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Peter Watkins, Oscar-winning director of The War Game, dies aged 90 Radical English director who clashed with the BBC over his ‘horrifying’ film about nuclear war, was forced to look abroad to continue working

RIP Peter Watkins.

Alison Knowles, Fluxus Artist Who Spun Art from the Everyday, Dies at 92 Alison Knowles, the Fluxus artist behind 'Make a Salad,' has died at 92.

A creative life to celebrate: Alison Knowles, 'Make a Salad' Artist and Fluxus Pioneer Dies

Photo of women in witch costumes,black cloaks and pointed hats on paddle boards

Portland, US, annyal event known as the "Standup Paddleboard Witch Paddle" #womensart
(Image S.Bugarsky)

Breathtaking, unsettling, healing: how US artist Kara Walker transformed a Confederate monument The sweeping exhibition Monuments, which features 19 contemporary artists, opens in LA on 23 October

Can't stop thinking about Kara Walker's piece...
"Art in public space" is one of our courses this semester 👍

Poster of an event held by our chair of Art In Space And Time (ETH Zürich) tomorrow 29/10 - 19h. The poster shows a still screen from "Being John Smith", a film by UK filmmaker John Smith who will be our guest. The b&w pic shows a man's face (Paul McCartney?) moving his hand in front of him.

We are very happy to welcome filmmaker John Smith for an artist talk tomorrow 29/10 - 19h. Please join if you can 🎥
Chair of Art in Space and Time, Stefano-Franscini Platz 5 HIL F47, ETH Hönggerberg.

An extraordinary artist

nineteenth century painting in a fairly realist style, a large vegetable garden lines of plants stretching off to the wall, some covered in protective shading, two gardeners one in the foreground stands in bare feet with two watering cans irrigating the plants, a large stain or damp is spreading under his feet

such a sensory painting – you can feel the damp earth under the bare feet – but also cries out for *reading*, what it all means, historically etc.; the "garden" that is more than a garden, agriculture, system, enclosure, rationality

Gustave Caillebotte, The Gardeners, 1875

Presented by the Patrons of New Art (Special Purchase Fund) 2001

Donald Rodney, In the House of My Father, 1996
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1122395

Simone Leigh’s largest exhibition yet to explore ‘art made under fascism’ The Chicago-born artist has been speaking ahead of a major show at London’s Royal Academy of Arts

Simone Leigh’s largest exhibition yet to explore ‘art made under fascism’ - The Art Newspaper - International art news and events

This is perhaps one of the coolest things I have ever come across!

To me, it reflects the many beautiful types and dimensions of sound in our humanity. I can't stop smiling as I listen and learn.

Congrats on your 10th anniversary @citiesandmemory.bsky.social 🎉

Please join us on October 1 (19h–21h)
for an Altered States Lecture with our esteemed guests
Nida Sinnokrot & Sahar Qawasmi on their project Sakiya
at Art In Space And Time HIL F 47 (Hoenggerberg)
@ethz.ch Hönggerberg,

ETH Zurich launches pioneering construction research project The HIL building on the Hönggerberg campus is set to become a living lab. Now in need of renovation, the building will be remodelled and extended, with completion pencilled in for 2035. Professorships...

Our chair @artinspaceandtime.bsky.social is on the F floor.
The trees in the tiny square at the centre of the block are gorgeous 🌳

Stunning new book out now with letters by Ise Gropius from Japan. Meticulously edited by Almut Grunewald and with my short essay on Gropius (her!) as a professional writer. verlag.gta.arch.ethz.ch/en/gta:book_...

We’re super-excited to launch the open call for our newest global project, called A Century of Sounds, in partnership with the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford 🏛️

Find out more and get involved by 31 August: citiesandmemory.com/century-sounds

There are still a few open spots in the Summer School course "Vibrational Architectures: Experiments on Sonic Spaces" proposed by artist & team member Nicole L'Huillier.
Please register at: nlhuillier@arch.ethz.ch
Workshop: 8-12 Sept @ethz.ch #D-Arch
Registration deadline: 1 Sept

One more month to apply!
#DigitalHumanities #JobAlert #PleaseShare

Partial gift of the Daled Collection and partial purchase through the generosity of Maja Oeri and Hans Bodenmann, Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III, Agnes Gund, Marlene Hess and James D. Zirin, Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis, and Jerry I. Speyer and Katherine G. Farley

