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Dena Yago on the "Content Industrial Complex" Mar 14, 2018

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Dena Yago discusses her essay "Content Industrial Complex," published in e-flux journal issue 89 (March 2018), with editor-in-chief Kaye Cain-Nielsen. "What is an artist to do? With an understanding of how our content, identities, and influence are valuable to and instrumentalized by brands and marketers, we can find space for resistance and refusal, or we can actively engage with existing models in an effort to ameliorate them." Dena Yago is an artist who was born in 1988. She has had numerous gallery and museum exhibitions, including at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw and at Bodega in New York.

Peggy Ahwesh and Adam Khalil: "time-bombs showing the fault lines of history" Mar 01, 2018

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Artists and filmmakers Peggy Ahwesh and Adam Khalil in conversation.

Peggy Ahwesh is an American experimental filmmaker and video artist. She has produced a range of work since the 1980s challenging traditional forms of film and video, and investigating cultural identity and the role of the subject. Ahwesh's work has been the subject of several museum retrospectives and is screened worldwide, including at e-flux in 2015 as part of Corruption: Everybody Knows… curated by Natasha Ginwala. She has been a professor of Film & Electronic Arts at Bard College since 1990.

More information: Vimeo / EAI catalogue / overview of work by John David Rhodes (2003)

Adam Shingwak Khalil (Ojibway) is a filmmaker and artist. His practice attempts to subvert traditional forms of ethnography through humor, relation, and transgression. Adam Khalil and Zack Khalil's film INAATE/SE/ [it shines a certain way. to a certain place/it flies. falls./] (2016) re-imagines an ancient Ojibway story, the Seven Fires Prophecy, which both predates and predicts first contact with Europeans. It was shown at e-flux on Wednesday, September 21, 2016. A trailer for the feature film co-directed with Bayley James Sweitzer Empty Metal will be out soon.

More information: INAATE/SE/ [it shines a certain way. to a certain place./it flies. falls./]/ The Violence of a Civilization without Secrets co-directed with Zack Khalil and Jackson Polys

Contra-Internet with Zach Blas and Laurel Ptak Feb 15, 2018

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Zach Blas in conversation with Laurel Ptak, Art in General's Executive Director & Curator, on the occasion of Blas's exhibition Contra-Internet at Art in General and his lecture-performance Metric Mysticism at e-flux.

Zach Blas is an artist and writer whose practice confronts technologies of capture, security, and control. Currently, he is a Lecturer in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. His recent works respond to biometric governmentality and network hegemony.

Read more about the exhibition, on view through April 21, 2018, at artingeneral.org

Read Zach Blas' essay in e-flux journal #74 (June 2016): "Contra-Internet"

Immortality for all: Anton Vidokle on cosmism Jan 30, 2018

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e-flux founder, journal editor, and artist Anton Vidokle discusses cosmism with Kaye Cain-Nielsen, editor-in-chief of e-flux journal.

You can read more on cosmism in the 88th issue of e-flux journal (February 2018). Featuring texts by Robert Bird, Maria Chehonadskih, Keti Chukhrov, Boris Groys, Trevor Paglen, Alexei Penzin, Marina Simakova, Arseny Zhilyaev, and a Timeline of Russian Cosmism compiled by Anastasia Gacheva, Arseny Zhilyaev, and Anton Vidokle.

Elizabeth A. Povinelli on the four axioms of critical theory Jan 23, 2018

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Elizabeth A. Povinelli discusses four axioms of critical theory in response to her presentation, "Toxic Assets the the Extimacy of Existence," from Frontier Imaginaries Ed.No3 at e-flux. In conversation with journal editor Stephen Squibb.

Read Elizabeth A. Povinelli in e-flux journal:

"Geontologies: The Concept and Its Territories" from issue 81, April 2017

"Geontologies: The Figures and the Tactics" from issue 78, December 2016

Vivian Ziherl on Frontier Imaginaries, Toxic Assets, and The Fourfold Articulation Jan 16, 2018

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Vivian Ziherl discusses her curatorial platform Frontier Imaginaries on the occasion of TOXIC ASSETS: Frontier Imaginaries Ed.No3 at e-flux, Columbia University, and UnionDocs in October 2017. In conversation with journal editor Brian Kuan Wood.

Watch day one of TOXIC ASSETS on e-flux film & video

Read Vivian Ziherl's essay "The Fourfold Articulation" in e-flux journal #81, April 2017

McKenzie Wark on the fate of art collecting in the digital age Jan 03, 2018

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McKenzie Wark on her essay, "My Collectible Ass," published in the 85th issue of e-flux journal, October 2017. In conversation with journal editor Stephen Squibb.

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