‘A Cabinet of Interactions: Carla Gannis’ WWWunderkammer and Social VR’ by Charlotte Kent
I walked through a painting studio to get into my VR set up and attend the (re)opening of XR artist Carla Gannis’s [1] new show…
‘Email Exhibit! Yours Sincerely, Siebren Versteeg and bitforms’ by Charlotte Kent
Email exhibition is the transcoding this moment calls for. How could the email, in all its mundane glory, not become an exhibition space? Consider it…
Architectures, Contributors, Op & Ed
‘The power of the collective – when participatory design, sustainability and resilience join forces ‘ by Simona Serban
Today’s architecture is significantly different compared to previous styles mainly because the challenges the planet faces have finally gotten some of the attention they deserved….
Contributors, Digital Culture, Op & Ed
‘Why Cookie Monster is the mascot of Big Tech – and has been since the 1960s’ by Lucy Hunter
Before he trained his appetite to edible fare, Cookie Monster devoured computers. In 1967, two years before Sesame Street hit the PBS airwaves, the woolly…
Contributors, Digital Culture, Interviews
PAOLO CIRIO, political aesthetics of the art market
Paolo Cirio launches a new artwork and intervention in the art market called Art Derivatives [1], a website, financial instrument and campaign. Known for his…
Contributors, Digital Couture, Op & Ed
‘A look into the lab of innovative fashion creation’ by Maren Häußermann
Change the system—materials, production, consumption. We can make it better. Sustainability. Quality. Democracy. Inclusion. These words are behind the concept of the creations of fashion…
Biomedia, Contributors, Op & Ed
‘Marianna Simnett: Contagion and Monstrous Politics’ by Eleanor Wakeford
You and I, who are looking ahead to the future monster. We talk about synthetic reproduction. You say that it shouldn’t be called reproduction but…
Biomedia, Contributors, Op & Ed
‘Marianna Simnett: Contagion and the Utopian Body’ by Eleanor Wakeford
Defying fantasies of control, corroding internal integrity, and ignoring the borders that define and defend identity, contagion is considered a threat to individual, national and…
‘VR experience does not mean art’ by George Vitale
For most of history, technological change unfolded slowly. Centuries of incremental advances refined and built upon existing technologies. The speed of development of Virtual Reality…
‘Tomás Sánchez and his omen to the future’ by Silvia Iacovcich
When I observed Tómas Sánchez’s artwork for the first time I was about to turn eight years old – the guiltless age when you are…
‘Same cities?! With new apertures!’ by Simona Serban
Judging from the current global situation, our environment, due to one of the most unexpected of circumstances, gets a breather, the breather it so desperately…
‘To See it in Another Light: Lazzaro Art Doesn’t Sleep’ by Charlotte Kent
On May 17th at 9pm in New York City, as the virus waned but continues to haunt our lives, I wore a mask and joined…
‘The Gendered Cable Manifesto’ by Noam Youngrak Son
USB 3.0 Extension Cable – Male to Female Adapter CordHigh-Speed Male to Female HDMI Extension CableStraight Female to Female Adapter Cable Premium Stereo Gold-PlatedMulticoloured Dupont…
‘Everything might be alright. Emergencies and their perception, a veduta from Venice’ by Pietro Consolandi
Before the explosion If a genie from the future had visited Venice just a few weeks ago, showing images of an empty Piazza San Marco…
‘Windows on a Pandemic’ by Charlotte Kent
The borders of my life these days extend to the perimeter of my apartment in New York City. Living with someone who had been tracking…
‘There is no place like home’ by Flavio Martella and Atxu Amann y Alcocer
The coronavirus, for the nations that reacted with the quarantine, provoked what was considered impossible: the (temporary) disappearance of the material public sphere. In a…
‘Views on the Armory Show 2020’ by Charlotte Kent
The Armory Art Fair every March in New York City isn’t necessarily known for its embrace of digital art, but as more artists use technology…
Architectures, Contributors, Op & Ed
‘Planetary Change, On Benjamin Bratton’s Terraforming and the Strelka 2020 programme’ by Tony Cho
While the term ‘terraforming’ is usually reserved for the extraterrestrial, Benjamin Bratton, the director of Strelka Institute and author of the New Normal presents a…
Architectures, Contributors, Op & Ed
‘SALON, city-architecture in the digital world’ by Adriana Ciotau
Architects are becoming more and more aware of the presence of technology-mediated cities. Alper Derinboğaz observed during his master’s program at UCLA in California: California…
Contributors, Digital Culture, Op & Ed, Sound
‘Noise and Wellness: Madeiradig’s Sonic Statement’ by Daniel Mackenzie
The unassuming island of Madeira is known for many things – Madeira wine, its round the year spring climate and forest walks. The slow pace…