Biomedia, Interviews, Scout & Trends
ŠPELA PETRIČ, relaying between humans and plants
A basic belief, embedded in many, if not all, Western religions and philosophies, is that human beings are central to the world. It is…
REHAB HAZGUI, hacking sound and biological systems
Designer and multimedia artist, Rehab Hazgui explores experimental electronics and biohacking through electromechanical sound installations and live performances involving handmade audio devices and modular synthesisers….
Biomedia, Body Sculptures, Interviews, Key Artists
ORLAN, beyond any conception of the body
There aren’t any artists that have explored matters concerning beauty and aesthetics of the body so profoundly as ORLAN has. The French performance artist does…
Digital Culture, Interviews, Scout & Trends
Editor’s pick: ‘Horror Vacui’ by MATTEO ZAMAGNI
Matteo Zamagni is an Italian born new media artist, currently living and working in London. Through the use of emerging technologies, Zamagni creates audiovisual…
Interviews, Robotics & Kinetics
Insight: MORITZ SIMON GEIST & techno robots
Moritz Simon Geist is a media artist and robotic musician. As a robotic musician, he uses everything from the clicking of failing hard drives,…
Curators, Interviews, Series, STATE Studio
JOHANNA WALLENBORN, curator at STATE Studio Berlin
Johanna Teresa Wallenborn has worked all over the world – from Seoul to Los Angeles, and now Berlin, where she is acting as curator…
Computing Art, Digital Culture, Interviews
BEN GROSSER, understanding the perception of social media
Nothing in this (digital) world is true. And Ben Grosser understands this. True to his own circuit bending philosophy, Ben Grosser uses software to…
Computing Art, Interviews, Scout & Trends
MAX HATTLER, audiovisual abstraction in the moving image
Whatever a writer may write of Max Hattler, it will be futile. Max Hattler is something you live. Feel. Experience. Max Hattler is an…
Digital Couture, Interviews, Scout & Trends
MARIA CASTELLANOS, deconstructing what counts as a human
Maria Castellanos is an artist and researcher exploring relationships between body and technology in a number of significant art&science projects. Her artistic practice is…
Biomedia, Design, Interviews, Scout & Trends
LEONI FISCHER, visualising the cyclic rhythms of Euglena
“Euglena, a genus of more than 1,000 species of single-celled flagellated (i.e., having a whiplike appendage) microorganisms that feature both plant and animal characteristics. Found…
Biomedia, Interviews, Scout & Trends
TH3MAX, and the aestheticization of pain
In the world of all kinds of alienations, in the world of spectacles, where “everything that was directly lived is now merely represented in…
DAN HOLDSWORTH, Mapping Our Retreating Planet
Dan Holdsworth is an artist of many accolades, one of the youngest ever to be acquired by the Tate’s permanent collection and someone who…
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE, the excitement of exploring new concepts
Jean-Michel Jarre. Where to begin? A goodwill ambassador for Unesco, president of the CICAC (the global body for authors’ societies), recipient of the Stephen…
Architectures, Design, Interviews
STUDIO DRIFT, sculpting the relationship between humans and nature
Studio Drift was founded in 2007 by Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta. Their work explores the relationships between humans, nature and technology through a…
Design, Interviews, Scout & Trends
ALICE POTTS, ways to use sweat to create accessories
In the past couple of years the discipline of material innovation has seen an increasing number of interdisciplinary collaborations which are producing new exciting…
AI & A.Life, Interviews, Scout & Trends
ANTOINE CATALA, using complex technology to articulate human emotions
Perusing Antoine Catala’s website you gain a sense of his slightly tongue in cheek approach to digital media. Browsing his site is a process analogous…
Interviews, Scout & Trends, Sound
ANDREA TAEGGI, the sculptural potential of the sonic
Andrea Taeggi, the Italian-born and Berlin-based music producer, often categorized under the labels of experimental ambient, techno or minimalist, through his practice explores the…
Design, Interviews, Scout & Trends
CHRISTINA HAXHOLM, exploring ideological forecasts for the future
Over the last couple of years, the fashion and textile industry has taken a great interest in the new possibilities that the biotechnology industry is…
Body Sculptures, Interviews, Series, Sound, Unsound
NICK ROTHWELL, blending code into dance for Wayne McGregor
Shall every age have a style of its own and our age alone be denied one? Having to define it though, one term comes to…
Interviews, Scout & Trends, Sound
THOMAS ANKERSMIT, exploring psychoacoustic properties of sound
Thomas Ankersmit is a musician and composer based in Berlin and Amsterdam. Working primarily through sound and installation, he produces complex and incredibly physical pieces…