Editorial

Legendary graphic designer Norio Nakamura returns to his seminal archive to capture Artlab’s world for our digital commissions series.

2023 Artlab Editorial Fellow Skye Arundhati Thomas considers the impact of automation and AI on labor practices through the artworks of Bangalore-based Tara Kelton, who merges art and technology to unveil the hidden algorithms that alter contemporary life in the Global South and beyond.

In the first of a three-part series about the rapidly changing city of Miami and impact on its arts communities, 2023 Artlab Editorial Fellow Laurie Rojas gets acquainted with Miami, the wild south of the art world. In her reported essay, she speaks to artists in Little Haiti about their experience as she contemplates her recent move from Berlin to Hialeah.

The 2023 LACMA Art + Technology Lab grant recipients apply art to technology, experimenting with new ways to address climate, obstacles, and ethics.

For the first time, the Artlab Digital Commission program asked two artists, Belgrade-based Aleksandra Jovanić and Ivana Dama in Los Angeles, to merge their respective practices to interpret the spirit of our decentralized, ever-evolving global ecosystem. Their process was quite literal.

Our recurring column Virtual Horizons examines how a city’s history connects with the contemporary art scene of today, and how artists imagine the future. In Copenhagen, we take a bike ride through town to reveal the built and imagined environment—from art as advertising, to planetary architecture.

For the first time, the 2023 Artlab Editorial Fellows Laurie Rojas and Skye Arundhati Thomas meet with our advisory committee to talk about art writing’s place, purpose, and pleasures.

We explore stories of Art and the Planetary at Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational’s symposium during the opening week of the 14th Gwangju Biennale.

Take a hike with Artlab Editorial to explore a new exhibition by artist Sarah Rosalena, a LACMA Art + Technology Lab grant recipient.

Artlab Editors check in with Sougwen Chung, an artist, researcher, and the founder of Scilicet, a London-based studio exploring human and non-human art-making. An alumna of the MIT Media Lab, Chung has helped revolutionize research related to human-machine collaborative systems.

Tate Curator Nabila Abdel Nabi discusses the framing of ‘Islamic art’ and methods of decolonization within the museum.

It’s the artist’s job to think about the future. From the streets of New York this spring, here are the results.

Subash Thebe Limbu took home the Grand Prix in the 5th VH AWARD with his sci-fi film "Ladhamba Tayem; Future Continuous." On the occasion of the competition, art critic Dawn Chan discussed the inspiration behind his work alongside the four other finalists. Part 2 of her Q&A features zzyw on "Other Spring," Limbu on "Ladhamba Tayem; Future Continuous," and Zike He on "Random Access."

On the occasion of the 5th VH AWARD—which supports emerging media artists in Asia—art critic Dawn Chan sat down with the five finalists to discuss what inspired their artworks. Part one of our Q&A features Riar Rizaldi on Fossilis, and Su Hui-Yu on The Space Warriors and the Digigrave.

Using AI tools, Ezra Miller creates images and videos that are realer than real. Here, he speaks with writer and curator Elizaveta Shneyderman about his show at Nahmad Contemporary and his Artlab Digital Commission.

We sat down with the members of the Artlab Editorial Fellowship advisory committee to hear about their paths to writing, what they are proud of, and more.

Code, text, and visual art are the core fulcrums artist Zach Lieberman leveraged to create Hyundai Artlab’s latest Digital Commission. Artlab’s Editors sat down with the artist who discusses how working as openly as possible offers opportunity for decentralized thinking, making invisible connections visible, and the importance of sharing joy.

The collective Crypton discusses "Koko Killing Island," their work from PROJECT HASHTAG 2022 that navigates virtual reality, hyperobjects, and the collective power of decentralized thinking.

We’re on the lookout for two writers dedicated to their geographic regions who explore today’s social issues through the lens of contemporary art.

We land in Los Angeles to discuss the Felix Art Fair, LACMA Art + Technology Lab, and the city's history as a site of cultural confluence in the first Virtual Horizons dispatch.

How do raves offer space for counter-narratives, placemaking, and remembrance? Writer Michelle Lhooq digs into one of the collectives behind PROJECT HASHTAG 2022, Lost Air, and places their raves that reclaim lost space in dialogue with performances in Los Angeles and New York.

