Event: ASSEMBLY 2020 at Somerset House Studios in London
Somerset House Studios in London is presenting this year’s free special digital edition of contemporary electronic and experimental music series ASSEMBLY from September 23 to…
Festival: L.E.V. Matadero 2020 in Madrid
For the second time, the L.E.V. Festival of visual electronics and immersive experiences takes place in Madrid in the biggest public-run art space of the…
Exhibition: ‘Critical Zones: Observatories for Earthly Politics’ at ZKM Karlsruhe
Over a period of several months, ZKM is hosting the exhibition Critical Zones: Observatories for Earthly Politics. curated by Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel with…
Event: Fat Lady CIC presents the digital/live hybrid opera ‘Persephone’s Dream’
Persephone was the Greek goddess of vegetation and grain. Daughter of Zeus and Demeter, mother of Dionysos, and wife of Hades, with whom she rules…
Editor’s pick: Duval Timothy’s ‘Groundnut’ video (ft. Twin Shadow)
Exploration of identity and belonging are central to Duval Timothy multidisciplinary practice. In this new video, he explores the cultural and culinary relevance of the…
Column: ‘In Principle, yes… signing the check for hurricane Laura’
The strongest hurricane since 150 years has just hit Louisiana, Texas and Haiti, leaving nearly half a million people without electricity and 200,000 without water….
Online publication: ‘Cosmic Bulletin 2020’ by the Institute of the Cosmos
The Institute of the Cosmos is presenting the Cosmic Bulletin 2020, edited by Marina Simakova and designed by Alan Woo. The bulletin was commissioned for…
New column: ‘In principle, yes…’ will explore and exploit technology for social justice
Next week we’ll be starting a monthly column dedicated to speculative political interventions. Contributor Yunus will bring a series of short texts aiming to spark…
Immersive screenings: MIRA.mov by MIRA Festival in Barcelona
MIRA Festival in Barcelona is another of the festivals reinventing themselves in this transitional (hopefully) year. The impossibility of big gatherings is pushing curators, programmers…
Exhibition: Jeremy Shaw’s ‘Quantification Trilogy’ at JSC in Berlin
In her insightful book Video Art (Phaidon Press, 2020), renowned curator and founder of the video exhibition and collection programmes at MoMA Barbara London recalls…
Online exhibition: Silicon Valet x New Art City present Dismal Sessions 001-021
Silicon Valet, the virtual parking lot for expanded internet practice, has joined forces with New Art City, a virtual exhibition platform for new media art…
Online event: ‘Black Womxn Time Camp (004)’ by Black Quantum Futurism
Taking place on Sunday 20 and 27th of September, as a part of Black Quantum Futurism‘s Black Womxn Temporal Portal project, Black Womxn Time Camp is…
Curators, Digital Culture, Interviews
ZAIBA JABBAR, the mind behind the multidisciplinary platform HERVISIONS
Zaiba Jabbar is an award-winning director, independent curator and founder of HERVISIONS (est. 2015). With over a decade of experience in the film and media…
‘Editorial perspectives on digital identities and alternative realities’ by Lula Criado & Meritxell Rosell
In his seminal 1964 work Understanding Media, philosopher and media theorist Marshall McLuhan claimed that the medium through which a message was transmitted was so…
Multimedia project: Oscar Powell’s ‘a ƒolder’
Oscar Powell, L’Enfant terrible of the industrial/noise-techno and one-half of Diagonal records, is back with a whole new conceptual multimedia project. Known for his tracks…
Contributors, Digital Culture, Op & Ed
‘Why Cookie Monster is the mascot of Big Tech – and has been since the 1960s’ by Lucy Hunter
Before he trained his appetite to edible fare, Cookie Monster devoured computers. In 1967, two years before Sesame Street hit the PBS airwaves, the woolly…
Exhibition: ‘HYUNDAI X ELEKTRA: METAMORPHOSIS’ at Hyundai Motorstudio Seoul
What kind of individual or societal transformations will follow the global pandemic? HYUNDAI X ELEKTRA: METAMORPHOSIS refers to the classic Book of Changes (I Ching)…
Insight: Video art meets architectural politics, Rob Heppell’s short film for Nazar’s ‘Bunker’
In recent years contemporary political art seems to be experiencing a substantial upturn, contemporary artists are deeply concerned with the current social and political issues…
Contributors, Digital Culture, Interviews
PAOLO CIRIO, political aesthetics of the art market
Paolo Cirio launches a new artwork and intervention in the art market called Art Derivatives [1], a website, financial instrument and campaign. Known for his…
Insight: ‘VR Para Llevar’ brings Latin American virtual realities to the fore
Like many precarious workers in the creative industry, Carla Serrano Pesquera found herself unemployed when COVID-19 hit. Determined to find some balance and opportunity amongst…