Interview with Natalie Jeremijenko
Natalie Jeremijenko is an artist and engineer who directs the xdesign Environmental Health Clinic at NYU. Previously she was on the Visual Arts faculty at UCSD, and Faculty of Engineering at Yale. Her work was included in the 2006 Whitney Biennial of American…
READ MORE AND COMMENTRoundup: recent Anthropocene-related articles and links
The recent The Anthropocene Project: An Opening (10.01.2013 – 13.1.2013) at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt cast overdue light on a theme that’s being increasingly discussed well beyond its original geological context: the Anthropocene and its ties to art and science….
READ MORE AND COMMENTSYNAPSE Curators’ Questionnaire – Pt. 3
To mark the end of 2012, SYNAPSE.info initiated a curators’ questionnaire, sent to the first round of SYNAPSE curators, who participated in 2011. This is part 3 of 3. Anthropocene-related topics such as climate change, technological breakthroughs, and developments in…
READ MORE AND COMMENTSYNAPSE Curators’ Questionnaire – Part 2
To mark the end of 2012, SYNAPSE.info initiated a curators’ questionnaire, sent to the first round of SYNAPSE curators, who participated in 2011. This is part 1 of 3. Question 2. What were your two or three favorite exhibitions of…
READ MORE AND COMMENTInterview with Jill Bennett, Part 2.
SYNAPSE – The International Curators’ Network is pleased to present part 2 of our interview with Jill Bennett, who will deliver Synapse’s keynote speech on April 23, 2013. Jill Bennett is a professor of experimental arts, and writer and curator….
READ MORE AND COMMENTInterview with Jill Bennett, Part 1.
SYNAPSE – The International Curators’ Network is pleased to present part 1 of our interview with Jill Bennett, who will deliver Synapse’s keynote speech on April 23, 2013. Jill Bennett is a professor of experimental arts, and writer and curator….
READ MORE AND COMMENTRefusing To Die: The Reversible Destiny Foundation
In 1971, our book was published in Munich. At that time we were lucky enough to meet some physicists, some of whom were using our book in their work—in a very strange way, I guess. At an international, but informal,…
READ MORE AND COMMENTHighlights: Articles about the Anthropocene & Contemporary Art
It’s September now, which means that here at the Synapse.info headquarter’s we’ve been receiving a barrage of new reading material from the magazine world. Apparently, the Anthropocene has been on many people’s minds. Here are some highlights of articles from…
READ MORE AND COMMENTTue Greenfort’s “Worldly House” at d(OCUMENTA)13
d(OCUMENTA)13 ends in a few days. As viewers have noted, the exhibition deals with numerous themes – humans and nature, anthropocentrism, history – that dovetail strongly with issues presented by the Anthropocene. Tue Greenfort’s “Worldly House”(2012), on view now, is…
READ MORE AND COMMENTFraming the Anthropocene, Pt. 2
Framing the Anthropocene, Pt. 2 This post is the first in a series of articles commissioned by SYNAPSE, the International Curator’s Network at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt. (Continued from Pt. 1, below.) In 2000, ecologist Eugene F. Stoermer…
READ MORE AND COMMENTBook recommendations
Etienne Turpin - John Paul Ricco, The Logic of the Lure (2002)
- Reza Negarestani, Cyclonopedia (2008)
- Jarett Kobek, ATTA (2011)