Ash Keating in Christchurch. Photo courtesy SCAPE. In 2010, Melbourne artist Ash Keating produced Gardensity, an installation for the SCAPE Biennial of Art in Public… Read More »Visualising the City: Ash Keating and Dorian Farr on Speculative Art and Architecture in Christchurch
Sir Miles Warren is probably New Zealand’s most famous architect. He speaks to Simon Sellars about the Christchurch earthquakes and the challenges the city faces to rebuild.
Lucy McRae’s provocative ‘body silhouettes’ reshape the human form, subjecting it to extreme vortices of pressure: from technology, the natural environment, even from raw emotion. She speaks to Simon Sellars about the inspirations driving her career.
Charles Holland is one third of FAT Architecture. He spoke to Simon Sellars about the debate surrounding his recent remarks about architecture competitions, FAT’s print collaboration with Charles Jencks, and the novelist J.G. Ballard.
“‘Magisterial, precise, unsettling’: Simon Reynolds on JG Ballard”, originally published in 032c, no. 18, winter 2009/10, pp. 126-9. Simon Reynolds is one of the most… Read More »‘Magisterial, precise, unsettling’: Simon Reynolds on JG Ballard
ABOVE: ‘London after the Rain’, by Ben Olszyna-Marzys. A film produced for Nic Clear’s Unit 15 course, ‘Crash: Architectures of the Near Future’. Originally published… Read More »‘Architectures of the Near Future’: An Interview with Nic Clear
by Simon Sellars an image from John Foxx’s Cathedral Oceans project John Foxx, the former lead singer of Ultravox, is an undisputed electronic music pioneer.… Read More »A Whirlpool with Seductive Furniture: The John Foxx Interview
ABOVE: ‘Joshua Says GO!’ by Troy Paiva. ‘A 30s twin-tail Lockheed Electra does the big sleep at Aviation Warehouse. Night, full moon, red-gelled strobe flash.… Read More »The Light-Painter of Mojave D: An Interview with Troy Paiva
Originally published on ballardian.com, 3 July 2007 Mac Tonnies is a Kansas-based writer of post-cyberpunk science fiction (recently published by the redoubtable Rudy Rucker). He’s… Read More »UFOpunk: Mac Tonnies’ Strange Blue World
by Simon Sellars Photo by Emiliano Granado. Used with permission. Originally published on ballardian.com, 7 November 2006. Geoff Manaugh is a writer and essayist whose… Read More »The Politics of Enthusiasm: An Interview with Geoff Manaugh