As part of the SHOWstudio Shop exhibition The Café, over Autumn 2011 Café Conversations invites a selection of the most intriguing, exciting and influential movers-and-shakers in the fashion and art world to pull up a chair for coffee and conversation. The unusual aspect? The entire process is streamed live to a worldwide audience in the living online and offline art installation.

Filmed just yesterday morning, our latest Café Conversation between celebrated milliner Stephen Jones and leading London fashion designer Mary Katrantzou is now live on-site, with more to come very soon.

As part of her Monster Ball world tour in 2009, Lady Gaga asked Nick Knight and Ruth Hogben to create a number of films to use as part of her on-stage performance and as interludes in the epic show. Building film into the architectonic feeling of the Monster Ball tour, these films explore notions of fame, iconicism and life in an evolving metropolis, unveiled each night on stage during Gaga's truly monster 201-date tour. 

The first four Monster Ball films are now live on site - stay tuned to SHOWstudio for the next instalment, as more films from Lady Gaga's Monster Ball will be released very soon.

Menu, an artistic portrayal of poured coffee on paper, depicts a captured memory of sight through the representation of a café menu. Stephen Lapthisophon, a practising artist who is legally blind, uses his work to over-emphasise the sense of sight in aesthetic culture. By accumulating and collecting layers of meaning and associations, Lapthisophon provides a visualisation of his personal interpretations. His blindness is used as figure for the ways in which we see the world through our own specific framing mechanisms. Combining coffee with more traditional art mediums such as ink and gesso, the artist is able to examine the interaction of our internal sensory processes.