Biomedia, Interviews, Scout & Trends
TH3MAX, and the aestheticization of pain
In the world of all kinds of alienations, in the world of spectacles, where “everything that was directly lived is now merely represented in…
Biodesign, Interviews, Scout & Trends
ALICE POTTS, ways to use sweat to create accessories
In the past couple of years the discipline of material innovation has seen an increasing number of interdisciplinary collaborations which are producing new exciting…
AI & A.Life, Interviews, Scout & Trends
ANTOINE CATALA, using complex technology to articulate human emotions
Perusing Antoine Catala’s website you gain a sense of his slightly tongue in cheek approach to digital media. Browsing his site is a process analogous…
Interviews, Scout & Trends, Sound Art
ANDREA TAEGGI, the sculptural potential of the sonic
Andrea Taeggi, the Italian-born and Berlin-based music producer, often categorized under the labels of experimental ambient, techno or minimalist, through his practice explores the…
Biodesign, Interviews, Scout & Trends
CHRISTINA HAXHOLM, exploring ideological forecasts for the future
Over the last couple of years, the fashion and textile industry has taken a great interest in the new possibilities that the biotechnology industry is…
Interviews, Scout & Trends, Sound Art
THOMAS ANKERSMIT, exploring psychoacoustic properties of sound
Thomas Ankersmit is a musician and composer based in Berlin and Amsterdam. Working primarily through sound and installation, he produces complex and incredibly physical…
Computing Art, Interviews, Scout & Trends, Sound Art
WASSYL ABDOUN-TAMZALI, breaking cultural barriers with sound art
Wassyl Abdoun-Tamzali is the co-founder and artistic director of Phonetics festival, an itinerant music, art and technological festival. Born in Paris in 1987, he…
Interviews, Scout & Trends, Sound Art
MARIA W HORN, invoking the alternate
For the most part, time and space have been conceptualized in terms of their mathematical properties, like dimensions. The two are also the foundation…
Interviews, Scout & Trends, Sound Art
IPEK GORGUN, the sensibility of discerning humanness through sound
We have witnessed an increasing intersection of practices in the last couple of years and the music industry presents no exception to this phenomenon….
Interviews, Scout & Trends, Sound Art
STUART HYATT, documenting the poetic sounds of planet Earth
A soundscape is a collaboration between biotic and abiotic elements in a landscape: wind slicing through tree branches, river water churning through a floodgate,…
Computing Art, Interviews, Scout & Trends
VIRAJ JOSHI, ‘AirWire’: coding and hand gesture
“We often find the world of coding and electronics abstract and inaccessible.” This is a statement I am sure many would agree with. Even to…
Biodesign, Biomedia, Interviews, Scout & Trends
KLARA RAVAT, uniting the olfactory sensorial experience and cognition
Unlike other animals, humans have evolved to rely mostly on our sense of vision. Still, the sense of smell remained one of the most…
Contributors, Digital Culture, News, Scout & Trends, Sound Art
Event: TFT’s BLK PWDRS album launch at The Glove that Fits
This Thursday 27 September our digital producer Stephen MacLaughlin is launching a new solo musical project, TFT, with an evening of noisy dancefloor electronics to…
Architectures, Biodesign, News, Scout & Trends
Talk: ‘Blending the Digital and the Material: current trends in fashion, design and material innovation’ Soho House BCN
In 1995, Nicholas Negroponte predicted that “being digital” would have us entering a realm increasingly unconstrained by the materiality of the world he was…
Biodesign, News, Scout & Trends
Exhibition: ‘ARTEFACT FOOTWEAR, FUTURES’ at London Design Festival 2018
Every September London Design Festival takes over London with a nine-day celebration, comprising of over 400 different events, exhibitions and installations. Established in 2003,…
Computing Art, Interviews, Scout & Trends
MARTIN CALVINO, conveying scientific knowledge in artistic form
Martin Calvino is an artist with a scientific background who is “enthusiastic about placing himself in situations in which the artistic mind can surprise…
Exhibition: A glitch in the Stars-Space Exploration Initiative at Ars Electronica
In a few days, on September 6th, the annual Ars Electronica festival in Linz, Austria will once again open its doors to artists, scientists,…
Biomedia, Computing Art, Interviews, Scout & Trends
GREG ORROM SWAN, A Measure of Minerality
When Greg Orrom Swan muses that he is “absorbed by the minutiae of the everyday,” he captures succinctly the question that this magazine has…
Body Sculptures, Interviews, Scout & Trends
OLEG DOU, a concatenation of bodily possibilities
Oleg Dou’s photographs and sculptures are often described as grotesque and repulsive, but the unsettling nature of his heavily edited photographic portraits derives from…
Interviews, Robotics & Kinetics, Scout & Trends, Sónar
NICOLE L’HUILLIER, playing music in zero gravity conditions
One week after receiving a degree in architecture with maximum distinction from the University of Chile, in search of novel creative inspiration, Nicole L’Huillier…