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The editor of Interface is Rosemary Shirley who is an artist and AIR member.
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With What's on and Reviews unedited, our platform for critical writing, Interface is a focal point around the presentation of contemporary art. Reviewer index and Venue index offer an alternate view on our archive of reviews and signpost writers and venues. Using Interface »

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Nigerian born artist Leo Asemota’s The Ens Project is a body of work informed by three key historical and critical influences... read Charlotte A Morgans review Read on »

Tom Hackett visits Rashid Rana's show Everything happens at once. 
The problem with so much digitally generated art is that its technological ‘cleverness’ can dominate and eclipse the poetic potential and artistry of the artist  Read on »

'Soon all your neighbours will be artists'.  Courtesy: An Endless Supply. Published by Extra Special People at Eastside Projects with Aid & Abet, Spike Associates and WARP, 2011.

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'Told you it was well sign posted', 28/11/2011. Photo: The Long Labb.

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Greg Girard, 'House on Huashan Lu, North View, Lane 322, Huashan Lu,', 2005. Courtesy: the artist and Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver/Toronto.

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Special articles archive

, ‘John Cage and David Tudor, c 1960s’. Photo: Unknown. Courtesy: John Cage Trust.

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Alex Hetherington on the San Francisco art scene, Feb 2009 Read on »

Lucinda Holmes on moving herself and her practice to China, Jan 2009 Read on »

Alexandria Clark on Open Dialogues at New Life, Berlin, July 2008 Read on »

Cathy Lomax’s Whitstable biennale blog, June 2008 Read on »

Kristina Johansen’s GI Festival diary, Glasgow, April 2008
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Davy Smith ‘Broadcasting loud and clear’, AV Festival, North East, March 2008 Read on »

Micheal O’Connell ‘Imperfect things’, Transmedial, Berlin, February 2008 Read on »

Theo Wood, on Emergency3, Portsmouth, Dec 2007 Read on »

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In Numbers - ICA Student Forum In Conversation with Phil Aarons

In Numbers - ICA Student Forum In Conversation with Phil Aarons

By Deborah Herring

    In Numbers: ICA Student Forum In Conversation with Phil Aarons     In Numbers: Serial Publications by Artists Since 1955 is an exhibition that draws from Phil Aaron’s extraordinary collection of zines and Read on »

South Square Gallery

South Square Gallery

The gallery becomes a project space for work in progress by the next generation of critically engaged artists.MA students of Bradford School of Art and Media, in collaboration with South Square Gallery, pause to take stock of their work in Read on »

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