Category: Writing
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Among the Machines Catalogue
I contributed a text about the work of Lauren Moffatt for the publication documenting the exhibition Among the Machines at Zabludowicz Collection in London.
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Why We Keep Talking About NFTs
In a very short period of time, NFTs have shaken up the art market and generated a financial bubble. The use of blockchain technology overcomes an old problem for net art, but also brings with it new controversies such as its environmental impact. We analyse the causes of this phenomenon and how it might develop…
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The challenges of the digital art market beyond the NFT boom
Interview by Valentina Tanni for ArtribuneThe following is the English version of the article published in Italian on April 1st, 2021 Hot topic of the moment, NFT and crypto art are the starting point to give the floor to Pau Waelder, critic and researcher engaged in the field of new media art. Pau Waelder is…
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Machines & Fictions. Félix Luque Sánchez
Machines & Fictions is a monograph on the work of Spanish artist Félix Luque Sánchez over the last twelve years, in collaboration with fellow artists Damien Gernay and Íñigo Bilbao. The book includes texts by leading scholars, curators, and art critics who discuss Luque’s artistic projects Chapter I: The Discovery (2009), Nihil Ex Nihilo (2011),…
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Text for Small Format Biennial
A short text for the catalogue of the Biennale Internationale «Petit Format de Papier», organized by the Musée du Petit Format.
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Interview: digital art after COVID-19
Interview by curator and writer Maria Chiara Wang for the online magazine EXIBART
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Beyond GANism: AI as conceptual art
Article written for CIAC AI MTL magazine, Issue 3 – 15 April, 2020
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Planetary Thinking
Article about the work of artist Martin John Callanan published in the peer-review journal Accesos (ISSN: 2530-447X).
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Art Futura 2019: the web turns 30
Text for the website and catalogue of the Art Futura festival, 2019
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LAB+10 book
Text about the production of artistic research projects at LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial over its first 10 years.
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E-book: Learn, Play, Code
Edited and updated compilation of articles about the initiatives linked to facilitating the learning of programming and R&D processes in young users.
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Foreword for Daata Editions
Text about the preconceptions related to collecting digital art.
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Ebook: Everyday Interfaces
Among the activities of the Telefónica-UOC Chair in Multimedia Design and Creation is the production of free publications that include documentation about meetings, workshops and seminars. The report Interfaces cotidianas (Everyday Interfaces) is an edited compilation of articles that I have written on the recent evolution of interface design published on the Design Matters blog…
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Memory Lane at Espacio Fundación Telefónica Lima
Text written for the exhibition Memory Lane by Félix Luque, Íñigo Bilbao and Damien Gernay at Espacio Fundación Telefónica Lima (Peru), in Spanish. This text follows another one that I wrote for a previous iteration of this project at the exhibition Naked Veriti at Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria). This latter text is available in Spanish…
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Book: Investigations on the Cultural Economy of Media Art
INVESTIGATIONS ON THE CULTURAL ECONOMY OF MEDIA ART Edited by Alessio Chierico, published by Digicult Editions “Investigations on the Cultural Economy of Media Art” is a collection of the heterogeneous perspectives that are contributing to the current discussion about the economies of the Media Art field. Acknowledging the needs of the art market and its…
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Gregory Chatonsky: Looking into the night
Article published in the art magazine ETC Media #110, a special issue dedicated to the work of Gregory Chatonsky.
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Keep it alive or let it die: new media art, curating and the art market
Article published in ETC MEDIA issue 109
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Citizens of Nowhere (for Chameleon by Varvara and Mar)
[Text written for the catalogue of the exhibition Camaleón by Varvara Guljajeva and Mar Canet at Rambleta art center (Valencia) in Fall 2016] Citizens of nowhere “If you believe you are a citizen of the world, you are a citizen of nowhere. You don’t understand what citizenship means.” British Prime Minister Theresa May uttered this clear-cut statement…
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Varvara&Mar: A Place Called Home
Article about the work of Varvara Guljajeva and Mar Canet for the art magazine Estonian Art, Issue 1/2016
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La autenticidad de la obra de arte en formato digital
[Publicado en: Pilar Irala-Hortal y Víctor Manuel Pérez-Martínez (coord.) (2016). La comunicación de la Verdad vs La Verdad en la Comunicación. Cuadernos Artesanos de Comunicación, 110] Pau Waelder En la carpeta de descargas aparece el archivo Jon-Rafman-Oh-the-humanity.mp4, un vídeo en formato MPEG-4 de tres minutos de duración que ocupa 163,5 Mb en el disco duro del…
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The photograph as data
[Article written in Spanish for the inaugural issue of the online contemporary photography magazine Elpulpo] La fotografía como conjunto de datos El 17 de febrero Monument Labs lanzó una campaña de crowdfunding en Kickstarter para financiar la producción de un dispositivo (Monument) que almacena las fotos de cualquier smartphone o cámara y las ordena automáticamente.…
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Book: AC/E Digital Culture Annual Report 2016
The AC/E Digital Culture Annual Report analyses the main technological trends that cultural managers will need to bear in mind in the coming years in order to have a better understanding of the impact of new technologies on their culture organisations. This third edition sets out to analyse the impact of new technologies on artistic…
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How to Sell Online Art and Make Millions (of visits)
A short guide for artists available as a free PDF. Written for Glimpsedome at The Wrong Biennale, 2015.
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Wolf Lieser: Digital Art can no longer be ignored
Interview with Wolf Lieser, director of DAM (Berlin) published in art.es magazine #62-63, 2015
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Arte Post-Internet o la estética relacional 2.0
Article written for Input Magazine #3, 2015