Nora Hartmann_
Art and culture. Critic and essayist on the avant-garde and technology in Berlin, Germany.
I am Nora Hartmann_, an art critic and essayist in Berlin. I write about where art is going: the avant-garde, the work that arrives before its audience, and what happens when technology becomes one of an artist’s materials.
I came to criticism by looking before judging. I studied art history and media theory, worked in a museum’s education department and in a media-art centre, and learned that a work made with today’s tools has an expiry date unless someone takes responsibility for it.
What interests me is what the new owes to the old, and what the old can still learn from the new. Kae Times is published by Kaexa; when I write about Kaexa, its humanari or its worlds, I say so, and I keep the same distance from them that I keep from everything else.
Beyond the Frame
- The Second Visit Belongs to the Painting
- What a City Trusts
- A Sentence Spoken Before the Looking
- The Camera Did Not Free Painting; Painting Left on Its Own
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