When the Painter Learned to Program
The whole of my history in relation to computing really has had to do with a change from the notion…
Features
Age of Hybrids
Since the political upset of the American presidential election, journalists, academics and artists have been working to make sense of…
AI through the Technologist’s Eye
The semi-coherent shapes, blurred colors and disfigured face of Butcher’s Son (2017) misguide many an untrained eye in search of…
Immigration Made Easy
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (commonly referred to as ICE) is the governmental enforcement agency responsible for the detention and…
All Systems Go
In 1997, the world watched with awe and trepidation as IBM’s supercomputer Deep Blue defeated Russian world chess champion Garry…
Computer Visions
In both popular and art news media, stories of developments in the realm of art and artificial intelligence are typically…
Berlin Stories
On the occasion of the first Berlin Biennale, Flash Art edited a portfolio of texts celebrating Berlin as an…
The Better Biennale
“Aperto ’93,” curated by Flash Art editor Helena Kontova and twelve other critics and curators active with the magazine, was…
Guilty Memory of the Future
We call her “she.” Whether she’s the satnav, the sultry secretary or the leader of the robot uprising, her hologram…
From Pygmalion to Ping Body
In retrospect, we may look upon the long tradition of figure sculpture … as an extended psychic dress rehearsal for…
No Safe Mode
Designers of technology love to propagate the myth of a just world, in which people always get what they deserve.…
A Taste for Absence
Performance of a Massacre (2016), a recent performance piece by Yan Xing (b. 1986, China) at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, unfolded…
The Object of the City
Where the most ambiguous activities of the living are pursued, the inanimate may sometimes catch a reflection of their most…
Pussy Power
In The Misandrists (2017), a term meaning “hatred of men” (the sisterly opposite of “misogynist”), Bruce LaBruce (b. 1964, Canada)…
Ligia Lewis. Refusing Directions
We stand in solidarity with all black communities around the world. In the past years, Flash Art has been inviting various artists, thinkers and writers to rewrite or rethink the idea of blackness. Our “Editors Choice” does not aim to dictate an exhaustive or comprehensive list of writings but is an act of solidarity, which aims to contribute to the distribution of art thinking on blackness, and a way in which we can support the movement. Good reading!
Les mots et les images
I met the artist Rodrigo Hernández (b. 1983, Mexico) one year ago, when he was on a residency in New…