I am taking a stand with United Artists for Climate during COP30, a global campaign by contemporary artists committed to the environment for COP30 We want: To RAISE CLIMATE AMBITION To adopt the (TFFF) to protect forests To place CULTURE at the heart of climate action #UnitedArtistsForClimate

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Friends! Enemies! It's been a while since my last newsletter, and I would like to share my recent adventures, including a philosophy x art conference, an AR installation, and the acquisition of my audio work on vinyl, The Compositor/Composing, by the Middelheim Museum! mailchi.mp/4699e3ed14fe...

Tomorrow at 11h, Blunderen festival opens in Bunde, near Maastricht. I will give a talk and a workshop revolving around the Carboniferous era, and you can visit my AR installation (filmed below on The Plot, a regenerating little forest in The Netherlands). www.bonnefanten.nl/nl/agenda/bl...

Sunday, October 5th, my first ever augmented reality installation ‘opens’ as part of Blunderen festival, a coproduction of The Butterfly House and Bonnefanten museum Maastricht. An artistic information panel points to the browser-based work, Carbon Complex 👉www.carboncomplex.alexandracrouwers.com

In the EU? Please take a moment to sign this petition. Because what kind of species are we, allowing this ruthless planetary pillaging to continue? Destroying so many nonhuman cohabitants’ lives and habitats? We must be mad, right? act.greens-efa.eu/habitats?utm...

“AI is a lie” by @wesleygoatley.bsky.social www.idler.co.uk/article/the-... (read with a free account)

Hallo! This short text is written out of frustration with the misunderstandings about what it means to have a digital art practice in the context of the traditional arts. The situation is based on my observations in Belgium. Allow me to explain: www.linkedin.com/pulse/digita...

Some bronze age stops in our Sweden road trip up north: drawings that were ‘in use’ between 6,000 and 1,000 years ago - near the magnificent Flatruet (broken arrow points nearby suggest the drawings were shot at), and a beautiful stone ship (apprx. 4,000 years old) near Strömstad.

Meanwhile, in Cannes, a @tezos.com 5x5 projection with my Tools (v004) for @digitalcoleman.art ‘s curation. Filmed by @aleksandra.art - sent by @ganbrood.bsky.social Looks fantastic like this, yay!

Cancelled OpenAI subscription today. I explored it as an aid for my thesis for a year, but over the last six months it became increasingly difficult to work with: sometimes it was excellent, but often it just went off rail. & You don’t want that level of unpredictability in your military, right?

Preparing for a studio visit tomorrow AND the presentation of the virtual sculpture Tools (v004) at the Flemish Royal Academy for Science and the Arts in Brussels next week. I do seem to accumulate a lot of equipment, I noticed. I buy used mostly, and repurpose them for art. Artistic refurbishing!

Hive mind of the interwebs! Can anyone tell me something about this vessel I found in an Antwerp thrift shop? It looks old, but I can’t find similar shapes to compare. (I have a thing for old, basic pottery, so couldn’t resist taking this one home 😀) #pottery

Ecstasy & Orewoet Museum PARCUM, Belgium May 10 - November 9, 2025 Showing Fundamental Mechanics (2019-2020). With works by Marina Abramović, Jeremy Shaw, Emma Talbot, Sylvie Fleury, Laure Prouvost, melanie bonajo, Tianzhuo Chen, Bogomir Doringer, Dome Wood, Alyson Sillon and Alexandra Crouwers.

Opening May 9, and running until November 9: ‘Ecstacy & Orewoet’ at museum PARCUM in Leuven (BE), about the ‘unio mystica’ in contemporary art and historical religious art. www.abdijvanpark.be/en/exhibitio... With 👁️ @bogomirdoringer.bsky.social , @domewood.bsky.social , Laure Provost, and more 🪜

Kids! Podcast tip: I recently became mildly addicted to the @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social The Blindboy Podcast. Do yourself a favour; it’s the equivalent of a warm bath of associative thinking. Start with this one: podcasts.apple.com/be/podcast/t... You’ll become an expert in Irish mythologies 😀

☎️ The 2-frame gif ‘Emergency’ (2022) is part of the ‘Shifting Landscapes’ screening programme running April 4 - May 5 in Wintercircus, Ghent (BE). Curated by @dianedrubay.bsky.social with a.o. @memoakten.bsky.social @claudiabraileanu.bsky.social @kelly-richardson.bsky.social @cerensu.bsky.social

May 9 opens ‘Ecstasy & Oerewoet’ at museum PARCUM in Leuven (Belgium), a transhistorical exhibition on the search for ‘unio mystica’ in art. My phone-based ‘Fundamental Mechanics’ are in it! Next to Marina Abramovic, Laure Provost, Melanie Bonajo, and many others. On view until November.

