INTERVIEW
Paul Pfeiffer: Accessing Other Dimensions
By Brian Curtin

Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, and raised in the Philippines, New York-based artist Paul Pfeiffer is known for his interest in the spectacle of mass-media imagery, which he manipulates to create hypnotic videos and digital prints. Pfeiffer has had major solo exhibitions at K21 in Düsseldorf, Germany, in 2004 and at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain, in 2008. [more]

Feng Mengbo: Multiplayer Online Cultural Revolution
By Olivier Krischer

To trace the trajectory of Feng Mengbo’s artistic career from the early 1990s to the present is to describe the history of new-media art in China. Feng is not the only new-media artist, of course, but he is rightly considered the father of computer-based contemporary art in the People’s Republic. “New media,” like “modern” or “contemporary,” is a term that semantically insists on art that is new to its time—its very utterance seems to jettison history. [more]

Raqs Media Collective: Talking Cure
By HG Masters

“Prolixity is not alien to us in India. We are able to talk at some length.” Amartya Sen, the 1998 Nobel Laureate in Economics, begins the title essay of his book The Argumentative Indian (2005) with this self-reflexive observation. This same ruminative tendency characterizes Raqs Media Collective, a New Delhi trio who are regularly cast as new-media artists in the confines of an art world that often doesn’t know what to make of their diverse activities examining urban life in South Asia. [more]