“This is 14th Street Union Square: Transfers available to the N,Q,R,W, 4, 5, and 6 trains. Stand clear of the closing doors please.” —Metropolitan Transportation Authority, New York City Visualizing a system of transport or commerce emphasizes the overall pattern of activity, rather than the action of one individual. Operating collectively, repeating and falling in […]

Artist Julius Popp’s work explores human perception and consciousness. He seeks to increase the human capacity for interaction by building seemingly simple, autonomous devices and by bringing them together within controlled environments where their exchange can be witnessed, recorded and studied. The incorporation of complex systems—created with the help of the German Fraunhofer Institute, the […]

Contemporary art from China has, over the last couple of years, become a real force to be reckoned with. It has galvanised curators, collectors and gallerists around the globe to pay heed to both a vast market and a very deep font of talent. An endless parade of gallery and museum shows, along with record-breaking […]

It is no longer possible to consider the environment merely in terms of its potential for exploitation. It is now of vital importance to consider what kind of environment and which planet we will bequeath to future generations. It has become increasingly difficult to determine the status of human beings with respect to the environment. […]

“I still consider it as a great fault, these people running around day after day screaming that they’re not interested in ‘objects,’ and we all know that even a sentence is an object. Everything is an object. Then when you go to their exhibitions, you are confronted with the most incredible amount of documents, which […]

Westerners first encountering the works of Chinese contemporary artists often strain to find references to ancient China—temples, calligraphy, porcelain and red lanterns—as if these artifacts will make the artworks more genuinely Chinese. In reality, many Chinese contemporary artists do not find their roots in an ancient past, but look to more recent popular culture for […]

More and more, artists are employing multimedia and interactive techniques in their art pieces, regardless of what materials they have used before or are experienced in using. These artworks have changed the way people consume art. Moreover, like the emergence of Minimal and Conceptual art, they have helped the art world overcome yet another crisis. […]

In looking at the works of Lin Hairong, one senses that the artist is seeking to capture life’s tranquil moments; those fleeting glimpses of halcyon clarity and peace that remain uncontaminated by the frenetic pace of daily existence. Moments such as these have become few and far between, however, in an age that the artist […]

Nowadays, an exhibition of contemporary art typically requires a curator—this has very much become the established system—and the operation of this system has increasingly led to the monopoly of art resources. In other words, the power has been placed in the hands and minds of only a few. This current curatorial norm comes from the […]

When we muse upon the intriguing possibilities of colour in art, there are two conclusions that can be drawn: that black is the true absence of colour and that white is the visual result of all the colours combined. The purity of this contrast, in its capacity to explore the nature of colour and also […]