Opening today, Kinetica Art Fair, brings together galleries, art organisations and curatorial groups who focus on kinetic, time-based and multi-disciplinary new media art, science and technology.

Taryn Simon’s latest project, The Pictures Collection, has recently opened at Gagosian. The crux of her practice is in the research and data gathering that goes on behind the scenes in her photographs.

Opening 8 March and running until 7 April, Derby plays host to the FORMAT International Photography Festival. Now in its 6th edition, FORMAT embarks on its biggest event yet.

A Fake Moon rises over College Green, Bristol and invites you to pause and contemplate the passage of time: drawing a slightly stilted, yet wonderfully poetical arc across a Valentine’s Evening sky.

As a 2 month retrospective of Polanski’s films continues to play out on screens at BFI throughout February, the real gem of this event takes place in a modest space in the atrium of the Film Institute.

We spend some time speaking to the shortlisted Aesthetica Art Prize artist Sara Brannan. Using films as found objects, they are re-edited into short videos focusing on the female lead character.

Mark Doyle heads up the Northern division of the Contemporary Art Society. Doyle and his team ran a unique event entitled Art in the Home featuring works from two commercial galleries.

This year’s Summer Exhibition at The RA will explore a range of printmaking practices with an emphasis placed on works of a moderate size, and will return to its home in the Small Weston Room.

The UK premiere of Donald Weber’s Interrogations arrives at White Cloth Gallery, Leeds this week. This stark series, explores the violence, fear, and power in Post-Soviet Ukraine and Russia.

International artwork will be showcased in York this March as the Aesthetica Art Prize launches its first major exhibition. The Prize is a platform for contemporary artists from across the world.

In this latest showcasing of his work, the London-based photographer Jason Oddy, continues to explore his interest in the relationship between man and his built environment. From 2 February.

The Scottish Dance Theatre heads to London to present two premieres this March. The company will perform two new works by choreographers, Victor Quijada and Jo Strømgren.

The Bride and the Bachelors: Duchamp with Cage, Cunningham, Rauschenberg and Johns has opened at the Barbican. The show explores Marcel Duchamp’s footprint on contemporary American art.

Schwitters in Britain is a compelling show because it charts the artist’s interest in ephemera, as well as the investigations of figuration and abstraction, painting and assemblage that preoccupied his work.

Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos displays an eclectic mix of the artist’s works, influences and connected pieces. She has chosen to show her largest retrospective as a museum-like collection.

This March, Haunch of Venison presents an exhibition by internationally renowned landscape photographer Thomas Joshua Cooper. The artist has been capturing landscapes for over 30 years.

The highly anticipated Light Show has opened to the public at the Hayward Gallery. The exhibition sees some of the finest works of light art illuminate the gallery in an exuberant manner.

Now open at the BALTIC, Gateshead, David Jablonowski presents Tools and Orientations. Running until 2 June, this is the first solo exhibition by the German artist in a public gallery in the UK.

The Dark Rooms is an exciting project by Newlyn-based curator and artist Jesse Leroy Smith that took place in the near derelict Passmore Edwards School of Science and Art building in Helston.

We spend some time with longlisted artist Vasilisa Forbes. Vasilisa’s work focuses on humanity’s relationship with environments and technology. Her selected work is from The Hours series.

Poster Art 150 – London Underground’s Greatest Designs opens today at the London Transport Museum and will showcase 150 of the greatest Underground posters ever produced.

Pakpoom Silaphan presents his third solo show Empire State at Scream. Silaphanʼs practice examines notions of globalisation, consumerism and the universal reach of cultural icons across the world.

David Maljković comes to the BALTIC this March to present an overview of his large body of work. Sources in the Air includes his famous, Scene for New Heritage trilogy alongside early and recent pieces.

US band Tullycraft will release their new record Lost in Light Rotation this March. Aesthetica speaks to the band about the new album, their relationship with producer Phil Ek and their future plans.

Recently shortlisted for the Northern Art Prize, artist duo Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan’s current exhibition at Chapter in Cardiff continues the artists’ interest in the construction of meaning.

This video documents the installation of Richard Artschwager’s Blps on the High Line at Avenues, as well as the curator’s session with the students. Artschwager recently passed away at the age of 89.

