Sorry to have missed Screen Melancholy by artist Li Yi-Fan and curator Raphael Fonseca at the #VeniceBiennale.

https://www.taiwaninvenice.org/2026/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0V-CfD4Ro4

Hopefully it will tour.

‘It explores the complex, layered relationship between individuals and “images” in the visual-first generation. This relationship encompasses how people receive and create images. Through the character in the video, I encourage viewers to “learn how to make animation!” As a cautionary warning, it suggests that understanding how images are produced is essential to grasp the power mechanism behind them.’

#art #image #video #videogame #game #animation

Brought Rehearsing A #City For All, edited by Silvia Bottiroli, back from a visit to the Venice Biennale last week – as you do.

https://shop.b-r-u-n-o.it/products/fuori-rehearsing-a-city-for-all

Particularly taken by Bottiroli’s idea of #public space ‘not as a site but rather as a subject with #agency and therefore a collaborator for any intervention’ we might wish to imagine’ (p.10).

Interesting, too, because it rather contrasts my refusal in the chapter on ‘How to Redesign a City’ in Masked Media, ‘to present the city itself, in all its complexity and #pluriversality as an intelligent #inhuman actor’. The reason being that the kinds of cities my collaborators and I are trying to imagine not already exist. Rather, the challenge is to invent the conditions and contexts out of which they might emerge.

http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/masked-media/

#VeniceBiennale #MaskedMedia #PublicSpace #Theory #UrbanTheory #Cities #Design

The Aural Sea: Uzbekistan’s Pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://timesca.com/the-aural-sea-uzbekistan-pavilion-2026-venice-biennale/

Tuesday, June 2, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/06/tuesday-june-2-2026/