I am a big fan of the Tate Modern museum in London. I have never seen a boring exhibition there and I love the architecture of the building. Many of you might not know but the Tate Modern is organizing a lot of artist talks, symposiums and conferences as well. In 2003 I have been attending user_mode, a 3 day conference about emotion and intuition in design and art. It was a great conference with very interesting speakers: Joshua Davis (Praystation), Lev Manovich (love his book), Simon Biggs and many more.
But now the great news: The Tate Modern put their video archive of all their events online and they will continue to record all their events! That’s great news if you are interested in artists like Joep van Lieshout (who confesses in that video that he has to build a phallic sculpture every now and then), Thomas Hirschhorn, The Guerilla Girls and others. I’m busy watching videos from the archive since some days… one more argument for me to not buy a TV set! 😉
Link to Tate Modern Online Events (via WMMNA)
Story by Chris Car for Vu d’ici