, etc continue

Herbologies/Foraging Networks at Pixelache Helsinki

Herbologies/Foraging Networks is a series of workshops, seminars and expeditions that explores the connection between traditional knowledge of herbs, edible and medicinal plants and media networked culture. The result of the Helsinki chapter of H/FN is a surprising fusion of hydroponic technologies, vodka-making workshop, fermentation sermon, DNA isolation experiments and lecture on subjects as diverse as biopiracy and honey beekeeping in Brussels continue

Susan Meiselas

Meiselas was 26 when she joined Magnum. One of the few women at the agency, she is probably better known for her work covering political upheavals in Central America in the 1970s and 1980s than for her coverage of the sex scene in the US. I saw both facets of her portfolio in London a few weeks ago continue

Ship of Fools

Allan Sekula's portraits of seafarers, dock workers, port cities and their industrial hinterland register the affects of globalisation on people's lives. With these works, the artist counters the myth that underpins neoliberal ideology of painless flows of goods and capital that constitute international trade continue

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