Pio Abad, Leslie Kulesh, Myles Painter and Samara Scott have been tipped for success once again Dazed partners with Converse and the Whitechapel Gallery for the Emerging Artists Award, a platform for emerging unrepresented artists under 35. Judges including Jeremy Deller and the Times Arts’ Nancy Durrant have chosen the four shortlisted.

The food revolution currently sweeping London has brought with it a surge of happenings that cleverly combine food with art, design and experience. What most appeals about this renaissance is the amalgamation of creative disciplines with something that almost everyone loves – to fill their belly!

Over the past 5 years London-based art organisation Auto Italia South East have created ground-breaking new formats using live and media arts. Often their projects engage an audience in the here and now; from the entranced crowds at ‘Yes Way’, a festival in collaboration with the music promoters Upset the Rhythm, to the studio-audiences who feature in their artist-run TV series, Auto Italia Live.

Frieze New York, the inaugural edition, launched its four-day art extravaganza on May 6th in a space bordered by East Harlem, the South Bronx, and Queens on Randall’s Island—hosting international works from over 180 galleries. Walking through the long white tents, spectators admired contemporary art from all over the world: Berlin and Paris, Dubai, Sao Paolo, London and L.A., to name a few.

We continue our Art Catlin 2012 interview series with Max Dovey, a Wimbledon graduate who has been making waves across the new art scene with his live interactive performances commenting on the topical and the technological- everything from Web 2.0 to the stock market. He tells us about his new work for Catlin Art Prize, which elevates the importance of the digital switchover into a historical landmark event.