Insight: Charmaine Li’s ONEIRIC.SPACE, the intersection of dreams realm and waking life
The oneiric dimension and the sphere of the unconscious can be considered, in a sense, as an extension and a continuation of the realm of…
Biennale: Ukrainian Biennale of Digital and Media Art 2021
The first Ukrainian Biennale of Digital and Media Art was a unique, innovative cultural event that took from 15 to 30 October 2021. The Ukrainian…
CTM/transmediale, Digital Culture, News
Festival: CTM 2022 »Contact«, experimenting with hybrids environments
Already a week in, CTM 2022 Contact asks how we might establish positively transformative modes of contact with other realities beyond our own, be it…
Editor’s Video Pick: ‘Kilis’ by BZMC’s with Vica Pacheco’s animations
Maxime Primault is a French musician who has generated many projects over the years, including Black Zone Myth Chant (or BZMC), originally described as «Sun…
Computing Art, Digital Culture, News
Exhibition: ‘Elsewhere is a Negative Mirror’ at Vellum/LA
Vellum LA is the first physical gallery for NFT-backed digital art in Los Angeles. Located on Melrose Ave it aims to meaningfully situate the digital…
Computing Art, Digital Culture, News
Launch: ‘Cosmic Reef,’ sculptor & installation artist Leo Villareal’s first NFT project
Artist Leo Villareal has long been interested in deploying the simplest modes of technology to engender entrancing experiences and reconfigure how people interact with and…
Digital Culture, Interviews, Scout & Trends
CROSSLUCID, on desire flowing through the wires
Technology is frequently positioned as an element of progress that proceeds like a flaming arrow in time, somehow superseding the present by being visionary and…
Events: Vospiel transmediale 2022
Vorspiel, the parallel citywide program of events before and during transmediale and CTM festivals in Berlin is celebrating its 11th anniversary, a celebration of the…
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…
Digital Culture, Key Artists, Op & Ed
‘Ulysses Jenkins’ Without Your Interpretation, considering digital ritualism in New Media’ by Christopher Michael
Ulysses Jenkins, writing on his approach to art-making in the memoir Doggerel Life, states that: Those familiar with the ancients have all recognized and resonated…
Computing Art, Digital Culture, Interviews
UMANESIMO ARTIFICIALE, a fruitful dialogue between artificial & human intelligence
A thoughtful kick to dystopian speculations that place human and artificial realms in opposition and even in conflict seems to lie at the heart of…
CTM/transmediale, Digital Culture, News
Symposium: ‘This Is Not Anarchy, This Is Chaos’, for refusal transmediale 2021–22
As part of transmediale’s 2021–22 festival edition for refusal, unfolded over the course of a year, a symposium will be taking place on 28-29 January 2022….
Computing Art, Digital Culture, Interviews
DOMESTIC DATA STREAMERS, fighting indifference using data and art
Domestic Data Streamers was founded in Barcelona, Spain but with projects across 22 countries, the design firm is transforming how people think about data in…
CTM/transmediale, Digital Culture, Op & Ed
‘NFTs, post-internet art, and why Constant Dullaart buys fake social media followers’ by Simon Coates
A pandemic while we’re in a global culture and information war wasn’t the scenario I was hoping for. It’s been a clear signal showing problematic…
Insight: Ines alpha & Madrona Redhawk’s futuristic face-filter
Face-filters are probably one of the biggest current trends from our digital existence. From the more fun or artistic versions to the beauty cannons enhancing…
Insight: SWIPE RIGHT! Data, Dating, Desire, how a perpetual bodiless connection reshapes love
Our feelings and sense of togetherness take place and unfold in different layers of reality. We inhabit different dimensions simultaneously, and they are subsequently becoming…
Radical Friends: DAO Summit for decentralisation of power and resources in the artworld
A new summit discussing the value of and pathways to peer-produced decentralised digital infrastructures for art, culture and society is taking place on January 22nd….
Event: sound & music Norient Film festival, Bern Switzerland
Norient Film festival is a music film festival based in Bern, Switzerland, that explores the contemporary world through music and sound. This year on their…
Editor’s Pick: Giant Claw’s ‘Until Mirror’ video directed by Theo Triantafyllidis
Keith Rankin (Giant Claw) and Theo Triantafyllidis, two artists well known to our audiences, have recently collaborated to produce a video for Giant Claw album…
Event: ‘NEODORSAL’ by MYEN, Most Dismal Swamp label’s new album launch
Most Dismal Swamp, one of the most exciting multidisciplinary projects in the mycelium of London’s experimental underground scene, is launching their music label new album…