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…
Experimenta Makes Sense, by ika Posamari
Sometimes words are noise. Sometimes, people are noise. Sometimes, feelings are noise. Narrow your focus, concentrate. Feel the noise. Filter the noise. Turn the…
Computing Art, Contributors, Interviews
KATY CONNOR, the body, vertigo and the scientific sublime
“I’m always trying to challenge the fixed point of view, its security and the political, military and techno-scientific systems that uphold the privilege of…
AI & A.Life, Contributors, Op & Ed
Moving Towards Augmented Art, by Rola Daniels
Augmented Reality (AR) is one of several technologies emerging for widespread use; culturally popularised to undoubtedly soon be woven into the fabric of everyday…
Redefining Failure in a Technologically Aided Era, by Jung In Jung
[Rebecca Lieberman, Mnemograph, 2016, Artificial Retirement Flux Factory, NYC. Photo credit: Jung In Jung] Herbert Marcuse wrote that the “technological rationalisation” of society and culture rejects…
Technology-based art as a trigger for political and social change, by Eran Tsafrir
Politics is poisoned. Propaganda, lies, manipulations, alt-facts, fake news, selective hacks and leaks are the hallmarks of the politics of our age. Appeals to emotion…
No Such Thing As Gravity at FACT Liverpool, by Ana Sancho
No Such Thing As Gravity is the forthcoming exhibition of FACT Liverpool. Curated by Rob La Frenais, it will explore the boundaries between art…
In sci-art, art should not merely be a servant of science, by David Harris
In a recent editorial in Leonardo journal, Assoc. Ed. Jack Ox stated about art-science that “well-designed presentations must be articulated in a clear and cogent…