Biomedia, Body Sculptures, Interviews, Key Artists
LYNN HERSHMAN LEESON & Thomas Huber, anti-body or antibody?
“The immune system is a plan for meaningful action to construct and maintain the boundaries for what may count as self and other in the…
‘Deconstructing Patterns’, discovering the exhibition at The Crick
As CLOT Magazine announced a month ago, Deconstructing Patterns opened its doors at The Francis Crick Institute in London. The exhibition, which revolves…
Biomedia, Interviews, Scout & Trends
ANI LIU, navigating the divergent connections between art and science
Issues related to women’s reproductive health rights, like birth control and abortion regardless of religion, culture or socioeconomic levels are some of the most issues…
Biomedia, Interviews, Scout & Trends
NEUS TORRES TAMARIT, making art about genetics
Neus Torres Tamarit is an artist and art director that explores the interaction between art and genetics. Her aim is to evoke curiosity and…
Biomedia, Interviews, Key Artists
BERNDNAUT SMILDE, breaking light and making clouds
“Everything is temporary,” says Dutch artist Berndnaut Smilde, who uses the ephemeral nature of things as inspiration for his work. He makes perfect miniature clouds…
JULIA BOROVAYA, exploring the states of the matter
Moscow-based artist Julia Borovaya is fascinated with substances and their chemical and physical qualities. Her pieces of art fuse technology with molecules and add…
Exhibition: ‘Deconstructing Patterns’, art and science in conversation
Biomedical researchers at the Francis Crick Institute in London have collaborated with various artists across disciplines to curate Deconstructing Patterns. This exhibition takes inspiration…
HYPHEN-LABS, human-centred design, progressive politics and technology
Last year the National Center for Women and Information Technology presented a report on the gender divide within technology. It revealed that the number of…
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…