Biomedia, Computing Art, Interviews
HELEEN BLANKEN, and the aestheticization of nature
Nature and culture were for centuries regarded as opposites and held as separate spheres. Within the last century, this view slowly shattered and shifted to…
Lecture performance: ‘Sounds Too Many’ by Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza
In the framework of TBA21-Academy, Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza is giving her lecture-performance Sounds Too Many. The performance puts the ocean at centre stage at a time when sound…
Performance: CRYSTAL/the mental body of menthol
SAVE lab is an art-science laboratory located at Moscow State University in a basement that in the past was a bomb shelter. Julia Borovaya, one…
Biofabricate, Biomedia, Op & Ed
Maurizio Montalti and MOGU, bringing the biotechnological revolution, by Živa Brglez
Transdisciplinary, research, creativity, collaboration, bio-… there are just some of the keywords that pop-up very often, maybe too often, when we are talking about contemporary…
Exhibition: ‘SPARE PARTS’ at London Science Gallery
The SPARE PARTS exhibition at the Science Gallery London is now open and will run until the 12 May 2019. As traditional for the gallery,…
Biomedia, Curators, Interviews
MARKUS REYMANN, new artistic horizons for our seas and oceans
From the 10,000 meter deep Tonga Trench and the threatened coral reefs of Jamaica to the coastal city of Kochi, India and the famously water-crossed…
Biomedia, Body Sculptures, Interviews
FELIPE OSORNIO, linking art to the body, disease, and death
Firstly born in Querétaro, Mexico in 1991 and reborn again in 2017, Felipe Osornio is the only performance artist with three kidneys. Working under the…
Biomedia, Interviews, Thinkers
MARIO SAVINI, enriching the bio-ethical debate in the field of biomedia
Mario Savini (PhD, University of Teramo) is an independent scholar, art critic and journalist interested in art, science and new technologies. Until 2009 he directed…
Biomedia, Interviews, Series, STATE Studio
EMILIA TIKKA, storytelling in synthetic biology
Emilia Tikka’s speculative take on the genetic manipulation of ageing takes us to a rustic future, where a couple embrace– one symbolising the seemingly inevitable…
Exhibition: ‘La fabrique du Vivant’, Centre Pompidou Paris
This week there’s a new exciting exhibition opening at Centre Pompidou in Paris. Always at the forefront of contemporary art, the French institution is bringing…
PAZ TORNERO, thinking through juxtapositions
Since roughly the middle of the 20th century, the concept of creativity has been popularly viewed as constitutive part of both art and science. Inasmuch…
Biomedia, Interviews, Scout & Trends
ŠPELA PETRIČ, relaying between humans and plants
A basic belief, embedded in many, if not all, Western religions and philosophies, is that human beings are central to the world. It is…
Event: ‘Entangled Matter’ by ELASTIC NATURE at The Crypt Gallery London
ELASTIC NATURE is an art research club bringing together interdisciplinary researchers, practitioners and thinkers around the broad subject of ‘the future of nature’ via…
Biomedia, Body Sculptures, Interviews, Key Artists
ORLAN, beyond any conception of the body
There aren’t any artists that have explored matters concerning beauty and aesthetics of the body so profoundly as ORLAN has. The French performance artist does…
Exhibition: ‘Hacking Antartica’ by Alejandra Pérez Núñez
Alejandra Pérez Núñez is a sound artist, hacktivist and media designer. Her work focuses on the study of Antarctica and encompasses sound, performance, video,…
Insight: ‘Spring Bloom in the Marginal Ice Zone’ by Jana Winderen
The marginal ice zone is the dynamic border between the open sea and the sea ice, which is ecologically extremely vulnerable. The phytoplankton present…
Exhibition: ‘Plastic_ity’ by Saša Spačal at STEKLENIK
Saša Spačal is a Postmedia artist living and working in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Her current research encompasses living systems, media art, sound art and real-time…
Biomedia, Design, News, Series, STATE Studio
Exhibition and workshop: ‘Living Canvas’ by Fara Peluso at STATE Studio Berlin
A new exhibition is opening at STATE studio Berlin, Living Canvas by Fara Peluso, a berlin based designer and artist. The exhibition consists of the installation Living Canvas…
Exhibition: ‘Watery Ecologies. Artistic Research’ at ArtLaboratory Berlin
Water and water pollution is becoming a central focus in artistic research. There is an exponentially growing number of initiatives, exhibitions and artists reflecting on…
Exhibition: ‘Machines Are Not Alone’ at Kontejner
Kontejner is a non-profit NGO founded in 2002 in Zagreb (Croatia). Since its inception Kontejner has engaged in organisation art festivals and curational work…