Money is not just an ever-present constraint. Money is also a tool to understand the world, to highlight injustices, to establish comparisons between past, present and future. Are we better off or worse off than our… »
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Developments in machine learning reinforce a particular canon of classification and understanding. How can the threshold for encoding and interpretation be adjusted or expanded beyond dominant conceptions, and where are we bound as bipedal thought forms? ”Pencils,… »
Artists are everywhere, from celebrities showing at MoMA to locals hoping for a spot on a café wall. They are photographed at gallery openings in New York and Los Angeles, hustle in fast-gentrifying cities, and, sometimes,… »
In November last year, a dismal jubilee was celebrated; the 40th anniversary of the murder of the Italian filmmaker and writer Pier Paolo Pasolini.
Setting out from Ilias Papailiakis’ Studies on Pasolini’s portrait, 2015, a… »
Sweden became a slave nation with the takeover of the Caribbean island Saint Barthélemy in 1785. Serfdom had been abolished in 1335 and as Swedish law did not regulate slavery a version of the French slave… »
Contemporary applications of machine vision involve processes that often, obscure human perception, whether through bureaucratic procedures of blacking out information as in the case of drone warfare or through the mathematical abstractions of perceptual algorithms as… »
In conjunction with Allison Smith’s exhibition The Fort, Christina Zetterlund will talk about history never being neutral from the point of arts and crafts. In a time when certain forces wish to turn back the clock… »
A talk on forward/visionary and backward/reactionary movements in Malmö. In the essay From Pilgrim to Tourist – or a Short History of Identity Zygmunt Bauman compares the pilgrim’s search for inner peace and enlightenment with the… »
In our modern society sound is almost constantly present. In pre-historic times, there were more of silence. Our listening habits depend on the sound in our environment, but the meaning attached to sound also determine… »
The oldest now existing art association in Sweden – Sveriges Allmänna Konstförening – visits Signal and the director of SAK, Jennie Fahlström, talks about the association of today.
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