By Kai (Kari) Altmann New World — A possible name for a current genre of art and culture making that focuses on the globalized, post-Western, post-production, post-Covid state of things. New World has been used many times before in geography and culture and comes with its own baggeage. In geography…

Visual Culture in a Post-Western, Post-Production, Pan Optic World By Kai (Kari) Altmann and Cadence Kinsey, 2015-Ongoing Originally requested by Cadence Kinsey in 2015 (see her comments and questions as additions to the text), these are some notes from many conversations, questions and disappointing press pieces about digitally and globally aware art in the contemporary era. In writing this…

By Kai (Kari) Altmann The following is a text with a patchy history. Originally commissioned by a writing platform in 2015, art historian/writer/editor Cadence Kinsey had asked me to collaborate with her on publishing and polishing up some kind of art text I had in my drafts. I told her…

Selected Media Streams From a Long Dubai Weekend 2015 — Written By Request of John Chiaverina for ARTNEWS Magazine, for a project where artists were asked to keep track of their media intake for a certain period of time. Edited for Length and Published February 24, 2016 I’m at Rijksakademie for a three-month guest residency. I just finished my first…

2012 — Femtophotography, a new development in high speed imaging, is able to capture a transient and approximate 3D image of an object located around a corner from the camera. Trend forecasting, too, seeks to find what’s coming around the bend by making calculated guesses at the future evolution of consumers’ aesthetic…

2010–2014 — Originally requested for UNIPRESS, 2011–2012 Finishing funds provided by curator Melanie Buehler for BRANDS: CONCEPT/AFFECT/MODULARITY at S.A.L.T.S. Center in Basel, 2014 JASMINE LEE Jasmine Lee and I met through an open call for assistance in getting a project made at World Expo 2010 Shanghai. That project was a R-U-In?S kiosk and Jasmine…