Maria Balshaw, Frances Morris, Catherine Wood, and Fiontán Moran discuss Cecilia Vicuña’s path to her Hyundai Commission, Brain Forest Quipu, at Tate Modern.

The Artlab Editors take a refracted look back at our first year of publishing work from writers across the globe—and discover themes that echo across geographies.

Where do we come from, and where are we going? Inside a cavernous gallery at MMCA, writer Shannon Lee reflects upon Choe U-Ram’s newest exhibition, Little Ark, and questions how we define progress—both cultural and personal.

From gold robes to laboratory flasks to smashed glass, the artists across The Space Between: The Modern in Korean Art provide a glimpse into the path from Modern toward Contemporary Korea. Writer Scarlet Cheng interviews exhibition curator Dr. Virginia Moon, and reviews the exhibition through selections of oil paintings, works on paper, photographs, and sculptures.

The visual language of economics—and the stock images of growth, progress, and trends that come with it—are a source of inspiration for artist Katja Novitskova. On the occasion of her Artlab Digital Commission, Artlab Editorial talked with the artist about collaboration, JPEGs, and pulling ideas from the past.

Sharing the same interest in poetry, writer Barry Schwabsky unspools Vicuña’s own vocabulary, from her words to her works, to consider how her quipus read like “three-dimensional script that cannot in the end be read, but whose effect is felt.”

From Museo Tamayo in Mexico City to the 2021 Liverpool Biennial, Manuela Moscoso has advocated for an international, inclusive understanding of curation—a version of the practice that trades the lineral for the lateral, and looks to a global chorus of perspectives instead of an established orthodoxy. As the Executive Director of the Center for Art, Research and Alliances, which opens in New York this October, Moscoso’s work expands upon the ethos of transnational curation. We caught up with her to talk movement versus place, curating while breathing, and transnationality.

“Listening is her medium,” writes Julie Baumgardner of artist Cecilia Vicuña, one of the great contemporary Chilean artists. On the occasion of Vicuña’s Hyundai Commission at Tate’s Turbine Hall, Baumgardner traces Vicuña’s career from her earliest moments sensing the wind, water, tar, and sand from the Chilean coast.

On the occasion of Artlab’s first Digital Commission, our editors chat with artist Ram Han about her creative practice.

Blockchain is changing how we care for art. Critic Orit Gat discusses how technology reframes the creation, conservation, and curation of artworks online.

Claire L. Evans on the speculative visions of three thought-provoking artists.

On the occasion of Kiaf Seoul and Frieze Seoul, Andrew Russeth shares some can't-miss exhibitions, institutions, and cultural destinations in the bustling Korean capital.

Charlotte Kent on how Nancy Baker Cahill’s “Slipstream Times Square” transformed the busy commercial hub into a space of meditation.

This summer, we reached out to a handful of fellow travelers with a simple request: tell us about a trip you made, or a place you went, for art.

What conditions do artists need to thrive? The Artlab team shares their thoughts on co-creating the contemporary, the importance of building resilient networks, and functioning like parts of a living system.

Samantha Culp traces the origins of a singular program—and hints at what's to come.

An interview with Lawrence Lek about the worlds he creates—both virtual and real—where humans and machines live together.

In a conversation with the artist, Monica Uszerowicz traces the myriad layers and imaginings of Yunchul Kim, who is representing South Korea at this year’s Venice Biennale.

Dean Kissick travels through Yunchul Kim’s journey of body and soul—and takes us along for the ride.

Wendy Vogel digs into the politics and power of Barbara Kruger, whose work has blasted through boundaries for more than thirty years.

As Surrealism moved across oceans and continents, a commitment to social progress remained a core, yet little recognized, tenet of the movement.

From the first Biennale di Venezia in 1895 to the OVRs of today, the ways we view art have changed—but perhaps not quite as much as we think.

How three different artists use experimental media to critique and celebrate the many possibilities of our shared future.

A new destination for critical engagement with contemporary art from around the globe.

When we encounter art and ideas, our thoughts and understandings of the world change direction. Artlab Editors reflect on these refractions, and how art reveals the malleability of perception.