Does the camera ever lie? A new exhibition shows that photography has been doing exactly that since its inception. From fairies at the bottom of the garden to ghostly visitors, here is a slide show of the best manipulated images (from the BBC Website). • Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop is atContinue Reading
“Cartography is the signifying practice of both location and identity, a mode of writing through which we can uncover a set of general laws. Much of the argument I am making regarding the un-mapping, re-mapping and counter-cartographies to be found within contemporary art practices revolves around the structures and signifying systems by which knowledge isContinue Reading
A nice reminder that one of the 20th Century’s most celebrated modernists anchored her approach to abstraction in a deep engagement with the material world: I handled pieces of Jade—They told me it was Jade—I would not have thought what it might be—I only knew that the surfaces were fineContinue Reading
A Rough Mix: Brian Eno & Jennifer Jacquet (An Edge Conversation) INTRODUCTION by John Brockman Composer/artist Brian Eno and Jennifer Jacquet, a postdoctoral researcher who studies “shame”, were brought together for the Edge-Serpentine Gallery colloboration for Hans Ulrich Obrist’s Garden Marathon, where Jacquet talked about on the role of shameContinue Reading
Mara Mori brought me a pair of socks which she knitted herself with her sheepherder’s hands, two socks as soft as rabbits. I slipped my feet into them as if they were two cases knitted with threads of twilight and goatskin, Violent socks, my feet were two fish made ofContinue Reading
The Particular Object W.S. Graham, 1993 New Collected Poems. London: Faber and Faber (2004: p.317).Continue Reading
[found at Observatory] Curated by the Hollow Earth Society and Radio Transmission Ark March 3 – April 22, 2012 Observatory 543 Union St. Brooklyn, NYContinue Reading
Noorderlicht International Photofestival (2 Sept. – 7 Oct. 2012) Landscape as the Illusion of Nature Call for proposals Photographers can submit their work. Suggestions by curators are also welcome. The deadline is March 16. Humans arose from the land, and have now definitively left it behind them. The earth hasContinue Reading
Strangest is their reality, their three-dimensional workmanship: veined pebbles that have an underside, maps one could have studied for minutes longer, books we seem to read page after page. If these are symbols cheaply coined to buy the mind a momentary pardon, whence this extravagance? Fine as dandelion polls, theyContinue Reading
Editor’s note: This is the first in a new category for Material World which showcases the work of artists who investigate themes, topics and ideas that intersect with the remit of the site. Any artist who is interested in showing their work should send a selection of (low res) imagesContinue Reading