A freedom of spirit, tempered by thoughtful reflection, is evident in the oeuvre of Lebanese artist couple Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige. I meet them in Dubai before the vernissage of their gallery show Lebanese Rocket Society and the unveiling of their Art Dubai video installation A Letter Can Always Reach its Destination. Skepticism over the truthfulness of images continues to inform their work, in what they describe as an archaeology of their observations.
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“Don’t use the internet as a f***ing condiment”: Net Art at Art Dubai →
DUBAI - At (It’s Not) Net Art 2: Emancipate the Medium!, one panel at Art Dubai’s Global Art Forum, heated debates began over nearly every aspect of the medium, from its formal qualities to its politicization and the notion that it is inherently radical. This argumentativeness is perhaps unsurprising given that the medium lacks a strict definition.
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This year’s Global Art Forum, an annual discourse on contemporary art under the aegis of Art Dubai, explores the theme “the Medium of the Media”. The event takes place on the rough anniversary of uprisings that spread across the Middle East, making it inevitable that panelists focused on where art fits into a landscape marked by tweets from Tahrir Square and the real-time dissemination of images of Qaddafi's corpse.
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