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Rhizome.org is a new media organization that’s celebrating its 10th anniversary this year of supporting artists marking new media art and discussion about new media art. Marisa Olson of Rhizome.org talks about Rhizome.org and All Systems Go!, an exhibition curated by her at Scope Art Fair, New York. All Systems Go! features high-tech, low-tech, and [...]

Johannes Grenzfurthner talks about the different backgrounds of the monochrom team and “Brandmarker“, one of the projects monochrom got a lot of publicity for. The attempt to evaluate the actual power of brands by making Austrian people draw a total of twelve logos from memory led to some interesting conclusions, at the same time funny [...]

Since 1969 STAMPA Gallery in Basel organizes exhibitions of Swiss and international contemporary art. Unique is the integration of a bookshop. Stampa Gallery’s current exhibition presents works by Swiss artist Martina Gmür. Impressions from the opening reception on November 8, 2005. Click image or this link to watch video.

Within the framework of the Suzie Q projects, Birgid Uccia and Bob van Orsouw present a solo show with the sculptural works of Edward Lipski. Lipski was born 1966 in London, where he studied at the Chelsea College of Art and Design. The current exhibition presents, among others, the sculpture “King”, which recalls an Egyptian [...]

Q.E.D. is a young gallery based in Los Angeles. The gallery is focusing on emerging artists and considers themself as a curatorial laboratory for contemporary art. Gallery owner David Quadrini shows us his booth at LA Art New York where he presented works by Josephine Meckseper (participant of the Whitney Biennial 2006), Daniel Pflumm and [...]

This is a the second part of a conversation between Madelon Vriesendorp and Shumon Basar, who curated the exhibition The World of Madelon Vriesendorp together with Stephan Trüby. The World of Madelon Vriesendorp. Swiss Architecture Museum, Basel / Switzerland, January 16, 2009. > Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) this link to download Quicktime video file. > Click [...]

On the occasion of the opening of the Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space in Miami’s Design District, VernissageTV met with the architect of the new space, John Marquette. In the second part of Sabine Trieloff’s conversation with John Marquette, the Miami-based designer talks in detail about the different elements of [...]

Today internationally active star architects are designing and building spectacular new wineries around the world. The exhibition “WineArchitecture. The winery boom” presents for the first time, a well-researched Austrian survey supplemented and shown in context by the use of other examples of wine architecture from around the world. The focus is in particular on the [...]

Interview with Frank Joss, initiator and director of the ArchitectureTalks. Frank Joss has been responsible for independently organising the architecture symposium with his team since 2004. With a new name and a new location, the first edition of the ArchitectureTalks Lucerne took place in 2005 in the Culture & Convention Centre Lucerne, designed by French [...]

Together with Jan Kaplicky Amanda Levete heads Future Systems, an architectural and design practice based in London. Future Systems realized many prestigious projects such as retails designs for Comme des Garçons in New York, Tokyo and Paris and the Selfridges department store in Birmingham. For Established & Sons Amanda Levete designed the sofa “Chester” and [...]

At Art Cologne 2006 VernissageTV had a look at the VIP Lounge which the Canadian designer Karim Rashid designed for the Deutsche Bank. “Visitors to the lounge will find themselves in a sequence of silver-white, pink, and blue rooms steeped in an ambience of mirrored floors, organically flowing walls, and computer-generated net ornaments.” (from db [...]

Monochrom is an international art-technology-philosophy group founded in 1993. VTV is talking with the “white heterosexual founding father” of monochrom, Johannes Grenzfurthner, about the beginnings of monochrom as a print magazine, the monochrom blog, his interest in the political message of cyberpunk science fiction and monochroms evolution to a group that works with different media [...]

At Design Miami/ Basel 2007 we met Christian Labonte of Audi Design. Christian Labonte has been responsible for the design strategy of carmaker Audi since 2004. Christian Labonte trained as a cabinet-maker before studying architecture in Düsseldorf and industrial design in Essen. He has received many international design awards for the products of the Audi [...]

In April 2009 Design Miami and Fendi startet the Craft Punk project that built upon the Design Miami’s Design Performance program, which was intended to showcase “design in action” and to allow Design Miami visitors to get insight into the process underlying the creation of experimental design. For Design Miami 2009, the design fair presented [...]

Ambra Medda, co-founder and director of Design Miami/ Basel talks about the success of the new design fair, the popularity of historic and contemporary design and why the fair choose Basel as second location for the fair. Interview with Ambra Medda, Design Miami/ Basel, June 12, 2006. > Click image to watch quicktime video in [...]