art & technology

Greening the Network Commons

RichAir performance in Wall Street with Reverend Billy

In 2001, Shu Lea Cheang created Steam the green, Stream the field (Cheang, 2001-02), a work which anticipated a major shift in the discourse and practice of post-media art by 10 years. Shu Lea Cheang insists on calling herself a 'self-styled' artist, emphasising her autonomy to define her activities as art. Her projects highlight the potential of the coming together of social self-organisation with a social and trans-media art practice that combines landscapes and datascapes, the natural and the digital commons.

Waves – the art of deconcealment

This text is my first attempt to reflect some of the issues arising from the two Waves exhibitions. The exhibitions in Riga (2006) and Dortmund (2008) were conceived as research projects. By looking at waves as "a principle material and medium of art" the exhibitions were made with an outlook on building a bottom-up, materialist theory of media art.

taxi-to-praxi: experimental workshop about practice-led PhDs

This one day workshop "from taxi to praxi and back again" uncovers and examines some of the challenges and opportunities faced when creative artistic practice is undertaking research.

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