Symposium: ‘Dis/Assembly of Performative Things’, performance as a strategy
The Dis/Assembly of Performative Things is dedicated to performance as a strategy for designers to question their discipline, the contexts it operates in as well…
Insight: Destination Mars, building a house out of this world
No other planet has captured our collective imagination as Mars since we first saw it as a star-like object in the night sky. Mars is…
Architectures, Design, Interviews
NOHLAB STUDIO, creating immersive design stories for the modern world
Design in our contemporary world dives into a pool of interdisciplinary and creative platforms; on this note, Nohlab studio is a multidisciplinary design studio focused…
RENNY RAMAKERS, reimagining the world with design thinking
In 1993, art historian Renny Ramakers and designer Gijs Bakker brought the work of young Dutch designers to the iconic Salone del Mobile in Milan….
Design, Digital Culture, Interviews
ONFORMATIVE STUDIO, new forms of creative expression guided by an emotional approach
onformative is a multidisciplinary studio for digital art and design, focused on constantly searching for new forms of creative expression in all of their design…
Summit: Biofabricate Conference 2022, new frontiers in Biodesign
On June 6-7 Biofabricate, the annual summit on grown materials returns to New Lab in Brooklyn to celebrate the first in-person iteration after the 2-year…
Panel talk: Un/certain Research- Searching for Knowledge in the Arts and Design
Art and science have always maintained diverse relationships with each other. For some years now, however, these have been explored anew in the context of…
Insight: #MeToo Anti-Network, analysing the unobserved side of social media data
Gender equality has sparked social and political movements throughout the world. While these social movements for equality are not new, the use of social media…
Workshop: The Story-Telling Eel-Orgy: Writing as an Aquatic Intercourse by Noam Youngrak Son
Designer Noam Youngrak Son inscribes myths for the underrepresented in various mediums, from books to performances to 3D printed sex toys. Their identity as queer…
Open call: The BAD Award 2022, exploring intersections among art, design and the (life)sciences
The Bio Art & Design (BAD) Award* aims to stimulate emerging designers and artists to delve into the world of bio art and design and…
Design, Digital Couture, Interviews
INES ALPHA, reshaping notions of beauty with 3D make-up
In our digital age, ideas of beauty are being continuously transformed. The imagination and creativity of artists like ines alpha are at the forefront of…
Insight: Objects of Desire, new hybrid forms that blend human and technology and the twilight area that exists in-between
Modern technology has impacted our lives in so many ways – it transformed how we work, live, and play. Yet, we are at a new…
Online symposium: FUNDAMENTAL, Encounters in Art, Design, and Science
Since 2019, Arts at CERN and HEAD–Genève have been co-organising annual symposiums. The first edition titled Science meets fiction, Re: View from Nowhere brought together physicists, theorists, artists…
HOT AND BOTHERED: Science Gallery Youth Symposium 2022 open call
The Youth Symposium is a four-day event that brings together young people across the globe to connect, exchange ideas and share knowledge. The Science Gallery…
Exhibition & Talk: ‘Cosmos’ at CID Grand-Hornu, France
Black holes, dark matter, spiral nebulae, exoplanets, gravitational waves, big bang, the multiverse… The countless objects and cosmic phenomena that shape our Universe offer as…
Exhibition: ‘Portal Tables’ by the Decorators at Stanley Picker gallery
Domestic food fermentation gained momentum during the periods of social isolation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, with many people sharing homemade recipes through social media….
Design, Interviews, Key Artists, Sound
PEOPLE LIKE US, beyond cinematic linear perspective
For over thirty years, British artist Vicki Bennett – aka People Like Us – has been radically approaching audiovisual collage. Self-described as redirector and decomposer,…
Design, News, Robotics & Kinetics
Installation: ‘Drifters’ by DRIFT for Times Square Arts NYC
If you are in NYC right now, there are still 3 nights left to catch the new Midnight Moment Takeover at Times Square by artist…
‘Toward Speculative World-Makings’ by Tuçe Erel
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…
ROBERT GERARD PIETRUSKO, inspecting data perspectives through sound & design
Robert Gerard Pietrusko is a designer, composer and educator who investigates the strain of everlasting data in time and space. Using multiple resources and jumping…