AI & A.Life, Body Sculptures, Interviews
SOLIMÁN LÓPEZ, Skinning Artificial Intelligence
There is an arbitrary boundary drawn up between the real world and its digital reflection. In our day to day lives that division has already…
Body Sculptures, Interviews, Sound
Recent Arts: Sensing through the Screen / Sensing through the Skin
Recent Arts is a project by Valentina Berthelon and Tobias Freund, whose combined artistic practice embodies the synergy of art and technology, going beyond the…
Body Sculptures, Computing Art, News
Event: Choreographic Coding Lab Amsterdam 2019
Choreographic Coding Lab Amsterdam 2019 is an experimental laboratory for dance and coding happening in Amsterdam from 26 to 30 May that aims to provide…
MARIANNA SIMNETT, mythologising and medicalising the body
Causing several viewers to faint at her Serpentine Galleries screening of botox injection to the throat in The Needle and the Larynx (2016), Marianna Simnett’s…
Body Sculptures, H0 Institute, Interviews, Scout & Trends
Insight: ‘Speculative practices of body mutations’
H0 institute for Metamorphosis has just organised the first edition of OTHERWISE, 3-day post-Anthropocene-themed multisensorial and experimental festival-as-research, which took place in Zurich. Among festival’s…
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…
Body Sculptures, Contributors, Op & Ed, Sound
UR-Human Presence: Electronic Exorcisms in performative art practices, by Agata Kik
We need a theatre that wakes up nerves and heart. These words today sound as contemporary, as a century ago, when Antonin Artaud advocated his Theatre…
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…
Body Sculptures, Interviews, Series, Sound, Unsound
NICK ROTHWELL, blending code into dance for Wayne McGregor
Shall every age have a style of its own and our age alone be denied one? Having to define it though, one term comes to…
Biomedia, Body Sculptures, News
Conference: TTT18 and “Interstellar bodies and stories” in Mexico City
The third international interdisciplinary conference “Taboo – Transgression – Transcendence in Art & Science” will take place on 11-13 November 2018 in Mexico City,…
Body Sculptures, Digital Culture, News
Performance: UR – Human Presence at Sensorium Aures
UR Human Presence is a performance taking place at four different times with limited capacity on the 21st October. The event tries to capture…
Biomedia, Body Sculptures, Digital Couture, News
Workshop: ‘Hybrid Bodies’ by Maria Dada & Gareth Foote at Arcade East
Arcade East is presenting an exciting workshop next Monday 13 August. Run by UAL researchers Maria Dada and Gareth Foote, ‘Hybrid Bodies’ sets out to explore…
Body Sculptures, Interviews, Scout & Trends
OLEG DOU, a concatenation of bodily possibilities
Oleg Dou’s photographs and sculptures are often described as grotesque and repulsive, but the unsettling nature of his heavily edited photographic portraits derives from…
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…
Body Sculptures, Contributors, Interviews
COLLEEN THOMAS-YOUNG, the art of learning and creating through dance
Dance is experiential. So many complex psychological processes occur when you move your body and the moving body is so extremely dynamic; I wonder…
Body Sculptures, Interviews, Key Artists
STELARC, examining ideas around the obsolescence of the human body
Professor Stelarc, Distinguished Research Fellow at the School of Design and Art at Curtin University Perth, Australia, does not need an introduction. When he…
ASVOFF, Body Sculptures, Interviews, Series
NEIL HARBISSON, viewing colour through a spectrum of sound waves
What happens if we alter the traditional methods of sensing by adding an extra sense? What changes if we extend our perception and abilities…
SEAN ROGG, The Waldorf Project
The Waldorf Project’s Chapter 3/FUTURO ended last week after 27 sold out performances. For those that have been lucky to attend this intense, immersive,…
ASVOFF, Body Sculptures, Interviews, Series
VIKTORIA MODESTA, body architectures and new paradigms
If we would have had to choose only one word to define Viktoria Modesta, a Latvian-born English singer-songwriter, and bionic artist, it would be…
POLLY PENROSE, decoding body language
Verbal communication is a human ability that involves sounds, signs and symbols. It helps us express ourselves but, what if instead of these sounds,…