Re-placing the novel: Sinclair and Ballard

David Cunningham’s 2007 essay on Iain Sinclair, J.G. Ballard and the contemporary novel has been posted by Simon Sellars on his splendid website The Ballardian. Read it here.

Rem Koolhaas interview

 David Cunningham and Jon Goodbun’s interview with OMA architect Rem Koolhaas is now up as a highlight on the Radical Philosophy website. Click here to download the pdf.

THE FUTURE

THE FUTURE 
A series of events programmed by the Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture, University of Westminster, at The David Roberts Art Foundation Fitzrovia as part of their current exhibition ‘Sculpture of the Space Age’, curated by Raimundas Malasauskas.

Thursday November 5^th 2009, 6:30-8:30: THE FUTURE

Tom Corby (new media artist; cultural ecologist; University of Westminster)
David Cunningham (academic, aesthetician, University of Westminster)
Benjamin Noys (author of The Culture of Death and Georges Bataille, University of Chichester)
John Timberlake (painter, photographer, Head of BA Fine Art, Middlesex University)

Thursday November 12^TH, 2009, 6:30-8:30: THE FUTURE IS HISTORY

Jon Cairns (fine arts, Central Saint Martins College, University of the Arts)
Sally O’Reilly (art critic, Founder of Implicasphere, author of The Body in Contemporary Art)
Uriel Orlow (multi-media installer, historian, narrator of the impossible, University of Westminster)

Saturday November 21^st, 2009, 2-4: THE FUTURE IS TOMORROW

Lennard J. Davis (author of books on normalcy, obsession, and genetics, University of Illinois at Chicago)
Chris Horrocks (author of books on Foucault, McLuhan, and Baudrillard, Kingston University)
Ben Watson (independent music critic, Marxist theorist, poet, and author of books on Frank Zappa, art and class, and Derek Bailey)

Thursday November 26^th, 6:30-8:30: THE FUTURE IS NOW

Garin Dowd (Deleuzian commentator on film & writing, Thames Valley University)
Sue Golding (philosopher of time and space, University of Greenwich)
Stephen Melville (critic of modernity and the avant-garde; Ohio State University)

Chair: David Cunningham and Marquard Smith, University of Westminster, London

Bio-Culture and the Post-Humanities: Animals?

Friday 20th November 2009
2:00 pm – 6: 00 pm
Room 352, 309 Regent Street, University of Westminster

Giovanni Aloi, Editor of Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, Queen Mary, University of London
Dr Nicola Anderson, Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies, Macquarie University, Australia
Professor Lennard J. Davis, Professor of the Arts and Social Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Dr Rob La Frenais, Curator, The Arts Catalyst, London
Nicola Triscott, Director, The Arts Catalyst, London
Dr Joanna Zylinska, Reader in Media and Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London
Chair: Dr Marquard Smith, Director, Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture

Interviewing with Introducing Art

‘Introducing Art’ have just interviewed Thomson & Craighead  for Issue V of their online publication. You can read the illustrated interview here…

http://introducingart.com/

Horizon at Impakt Festival, Utrecht

Thomson & Craighead’s live installation Horizon will be re-staged at Impakt Festival in Utrecht, Holland from October 14th 2009 alongside works by Jonas Dahlberg, Guido van der Werve, Vadim Fishkin, Guy Sherwin, Glenn Kaino and Julieta Aranda.  More information on this exhibition here.