How would you draw a picture of the Internet; through the machines and ‘their’ language that broadcast and store ‘our’ messages, or through the affect and power relations that those messages and their movement produce?

Presented as part of the year-long Art In The Age Of… exhibition series, Art In The Age Of… Planetary Computation investigates how quantification, telecommunications, and our ever-expanding information apparati not only inform contemporary artistic production, but also how contemporary art can hold a mirror up to these processes and formations. The participating artists explore the fissure between literal infrastructure—code, machines, wires, and other like-vocabularies—and the subjective socio-political interactions fostered by using these devices. Guided not only by what can be seen on the computer screen, and the various other black mirrors we stare into day in and day out, this exhibition will also look at what happens behind these screens. Moving from objects to subjects, we ask, how do these positions impact daily life, or said in another way: what does it mean to be ‘screened’?

Artists: Aram Bartholl, Rossella Biscotti, Nina Canell, John Gerrard, Femke Herregraven, Antonia Hirsch,  Navine G. Khan-Dossos,  John Menick, Owen Mundy, Trevor Paglen, Lucy Raven, Julia Weist,  and others.

Team: Defne Ayas (Concept), Adam Kleinman (Lead Curator), Samuel Saelemakers (Associate Curator)

The work of Antonia Hirsch is presented with the kind support of the Southern Alberta Art Gallery.

Glenn Ligon: Encounters and Collisions

April 3 - June 11, 2015

Nottingham Contemporary

One of the most significant American artists of his generation creates an autobiographical art history, bringing together artworks he references, and his own work. 

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Events

Lynda Benglis in Conversation with Griselda Pollock

Friday 6 February, 5-6pm £8 (£6)

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Phillip King in conversation with Jon Wood

Tuesday 27 January, 6:30-8pm, £12

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Chisenhale Gallery presents a new body of work by London-based painter, Caragh Thuring, and her first solo exhibition in a public gallery.

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Abraham Cruzvillegas: Autoconstrucción

Museo Jumex, Mexico City

November 13, 2014- February 8, 2015

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Abraham Cruzvillegas: Autoconstrucción

Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico

November 15, 2014- February 16, 2015

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Saints Alive

November 4, 2014 - March 8, 2015

Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City

Michael Landy: Saints Alive an exhibition originally conceived for The National Gallery, London, and presented in Mexico City by the Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso and the British Council.

Saints Alive was the fulfilment of Landy's residency under the National Gallery's Associate Artist Programme, and the sculptures, collages and drawings he made were in response to The National Gallery's superb collection of old master paintings and drawings. 

The exhibition for Mexico has been enlarged since the first showing at The National Gallery in London in 2013, and it now comprises eight sculptures and 40 framed works on paper installed in seven inter-connecting galleries in the magnificent setting of Colegio de San Ildefonso. 

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A Partial Disassembling of an Invention Without a Future: Helter-Skelter and Random Notes in Which the Pulleys and Cogwheels Are Lying Around at Random All Over the Workbench

October 9 2014 - February 8, 2015

The Curve, Barbican Centre, London

This upcoming exhibition at the Barbican Centre sees London-born, Los Angeles-based artist Walead Beshty transform the Curve by covering the wall of the gallery from floor to ceiling with more than 12,000 cyanotype prints. 

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The exhibition will be accompanied by an artist talk on November 26th, tickets for which can be purchased here.

Photo by Alexei Tylevich

Plot

Holborn Library, London

October 3- November 23, 2014

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A series of four events will be presented in connection with Plot on Mondays through the run of this project

David Kohn, Plotting Spaces

Swodenborg Hall, London

October 27, 2014

Siobhan Davies, Helka Kaski and Jonathan Cole
Manual - Choreography and the Everyday: Lecture & Demonstration

Swodenborg Hall, London

November 3, 2014

Professor John Ó Maoilearca, Paraconsistent Perception

Swodenborg Hall, London

November 10, 2014 

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