‘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…
‘Iris Van Herpen & Salvador Breed curating Le Guess Who? A shared notion of composition’ by Daniel Mackenzie
Every autumn in the charming city of Utrecht there is a meeting of minds and bodies who come together in the spirit of one central…
Contributors, Op & Ed, Series, Sónar
‘Solar Punk, a framework for hopeful futures’ by Jacobo García
Dystopia is a common theme on sci-fi literature, from classics such as the two little gems A Brave New World or 1984 are, to more…
AI & A.Life, Contributors, Op & Ed
Barbican ‘AI: More than Human’ – artificial agency, determinism and delusion of the cognitive self by Agata Kik
To be more than a human means to be more than his brain, to be more than the cognitive self, it means to be her…
Computing Art, Contributors, Op & Ed
On Ryoji Ikeda’s ‘data-verse’ trilogy by Daniel Mackenzie
Remember when data was a somewhat mysterious but specific collection of figures and potential facts that existed on actual paper or inside huge, beige-grey machines…
Anthropocene as the death of human narrative by Tony Cho
For the past few years, the term ‘Anthropocene’ has taken on an identity of its own. Coined by Paul Crutzen in 2000, with political intentions…
RE:SOUND 2019; Sound, Media and Art by Laura Netz
RE:SOUND is part of the Media Arts Histories conference series, bringing together leading researchers, artists, and scientists on a series of interdisciplinary topics for over…
To Boldly Smell What No Man Has Smelled Before by Clara Muller
Fifty years ago, on July 20, 1969, the Apollo XI mission successfully landed on the Moon. Half a billion Earthlings anxiously watched as American astronauts…
The textures of Art Basel Hong Kong 2019 by Lidia Ratoi
Almost one month after Art Basel Hong Kong 2019, I wondered: what impressed me the most? What do I remember most strongly? Obviously, there were…
Emma-Kate Matthews, a cross-disciplinary creative practice by Adriana Ciotau
Emma-Kate Matthews as an architect, artist, and composer has built an amazing array of transdisciplinary projects between the interconnected fields of architecture, acoustical engineering and…
RE-TEXTURED: celebrating urban psychogeography & audio-visual nuance by Anastasia Niedinger
In a triangle of architecture, music and spectacle, Re-Textured beats on the unsung doors of audio-visual nuance and too often abridged esoterism of London’s psychogeography….
Dark Havens, confronting Hidden Money & Power. The Art of Exposing Injustice, by Laura Netz
On April 5 and 6, 2019, at Kunstquartier Bethanien in Berlin, took place Dark Havens, a series of talks and workshops to explore the inner…
Aïsha Devi and her ‘disruptive chora’ by Agata Kik
Swiss-born, with Nepalese-Tibetan heritage, sound artist Aïsha Devi produces ritualistic music, while giving clubbing spiritual meaning. She believes in a performance that is active, in…
Matter Still Matters (in The Immaterial Age), by Silvia Pizzocaro
The recurrent arguments of immateriality, with its claims for shapeless functions and for information as raw material, continue occurring in a pervasively tangible world: people…
Presence: curating in the context of contemporary digital technology: Marina Abramovic, by Agata Kik
With the changing nature of curating and the rapid development of contemporary digital technology, the idea of presence in the curatorial field shifts its concerns…
‘NEW SILK: Exploring design-science collaboration for new materials’, Kirsi Niinimäki, Camilla Groth & Pirjo Kääriäinen
New Silk is a 4 year material research project conducted at Aalto University aiming to produce new types of silk-like materials in the context of…