34 documents
Douglas Coupland
Douglas Coupland
CIVA
Institution Building
Architecture Announcement
Posted: August 23, 2021
Category
Museums
Subjects
Institutional Critique
Institution
Luma Foundation
Publication: IT’S URGENT!
Sharjah Art Foundation
2020 monographs, exhibition catalogues and essay compilations
e-flux Announcement
Posted: November 10, 2020
Subjects
Biennials, Libraries & Archives, Retrospective
Institution
Art Jameel
Fall/Winter 2020-2021 programme
e-flux Announcement
Posted: September 29, 2020
Category
Migration & Immigration
Subjects
Gulf War, Fashion
Institution
Flash Art
Issue 331: Summer 2020
e-flux Agenda
Posted: July 7, 2020
Institution
Flash Art Italia
Issue 349: “2031”
e-flux Agenda
Posted: June 3, 2020
Institution
Canadian Cultural Centre
Human Learning: What Machines Teach Us
e-flux Announcement
Posted: January 25, 2020
Institution
Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK)
Symposium on Gustav Metzger: The Need for Art to Change the World
e-flux Education
Posted: September 19, 2019
Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto
Age of You
e-flux Announcement
Posted: September 5, 2019
Subjects
Climate change, Futurism
Institution
Luma Foundation
It’s Urgent! - Part II
e-flux Announcement
Posted: August 31, 2019
Subjects
Libraries & Archives
Institution
Kunsthal Charlottenborg
Exhibition programme 2018
e-flux Announcement
Posted: June 14, 2018
Category
Architecture, Installation
Subjects
Subcultures & Countercultures, Mediterranean, Manifestos, Video Art, Science, Crisis
Institution
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Double US book launch: Duty Free Art and Supercommunity
e-flux Announcement
Posted: January 5, 2018
Category
Interviews & Conversations, Surveillance & Privacy, Data & Information, Technology, Museums, Utopia
Subjects
Money & Finance, Publications, Freeports
Institution
In more than 60 texts, first published on-site at 56th Venice Biennale, artists and writers trace the negative collective that is the subject of contemporary life.
e-flux Books
Posted: December 1, 2017
Category
Technology, Internet, Contemporary Art, Utopia, Surveillance & Privacy, Nature & Ecology, Migration & Immigration, Labor & Work, Globalization
Subjects
Biennials, Networks, Post-Internet, Contemporaneity, Anthropocene, Apocalypse , Art Criticism, Transhumanism, Cosmism, Social Media, Science Fiction, Psychogeography, Postcolonialism, Ontology , Nihilism , Knowledge Production, Internet Art, Institutional Critique, Immaterial Labor, Human - Nonhuman Relations, Artistic Research
Artforum
November 2017 in Artforum
e-flux Announcement
Posted: November 1, 2017
Category
Contemporary Art
Subjects
Art Criticism, Publications
Institution
Vancouver Art Gallery
Vancouver Special: Ambivalent Pleasures
e-flux Announcement
Posted: February 5, 2017
Category
Contemporary Art, Urbanism
Institution
Vitra Design Museum
Hello, Robot.
Architecture Announcement
Posted: January 26, 2017
Institution
Nuit Blanche
Nuit Blanche Toronto
e-flux Announcement
Posted: September 27, 2016
Category
Museums
Subjects
Curating, Temporality
Institution
e-flux
Sounds of Silicon Valley
e-flux Announcement
Posted: June 30, 2016
Category
Performance, Music
Subjects
Poetry
Institution
# 74
What if There’s No Next Big Thing?
Douglas Coupland
What if, in the tech world, there is no next big thing? First we had fire, then came the wheel, and the PC, then the internet and then Google and then the iPhone and then … that’s it. There’s nothing more left to come. We’re waiiiiiiting —but no, we’ve received all there’s going to be and tech’s broad strokes have all happened. Does this sound scary, or kind of sad? We can laugh at such a proposition because we know it’s not going to happen. We might dream of a year when people would just…
e-flux Journal
Posted: June 1, 2016
Category
Technology, Contemporary Art, Economy
Subjects
Art Market, Money & Finance
# 67
Stuffed: How Hoarding and Collecting Is the Stuff of Life and Death
Douglas Coupland
One of comedian George Carlin’s (1937–2008) seminal monologues was his 1986 riff on stuff : “That’s all the meaning of life is: trying to find a place to put your stuff. That’s all your house is, is a pile of stuff with a cover on it.” And to paraphrase: “Someone else’s stuff is actually shit, whereas your own shit isn’t shit at all, it’s stuff .” I’m made aware of this every time family members visit my house and see the art I collect. I see those very words etched onto their retinas, and…
e-flux Journal
Posted: November 1, 2015
Category
Capitalism
Subjects
Art Collecting , Commodification, Art Market, Trauma, Everyday Life
e-flux Announcement
Posted: October 2, 2015
Institution
e-flux Announcement
Posted: September 25, 2015
Institution
Kunstinstituut Melly
Douglas Coupland: Bit Rot / Art In The Age Of…Asymmetrical Warfare
e-flux Announcement
Posted: September 3, 2015
Category
Internet, Globalization, Data & Information, Image, War & Conflict
Institution
# 65
Shiny
Douglas Coupland
In early December of 2012 I was in the middle of a severe seasonal depression, a condition I’m more than familiar with. On December 6 I needed to fly to Stockholm, and I was distressed at the prospect of having to do so while depressed. To be honest, I didn’t think it was even going to be possible. In a last-minute act of desperation, on December 2 I bought a light box for $199 at a local drugstore—150 bright, light blue LEDs arranged in a grid. I plugged it in, looked at it for three…
e-flux Journal
Posted: May 1, 2015
Category
Contemporary Art, Aesthetics
Subjects
Tourism, Art Market
Vancouver Art Gallery
Free Speech PendantAi Weiwei’s limited artist edition
e-flux Announcement
Posted: December 5, 2014
Institution
Art Metropole
Art Metropole: 40 years, 40 yeahs!
e-flux Announcement
Posted: November 5, 2014
Institution
ABC Art Berlin Contemporary
abc art berlin contemporary
e-flux Announcement
Posted: July 30, 2014
Institution
Vancouver Art Gallery
Douglas Coupland
e-flux Announcement
Posted: June 26, 2014
Category
Installation, Technology, Language & Linguistics
Subjects
Identity Politics, Public Art, Pop Culture
Institution
Mousse Magazine & Publishing
Mousse #42 out now
e-flux Announcement
Posted: February 13, 2014
Institution