Video

Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory’s first exhibition in a new building, New Habits, raises crucial questions for Geoffrey Wildanger: what has to happen when one has to do more with less? What, or where, are the 'commons' in austerity Europe?

"It is the flattest and the dullest parts that in the end have the most life."

Robert Bresson

Open Call!

28 February - 2 March 2013
Lüneburg

Video as an artifact always has been assembled. Now at this critical stage of digital video culture, it gets reassembled on a new level: between new affordances, attention shifts and the threat of over-regulation and customization, a.k.a. ‘walling’ and ‘gardening’.

Public Launch!

Reading across the expanse of Harun Farocki's oeuvre at his recent Raven Row retrospective, Benedict Seymour discovers a profound engagement with capitalism's ongoing crisis of devalorisation. How, he considers, does the eye/machine of Farocki's cinema operate on and within this process?

As if the world itself wanted to tell us something

- Harun Farocki, ‘Workers Leaving the Factory'

Seminal video artists Steina and Woody Vasulka recently presented a rare retrospective screening of their work at the LUX centre. Matthew Noel-Tod appraises its relevance in the age of Mini DV, and finds similarities with Godard's Histoire(s) Du Cinéma