Exhibition: Living Light: Photographs by Light of Bioluminescent Bacteria
‘Science provides new technologies, new materials, and other resources for use by artists. Creativity and art can lead science to look at matters differently….
Discussion Panel: CRYPTIC 2017: Art and Science
CLOT Magazine will be collaborating with Neus Torres Tamarit and Ben Murray bringing a discussion panel on the subject of art, science, and technology, for…
BYRON RICH, tactical biopolitics
In an era where technology-based solutions to everything seem to be the norm, where do we draw the line between meaning and absurdity? What’s…
Summit: Global Community Bio Summit
The MIT Media Lab hosted the Global Community Bio Summit this September as part of it community biotechnology initiative. The Media Lab, which has…
Exhibition: Nonhuman Networks
Art Laboratory Berlin is a non-profit exhibition and research platform established in 2006 by the artist Christian de Lutz and the art theoretician Regine…
SERGE VUILLE & LUC HENRY, artistic experimentation, music, and living systems
In recent years artistic experimentation in music has been gaining more exposure to larger audiences. This results in unorthodox compositions that depart from conventional…
Festival: Ars Electronica 2017
This September, The Ars Electronica Festival returned to Linz Austria for another rousing year. The annual festival of digital and new media art is…
Biomedia, Interviews, Key Artists, The CLOTcasts
JOE DAVIS, from Microvenus to Astrobiology
Joe Davis is one of the seminal figures in Biomedia. His work has shocked and polarised the artistic community while at the same time…
Biomedia, Interviews, Scout & Trends
AMANDA BAUM & ROSE LEAHY, a view on multispecies experience
I came across the work of Amanda Baum and Rose Leahy for the first time last year in Barcelona. We did not have a…
Biomedia, CTM/transmediale, Interviews, Series
EVELINA DOMNITCH & DMITRY GELFAND, a phenomenology of art and physics
For Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand, an artistic duo based in Amsterdam, perception and observation are central processes in their practice. Observation is the…
Exhibition: Mille Kalsmose, ‘Re-sounding Organs’
While the Spanish island of Majorca is known primarily for its sun and sand, it also boasts an impressive artistic community. The largest centre…
Digital and Material Worlds: an artistic view
‘Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living. Being digital is not just being a geek or Internet surfer…
KUAI SHEN, exploring the sociality of ants through human technology
Humans have always been fascinated with ants and their social behaviour. These creatures have commonly been the focus of science fiction movies and comics,…
Biomedia, Interviews, Scout & Trends
REN RI, investigating the relationship between bees and humanity
Ren Ri is a Beijing-based biomedia artist and beekeeper whose work investigates the relationship between humanity and nature. While Ri now considers himself more…
SAšA SPAčAL, technological ecosystems in the post-media era
Living in the era of digital technology and art revolutions is leading to the appearance of new forms of dialogue that re-explore our relationship…
On the question of Interspecies Creativity
In February 2017, CLOT Magazine in collaboration with LASER Leonardo, organised a roundtable discussion on ‘Interspecies Creativity’. The idea came out after our talk…
ÓSCAR MARTÍN, sounds born out of algorithms and microorganisms
Óscar Martín is a sound artist and programmer working in the field of generative art. Typically, generative works are systems that, when set in…
PINAR YOLDAS, post-human biology and ecology
Pinar Yoldas is one of those artists that makes you question the future and what it might entail. Her work draws on her cross-disciplinary…
Biomedia, Computing Art, Interviews
DREW BERRY, molecular visual appeal
Molecular and cell biology are disciplines that seek to understand biological processes at molecular and cellular levels. When it comes to explaining these mechanisms,…
ROBERTINA ŠEBJANIČ, reflecting on the cohabitation with other species
Ljubljana-based intermedia artist Robertina Šebjanič might be one of the most interdisciplinary artists of our times. She is co-founder and active member of Theremidi…