SHIFTED #23: Perception Loops - On Seeing, Being Seen, and Machine Interpretation
I’ve been thinking about what it means to be looked at by something that doesn’t have eyes like ours.
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Notes, impressions and artists interviews focusing on environmental digital art.
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SHIFTED #22: On a New Curatorial Ecology: Attentive, Situated, and Slow.
As a new year begins, I’d like to call for a pause; a pause looking at a sun rising, a ripple lapping against a stone in a river, a snowflake melting on the skin, a clock that marks the start of a new year.
SHIFTED #21: On Slow Futures and Other Forms of Presence
Do you often find yourself staring at something without really looking at it?
SHIFTED #20: On Hydrofeminism, Posthuman Care, and the Politics of Water
Some say water never forgets.
SHIFTED #19: On AFROSCOPE’s Living Technology and the Ancestral Code of Speculative Futures
Isaac Nana Akwasi Opoku a.k.a.
SHIFTED #18: On Post-Natural Sensibility, Algorithmic Growth, and Digital Entanglements
In the dark, shoes left at the entrance, with a single light bulb, high up, swaying gently, and nothing but sound and vibrations, a feeling of constant terror, relentless excessive noise, not a moment to breathe, to exist.
SHIFTED #17: On Tamiko Thiel’s 'Invasive Growth' and Human-Made Coral Ecologies.
On AR coral sculptures, speculative waste, and returning the garbage home.
SHIFTED #16: On Andrea G. Artz’s 'Albertina the Snow Woman' and the Aesthetics of Post-Natural Grief
On rituals for loss, regeneration, and reformatting.
SHIFTED #15: On Anke Schiemann’s 'Seed Wisdom' and Agricultural Extractivism
On anthropomorphic storytelling and the quiet power of biocultural archives.
SHIFTED #14: On Laura Colmenares Guerra’s 'Aaron in Lo' and Liminal Bodies
On interspecies futures, meditative landscapes, and the emotional textures of Octavia Butler.
SHIFTED #13: On Claudia Hart’s 'Short Season' and the Fluidity of Time
On the disruption of Newtonian physics, time relativity, and multispecies future.
SHIFTED #12: On Digital Art in a Post-Natural Era and World-Becoming
Now that the Art Basel and The Digital Art Mile week is over, I am back here with even more ideas to share!
SHIFTED #11: On Cyborg and Monsters, Hybrid Ecologies and Post-Natural Species
Feathers and stones, insects, butterflies, and other organic or mechanical species with that slightly bitter chemical smell, wooden display cases or glass globes, and cabinets of curiosities have always fascinated me, and even more so when they're bizarre, a mixture of unconventional things where enchantment mingles with discomfort.
SHIFTED #10: On the Aura of Digital Art, Breaking the Screen, and Building Situations
Last week, I visited the "Paysages Mouvants" exhibition at the Jeu de Paume in Paris.
SHIFTED #9: On Dissolving Binaries, Rewilded Technologies, and the Art of Coexistence
Can a machine grow like a tree?
SHIFTED #8: On Reviving Obsolete Technologies, Reclaiming Resources, and Sensing Biodiversity Loss
The last article of the year always feels like a moment of pause.
SHIFTED #7: On Bringing Physicality and Care to Digital Art Exhibitions and Saving Energy
Darkness.
SHIFTED #6: On Eco-Logic, Action-Driven Art, and the Quest for a New Nomenclature
Having just enjoyed two fabulous weeks dedicated to contemporary and digital art in Paris with ArtBasel and Paris Photo, I realised that one question was recurring throughout my various discussions.
SHIFTED #5 - On Surrealist Ecology, Mediumistic Drawings and Co-Creation with AI
A few weeks ago, I had the chance to visit a very special exhibition at the Loevenbruck Gallery in Paris: Spiritism - Victorien Sardou. For the first time, 6 drawings by Victorien Sardou were gathered in the same place. The experience was strong, deep, and totally changed my view on the creative process.
SHIFTED #4: On the Challenges of Eco-Conscious Curating and the Footprint of Digital Screens
There’s something quite contradictory about curating an exhibition on ecological topics in a location that relies entirely on digital screens.