Lawrence Weiner, A BIT OF MATTER AND A LITTLE BIT MORE, 1976 #artbots #moma
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137354

Poster for "Vibrational Architectures. Experiments on Sonic Spaces" This workshop explores sonic spaces and vibrational architectures through a transdisciplinary approach to sound, listening, and spatial experiences. Together, we will navigate invisible architectures and immaterial worlds—sonic structures that shape our shared environment, relational dynamics, and perceptions or reality. By probing these resonant fields, we explore acoustic phenomena through artistic and theoretical frameworks and hands-on-experimentation. Guided by the poetics and politics of listening, as well as the creation of experimental apparatus for sending and receiving vibrations, the workshop will approaching sound and vibration as strong material forces for constructing sonic spaces and other forms of vibrational architectures.

Dear @ethz.ch students, you can now enroll in team member Nicole L'Huillier's workshop. Come explore acoustic phenomena through artistic, theoretical frameworks and experimentation. And approach sound and vibration as strong material forces for constructing sonic spaces.

nlhuillier@arch.ethz.ch

YouTube video by Times Square NYC July 2025 Midnight Moment: "Charge" by Rosa Barba in Times Square

Evoking sunsets, the alchemy of astrophysics, and planetary imagery, Rosa Barba’s Charge is a cinematic exploration of color and light. The rhythmic, pulsating assemblage is activated by natural landscapes, radio waves, stellar spheres, scientific apparatuses, and celluloid itself. Until July 31 🔥

Apply, apply, apply!!

For its 11th issue, the journal “Transbordeur. Photographie histoire société” is looking for contributions dealing with “Live and Direct. Infrastructures and Imaginaries of Simultaneity.” Guest editors are Jonathan Dentler, Olivier Lugon, and Marie Sandoz. Here is the call for papers:

UZH: Lecturer Teaching The Art History Department (Program Directorate) in collaboration of the departments of Film Studies, Archaeology, Media and Communication, and Educational Sciences of the University of Zurich is seek...

Attractive job offer at the University of Zurich:

Lecturer Teaching position in Digital Methods for the Study of Visual Cultural Data, 100%, permanent position

Please share widely!

#DigitalHumanitie #JobAlert

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A walk-in installation The Graphische Sammlung ETH Zürich boasts a collection of some 160,000 prints and drawings by artists such as Dürer, Rembrandt and Warhol. Its new exhibition, NEOGEO, marks an experimental turn, featu...

New perspectives on #geometry: The exhibition NEOGEO at ETH Zurich’s Graphische Sammlung features bold works by Claudia Comte, Athene Galiciadis & Andrea Heller. A walk-in installation that transforms #space — open daily, free entry.

Read more:

OUT NOW & OPEN ACCESS: My article «Operative Image Spaces: Navigating Virtual Museum Collections» www.socio-journal.ch/article/view...

Seoul Museum of Ar

Seoul Museum of Ar

The Seoul Museum of Art, Korea’s first public institution entirely dedicated to photography, opens May 29, 2025, in Dobong-gu, Seoul. Designed by Mladen Jadric and 1990uao.kr, it occupies 7,048 m² across six floors, housing over 20,000 works and serving as a hub for photographic culture and research

Our Media Lounge is still open @ Baubibliotek HIL E 2.
Team member Nicole L’Huillier is showing one collab with Patricia Dominguez and one collab with Daniela Catrileo. You will also find some of Nicole’s bibliographical references and a selection of books related to our fields of research @ethz.ch

YouTube video by Archwalks 4K Venice Architectural Biennale 2025: Arsenale

4K Venice Architectural Biennale 2025: Arsenale
Archwalks
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Remembering Josiah's generous studio visit last May during our first Seminar Week ☀️

Koyo Kouoh, the founding artistic director of RAW Material Company in Dakar, was the 1st African woman appointed to curate the 2026 edition of the Biennale in December. She was a leading figure in the art world. Great sadness 🖤

YouTube video by The Met Tintypes from the William L. Schaeffer Collection | Met Exhibitions

If you're up for a diverting watch - and are interested in the history of photography as well - this playful short video from the Met Museum traces the history of 19th-century tintypes youtu.be/7rpIGgt_sGw?...