This article traces the shared history of space law and art, putting a spotlight on work African artists who retell future travel from perspective archive, producing more inclusive for humanity than that produced by seemingly lofty ideals national international laws.

Moving image art since the 1990s has often expressed a fascination with classical Hollywood cinema, employing strategies that range from allusion to direct quotation in its attempts to revise Hollywood imagery, forms and conventions, and the values that these enshrine. Such promiscuous practices of regurgitation are often characterized as parasitical and purely derivative, expressive of a late ...

This essay concerns with the overlap of interactive art and computer games. In order to arrive at a critique of the feasibility of using playability’s absence as a strategy in the design of ‘art games’, the essay contextualizes contemporary non-playable ‘art games’ in the discourses of both interactive art and computer games. For this purpose, a notion of ‘playability’ is derived from notions o...

This essay considers the possibilities of contemporary art as a viable medium socio-political critique within cultural terrain dominated by naturalised neoliberal economics. It begins considering centrality negativity to historical project critical theory most forcefully pursued Adorno ‘negative dialectics.’ Subsequent varieties postmodern fairly dispensed with dialectics variously favouring co...

Anne Klein, Archive(s), mémoire, art. Éléments pour une archivistique critique, Québec : Presses de l’Université Laval, 2019, 264 p., ISBN 978-2-7637-4611-1 (broché)