Dutch artist Ron Peperkamp is the managing director, co-inventor and advocate of Kunst Reserve Bank, a sophisticated experiment to test whether the potency of art as a signifier of human creativity could act as a reliable reserve currency. In other words the goal was to substitute an ‘Art Standard” for… read more →
During the 1990s and Noughties Amsterdam became known for ambitious and large scale ‘art into life’ projects that took the methods invented by of critical post modern artists and propelled them into engagements with the wider public sphere transcending the one off homeopathic street interventions by the likes of Barbara… read more →
The Last week’s conference Digital Activism # Now, at Kings College London could, be seen as providing a counter narrative to the conference of 2013, Unlike Us, organised by Amsterdam’s Institute’s of Networked Culture. In contrast, many of last week’s panels suggest the return of the Big We, characterised by Paolo Gerbaudo, (the… read more →