On 12 February 2011, RIEAch’s Per-Johan Dahl met with architect and media theorist Marcos Novak at Novel Cafe in Downtown Los Angeles to talk about current conditions of space making. Sitting just a few blocks from SCI Arc, the discussion circulated around issues of algorithms, cultural connections, and the need for kami in contemporary discourse. [...]

Domenico Quaranta & Marcia Caines In October 2010 Italian art critic, curator and author Domenico Quaranta launched “The MINI Museum of XXI Century Arts” a pocket-sized nomadic exhibition space comprised of a digital frame bought on e-bay and a USB pen drive. The MINI Museum of XXI Century Arts. Image courtesy MINI Museum of XXI [...]

posted by Marcia Caines Whitworth Park Manchester, spring 2010 – university students, museum-goers, local low-income residents, junkies, pushers and/or the director of some museum in Liverpool all had the unique opportunity to take a ride on a rather dated and sinister-looking radioactive fairground attraction which appeared in the park overnight: ‘The Liquidator’. images Tod Seelie [...]

In his quest for a civic culture the former mayor of Bogotà, Antanas Mockus, renowned for his eccentricity and intellectual clout, made history when he presented himself before the populace of Bogotà in a spandex Superman costume proclaiming to be ‘Supercitizen’. The superman guise was one of a series of the many creative antics he [...]

image of Villa 31 from Villa 31 – Retiro, Buenos Aires In this article The Permanent Slum, Jordana Timerman, a political aide in the Argentine government’s Secretariat of Human Rights and a researcher at Centro de Estudios Perspectiva Sur of Generación Política Sur, reports on how an artist from Buenos Aires has engaged in a [...]