I am so proud to have my virtual 3d sculpture ‘Tools (v003)’ be included in the Museum of Stone Tools, an initiative by prof. Mark Moore of the University of New England. The Contemporary Art category also includes a digitally sharpened chert by Dov Ganchrow. stonetoolsmuseum.com/artefact/eur...

Hey kids! Check out my totally revamped website! I tried to keep it as lean as possible, but could not resist turning the landing page into a circus, with all the browser-based fun and what not. It even has a little shop! Quick, go here: alexandracrouwers.com Let me know what you think.

Today ends the Hydromedia: Seeing with Water group show at the Museum of Technology (Technische Sammlungen) in Dresden. The exhibition includes my work ‘Nereda 2: a Hydromancy’ - which is also shown this weekend in London (see quoted posts). www.alexandracrouwers.com/nereda-2-a-h...

A quick update on recent and upcoming exhibitions, screenings and projects: both online and in physical spaces! 🥳 Do subscribe if you like the content - I make these irregularly, only 4-6 times a year or so. mailchi.mp/0443a1b7f937...

Had a talk on my work yesterday on Instagram live with @officeimpart.bsky.social ‘s Johanna Neuschäffer and @dianedrubay.bsky.social on the occasion of ‘Down the Silicon Meadow’ - on view until June on down-the-silicon-meadow.common.garden 15 minute interview 👇 www.instagram.com/reel/DHEGAk1...

Using this first Flashes post to announce an Instagram live interview happening tomorrow between me and Diane Drubay and Office Impart gallery (Berlin) on the occasion of our group show ‘Down the Silicon Meadow’! Tune in at 4PM CET (16h) and listen to me ramble about deep history.

🔔❕ Recommendation! ‘Det Digit’ (Netherlands, 1935-2024) was a pioneer in digital fabulation, traveling across the world (and to Mars) through messageboards and self-built websites. Working on the artworld’s sideline, her work was finally recognised with this survey: underbelly.nu/product/det-...

International women’s day and my mother’s 80th birthday 🥳 My mom who - started beekeeping aged 75 - has a wonderful ecological garden with native plants, trees and herbs - bakes the best pancakes - can crack a joke - tells stories about animals (especially squirrels) - loves to thriftshop ♥️🍀

Kids! Important news: NGMI, my experimental short animation (12 minutes, 2022) responding to post-pandemic sentiments is now public on YT: youtu.be/FQ-956YMVV0?... NGMI stands for 'not gonna make it'. The title song is an anthem for the end of the world as we know it. Audio on! Singalong!

One of the main issues with the lack of environmental action is caused by too many people in this region thinking that pollution and waste are developing countries’ problems, simply because our cities, gardens and highways look ‘clean’. Air quality in Antwerp today and yesterday: “horrible”.

Solidarity post! Code Red, combining activist movements of Belgium including Extinction Rebellion, is protesting at a Belgian dependance of Cargill, a US monstrosity of food production, food trade and greenwashing. Tomorrow, at 10AM at Mechelen train station: code-rouge.be/en/join-us/s...

Allow me to brag a little bit: my recent nft editions Tools v003 and v004 are doing surprisingly good in a so-called ‘bear market’ (crypto jargon can be cute) and with a minimum of shilling (yes, ‘shilling’ 😀). 👇 objkt.com/tokens/KT1QE... objkt.com/tokens/KT1Jh...

Now available: ‘Tools v004’ 🥳 for 60 Tez as part of @digitalcoleman.art x Cyberforms ‘5x5 EARTH’. Visit Tools: objkt.com/tokens/KT1Jh... Read what Chris writes about EARTH: objkt.com/collections/...

