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Attempt to be alive 

: What happens to art in a contemporary without permanence, where everyone is left to a floating, infinite space? 
Alexander Carnera -

The ethical value of literature

: Literature and art can help us out of anger and frustration and towards a greater understanding, says Martha Nussbaum. 
Kjetil Røed -

Drone Dilla

: Civil society must take ownership of drone technology, says Anders Eiebakke, currently with the exhibition The drones are coming! 
Simen Joachim Helsvig -

Mathematical art

: In the art market, originality and uniqueness are an artist's foremost capital. But what happens when an algorithm can calculate these properties better than the artist himself? 
Simen Joachim Helsvig -

The manifesto as an art form

: The film installation Manifesto, which is shown at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin these days, addresses some of the many paradoxes that cling to the manifesto genre – both in its political and artistic formations. 
Simen Joachim Helsvig -

Great moments of imperfection

: Guttorm Nordø stages our experience of being in the world – as if we had just arrived at it.
Erland Kiøsterud -
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