Backdoor of the World
There is a void in the wall precisely where a colorful pencil drawing by Inuk artist Annie Pootoogook (1969–2016) was…
Features
Anarchitecture as Poetic Device
In 1974, Anarchitecture, a group whose members included Gordon Matta-Clark and others connected to the artist-run gallery 112 Green Street,…
Excerpts from the 80s
Peter Halley has been among Flash Art’s most celebrated artists, with a formidable career that the magazine has followed closely…
Bad Memory
During the early 1980s, Jeffrey Deitch wrote a column for Flash Art titled “Art and Money.” In one such column…
Art Has to Stay Art
In 1967 and 1968, Flash Art published Piero Gilardi’s diary of his travels between the United States and Northern Europe.…
Positively Not
Eric Troncy’s text “Being Positive in the Secret of the 90s,” which appeared in Flash Art in 1992, focuses on…
Cattelan Cover Story
In 1994, Maurizio Cattelan was featured on the cover of Flash Art for the first time. This was followed by…
Aspiring to Dissolution
“Ambivalent Witnesses,” Hou Hanru’s survey of Chinese contemporary art published in Flash Art in 1996, was among the first attempts…
Lonely Warriors Against an Authoritarian Regime
In 1977, Flash Art featured a survey of “non-aligned” Russian artists. Throughout the 1980s, the magazine continued to report on…
theanyspacewhatever
One World Charles left Paris when he was eight. It was in the late 1990s. He was moving to a…
Frontier Fears
Since 1979, Ars Electronica has served as a platform for discourse surrounding the convergence of art and technology within society.…
Automating Aesthetics
In the original 1950s vision of artificial intelligence, the goal was to teach computers to perform a range of cognitive…
Who Cares if You Listen: The Algorithm at 100
In March 2016 a rare board game event broke into the mainstream media: a computer had beaten a human Go…
Closed Circuits and Echo Chambers
When my own doors shut, I can freely enter whatever world I want. –– Amos Awe-inspiring concrete tower blocks, colossal…
Conceiving Autonomy
Loneliness lives on our net frontier. Even motherboards and Flash require touch. Think of passion each time you click me…
Homebrew Computer
Ever since the Renaissance, the most complex machines that humans have developed have been used as an analogy for the…