Showing as part of an impressive spring programme, spread across Lisson’s two London locations, Mark Boulos’ No Permanent Address is an exhibition that deserves special recognition.

Studio XO is a revolutionary fashion label that pushes the boundaries between science and couture. Having designed for the likes of Lady Gaga, Studio XO experiment with wearable tech.

Evgeny Antufiev opens his solo exhibition, Exploring materials (full title Twelve, wood, dolphin, knife, bowl, mask, crystal, bones and marble – fusion. Exploring materials) this Sunday 17 February.

International artwork will be showcased in York this spring, as the Aesthetica Art Prize launches its first major exhibition. Works shortlisted from the Prize will be displayed in York St Mary’s.

Ronchini displays the work of Adeline De Monseignat and Berndnaut Smilde in The Uncanny curated by James Putnam. The show embodies the juxtaposition of opposing mediums and notions.

Paolo Coppolella presents an editorial in collaboration with artistic duo Simone Giara & Marta Modena. His .ZERO S/S 2013 Collection was presented at the Ningbo International Fashion Fair.

Feminist thought was prevalent throughout the early 1970s. In the men’s club of the art world, Birgit Jürgenssen, Ana Mendieta, and Hannah Wilke all developed a strong female voice.

Kiss Me Deadly is the title given to a new group exhibition that has recently opened at Paradise Row. The exhibition, organised over two floors, explores the themes and moods of the film noir genre.

Ffotogallery open Borderliners on 16 February, which is an exciting exhibition featuring two outstanding Lithuanian photographers: Aleksandras Macijauskas and Rimaldas Vikšraitis.

Munich’s commanding Haus der Kunst provided a suitably grand backdrop for the recent, admirably comprehensive survey of ECM Records’ trailblazing work over the past 44 years.

Canadian, Glasgow based artist Corin Sworn unveils her new exhibition The Rag Papers at the Chisenhale Gallery today. This will be Sworn’s largest and most ambitious exhibition to date.

Entering photographer Peter Fraser’s retrospective exhibition is like holding a magnifying glass up to everyday life. Like a Master painter, Fraser pays great attention to composition, colour and light.

We catch up with longlisted Art Prize photographer D. Bryon Darby, whose work investigates perceptions of place as mediated through technology, photography, and personal experience.

Since Rae’s 1991 Waddington Galleries show announced her as a distinctly postmodern abstract painter, it has been common to consider Rae’s work a delicate play between chaos and order.

Sudden Elevation will be relished both by admirers of Ólöf Arnalds’s crystalline voice, and by devotees of the Nordic modern-folk music associated with fellow Icelandic musicians Björk and Sigur Rós.

Marco Sanges shoots a cinematic world of dreams and drama. Exhibited worldwide, Sange’s clients include Agent Provocateur, Vogue, Sunday Telegraph, Photo, Katalog, Dolce&Gabbana and Eyemazing.

Andy Kaufman was one of those mercurial types that we commonly refer to as a ‘genius’. This is owing to his ability to realise, beyond human experience, a new way to practice his craft.

AFA of SoHo will present a collection of new paintings and sculpture by Joe Sorren. The Great Cantaloupe Day will also feature a retrospective of more than 30 graphics and three new releases.

Three new exhibitions have just opened at Margate’s seaside gallery, Turner Contemporary – Carl Andre: Mass and Matter, Rosa Barba: Subject To Constant Change and Turner: Turner’s Perspective.

AWOL Studios provide an artistic home for the burgeoning creative scene in Manchester. AWOL Studios is a cost effective space to an eclectic and diverse range of creative individuals.

British-born, Berlin-based artist Tacita Dean presents her new film project JG at the Arcadia University Art Gallery. JG is the sequel to FILM, Dean’s 2011 project for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall.

9 Intervals is about dialogue. Dialogue between juxtaposing images, presented on two screens playing in tandem across the walls of Mother’s Tankstation Gallery from 16 January.

Saatchi’s Gaiety is the Most Outstanding Feature of the Soviet Union is a broad anthology of Russia’s contemporary cultural offerings. Lightness, is an element scarcely present within this latest show.

Estrangement presents four emerging artists whose practices and nationalities choreograph a sly line between identity, economy, politics and video art history. With work by Samuel Williams.