News of the second phase of...
We are delighted to announce that we have won an AHRC standard grant of £680,000 to enable us to continue this project from summer 2015 until the end of 2018....
Category Archives: Blogposts
Mappe d’orientamento – Overture
This is an experimental and multimedia blog for artists, curators and critics to display interart and intermedia. We are opening this section with a special contribution by Studio Azzurro, a pioneering group...
Elephants in the Dark: Towards a Theory of Interartistic Practice
A famous Indian folk tale tells the story of six men in a dark room, groping an elephant to learn what it is really like. Each one touches a different part and...
Convergence in the Digital Age: Utopia or Dystopia?
The idea of the digital age has to be fundamental to any meaningful discussion of contemporary interartistic and intermedial practice. However, it is not without its problems: Should we only talk about...
Postmodernism R.I.P.?
Art is how we make ourselves intelligible to ourselves. This is why critical debates about contemporary culture matter, not only to specialists. This is why we are fascinated by “-isms”, by new...
Modernism / Modernisms
The essay “Avant-Garde and Kitsch” (1939) which opens Clement Greenberg’s volume Art and Culture (1961) remains one of the most influential discussions of modernism and its relationship with popular culture. Greenberg’s championing...