“RANT BY MARIA” – OPEN YOUR AI’s – by Maria Van Der Velde

Oh hello! Welcome to the arts of today, the air’s thick with the fumes of spray paint, a farts’ worth of pretension, and now, the influence of digital nightmares. Artificial Intelligence has crashed this party, (or shall I say, ‘soundscape listening party’), stirring up all sorts of drama among the crowd who thought Rick Owens […]
“The Limits of Culture – We don’t really know where we are” – Carlos Dengler

Me and my overalls, my hushpuppies and the fringes around my ears. It is all I can bear not to laugh at myself, at the five-year-old version of me innocently looking off-camera. “A prisoner of his time,” I often think when I look at the photo of which I speak, snapped in 1979, a year […]
Controversy around film collective ‘Creeps From The Middle East’

Amsterdam – Renowned Dutch comedian Hans Teeuwen is reportedly considering legal action against artist collective, Creeps From The Middle East, following the release of their film ”Looking for Hans“. The film, which merges reality with fiction, features a scene involving Teeuwen that has led to significant debate. In the film, German-Iranian comedian Sina Khani and […]
Noa Raviv: “Design is about providing solutions, and the move toward art allows me to create more problems.”

The argument for design providing solutions and art creating more problems is one I’ve never pondered nevermind dealt with in an interview situation. With Israeli designer-artist Noa Raviv, I was provided with such a chance to discuss, as pretentious as it may sound. Design by default seems to me to answer questions that at worst, […]