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Oil City, 'a spy thriller for the post-Occupy era'

June 15, 2013 - 3:17pm

Oil City takes audiences into the underbelly of London's oil economy, looking at UK finance for Canadian tar sands projects. By eavesdropping on business people and seeking out secret documents hidden in dead-drops, you will help piece together a puzzle that interweaves government files with financial deals continue

#A.I.L - artists in laboratories, episode 33: Sascha Pohflepp

June 12, 2013 - 12:48pm

Sascha Pohflepp is an artist and designer interested in the myths and realities shaped by science and technology. During the radio show, we will be talking space exploration, and more specifically space gardening but we will also talk science fiction, complex science and impossible projects continue

The Welsh Space Campaign

June 11, 2013 - 1:42pm

The Welsh Space Campaign (WSC) launches ordinary Welsh people into outer space, by finding a cosmic context for Welsh traditional culture and skills continue

United Micro Kingdoms

June 10, 2013 - 1:23pm

Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby use elements of industrial design, architecture, politics, science and sociology to provoke debate around the power and potential of design. UmK challenges assumptions about how products and services are made and used, through reinterpretations of the car and other transport systems continue

A Practical Guide to Squatting

June 9, 2013 - 11:00am

The order of the book is based on necessity, for instance it is important to know what to do to avoid arrest immediately after breaking into a building. And how to get access to drinking water, heat and cook food before dealing with issues of public space and establishing a communal economy continue

#A.I.L - artists in laboratories, episode 32: Patrick Stevenson-Keating

June 6, 2013 - 7:54am

Patrick Sevenson-Keating uses design to create objects and experiences that communicate and make the most sophisticated theories in physics more tangible. Not only are we going to talk about quantum physics, Big Bang and particle accelerators but it's actually going to be pretty enjoyable continue

The Reposition Matrix

June 4, 2013 - 11:09am

The Reposition Matrix is an investigation into the military-industrial production and trading networks of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (also commonly referred to as Drones). The workshop aims to reterritorialise the drone as a physical, industrially-produced technology of war, and consequently explore how this affects our understanding of the covert drone campaigns in the Middle East continue

75 Watt, an object for dancing in the factory line

June 3, 2013 - 9:38am

A new work by Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen in which a product was designed especially to be made in China. The object's only function is to choreograph a dance performed by the labourers manufacturing it. By shifting the purpose of the labourer's actions from the efficient production of objects to the performance of choreographed acts, mechanical movement is reinterpreted into dance. What is the value of this artefact that only exists to support the performance of its own creation? As the product dictates the movement, does it become the subject, rendering the worker the object? continue

The Pirate Cinema, A Cinematic Collage Generated by P2P Users

June 3, 2013 - 5:00am

In the context of omnipresent telecommunications surveillance, "The Pirate Cinema" makes visible the invisible activity and geography of peer-to-peer file sharing. The project is presented as a control room that reflects P2P exchanges happening in real time on networks using BitTorrent protocol. The installation produces an improvised and syncopated arrangement of files currently in exchange continue

La Cosa Radiactiva / The Radioactive Thing

May 31, 2013 - 1:49pm

La Cosa Radiactiva is a "research on transparency and nuclear secrets. A performance to demystify radiation while building awareness of its risks. An imagination exercise to reflect on how it would be like to live with radiation and above all this, a call about the importance of citizens having their own tools to be able to verify public health data provided by governmental authorities." continue

Book review: Going Public - Public Architecture, Urbanism and Interventions

May 27, 2013 - 1:30pm

Ranging from bold to subtle and from temporary to permanent, the architecture and urban design featured in Going Public offers inspiring and surprising interpretations of our public surroundings and natural landscapes continue

The Fish Bone Chapel

May 26, 2013 - 2:41pm

An interview with Haseeb Ahmed, one of the winners bio-art contest DA4GA, about his project to erect a hybrid building made of the bones of fish altered after exposition to toxins. Can mutation be generative of new forms instead of considered to be simply dangerous? continue

#A.I.L - artists in laboratories, episode 31: Helen Pynor

May 23, 2013 - 1:02pm

During the show we will be talking about how she managed to get her hands on a fresh human brain but Helen will also discuss some of her broader projects such as The Body Is A Big Place, a large-scale installation that explores organ transplantation and the thresholds between life and death continue

Under the Shadow of the Drone

May 22, 2013 - 4:45am

Under the Shadow of the Drone is a life-size depiction of a Reaper drone, one of a number of such weapons in service with US and UK forces. The Reaper is used for surveillance and bombing missions, in the declared war zones of Afghanistan and Iraq, and in the illegal wars of assassination taking place in Pakistan, Yemen and elsewhere. Such wars are made possible by the invisibility of drones to most people continue

The Air Itself is One Vast Library

May 18, 2013 - 1:19pm

One of the projects that you can see right now in Brighton is a body of work, by Mariele Neudecker, that makes visitors reflect upon (and reluctantly admire) the use of technologies in contemporary warfare. The artist documented with seducing photo portraits and patient rubbings a series of weapons of mass destruction that were developed at the height of the Cold War continue

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May 17, 2013 - 11:30am

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#A.I.L - artists in laboratories, episode 30: Thomson & Craighead

May 16, 2013 - 11:26am

Today on ResonanceFM, Jon Thomson and Alison Craighead will be talking about how to handle and archive materials found on the web, the absence of any image documenting war in certain parts of the world, spam and other jolly subjects continue

Kit de Libertad de Expresión (Freedom of Speech Kit)

May 15, 2013 - 4:03am

KLE - Kit de Libertad de Expresión (or Freedom of Speech Kit) is a portable digital device that allows people from all over the world to participate to remote protests by sending and displaying text messages in public space. The interactive banner is (unsurprisingly) inspired by the record number of social protests that took place in Spain in 2011. It is estimated that over 23.000 demonstrations have been organised that year around the country continue

In-Potentia, from foreskin cells to 'biological brain'

May 13, 2013 - 7:38am

In-Potentia exposes, in the most limpid and absurd way, how science is blurring what we are used to regard as clear-cut categories, such as where life begins and ends or what constitutes a person. Or in Guy Ben-Ary's words: What is the potential for artists employing bio-technologies to address, and modify, boundaries surrounding understandings of life, death and person-hood? And what exactly does it mean culturally, artistically, ontologically, philosophically, politically and ethically to make a living biological brain from human foreskin cells? continue

Museums and the Web

Museums and the web 2013