Curators, Digital Culture, Interviews
ULRICH SCHRAUTH, curator of the LFF Expanded Programme 2020
BFI Southbank brought in Ulrich Schrauth to curate their debut Expanded programme of XR work for the 2020 edition of the London Film Festival. It’s…
Online event & talk: Art in Flux & National Gallery X
shemza.digital is a new interactive artwork by Aphra Shemza and Stuart Batchelor that invites members of the public to contribute online from Wednesday 18 November …
Online event: AGM 2020 by Somerset House Studios London
On November 12 Somerset House Studios celebrates four years of its resident artist community with the first online edition of its annual building takeover series…
Installation: ‘NONDUAL’ by Albert van Abbe and raster at Concert Hall Kyiv
NONDUAL by Albert van Abbe is an audiovisual installation which utilizes generative audio and visual technology to create an extended, abstract and boundless concert experience;…
Exhibition: ‘Becoming Alluvium’ at Chisenhale Gallery London
Chisenhale Gallery presents Becoming Alluvium, the first solo exhibition in a UK institution by Ho Chi Minh City-based artist Thao Nguyen Phan. The exhibition, on…
Event: The Planet as Festival by Terraforma Festival at Museo MACRO in Rome
The Planet as Festival is a new project by the people behind Terraforma. It takes its name and inspiration from Ettore Sottsass’s iconic series from…
Editor’s Pick: Lawrence Lek ‘AIDOL 爱道’ OST & ‘Unreal’ video launch
Hyperdub are presenting their first soundtrack release with Lawrence Lek‘s score for his debut feature film AIDOL 爱道. The film premiered at Sadie Coles HQ…
Events: York Mediale, cutting-edge digital art projects reacting to 2020
International new media arts organisation York Mediale is returning to the city of York (UK), for the second time with six major new commissions, including…
Column: ‘In principle, yes… make the Arctic great again’
In the Northern hemisphere, a sunny summer fades away. Its merit was to feign a soon-to-come return to normal. Now, rising Covid-19 infection rates remind…
BAFF AKOTO, exploring diasporic consciousness and African culture in virtual reality
Further proof that the current arts zeitgeist is dominated by the acronyms XR and VR, this year’s London Film Festival features LFF Expanded*, a new…
Online exhibition: ‘The Anteater’s Transmutation’ at Virginia Bianchi Gallery
Virginia Bianchi Gallery merges the digital with the physical, posing itself as one of the first Italian art galleries experimenting with this field and opened…
Digital Culture, Op & Ed, Sound
L.E.V. Matadero 2020: The Day After
Matadero in Madrid was a former slaughterhouse and now one of the most important cultural spaces of the city was once again where the L.E.V….
Opening: ‘Hidden pattern, visualising networks’ by BarabásiLab at Ludwig Museum, Budapest
A new exhibition at the Ludwig Museum in Budapest is presenting the twenty-five years of research into the visual language of networks by Professor Albert-László…
London Film Festival Expanded 2020: Highlights
The LFF has just quicked off also launching a bespoke virtual exhibition space to house the LFF expanded, the Festival’s new dedicated strand of XR…
Opening: Superblue, an experiential art centre in Miami
Superblue, is a new artistic endeavour co-founded by current and former PACE gallery directors and CEO Marc Glimcher and Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst. Dedicated to producing, presenting,…
Design, Digital Culture, Interviews
ASA, stories of transcending the barriers between the physical and virtual worlds
Reader, I hope you are prepared for this intergalactic transcending journey, as this is an interview from another world. Or better yet, worlds. Taking reality…
Extended virtual spaces: BFI’s London Film Festival Expanded
The BFI London Film Festival, in partnership with American Express, is presenting a new initiative, LFF Expanded: the Festival’s new dedicated strand of XR and…
AI & A.Life, Digital Culture, News
Exhibition: ‘Uncanny Valley: Being Human in the Age of AI’ at the de Young Museum, San Francisco
Founded in 1895 in San Francisco the de Young museum has been an integral part of the cultural fabric of the city over 100 years. Until …
Architectures, Digital Culture, News
Study Programme: Terraforming 2021 by Strelka Institute
The Terraforming is a three-year design research initiative and think-tank of Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design directed by Benjamin H. Bratton. Each program…
Installation: James Clar’s ‘Press Reset’ at Jane Lombard Gallery in Tribeca NYC
New York-based artist James Clar’s work is an analysis and observation on the effects of media and technology on our perception of culture, nationality, and…