Insight: OLEA, the intangible future of digital art
OLEA is a unique olive oil, fruit of the development between different disciplines and coordinated by artist Solimán López in collaboration with the Twist Bioscience…
Contributors, Digital Culture, Op & Ed
‘James Hoff’s HOBO UFO, trauma hidden behind Google street view’ by Piotr Bockowski
The HOBO projects bring flaneurism to cyberspace. In the society of surveillance capitalism, services such as Google Street View commodify human living space by turning…
Exhibition: ‘Sentient Windows’, Carson Teal’s newest body of ethereal digital work
Canadian multidisciplinary visual artist and experimental producer Carson Teal uses visuals and audio to create moments that transcend the confines of physical space. He interlaces…
Insight: ‘SHE KEEPS ME DAMN ALIVE’ by Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley at arebyte Gallery London
– Exhibition extended until 5 March 2022 – Can you protect black trans people with a gun? With this challenging question visitors of arebyte gallery’s…
Online exhibition: ‘#DATAATADATA, Angular Momentum’ by Chris Klapper & Patrick Gallagher
Decoding subjects such as higher dimensional math and particle physics has become the focus of Chris Klapper and Patrick Gallagher’s current work. In 2014 they…
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…