Festival: Ars Electronica 2021, conveying hybrid dimensions & the duality of the present
Ars Electronica is one of the leading events that brings together art, technology and society to shape a festival relevant and embedded into the present….
Biomedia, Digital Culture, Op & Ed
‘Jakob Kudsk Steensen’s Swamp Song of Berl-Berl’ by Piotr Bockowski
An obsolete soviet power plant in East Berlin has become a multimedia vehicle to the city’s origin this summer. Infamous for its techno/fetish club nights,…
Insight: Phytocene, how sound, science and technology spans non-human languages
The simultaneous coexistence of multiple arenas, the surfacing of more and more osmotic communities, the proliferation of phenomena of mutual hybridisation and reciprocal interpenetration have…
Art Laboratory Berlin, Biomedia, News
Programme: Under the Viral Shadow at Art Laboratory Berlin
Art Laboratory Berlin are presenting a new project including an extensive programme that will explore various networks – biological, cybernetic, and social – as part…
Visual album premiere: Jason Sharp’s “The Turning Centre Of A Still World”
Jason Sharp is a saxophonist and electro-acoustic composer whose increasing focus on solo work since 2015 has yielded a unique corpus of music that fuses…
Exhibition: ‘Places to Intervene In a System’ at St. John on Bethnal Green, London
Places to Intervene is an art-research exhibition at Lumen Crypt Gallery, St John on Bethnal Green (London), that takes place from 19 to 22 August…
Biomedia, Digital Culture, News
Insight: Laura Splan’s ‘Entangled Entities’, intertwining art & biotechnology
Interdisciplinarity is the foundation on which artist Laura Splan conceives her work. A seemingly unexplored exchange and latent associations prove to be the source of…
Video Premiere: Lawrence English’s “A Mirror Holds The Sky”
Australian composer Lawrence English is announcing his immersive new album A Mirror Holds The Sky, created entirely from field recordings taken deep in the Amazon rainforest, with the…
Open Call: EARTH WATER SKY Residency by Science Gallery Venice
Earth Water Sky is Science Gallery Venice’s 3-year residency programme for artists interested in the environment and the latest in cutting edge environmental knowledge. Every…
Performance: ‘Phytocene’, a live experimental performance at Le Marais Paris
Phytocene, from the Ancient Greek word phytos (plant), is a collective work by Oscar-winning sound designer Nicolas Becker, musician Agoria and bio-physicist Nicolas Desprat, produced…
AI & A.Life, Art Laboratory Berlin, Biomedia, Op & Ed
‘Art Laboratory Berlin’s “Swarms, Robots and Postnature” and the Power of the Masses’ by Lyndsey Walsh
Whether it be in flocks of birds, schoolings of fish or even herds of mammals, individuals who come together seem to find power through acts…
Talks & Workshops: DocFest Exchange at Sheffield DocFest 2021
Sheffield DocFest is an international film and arts festival and marketplace with the mission to spark imaginations and empower our capacity for change. Part of…
Online workshop: ‘Tangible Memories’ by Unbore
You know when you hear a song, and it transports you to a nostalgic memory? Or when you catch a smell of delicious food that…
Insight: Microbial Cosmologies, a future built around the microbial world
Among its many impacts, the covid-19 pandemic has challenged our eagerness to move freely and safely through towns and across borders. This year inside has…
Exhibition: ‘Interspecies Futures [IF]’, defying the borders between fiction and reality
Center for Book Arts promotes active explorations of artistic practices related to the book as an art object. Founded in 1974, Center for Book Arts…
Open call: ‘Connect’ — artistic residencies at CERN and in scientific laboratories worldwide
Since 2014 CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics in Geneva, and Pro Helvetia Swiss Arts Council have worked together to foster experimentation through the…
Biomedia, Digital Culture, News
Online: Material Futures Symposium 2021, exploring the impact of materials
The MA Material Futures, Central St Martins, University of the Arts London, presents a series of three evening talks at the intersection of design, biology…
INTERSPECIFICS, sound as the interface for the universe and inter-species communication
Interspecifics are a nomadic and independent research collective, founded in Mexico City in 2013, experimenting with the intersection between art and science. Deeply intertwined and…
Biomedia, Interviews, STATE Studio
ALEXANDRA DAISY GINSBERG, creatively asking how we can make the world “better”
With the many impending crises looming over humanity, it is difficult imagine what the world of tomorrow may be like. Our reliance on technological innovations…
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…