Text of the Reinwardt memorial lecture by Margriet Schavemaker at the Reinwardt Academie on the 17th May of 2016.

Asiko is an educational art programme initiated by Bisi Silva, curator and director of the Centre for Contemporary Art in Lagos, Nigeria. After being one of the main faculty member of Asiko Accra (Ghana) in 2013, this was a return visit.

Over the past few years, the rapid development of artificial intelligence, the huge volume of data available in the cloud, and machines’ and software’s increasing capacity for learning have prompted an ever more widespread debate on the social consequences of these developments. Autonomous cars or the …

The New Aesthetic and Art: Constellations of the Postdigital is an interdisciplinary analysis focusing on new digital phenomena at the intersections of theory and contemporary art. Asserting the unique character of New Aesthetic objects, Contreras-Koterbay and Mirocha trace the origins of the New Aesthetic …

Transcript of a lecture during the conference 'Is contemporary art history', Institute of Fine Arts, New York, 28th february 2014.

Europeans live their lives at a time when certain collective expectations of how the world should function no longer seem to describe their experience of what actually happens. This bifurcation of experience and expectation is causing some severe symptoms of dislocation. Truth turns relative and his- …

That contemporary universities and art schools are criticised for the reproduction of a Western (art) canon is nothing new and that those higher (art) education institutions consist of a predominantly privileged white student body is not a novelty either. It is therefore not my aim to reproduce these …

Chapter in *Part 1 Thinking about Museums* of *Volume 1: Museum Theory* in reference work *The International Handbooks of Museum Studies*. Change is sweeping through museums technologically, financially, and ideologically, impacting their sociocultural roles and status. This paper offers a conceptual …

This article discusses the postdigital as a term that can be used to describe either a contemporary disenchantment with digital information systems and media gadgets, or a period in which our fascination with these systems and gadgets has become historical. After Edward Snowden’s disclosures of the NSA’s …

One could write an alternative history of the Western modern arts as a struggle with industrialization. In this history, there would be almost no connection between classical fine art painting to the modern arts, but it would start with medieval craftsmanship, continue with the Arts & Crafts movement …