In April 1970, the exhibition Crashed Cars opened at the New Arts Lab in Camden Town, London. On display were three smashed up cars: a Pontiac, an Austin Cambridge A60 and a Mini.
Sound Spectacle
“Sound, previously a neglected aspect of film and television studies, is now enjoying a surge of academic and critical interest.…
Writing Names The World
McKenzie Wark: The adjective ‘ballardian’ shows up in Blue Mars, and by 2312 all sorts of author and book names…
Trickknowledgey
“The infinity or Van Allen Belt ∞ a section graftation symbol is based with electromagnetic energies positive north, positive south…
Dead Money
Watching the video is like watching a snuff film, you can’t quite believe they’re going to do it – but then they do: they burn the profits from their music careers as a gesture against the art world.
The Rule of Exceptions #3
INTERVIEWER When did you decide to write about the contemporary world? GIBSON For years, I’d found myself telling interviewers and…
Gems of Simplicity
“Andrew Frost is writing on art for the Guardian? Stand by for a gushing article about Tom Polo.”
Powers
“Be warned, these are not songs, but sound pieces inspired by the works of artist Richard M Powers, who in…