Insight: ‘Portraits of a Mind’, an enticing tribute to Bitcoin’s history by Robert Alice
Myths have existed for as long as humanity has. We all love a great story, even better if it poses a great mystery. Portraits of…
Insight: ‘Habitate’, a material that mimics the biostructure of the ash tree’s bark
In 2015, the leading thinker and philosopher of science Donna Haraway wrote in Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene, Chthulucene: Making Kin, Who and whatever we are, we…
Biomedia, Digital Culture, News
Talk: Terrestrial University, ‘Prospecting Ocean’ with Armin Linke by ZKM
As part of the Terrestrial University lectures series by ZKM, photographer and filmmaker Armin Linke is joining Philipp Ziegler, head of the curatorial department at ZKM…
ART LABORATORY BERLIN, looking at the past, present, and future of interdisciplinary art
Much like the projects that Art Laboratory Berlin gravitates towards, the space itself defies any and all categorical boundaries traditionally upheld in the art world….
Exhibition: Ani Liu & NADA Miami 2020 at Elijah Wheat Showroom, New York
Artist Ani Liu is showing the installation A Search for Ghosts in the Meat Machine, set of nine sculptures examines personhood from anatomical, psychological, genetic,…
Festival: ‘The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish 4’ by the Serpentine Galleries
A fourth edition in the series The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish is taking place this weekend between 5-6 December 2020….
Online talk: Reweaving Ourselves, contemporary ecology through the ideas of Juan Downey
Reweaving Ourselves: Contemporary Ecology through the Ideas of Juan Downey is the second online conference organized by the Cisneros Institute at MoMA and conceived by guest…
AI & A.Life, Biomedia, Interviews
THIJS BIERSTEKER, integrating science with immersive art experiences that scrutinise human behaviour
Merging science and art to analyse our society’s complex interrelation with nature, ecoartist Thijs Biersteker presents Econtinuum (2020), a sensory installation which allows us to…
Insight: ‘THE CAMILLE DIARIES’, finding kin and ‘m/othering’ life
Donna Haraway introduces us to the Camilles in the final chapter of “Staying with the Trouble” as “one of the children of the compost who…
Exhibition: ‘Hotel Symbiogenesis’ by Designmatter X Hypothetical Studios
Hotel Symbiogenesis unfolds a story of an island in the near-apocalyptic future, in which various animal species, including humans, coexist symbiotically. In a speculative hotel room,…
Insight: ‘Macht Natur- Farming The Uncanny Valley’
Human hands have been radically transforming the natural world through the use of technology and machines. Over time, our relationship with the environment has been…
Exhibition: ‘And Say the Animal Responded?’ At FACT Liverpool
After the pandemic standstill, FACT Liverpool have been able to jumpstart their physical exhibition programme with a show aiming once more to make us reflect…
Insight: on Pei-Ying Lin’s “Virophilia”
The coronavirus pandemic has led to a radical global shift in the ways in which humans articulate their relationship with viruses. While the impact of…
Biomedia, Contributors, Op & Ed
‘Marianna Simnett: Contagion and Monstrous Politics’ by Eleanor Wakeford
You and I, who are looking ahead to the future monster. We talk about synthetic reproduction. You say that it shouldn’t be called reproduction but…
Biomedia, Contributors, Op & Ed
‘Marianna Simnett: Contagion and the Utopian Body’ by Eleanor Wakeford
Defying fantasies of control, corroding internal integrity, and ignoring the borders that define and defend identity, contagion is considered a threat to individual, national and…
In conversation: Vanessa Lorenzo and Debbie Ding on expanding the human ways of perceiving the world
The realm of contemporary art is vigorously growing and morphing. While all definitions of practices and institutional frameworks have shifted and blurred, contemporary art is…
Exhibition: ‘The Flavor Genome’ by Anicka Yi at Espace Louis Vuitton München
Espace Louis Vuitton is an exhibition place encouraging creation of new contemporary artworks in Tokyo, München, Venezia, Beijing and Seoul. Inaugurated in 2014 the Espace…
STEVE BISHOP, orchestrating the notions of everyday life
I came across Steve Bishop for the first time last year, when I visited his installation Deliquescing at KW Berlin which got under my skin…
Online events: Territorial Agency: Oceans in Transformation
Territorial Agency: Oceans in Transformation synthesises three years of intersectional research, investigating the transformations of the world’s oceans in the Anthropocene. Assessing the latest scientific…
Insight: Guy Ben-Ary, Nathan Thompson and Sebastian Diecke’s ‘Bricolage’
Guy Ben-Ary, Nathan Thompson, and Sebastian Diecke form the transdisciplinary collaborative team behind the work Bricolage. Bricolage debuted the 6th February 2020 at the Fremantle…