Projects

Marwan Kassab Bachi, known simply as Marwan, was a pioneering painter and educator whose life and work bridged continents and cultures.

A leading figure in the ‘second generation’ of contemporary artists in the United Arab Emirates, Mohammed Kazem has developed an artistic practice that encompasses video, photography and performance.

A pioneer of modern art in Iran, Marcos Grigorian was an artist, teacher, gallerist, collector and curator.

Semiha Berksoy was a seminal figural in Turkey’s cultural scene. Hailing from an artistic family, she began her career as a performer, playing lead roles in several operas, films and theatres—including Turkey’s first professional opera production and its first sound film. Despite having painted from an early age, it was only later in life that painting stopped being a private affair.

These opening lines introduce The Interview, an indirect narration of the real-life story of Dr Abdul Nabi, an Iraqi doctor who came to the United States in 2008.

Founded in 1998 by Young-hae Chang and Marc Voge, web art duo YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES creates animated digital literature in Adobe Flash. Set to musical scores, typically jazz, that are often their own, the text is translated into various languages. 

Jeremy Bailey is a self-proclaimed ‘Famous New Media Artist’—an alter-ego he created after graduating from university—and he is also a podcaster and venture socialist.

Constant Dullaart’s conceptual work, which manifests itself on the internet, in public spaces and offline, includes websites, performances, installations and manipulated found images that aim to visualise the vernacular of the internet.

Artist duo Jon Thomson and Alison Craighead have been working together since 1993. They produce art across video, sound, sculpture and installation as well as the virtual sphere.

James Bridle is an artist, writer, publisher and a technologist who uses both online and offline platforms, including software, social media, photography, installation and writing, to examine the effect of technology on culture and the ways in which it reproduces and reshapes political power in our current time. 

Wafaa Bilal is known internationally for his online performative and interactive works that stimulate dialogue about international and interpersonal politics.

UVA (United Visual Artists) is a London-based collective founded in 2003 by British artist Matt Clark (b.1974).

Trevor Paglen’s work spans image making, sculpture, investigative journalism, writing, engineering and numerous other disciplines. He analyses current pivotal moments in an attempt to imagine or predict an alternative future. 

Tabor Robak employs computer-generated imaging to create videos of invented worlds. Working with programs such as Unity, After Effects, Photoshop and Cinema 4D, the artist explores a secondary digital reality, rendered in what he calls a ‘Photoshop tutorial aesthetic’ or a ‘desktop screensaver aesthetic’.