Anthony Lister

26-year-old Brisbane artist Anthony Lister takes the edgiest elements of contemporary pop culture and marries them with unstructured representations of his urban environment to create artworks which are surreal in their imagery but strangely familiar in terms of their thematic base. After graduating from the Queensland College of The Art in 2001, Lister did a mentorship under Max Grimblett in New York and has since …

Stua Stories

Stua drafted the video artist Javier Guerrero to create a series of short film installations that evoke the mood and tone of Stua’s designs. The six stories, designed to run on four screens simultaneously, are open narratives that range from a diver’s decision (“The Choice,” pictured) to the suspenseful roadside burial of a corpse, aptly titled “Hitchcock revisited.” Premiering at last year’s Milan furniture fair, …

Niklas Roy: Dokumat 500

Niklas Roy is a German artist with engineering skills, a quirky sense of humor and an interest in robotics. Dokumat 500 is creation he completed last year—it's a fully automatic documentary robot. The camera is mounted on a tripod on powered wheels and has servo motors that control the pan and tilt of the camera. The 'brain' of the unit arbitrarily (algorithmically, actually) decides when …