Visual Capital: Designing for the Feed, Aesthetics, Algorithms, and the Creation of Works Made to Be Seen
Visual Value as the Dominant Currency An image is no longer simply looked at, it’s evaluated. In a split second, the eye decides whether to linger or scroll past. Artworks are no longer contemplative objects; they are visual interfaces designed to strike, assert themselves, and embed into the fl
Leesop Cho, Voici Voice at Caption Seoul, Seoul
Voici Voice by Leesop Cho, at Caption Seoul, Seoul, 19/04/2025–16/05/2025. Exhibition text:Leesop Cho’s solo exhibition Voici Voice, presented as part of Caption Seoul’s 2024 Open Call [CaSOC02], is on view from April 19 to May 16, 2025. The title combines the French term “VOICI,” evoking
Milan Vagač, Natália Sýkorová, DISTANT, ENDLESS HUM at VUNU Bratislava, Bratislava
DISTANT, ENDLESS HUM by Milan Vagač and Natália Sýkorová, curated by Michal Stolárik, at VUNU Bratislava, Bratislava, 23/04–24/05/2025. Exhibition text:An omnipresent static bustle stretches through a fluid world where desires take root in synthetic bowels. We find ourselves in a space where
Ingeborg Tysse, WILD WATCH at Norwegian Sculptors Society, Oslo
WILD WATCH by Ingeborg Tysse, curated by Tatiana Lozano, at Norwegian Sculptors Society, Oslo, 24/04/2025–22/06/2025. Exhibition text:Outside, birds are chirping, and spring appears to have arrived. The migratory birds have returned from overwintering in another world—but in the wrong place and
YOSHIROTTEN: Overflow and Motion in a Hyper-Optimized World
Japanese artist YOSHIROTTEN operates at the intersection of fine art, design, digital media, and immersive installation, a practice that persistently unsettles the conventions of so-called “clean” technocapitalist aesthetics. Instead of polishing images into minimalism (often associated with ste
Curator Spotlight #5: Cao Shu
In this fourth chapter of our Curator Spotlight series, we continue our journey through the evolving landscape of Chinese digital and new media art. This time, we turn our attention to Cao Shu, a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans writing, photography, 3D digital moving image, mixed-media
Fakewhale Gallery Presents C2ASH by Jesse Draxler on Verse
On May 8th, Fakewhale presents C2ASH by Jesse Draxler on Verse. C2ASH marks Jesse Draxler’s return to Verse with Fakewhale through a continuation that expands the rupture initiated with CRASH. More than a sequel, C2ASH defines a system. It evolves from the foundational tension of controlled fragme
Painting After the Machine: Wade Guyton and the Aesthetics of Reproduction, Error, and Withdrawal
The Computer in the Empty Room There are moments in the trajectory of certain artists that feel like extended silences, not absences, but suspensions. As though the work itself were waiting to be thought before it could be made. Wade Guyton emerged in the American art system at the turn of the mille
Fakewhale in Dialogue with Aaron Huey
Aaron Huey’s artistic practice cannot be pinned down to a single era, medium, or terrain, geographic or virtual. From high-risk field photography to AI-driven visual experiments, from collaborative campaigns with Amplifier.org to poetic reinterpretations of the climate crisis, Huey navigates throu
Océane Bruel & Dylan Ray Arnold at Lämpimästi: Swallowed Rooms.
There’s a peculiar sensation that arises only in certain moments: when you enter a room that doesn’t belong to you, but feels eerily familiar. A spoon left askew, light catching on a glossy surface, the muffled pulse of a pipe behind the wall. Georges Perec wrote that to live is to move from one
