Edgar Schmitz is an artist working on politics of confusion and ambient attitudes. , lectures in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths' College, London, publishes in Kunstforum international and Texte zur Kunst, and curates for the 'Zamyn' think tank, London. Recent exhibitions include London Movies, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, and 'Liam Gillick: Edgar Schmitz', ICA, London. His new book Ambient Mode, on the poetics and politics of dispersed engagements' is forthcoming with Lukas & Sternberg, New York: Attitudes and confusion in dispersed engagements.