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The Hypersalon™, conference returns for its second iteration in Paris, running at the Musée d’Art Moderne on December 17 and December 19.

The event, organised by Philippe Riss of XPO Gallery and Mathieu Merlet-Briand, explores the implications of networked culture and runs in conjunction with the Musée d’Art Moderne’s current Co-Workers exhibition.

The conference brings Gregory Chatonsky with ‘Deep Dream: Does the network dream of humans?’ (which takes the 2015 Google release of fantastical images of fish and dogs as its starting point for the exploration of network memory and our “hallucinatory vision of the human world”) on December 17 and a conversation with Christiane Paul and Clément Valla called ‘New Materialities of Digital Art’ on December 19.

See the FB event page for details. **

How do you like your woman? Well-done? Medium? Raw?

British artist Linder Sterling is currently showing her first retrospective exhibition at Paris’ Musée d’Art Moderne (MaM). Around 200 pieces are on display, selected from work produced over the last forty years.

Sans titre, 1978 ©Linder (courtesy of MaM)

Entitled “Femme/Objet” (Woman/Object), the clue is in the exhibition’s name – if you haven’t already heard of Linder, synonymous with feminism. She’s been hailed as a radical, but this description risks damaging the artist’s intentions and the efforts of equal-rights campaigners, regardless of her controversial style. There’s nothing radical in the observation of the notion of Woman, nor in the subsequent deconstruction of gender stereotyping. In fact, it’s very, very basic: dismantling the way we see things to uncover not simply their essence, but ours. Continue reading Femme/Objet Linder Sterling exhibition review