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Shaping up

Discretely unfamiliar

How have artists’ attitudes to authorship, criticality and commercialism changed?

With the publication of his recent five-volume catalogue raisonnée, how does architect Peter Zumthor convey a lifetime’s body of work?

Two recent publications examine conflict and collaboration in public art projects

Ken Okiishi: painting in the age of Instagram

Home and where the heart is

Xu Zhen and his cultural production organization, MadeIn Company

Chinese Translation

Essays by Josephine Bosma and Stefan Heidenreich chart the beginnings of the Net art movement and the importance of Berlin in connecting net activism with the burgeoning artistic networks of the time – both on- and offline

Cally Spooner’s work explores how technology and new media are making performers of us all

The merging of politics, materials and metaphysics

Films crafted from complexity, complicity and contradiction

‘What does it mean to make queer art now?’ Paul Clinton asks artists and writers Catherine Lord, Carlos Motta, Charlotte Prodger, James Richards, Prem Sahib and A.L. Steiner to respond

Luca Vitone and the contemporary Italian landscape

Founded in 1997, the Berlin-based print magazine De:Bug focused on ‘life’s electronic aspects’, covering techno, programming and net criticism. April 2014 saw the last print issue of the influential magazine. Writer and DJ Sascha Kösch, aka Bleed, co-founder and editor-in-chief from May 2012, talks to Jan Kedves about why De:Bug folded, tech-euphoria and why he’s bored of Post-Internet art

Searching, Finding, Getting Lost

Born in Berlin in 1888, Hans Richter was a painter, filmmaker, organizer, curator and writer, but above all he was a radical changeling

Set design takes on a life of its own: the portals and parallel worlds of FORT

In her cartoons and paintings Amelie von Wulffen draws up art world anxieties and painting’s subconcious

Work and Play