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DMY - International Design Festival Berlin

Sausage machine, chair-manufacturing robot, technology-free photobooth and scanner, tableware cast from bull testicles and so many lamps continue

Open Design Now - book launch at the Berlin Design Festival

None of the panelists could (or rather would) answer Marcus Fair's request to give a clear-cut definition of open design. The practice, said Evers, is not fixed, it is in constant flux. Open design is more about a mentality than a strict definition. The book is indeed about what open design can be and what you can do with it, it is only the starting point of a discussion continue

On Living. Photographs by Thomas Hoepker and Daniel Biskup

An exhibition at the German Historical Museum in Berlin marks the 50th anniversary of start of the construction of the Wall. Thomas Hoepker's work is particularly striking. Hoepker was the first West German photographer to receive an official authorization to live and report from East Berlin when the city was still divided by a wall. He was followed by the constant gaze of East Germany's secret police but his worked was uncensored continue

Interview with Niklas Roy

Niklas is one of the most facetious characters of the 'new media art' world. His dance machine without 'annoying Dj", moving curtain, 'distributed' fountains, white cube gallery in a box, physical teapot inside a Commodore cabinet or his electromechanical version of the game Pong are certainly entertaining, absurd and at times, even hilarious. But don't let the jesting fool you. Behind the playfulness of Roy's machines, lay much irony and lucidity about the world of art & tech he belongs to continue

Jérôme Zonder and the cannibals

Seizing on strong iconographic symbols taken from the Nazi aesthetics and the worlds of childhood and cartoons, Zonder revisits these forms of narration and the innocence they carry (children drawings, clear lines) as well as the cruelty (realism, caricature) through mise-en-scenes with a gory tone where sex and barbarity are more than compatible continue

Peeping Tom's digest - Mexico

Peeping Tom stayed in Mexico from October through December 2009. Their search for talent began in Mexico City through a progressive and systematic following of initial and ongoing recommendations of people to meet and places to visit, and then onward to Guadalajara and Oaxaca continue

Virtual Identities

The exhibition presents works and installations by international artists designed to trigger a reflection on the political, social and cultural implications - but also on the impact on personal life - of the new relationship between man and technology under the guise of the "virtual identity" with which we increasingly confront reality, at times without even realizing it. continue

Book review: Pulled - A Catalog of Screen Printing

Pulled stretches screen-printing in all directions, leaving no element untouched. This book is a survey and a how-to, a collection of prints and an idea bank. It brings together more than forty talented screen printers, including Aesthetic Apparatus, Deanne Cheuk, Steven Harrington, Maya Hayuk, Cody Hudson, Jeremyville, Andy Mueller, Rinzen, and Andy Smith, among many others. Pulled is for the creative person who wants to leave his mark on cotton, or anything else continue

Popular Unrest

The drama is set in a fictional future that looks very much like today's London. Here, however, all exchange transactions and social interactions are overseen by a system called 'the Spirit'. The film explores a world in which the self is reduced to physical biology, directly subject to the needs of capital. Hotels offer bed-warming servants with every room, people are fined for not preventing foreseeable illness, weight watching foods eat the digester from the inside and the unemployed repay their debt to society in physical energy continue

Super Meal

The aquatic fern azolla is one of the world's fastest growing plants and a rich source of nutrients, yet it is virtually unexplored as food. In Super Meal I experiment with azolla-food together with farmers, chefs and scientists and try to get some insight into how we produce our food today and could be producing it in the future continue

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