Martyna Marciniak: “to examine how design and technology shape ideologies and social structures” In 2025, Martyna Marciniak is artist-in-residence at CERN in Geneva, in collaboration with Copenhagen Contemporary. CERN introduces her practice as follows: “Marciniak’s interdisciplinary practice combines spatial storytelling, speculative fiction and 3D reconstruction to examine how design and technology shape ideologies and social structures.” HerContinue reading “Beyond the “Fake”: Martyna Marciniak’s Artwork, Anatomy of Non-Fact, Explores Synthetic Images”
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Colours of Time, a movie by Cédric Klapisch: Photography as a Profoundly Human Global Technology
Humanity embraced photography, and it enriched human relationships—the very core of our humanity. The transformation of the world through this technology has been emancipatory. And what about today? As for today, is this movie a final look back before the battle for the future? Transitions—we are already in them. Climate, biodiversity, and technology. Faced withContinue reading “Colours of Time, a movie by Cédric Klapisch: Photography as a Profoundly Human Global Technology”
Isaac&Graham: when gravity powers smartphones
The physics professor Joël Chevrier tells us about the creation process of Isaac&Graham in collaboration with designer Mathieu Lehanneur; a story that reveals micro-energy and the joint work of a designer, a physicist, and a technologist.Isaac&Graham is a deceptively simple setup (that’s the very point): a crank allows you to easily lift a 20 kg weightContinue reading “Isaac&Graham: when gravity powers smartphones”
With Chinese artist Qingmei Yao, moving bodies reveal how technology is transforming our humanity.
From October 2024 to January 2025, artist Qingmei Yao exhibited Fencing: Landscape Fight at the Centre Pompidou as part of the exhibition China: A New Generation of Artists. Qingmei Yao placed two fencers on their usual piste. However, she replaced the two foils with two selfie sticks equipped with smartphones. Consequently, gazes, body movements, andContinue reading “With Chinese artist Qingmei Yao, moving bodies reveal how technology is transforming our humanity.”
AI and Digital Pens: New Tools for Measuring Handwriting, Its Learning Process, and Dysgraphia
Dysgraphia, a writing disorder, hinders many children in their academic learning. To address this issue, it is essential to detect it reliably and on a large scale. Research on writing acquisition has led to the development of digital pens that integrate motion micro-sensors similar to those found in smartphones. These sensors collect a vast amountContinue reading “AI and Digital Pens: New Tools for Measuring Handwriting, Its Learning Process, and Dysgraphia”
At the museum Bourse de Commerce Paris, “Arte povera” lifts the hood of The Glorious Thirty
Currently on view at the Bourse de Commerce/Collection Pinault, the exhibition “Arte Povera” traces the Italian birth, development and international legacy of this singular artistic movement. Over 250 works by the main protagonists of Arte Povera are on display. Title image : Pier Paolo Calzolari, Untitled (Mattress), 1970. ADAGP, Paris 2024 Private collection, Lisbon. ViewContinue reading “At the museum Bourse de Commerce Paris, “Arte povera” lifts the hood of The Glorious Thirty”
Fashion: Iris van Herpen’s dresses, hybridizations of the woman body with the world
The exhibition, which ran from November 29, 2023 to April 28, 2024, was a huge success: over 100 gowns were presented at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs (MAD) in Paris, some of them worn by actresses Nathalie Portman, Eva Green, Cate Blanchett and Tilda Swinton, as well as singers Beyoncé, Lady Gaga and Björk, andContinue reading “Fashion: Iris van Herpen’s dresses, hybridizations of the woman body with the world”
How to display science since images have no mass
Education, science, in fact the whole society, extensively use images. Between us and the world are the visual displays. Screens, small and large, individual or not, are everywhere. Images are increasingly the 2D substrate of our virtual interaction with reality. However images will never support a complete representation of the reality. Three-dimensional representations will notContinue reading “How to display science since images have no mass”
The science-fiction scenario of an artificial planet is already here
On December 9, 2020, researchers from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel published a study in the journal Nature titled “The global mass produced by man exceeds all living biomass”. The article summary sets the scene: “We find that Earth is exactly at the crossover point; in the year 2020 (±6), the anthropogenic mass,Continue reading “The science-fiction scenario of an artificial planet is already here”
Performances by Marina Abramovic and Ulay : Physical interactions between two moving bodies
Artists’ bodies in motion versus the disembodied digital future Over a period of twelve years, from 1976 to 1988, performance artists Marina Abramovic and Ulay (Uwe Laysiepen) explored a personal and artistic fusion. Their performances are breathtaking, both spectacular and physically complex. They engaged them at the limits of the body, of its strength, resistance and exhaustion.Continue reading “Performances by Marina Abramovic and Ulay : Physical interactions between two moving bodies “
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