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Dec 7, 2020

Start from not knowing

by Maja Kuzmanovic When engaging with Art, AI and Everything Else, start from not knowing, start from where you are. A suggestion, a talk, and a series of questions for the 20th anniversary of the Art Center Nabi. Start from not knowing All I know, is that I know nothing — Socrates (as quoted…

Art

8 min read

Start from not knowing
Start from not knowing
Art

8 min read


Nov 20, 2020

Plotting a path

By Maja Kuzmanovic — In the proliferation of graphs and curves (exponential, flattening or otherwise) in recent months, finding meaning isn’t always easy. Watching the curve of Covid-19 infection rates creep up and down (and up and down and up again) has become a popular pastime for many of us. Deaths are abstracted and…

Liminality

5 min read

Plotting a path
Plotting a path
Liminality

5 min read


Nov 20, 2020

Moving house during a pandemic (a checklist)

By Maja Kuzmanovic and Nik Gaffney — ‘Stay home’, ‘Shelter in place’, ‘Self-isolate’. Such instructions can only make sense with an appropriate place to stay. So, what would constitute a good shelter during a pandemic? A shelter that could become a home? …

Home

3 min read

Moving house during a pandemic (a checklist)
Moving house during a pandemic (a checklist)
Home

3 min read


Nov 20, 2020

As systems crumble…

By Maja Kuzmanovic — Ever since the Yugoslav war in the 1990s, I’ve got border issues. Especially borders that are closed or closing. When the borders began closing in response to the Covid-19 pandemic I had a strong sense of déjà vu. A familiar grief, an existential sense of loss. In June 1991 my…

Pandemic

5 min read

As systems crumble…
As systems crumble…
Pandemic

5 min read


Nov 20, 2020

Will this burn down my house?

By Maja Kuzmanovic and Kate Rich — Tracing our paths in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic led us to challenge what or where is considered ‘home’, and what our homes could become. Home can be everywhere and nowhere. What the dash for cover and the often jarring moments of transit brought home to us is…

Home

9 min read

Will this burn down my house?
Will this burn down my house?
Home

9 min read


Nov 20, 2020

To care, to cure, to comfort (pandemic remix)

By Maja Kuzmanovic and Nik Gaffney — A condensed remix of some our thinking around care and uncertainty. Dedicated to all the carers near and far. In hospitals and quarantine, on delivery trucks and behind the grid, on the emptying streets and inside their homes… To all those providing essential services and all those in isolation or…

Care

4 min read

To care, to cure, to comfort (pandemic remix)
To care, to cure, to comfort (pandemic remix)
Care

4 min read


Nov 20, 2020

Spectres in Change. Fieldnotes #2

By Maja Kuzmanovic and Nik Gaffney — How to land in a place is a perpetual question for those of us who live and work nomadically or trans-locally. The fleeting moment of landing can be easily missed on your way somewhere. Whether you step off a boat, cross the threshold of someone’s home, or start a new…

Art Science

22 min read

Spectres in Change. Fieldnotes #2
Spectres in Change. Fieldnotes #2
Art Science

22 min read


Apr 12, 2019

Dark arts, grey areas and other contingencies

By Maja Kuzmanovic and Nik Gaffney — Drawing on the dark arts, the domain where magicians and fortune-tellers commune with unknowable, faceless entities, we explore economic and cultural grey areas to reclaim tools of business administration as an artistic medium. The text is adapted from a lecture performance by Maja Kuzmanovic at RADMIN: Festival of Administration on…

Economics

21 min read

Dark arts, grey areas and other contingencies
Dark arts, grey areas and other contingencies
Economics

21 min read


Apr 12, 2019

The Art of Futuring

Unknown, Unknowable and Uncertain. — Introducing Futures for artists and culture makers, by Maja Kuzmanovic and Nik Gaffney Unknown, unknowable & uncertain This article is intended to provide a brief introduction to working with futures as artists and culture makers. One of the central concerns is how and why Futures can provide useful methods for increasing agency and encouraging…

Design

25 min read

The Art of Futuring
The Art of Futuring
Design

25 min read


Apr 10, 2019

Innovation: Taking Risks or Making Risks?

Based on a lecture for students, engineers and technopreneurs presented at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) on the 27th of March 2019 by Maja Kuzmanovic and Nik Gaffney Innovation focuses on creating radical change in existing fields. Innovation aspires to shape the future using the tools of the…

Innovation

25 min read

Innovation: Taking Risks or Making Risks?
Innovation: Taking Risks or Making Risks?
Innovation

25 min read

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