I curated a small show of work around the idea of EARTH with artists I deeply admire. objkt.com/collections/... With @rujunko.bsky.social @mrprudence.bsky.social @stusontier.bsky.social @acrwrs.bsky.social and Subnet

A World Reimagined (banned) - Chat GPT & Eliminated words by Executive Order 14151, “Ending Radical And Wasteful Government DEI Programs And Preferencing”.) Here’s a poem that incorporates all the words you provided:

Read our demands towards agribusiness. We want a food system that respects farmers, provides healthy food for everyone and does not harm the planet. 💚✊ 👉 Sign up for our action: tally.so/r/nGqEAz 🙌 👉 Read more about our story: code-rouge.be/nl/over-ons/... 💚

Stoked to have my film x audio work ‘Nereda 2: a Hydromancy’ at the Conjuring Creativity conference in London on March 15&16! Also on view at the Technische Sammlungen in Dresden until March 16. Below, the installation at Secondroom in Antwerp last year. Audio on! conjuringcreativity.org

👇 This is ‘Tools (v004)’, a .glb sculpture that is part of @digitalcoleman.art ‘s curation for ‘5x5 EARTH’. More info soon! (For these types of artworks, nfts are actually a good fit! I haven’t minted this much in years, though 😀). #3dscan #digitalart #tezos @objkt.com #stonetool #historyofthings

Exhibition view of my ‘Tools (v003)’ -shown as a videoloop instead of virtual sculpture- at Office Impart in Berlin, recently (photo: Marjorie Brunet Plaza). The .glb sculpture will be part of the online Museum of Stone Tools! More about that later: stonetoolsmuseum.com @dianedrubay.bsky.social

The AI summit opens this Monday in Paris. To protest against the visit of Elon Musk, and the increasing risks AI is forcing upon us by tech oligarchs, I did a series of large scale projections on the Grand Palais, the venue hosting the event. Video will be out tomorrow. 🎵 Stress (justice)

Hi kids, exciting news! It looks like my 72-part Gif animated series (and NFT hit 😀) Fundamental Mechanics will be part of a museum show in Belgium this Summer. Tagging holders of the entire series: @quasimondo.bsky.social @danielkantor.bsky.social See here! objkt.com/users/tz2AEv...

Since September 2019, most - if not all - of my practice takes place in the context of artistic doctoral research. I feel my work has become much more layered because of that. However, at the writing stage, I keep running into problems of unclear expectations, making me doubt the entire concept.

Sharing Rebecca Solnit’s frustration - while she’s referring largely to the shocking situation in the US, this also counts for people here in the EU when it comes to the inertia in tackling the real issues: climatological and ecosystem collapse (as opposed to blaming migration for everything).

It is wonderful to see so many artists and collectors adding "Tools v003" by @acrwrs.bsky.social to their dear collections 💙 This artwork is part of "Down the Silicon Meadow" exhibition at @officeimpart.bsky.social Editions are still available at 60 tez. Link below.

Curator: *slaps roof of exhibition proposal* This bad boy is so safe, it guarantees zero controversy, zero risk, and hits all the buzzwords. Packed with art stars with no political stance, it’ll have audiences yawning their way to the gift shop.

some rejected new yorker cartoon submissions

Last day in Stuttgart, another museum marathon. First 2 images: @lindenmuseum.bsky.social (thanks for the tip @msur.bsky.social ), last 2: Staatsgalerie. 1: Papua wooden figure, 2: Southeast Asian ceramic figure, 3: OMG the Triadisches Ballett costumes! 1922! 4: Always look at the animals in art.

In Stuttgart for a few days, am so impressed with the historic exhibitions here. Here some highlights from the Landesmuseum: a drain (I love ancient utensils), skeumorph pottery, a huge stone carving of possibly a druid (I made a 3d scan), and a self portrait with 40,000 year old carved lion heads!

Booth 37 at the Stuttgart Rare Books Fair of my favourite person’s Demian Books. One day I am attending a virtual opening with a new work available as an NFT, the next day I am at an antiquarian fair 🥳😀 (last image: natural history museum of Stuttgart ✨) #rarebooks #demianantwerp #stuttgart

Online openings are always a little chaotic, with their crashes, wifi issues, and audio lags: but that chaos only adds to their charm. Thanks @dianedrubay.bsky.social, Office Impart & all fellow artists! Video by @crosslucid.bsky.social Visit the exhibition ✨ down-the-silicon-meadow.common.garden

👇 at 6pm CET at down-the-silicon-meadow.common.garden Make up any username you want, hope to ‘meet’ you there! 🥳 @dianedrubay.bsky.social

Hi peeps! Quick reminder to tune in later today for the online opening of ‘Down the Silicon Meadow’, featuring my new work ‘Tools (v003)’, an interactive glb (virtual sculpture) that is collectable through the platform of #objktcom