ArtReview x Modern Forms
A series of talks, essays and artworks explore the complex systems shaping a rapidly changing world, and reflect on a transitional moment in the history of art and ideas
Talk: Narrative Intelligence
Marina Warner, Shezad Dawood and Marc Davis
discuss technology and storytelling
Documents: Weaving the Story
Marina Warner on narrative Intelligence in action and early technology, in an excerpt from her latest book
Screen: Shezad Dawood's 'Leviathan Part 1: Ben'
Watch the first part Shezad Dawood's ambitious, multi-platform Leviathan
Talk: Beating the system(s)
Lucia Pietroiusti, Zach Blas and Troika's Sebastien Noel on systems, relations and new ways of thinking
Talk: On art and ecology
Stefanie Hessler joins Sam Solnick to consider the influence of ecological thought on contemporary art and writing
Documents: Poetry and the Anthropocene
Read the introduction to Sam Solnick's book on how poets have responded to ecological crisis
Screen: Oliver Laric, 'Betweenness'
An exclusive online screening of Oliver Laric's short animated video
Interview: Oliver Laric
The Berlin-based artist on authenticity, narrative and uncertainty in his work
Talk: On nature and culture
Wendy Wheeler sits down with Modern Forms to discuss biology, complexity and creativity in the first of a series of talks
Essay: A Brief History of Complexity
In this short introductory essay, cultural theorist Wendy Wheeler introduces the themes of complexity, feedback and emergence
Documents: Introduction to Tidalectics
Stefanie Hessler introduces the concept of 'tidalectics' as a new way of figuring our relationship to the world.
Archive: Pierre Huyghe
From the ArtReview archive, Christopher Mooney profiles an early proponent of the themes explored in this collaboration