Speculative Realities (Blowup Reader 6)

This eBook, the sixth in the se­ries of Blowup Read­ers re­leased by V2_, ex­plores the sig­nif­icance of the re­cent philo­soph­ic move­ments known as Ob­ject-​Ori­ent­ed On­tol­ogy and Spec­ula­tive Re­al­ism for the vi­su­al and me­dia arts. The ebook was edited in connection to the Speculative Realities exhibition.

Two artists and one col­lab­ora­tive duo were com­mis­sioned to make new art­works re­flect­ing broad­ly on con­cepts with­in Ob­ject-​Ori­ent­ed On­tol­ogy and Spec­ula­tive Re­al­ism. The artists were Tu­ur van Balen & Re­vi­tal Co­hen, Cheryl Field, and Karoli­na Sobec­ka.

To sup­ple­ment the de­scrip­tions of the works and brief in­ter­views with the artists in this eBook, three new in­ter­views were com­mis­sioned. Sven Lüttick­en was in­ter­viewed by Rachel O’Reil­ly, Jus­si Parik­ka was in­ter­viewed by Michael Di­eter, and Rick Dol­phi­jn was in­ter­viewed by Michelle Kasprzak.

The ex­hi­bi­tion took place from De­cem­ber 8, 2012 un­til Jan­uary 11, 2013 at Rood­kap­je, Meent 133, Rot­ter­dam.

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Contents

THE EX­HI­BI­TION

1. In­tro­duc­tion & Cu­ra­to­ri­al State­ment by Michelle Kasprzak

2. Blowup: Spec­ula­tive Re­al­ities – Con­cept, list of works and de­scrip­tions

IN­TER­VIEWS

3. In­ter­view with the com­mis­sioned artists by Michelle Kasprzak

4. New Ma­te­ri­al­ism and Non-​Hu­man­isa­tion, Jus­si Parik­ka in­ter­viewed by Michael Di­eter

5. The Tech­niques of Ex­is­tence, Un­fore­seen, Rick Dol­phi­jn in­ter­viewed by Michelle Kasprzak

6. Art His­to­ry’s Ob­jects, Sven Lüttick­en in­ter­viewed by Rachel O’Reil­ly

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Jan­uary 2013, Rot­ter­dam. Copy­right of the texts re­sides with the au­thors.

Blowup is a se­ries of events and ex­hi­bi­tions that ex­plore con­tem­po­rary ques­tions from mul­ti­ple view­points. Blowup zooms in on ideas, bring­ing in­to fo­cus clear pic­tures of how art, de­sign, phi­los­ophy, and tech­nol­ogy are trans­form­ing our lives – or re­in­forc­ing the sta­tus quo.

Blowup is cu­rat­ed by Michelle Kasprzak.

Blowup de­sign by Ar­jen de Jong (Buro Du­plex).

Pho­tographs by Jan Nass.

Con­tri­bu­tions by Co­hen Van Balen, Michael Di­eter, Rick Dol­phi­jn, Cheryl Field, Michelle Kasprzak, Sven Lüttick­en, Rachel O’Reil­ly, Jus­si Parik­ka, Karoli­na Sobec­ka.