Contributors, Digital Culture, Op & Ed
Is code synesthetic? It is a question that emerged for me after experiencing Quayola’s new work Transient. The idea behind the piece is to exploit…
Contributors, Digital Culture, Op & Ed
“Remain will edge it…”Nigel Farage, June 23rd 2016 On the night of the 2016 UK Brexit Referendum, a single phrase echoed through social media and…
Computing Art, Contributors, Op & Ed
It’s the afternoon of a jet-lagged day and I sat there thinking to myself: we’ve discussed dissociation, fatigue, and dodged the shadowy data question, all…
What technofeminism can teach the singularity [1] [W]e want new skin. The digital world provides a potential place where this can play out. Through the…
The Art of Science, a new book published by the UK based Welbeck Publishing Group dives headfirst into the shared threads of “human curiosity, craft…
The technological singularity contains nightmares. Not the ones depicted in sci-fi movies or video games that feature human survivors at war with omnicidal superintelligent robots, but vivid…
We are our environment [1]. This short phrase opens up the full dimension of the multi-layered tensions between humans and the material environment, to which…
Voice in the Mirror was an exhibition and a unique experiment never before performed, and never repeated since. Now, 5 at years since its staging…
Contributors, Digital Culture, Op & Ed
The HOBO projects bring flaneurism to cyberspace. In the society of surveillance capitalism, services such as Google Street View commodify human living space by turning…
What happens when a human addresses a piece of stone? An essential question in Emily Young’s ongoing research as an artist. With stone as her…
Language has been granted too much power. The linguistic turn, the semiotic turn, the interpretative turn, the cultural turn: it seems that at every turn…
It’s a curious time now to open up and close down in many ways. Winter is coming, the clocks have been set back an hour,…
The Sun Machine Is Coming Down! So reads the prophetic call filling my DM’s in a sudden gush. Over the last months, few messages spread…
Computing Art, Contributors, Op & Ed
In a well-known scene from It’s never sunny in Philadelphia (2016), Danny Devito plays Ongo Gablogian, an “aht” collector that sashays around a gallery verbally…
The video work Seil (Rope, 27’30“, 2016) [1] grabs my attention from the back of the gallery as I enter. I am drawn towards the…
In these turbulent times, Amy Sands’ paper and transparent acrylic works, along with her Bobbin Lace Fence Project – Projection Mapping, bring a sense of…
Éva Mayer’s exhibition at Ani Molnár Gallery in Budapest, curated by Lili Boros, delves into the limbic space of fertility, hope, and loss and its…
In the heavily automated, networked “internet of things” future we’re unevenly rattling towards, there’ll be an increasing amount of discussion about interaction and interfaces. Actor–network…
Contributors, Digital Culture, Op & Ed
The pseudonymous digital art provocateur Kid Xanthrax exists at the periphery of cyberculture, invoking irreverence for commercial, fine art “practice” through grotesque, “dank” meme aesthetics…
Contributors, Op & Ed, Robotics & Kinetics
For the new media artist collective BREAKFAST, the past three years have been an exciting sequence of projects blossoming worldwide. The collective boasts an extensive…