There are very very few artists whose work i admire as much as Nathalie Djurberg's. Actually there's only one and she's a woman too. Her name is Gabr??ela Fridriksd??ttir. These artists create universes which are dark and mysterious. But there stops my desire to compare one with the other. Nathalie Djurberg, We are not two, we are one, 2008 I don't know what happened to Djurberg since the first tim...

I discovered the work of Bart Hess just a year ago, at the Salone del Mobile 2007. The video of his graduation project A Hunt for Hightech was shown as part of Family of Form, the exhibition that the Design Academy Eindhoven had organized in Milan that year. Just one video on a small screen and several people glued to it, fascinated and sometimes slightly horrified. The images showed mutant skins,...

There's something about Second Life that totally repels me: its aesthetics. No matter how sexy W. James Au makes his adventures in the online universe sound, i just can't go beyond the barrier of SL's dull and flavourless look. On Saturday while i was visiting the Holy Fire exhibition at iMAL in Brussels, i got to meet with Gazira Babeli and change my opinion. Gazira Babeli is not a human being, sh...

Take two persons whose work in the media art field i've been admiring for years. Have their minds communicate for more than a couple of minutes. What is going to happen? UBERMORGEN.COM (Lizvlx/Hans Bernhard), Psych|OS - Hans 2, 2004. Lambda print on aluminium. 100 x 150 cm. Edition of 5. Private Collection, Brussels / Fabio Paris Art Gallery, Brescia Yves Bernard is the director of iMAL (interactiv...

Some choose to embrace art from China, others believe that we should boycott their art as much as the political context. If you follow this blog you'll know on which side i stand, i can't get enough of the China art scene. All my China art-mania didn't save me from being castigated: my blog has been banned in China (euh? what happened here? too much pornography?) Courtyard of Palazzo Strozzi, Flore...