Crafted for Your Attention: As Predictable as Art
There’s something deeply alluring about predictability. It’s like a mental embrace, a kind of linguistic stillness that shields us from the unknown. Everyday communication rituals, “How are you?”, “Good, and you?”, aren’t meant to inform, but to affirm. They’re gestures of inclusion,
“The Illusion of Thinking”: Learning to Fail
A few days ago, we published The Illusion of Thinking, a speculative detournement of an Apple research paper on artificial reasoning. The operation was simple: we replaced the subject “AI” with “artwork,” revealing how the logic of simulation, optimization, and surface-level depth applies eq
Softimage, On the Threshold of the Visible and the Simulated
Perspective by Softimage (Katja Breder, Viola Del Monte, Hannes Hochmuth, Lara Jordan, Luka Keresman, Fruzsina Kiss, Christopher Krause, Anton Kruse, Gabriela Lesmes López, Leo Schilz, Delphine Wigger, William Ye), curated by Volo Bevza, at Cank, Berlin, 27–29 June 2025. Stepping into Softimage
TICK TACK Presents Allen-Golder Carpenter’s Sojourn: On Memory, Erasure, and the Politics of Remembrance
At TICK TACK in Antwerp, Allen-Golder Carpenter presents Sojourn (25 July – 6 September 2025), their first solo exhibition in Belgium, a deeply layered, multi-form exploration of memory, monumentality, and historical accountability. Drawing upon the philosophical and aesthetic lexicon of the Japan
Softimag, On the Threshold of the Visible and the Simulated
Perspective by Softimage (Katja Breder, Viola Del Monte, Hannes Hochmuth, Lara Jordan, Luka Keresman, Fruzsina Kiss, Christopher Krause, Anton Kruse, Gabriela Lesmes López, Leo Schilz, Delphine Wigger, William Ye), curated by Volo Bevza, at Cank, Berlin, 27–29 June 2025. Stepping into Softimage
MinOhrichar, Kahee Jeong, Dead Spot at Caption Seoul, Seoul
Dead Spotby MinOhrichar and Kahee Jeong, curated by Hyein Kim and Keunchan Yoo, at Caption Seoul, Seoul, 12/07/2025 – 10/08/2025. There’s an artificial coolness that stings like ice. Stepping into the exhibition Dead Spot feels like entering a spiritual freezer, a space where the crisp air is so
Fakewhale in dialogue with Yuki Okumura: On the Subjectivity of Exhibition Space
In his solo exhibition at the Secession in Vienna (March 8 – May 18, 2025), Yuki Okumura transforms the supposedly neutral white cube into a living organism endowed with memory, voice, and identity. Through three site-specific projects, Wilhelm as Hauptraum, Secession’s Hive Mind(s), and Big W
Georg Dahled, Sofiia Yesakova, Vanitous Spectre at Nymphenburg Palace, Iron House, Munich
Vanitous Spectre by Georg Dahled and Sofiia Yesakova at Nymphenburg Palace, Iron House, Munich, 12/07/2025–03/08/2025. Some spaces seem to have forgotten they are buildings. Stepping into the Iron House at Nymphenburg feels like entering an echo: the glass absorbs and multiplies, the iron remember
Seeing Yourself Seeing: James Turrell and the Politics of Perception
The first time one steps into a work by James Turrell, the effect is disarming. It might have been in 1993, during the exhibition Mapping Spaces at the Kunsthalle Basel, or perhaps at Afrum (White) (1966) exhibited at the Whitney. You walk into what seems like an empty room, quiet, dimly lit, and no
“The Illusion of Thinking”: When Art Learns to Simulate Depth
A few days ago, Apple released a paper titled The Illusion of Thinking, in which the authors argue, with notable methodological precision, that even the most advanced language models, including OpenAI’s o3, do not truly “think.” What actually happens, according to their findings, is a sophisti
