blip.Festival 2012
May 25th, 26th, 27th @ The Gramercy Theatre
127 East 23rd Street New York, NY 10010
Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
What stays with you is the noise. The image? Not so much. After all, most of the screen is occupied by negative space: a 16:9 slab of black, as if the monitor had nodded off, punctured by a few pale specks that resolve, if you pay attention, into bodies.
Side Quest for the Real: live action, art, and social fictions in Geneva December 3–21, 2025 Curated by Christian Bili and Samuel Wagen-Magnon Le Commun, Geneva, Switzerland For the Win (FTW) presents the second edition of Art, jeu & société, an ambitious initiative dedicated to artistic practices engaging with
A dark-skinned avatar, seen from behind in a white tank top, sits exactly where the polished concrete floor meets a painted horizon. In front of him the city has slipped its grid. Freeway ramps float at odd angles, billboards hang without supports, staircases rise into nothing. Between fragments of stucco
Camilo Restrepo’s Space invaders 1 (2024) and Space invaders 1418 (2024) lift the visual grammar of Taito’s 1978 arcade shooter and plug it into the long, unfinished story of Colombia’s narco-wars and their ecological afterlives. Both large vertical works were presented in the solo exhibition Cocaine Hippos