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…
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, Contributors, Op & Ed
‘Observing Artists in the Field: Ecologies of Senses’, by Hannah Star Rogers & Bilge Hasdemir
The Bioart Society, based in Helsinki, Finland, is the foremost bioart organisation for individual artists in the world. It sponsors art-science collaborations with an…
Weaponised Silence: An Experience With Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s ‘Saydnaya, by Allan Gardner
I want to begin with a caveat – I have been to Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s Earwitness Theatre at Chisenhale Gallery once. I attended the…
ThoughtWorks Arts Residency: Leveraging Corporate Resources for Art & Social Change
ThoughtWorks in New York has created an ambitious arts residency selecting artists to engage with socially relevant projects using emerging technologies. They also sponsor Art-A-Hack™…
AI & A.Life, Contributors, Op & Ed
GOGO’s dream. An attempt to fulfil the dream of my Google Home, by Davide Piscitelli
The short film The Red Balloon (1956) depicts the relationship between a young Pascal Lamorisse and his red balloon. From the moment the young…
AI & A.Life, Contributors, Op & Ed
The new relation with technology and the myth of AI as human, by Davide Piscitelli
The myth of the Sentient Machine Over the last 60 years, the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has raised new ethical questions, challenging our…
‘AmazonCare(s). Is this the future of our NHS?’ by Artemis Vergou & Miki Chiu
It’s 2030, and the NHS has been bought over by Amazon. The new service is called AmazonCare, and like all things Amazon, it’s faster, cheaper,…
Open Cell, Reinventing the lab in Shepherd’s Bush
Open Cell is a new collaborative space for bio designers in Shepherd’s Bush London. Aiming to support the London ecosystem of designers and scientists…
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…