“The artist’s mélange of "trill” abstraction—including vibrant colors digitally printed onto nylon—pushes one to abandon safer interpretations that stem from viewing art at face value instead of considering the interplay between text, image, and communication outlets.“
Art Forum reviews Michael Manning’s (@mirrrroring) solo exhibition ‘WILD FUSION: VOL. III – WWWHATWWWEDOISSECRET’ at Carl Kostyál in Stockholm.
Addie Wagenknecht’s new tome ‘Technological Selection of Fate’ is a book of glitchy, unformatted, archived bits of the artist’s LiveJournal entries from June 2004 for April 2005. It’s full of typos, heartbreak, and revelations. It’s amazing.
“I’m attracted to traditional artforms because they cut right to the point of magical objects that can be used as tools for transcendence.” - BRENNA MURPHY
Brenna Murphy talks to Dazed for their ‘State of Art’ series about building analog synths, tantric art, and glowing heiroglyphs in Chinatown.
“I think of it like a temporal collage or a physical musical composition—whether it’s video editing or writing or walking between things in space, it’s about the rhythm between the bits. ” - HEATHER PHILLIPSON
For her Rhizome debut and artist profile, artist Heather Phillipson talks to Paddles ON! curator Lindsay Howard about her work, the relationship between the body and screen, metaphors, non-sequiturs, and rotten watermelons.
“With so much critical thought around internet art, it can only become much more interesting.” - MAJA CULE
Maja Cule talks to Dazed for their ‘State of Art’ series about Paddles ON!, memes, sharing economies, and her upcoming solo show at Arcadia_Missa in October.