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Chris Newlove Horton is a writer living in London.

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April 2016

Chris Newlove Horton

Prize Entry

April 2016

He said, ‘Tell me about yourself.’ He said, ‘Tell me about you.’ He said, ‘Tell me everything. I’m interested.’ He said, ‘I want to...

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April 2015

Heavy

Chris Newlove Horton

fiction

April 2015

It is a two lane road somewhere in North America. The car is pulled onto the shoulder with the...

Claire Bishop Everywhere I go, some curator or artist wants to be rid of this turbulent critic   In 2006 Claire Bishop tolled the death knell for participatory art [1]; now, in a recent Artforumpiece [2], she upbraids contemporary art for its categorical failure to respond to the all-pervasive digital revolution of the last twenty years While many artists use digital media – take Christian Marclay’s video The Clock (2010) – Bishop is adamant that this merely cashes in on the digital aesthetic and fails to address the issues of the emergent digital world in any meaningful way If contemporary art can’t even keep up with the internet, it can have no claim on its definitional adjective   http://vimeocom/28702716   It is not Bishop’s criticism of the Biennale crowd-pleasers like Marclay that is particularly inflammatory, but the exclusion of an entire sphere of new media art from her inquiry She writes, ‘There is, of course, an entire sphere of ‘new media’ art, but this is a specialised field of its own: it rarely overlaps with the mainstream art world [commercial galleries, the Turner Prize, national pavilions at Venice] While this split is itself undoubtedly symptomatic, the mainstream art world and its response to the digital are the focus of this essay’   Perhaps Bishop’s sweeping decision to sideline all ‘new media’ production might be attributed to more localised issues concerning arts funding – in Europe where art is supported by public funding, digital art is certainly more mainstream than in the gallery-driven USA or UK But still, Bishop’s decision is paradoxical: she complains that contemporary art does not address the digital, and then passes over precisely that which aims to do so Therefore Bishop’s strange omission made me look forward to transmediale 2013 with a renewed interest If the digital revolution, as Bishop implies, is indeed the defining feature of our times, then might the creative production on the digital periphery redefine our basic terms of reference for thinking about contemporary art?   transmediale, the younger sibling of the more famous Berlinale, started off as a video art festival in 1988 It

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August 2014

Chris Newlove Horton

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August 2014

Chris Newlove Horton is a writer living in London.

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December 2011

Chris Newlove Horton

Art

December 2011

Artist James Richards appropriates audio-visual material gathered from a range of sources, which he then edits into elaborate, fragmented collages.   But whereas his...

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April 2015

The Incidental

Luke Melia

Prize Entry

April 2015

The automatic rifle fire was followed by an unnerving whistle at Ti’s ear. He gripped the shopping bags, grabbed...

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January 2016

Dimples

Eka Kurniawan

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fiction

January 2016

Moments ago, the woman with the lovely dimples had been shivering, utterly ravaged by the evening, but now her...

 

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