Tag: Barbican Centre
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Resolve Collective: them’s the breaks
Using cast-off materials from other institutions – storage boxes, crates, exhibition signs from previous shows and steel fencing – we are made to think hard about the inner workings of an art institution
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Postwar Modern: New Art in Britain 1945-1965
The Barbican’s craggy, pockmarked concrete walls provide the perfect setting for this rediscovery of art produced in the aftermath of war and trauma
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Trevor Paglen — interview: ‘Everything is surveillance software at this point’
As he opens a new project at the Barbican Centre, the artist and critical geographer explains online image sets, surveillance culture and the return of human classification
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AI: More than Human
With AI seeping into all our lives, the Barbican should be congratulated for tackling such a prescient subject, and there are some real gems here. But has it missed a trick in making this a celebration rather than a critique…
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Yto Barrada: ‘The whole thing is a dance between a mad poet, children and ghosts’
Yto Barrada discusses her new exhibition at the Barbican Centre, which draws on a calamitous earthquake and the remarkable text it prompted
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Into the Unknown: A Journey through Science Fiction
As we see from the Barbican’s science fiction exhibition, the genre has consistently looked to the future as a means to extrapolate and accentuate the hopes and fears of the present
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The Digital Revolution and the beginning of New Media Art
From the ICA’s landmark 1968 show Cybernetic Serendipity through Pac-Man and Mario Bros to the latest offering from Will.i.am, the Barbican’s interactive exhibition demonstrates how computers and technological development have changed the face of art
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