To open a new film from Art21, artist Lenka Clayton encapsulates her way of thinking and making: “Looking at things that are supposed to behave a certain way and purposefully misunderstanding how they should be used, it’s really important to me,” she says.

The Cornwall-born artist works across media, creating both meditative animations via typewriter and immersive installations of gathered artifacts. Collecting is central to Clayton’s practice both materially and conceptually, and she often works from her own experiences, particularly those around becoming a parent and her life in Pittsburgh (she even started an open-source residency program for artist mothers).

In the short documentary, we see Clayton’s culinary installation of colorful tongs hung in a grid on her studio wall alongside a project completed when her son was a baby. Each time she retrieved a spool of thread, button, acorn, bottle cap, or myriad other object from her child’s mouth, she documented the tiny finding and created an enormous, photographic grid that speaks to the care required to protect young life.

“There is only connection in life,” she says, “and my work is just looking at those connections, so that we can create a shared experience.”

This segment is part of Art21’s Human Nature episode, alongside Colombian artist Delcy Morelos, and both are available for viewing on Art21’s website. Find more from Clayton on Instagram.

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AMSTERDAM (ANP/BLOOMBERG) - De stroomprijs in Nederland stijgt woensdagavond naar verwachting tot het hoogste niveau in jaren, blijkt uit gegevens van handelsplatform Epex Spot. Ook in andere Europese landen stijgt de stroomprijs door een recordvraag naar koeling vanwege de hoge temperaturen.

Op de groothandelsmarkt voor elektriciteit moet woensdagavond om 20.45 uur 902,47 euro worden betaald voor een megawattuur. Dat is de hoogste prijs in jaren, zegt een woordvoerder van Epex Spot. In mei van 2007 was de prijs voor een megawattuur 950 euro.

De Europese stroomprijzen lopen op door de aanhoudende hitte. In Frankrijk bereikten de tarieven het hoogste niveau sinds 2022 en in Duitsland steeg het tot het hoogste punt in twee jaar. In België kwam de prijs van een megawattuur boven de 1000 euro uit en dat was sinds 2020 niet meer gebeurd.

Naast de hoge vraag naar koeling in de avonduren speelt ook mee dat de Europese stroomvoorziening onder druk staat. Dat is het gevolg van een zwakke windopbrengst en beperkingen bij enkele Franse kerncentrales.

DE BILT (ANP) - Het KNMI verwacht dat de nacht van donderdag op vrijdag de warmste wordt die ooit in Nederland is gemeten. Het weerinstituut gaat ervan uit dat de temperatuur in De Bilt dan niet onder de 24 graden zal zakken.

Het huidige record is bereikt op 27 juli 2018, toen de temperatuur 's nachts ook ruim boven de 20 graden bleef.

In De Bilt wordt de landelijke temperatuur gemeten, maar lokaal gaat het in de nacht naar vrijdag nog wel warmer worden. In Beek in Zuid-Limburg verwacht het KNMI dat de temperatuur dik 25 graden blijft. Ook dat zal een record zijn, want het huidige is 24,4 graden. Ook dat werd op 27 juli 2018 gemeten, in het Gelderse Deelen.

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Op meerdere plekken in de regio was het dinsdag filerijden in de avondspits. Zo was er op de A16 vertraging door een ongeluk bij knooppunt Ridderkerk, maar de langste file stond op de A20 tussen Rotterdam en Gouda. Daar liep de vertraging op tot een dik uur.

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Rocket Lab has just completed one of the most rapid space launches ever, kicking off a complicated exercise that will test the US Space Force’s ability to respond to and characterize potential threats in orbit. The Victus Haze mission, as the project is known, saw Rocket Lab lob one of its Pioneer spacecraft into orbit for the Space Force on June 19 in just 16 hours and 42 minutes, beating the notice-to-launch record set during the 2023 Victus Nox tactically responsive space mission (TacRS) by more than 10 hours. In addition to the rapid launch, Rocket Lab also managed to fully ready its Pioneer spacecraft being used for the exercise in just 37 hours and 36 minutes, well in advance of Victus Haze’s 72-hour commissioning deadline. With Pioneer now in orbit, the next phase of Victus Haze is set to begin. “The mission will now transition into an on-orbit focus placing operationally relevant systems through realistic rendezvous and proximity operations (RPO) threat response scenarios,” the US Space Force said in its own announcement of the Rocket Lab launch. Pioneer won’t be flying RPO maneuvers on its own, though. Rocket Lab may be playing the part of the Space Force’s rapid launch partner for Victus Haze, but space defense company True Anomaly already has one of its Jackal satellites in orbit. Jackal, which was launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in May, will be playing the role of a “non-compliant satellite” that Pioneer will have to rendezvous with and characterize, demonstrating the ability for both craft to maneuver around each other, take photographs for analysts to pick apart, and track each other as if they were hostile targets the USSF wanted to monitor. As noted by True Anomaly, Victus Haze marks a departure from Victus Nox, which only involved a single spacecraft and focused on uncontested orbital operations. “VICTUS HAZE encompasses the full scope of TacRS operations: rapid launch and initialization, followed by operationally relevant 1-on-1 RPO between Rocket Lab and True Anomaly spacecraft in low Earth orbit,” True Anomaly said in its own announcement of the Victus Haze mission. Those one-on-one maneuvers the two satellites will undertake will help develop tactics, techniques, and procedures for future space operations, True Anomaly explained, as well as determining what sort of equipment the Space Force might want to consider for its TacRS spacecraft. The mission marks the second of the USSF’s planned annual tactical space missions, a pace that has already slipped after no TacRS launch took place in 2025. Victus Nox, the first full-fledged TacRS mission involving an actual space launch, launched in 2023 and concluded in 2024. Victus Haze’s notice-to-launch record comes a week after DARPA announced it was seeking concepts for rapid-launch space missions able to quickly replace space assets destroyed in an orbital conflict, again suggesting that star wars - or at least orbital ones - are rapidly looking inevitable. ®

Michael McNamara, voormalig advocaat en bekend als AI-man in Brussel, leidde de onderhandelingen over AI-wetgeving in Europa. Over de Europese positionering in de geopolitieke wedloop is hij kort: „Het is zeer complex”.