Thomas Kneubühler

ART SPEAKS | Shifting Horizons: A Conversation by Tina Rivers Ryan and Trevor Paglen YouTube video by ART SPEAKS

The moment Rafael Lozano-Hemmer @errafael.bsky.social is asking a question during the talk between Trevor Paglen and Tina Rivers Rayan in #Montreal: Is there too much #digitalArt? Yeah, but have ever been at an art fair? 😅
youtu.be/hcaeqqpZctE?... @tinariversryan.bsky.social
@paglen.studio

I guess the big benefit is that sometimes you don’t know at the beginning of a month if it is worth buying the monthly pass.

What Is Post-AI Art? Avery Singer, Simon Denny, Holly Herndon, Mat Dryhurst and Jon Rafman discuss – with the help of a generated AI – what the future holds

And now we talk already about Post-AI Art: artreview.com/what-is-post...

Some good news in Cananda, and a surprising gender gap:

Also not sure why the preview shows characters in Chinese (?). The talk is in English

Of Boys and Men by Richard Reeves review – the descent of man A thoughtful analysis of alarming evidence of a male malaise avoids the culture wars, arguing for structural and societal change

And here the book: www.theguardian.com/books/2022/o...

理查德·里夫斯: 如何解决男孩和男性的教育危机？ 在研究不平等和社会流动性时，理查德·里夫斯发现了一个令人惊讶的事实：在一些国家，如美国和英国，男孩在许多学术评估中远远落后于女孩。他解释了为什么学校中的这些挣扎反映出男孩和男性所面临的更大危机，并概述了社会如何深思熟虑地应对这些挑战，以期朝着更具包容性、公平性的未来前进。（之后是与TED主管克里斯·安德森的问答环节）

Just finished the book by Richard V. Reeves. And for those who think this is not important: Look who brought Trump and his friends into power:
www.ted.com/talks/richar...

I am running again up Mt. Royal, straight from my house. This after a break of almost 5 years, due to a not properly diagnosed knee injury. It took a Swiss rheumatologist to figure out what's going on, and to put me back on track .
I am still running at a moderate pace, but slowly building up 😊

How one deal led to the biggest project in Quebec history — but left a conflicted legacy When the province wanted to build one of the world’s largest hydroelectric projects, a court challenge by Cree and Inuit leaders led to the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement, a deal which has ch...

It's like they dropped a big bomb on Northern #Quebec 50 years ago:
www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

'A real institution': Old Montreal camera shop Photo Service to close after 89 years “We were the pro store for photography," says owner Jean-Charles Savard, who has received over 100 emails since announcing the news.

The Gazette talks to Photo Service's president about the decision to close the camera shop montrealgazette.com/business/loc...

I am in shock - these were always the best in town!

And if you can't get behind the paywall, here the pdf version: drive.google.com/file/d/14QVK...

Sobey Art Award loses focus after dropping under-40 requirement This Saturday night, it’s anybody’s guess who might win Canada’s largest visual art prize – or why

Kate Taylor's take on the #SobeyArtAward: "If only the Sobey Art Award, lost in a thicket of representational issues, could tell us what it was celebrating."
www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/art-...

One thing the article does not mention regarding "temporary workers": You make people come to do low wage jobs, but don't give them only few rights.

How Canada got immigration right for so long – and then got it very, very wrong Canadian immigration was stable, popular and uncontroversial. But a series of changes after 2015 broke the national consensus, and the system

Good overview about the big change to Canada's #immigration system since 2015, most of it I was not aware of:
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

A Study Says High Family Income Significantly Increases Likelihood of Becoming an Artist After studying US census data since 1850, an economist says that with every $10,000 in total family income, a person is about 2% more likely to go into a creative occupation.

And also this:
hyperallergic.com/497270/econo...

Know Your Place Dan Fox explores the complication of class in the art world

I am still surprised that classism is so rarely brought up as an issues in the art world: ""Class in the arts is a question of upbringing, confidence, inclusion and exclusion. Not everybody is brought up feeling that museums are places in which they belong."
www.frieze.com/article/know...

Thomas Kneubühler, The Dividing Line – Sophie Mangado – Ciel variable Magazine The Dividing Line by Sophie Mangado Optica - Centre d’art contemporain, Montréal 17.01.2025 — 29.03.2025 Thomas Kneubühler, a Swiss-born photographer and

Ciel Varialble #130 is out - with a review by Sophie Mangado of my exhibition The Dividing Line:
cielvariable.ca/en/issues/th...

Cyclists lie in Montreal intersection after deadly collision between truck and bike | CBC News The demonstration comes after a 31-year-old woman was killed in a collision with a truck while riding her bike in Montreal's Plateau-Mont-Royal borough on Sunday.

Yesterday evening at my street corner in the #MileEnd:
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

IN HELL WITH IVO /official trailer/ YouTube video by Ivo Dimchev

In Hell With Ivo. Hope it will screen one day near me 😊

youtu.be/DXfk0VWxgGs

🧵Excellent piece "They appear to have inverted the promise of the internet as an endless archive of information one can navigate for themselves. Do your own research has, in short order, become Get one canonical answer."

This helps explain why Trump/Vance have gone all in on AI...

Cities reachable by train from Vienna in under 10 hours

Civilization, visualized

Positively mesmerizing: www.chronotrains.com/en/explore/2...

In Brazil, the free and instant mobile payment system Pix challenges US dominance Launched by the Central Bank of Brazil, this system is now used more than credit cards and cash. Its popularity is so great that WhatsApp had to abandon a payment system it wanted to launch locally.

Barzil has #Pix, Switzerland has #Twint When does Canada and the rest of the world get a payment system that challenges credit card companies with their abusive fees?
www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/a...

Welcome to Montreal!
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A reporter's farewell to an endlessly surprising US Especially in the Trump era, people often think of the US in terms of black and white, either demonizing or idealizing it. But, in fact, the country is hugely diverse, complex and contradictory, write...

Thanks David Signer for your work.
www.nzz.ch/english/the-...
@nzz.ch #America

Canadian forest fires trigger unhealthy air warnings in Switzerland The smoke from Canada is causing poor air quality in Switzerland. Some measuring stations recorded values on Wednesday that are considered unhealthy.

Smoke which last weekend covered #Montreal arrived now in #Switzerland:
www.swissinfo.ch/eng/various/...

HELL HELLER NOW
Vernissage in #Basel at 6pm.
Join us!

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Our Inuit friend Lucy Tulugarjuk got a role in Mission Impossible - so much fun to see all of a sudden a familiar face on the big IMAX screen:
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Watch: Swiss Glacier Collapses, Destroying Mountain Village | WSJ News YouTube video by WSJ News

Want to see how it looks like when a glacier in the Swiss Alps crashes down into a valley?

Like in the arctic, the temperature in the Alps has risen much more then the global average, compared to pre-industrial levels by 3 °C.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yisd...

If you missed my exhibition «The Dividing Line» at Optica in Montreal, the project is now online:
thomaskneubuhler.com/projects/11
#Border #Bulgaria