Design, Interviews, Scout & Trends
JOHAN KRANTZ, the nature-culture divide
Now our transition into the Anthropocene is seen as complete, what becomes of nature? Is it still existent, or has it become a construct? A…
Architectures, Interviews, Scout & Trends
EJTECH, back to the Senses
A guttural noise enters the atmosphere and in an instant is transformed into a reverb of vibrations coursing through the skin like a thousand echoes…
Architectures, Interviews, STATE Studio
NATHAN KENSINGER, documenting the climate crisis
Nathan Kensinger is an interdisciplinary artist working most often in photography and installation. Born in San Francisco and currently based in Brooklyn, for the past…
Digital Culture, Interviews, Sónar
LIBBY HEANEY, when quantum computing is more than a tool
Quantum physics is a little bit weird, a little bit spooky. In the 20th century, it fundamentally challenged our aeons-evolved intuitions about the physical world…
TODD ECKERT, preserving presence into infinity
After having started his career as a music journalist, Todd Eckert produced feature film ‘Control’ about Joy Division’s Ian Curtis; directed the North American sector…
K Á R Y Y N, imagining trajectories with sound
K Á R Y Y N is an LA-based visual-composer, producing music with an intense physicality influenced by the aesthetics of her environment. The Syrian-Armenian-American…
LIA, the software art pioneer and the fluidity of code
Austrian artist LIA is considered one of the pioneers of digital art and has been producing works since 1995. She is one of the very…
NATALIA FUCHS, curating Art, Science and Technology
New media researcher, art historian and international curator in art, science and technology, Natalia Fuchs is the curator at Gamma Festival (St. Petersburg). She will be speaking…
BINDER-A, new tools for experiential environments
binder-a is a Seoul-based collective of designers utilising cutting edge techniques and technologies to produce innovations in the field of interactive installation. Pushing the boundaries…
Body Sculptures, Digital Culture, Interviews
XENOENTITIES NETWORK, collective practice towards the digital future
XenoEntities Network (XEN) is an open-community platform based in Berlin and organised by Lou Drago, Pedro Marum, and Zander Porter. XenoEntities Network’s curated programs organise…
KIM ALBRECHT, contesting computing
The Distinction Machine in its most basic form is an experimentation on the language of machines. Not necessarily the language of code, which we use…
AI & A.Life, Body Sculptures, Interviews
SOLIMÁN LÓPEZ, Skinning Artificial Intelligence
There is an arbitrary boundary drawn up between the real world and its digital reflection. In our day to day lives that division has already…
AI & A.Life, Computing Art, Interviews
JAIME DE LOS RÍOS, understanding natural patterns and collective intelligence
Paint is applied but then stays, present, defined. It sits atop the canvas, leaving a trace of activity, a mark made onto the world. Paint…
Body Sculptures, Interviews, Sound
Recent Arts: Sensing through the Screen / Sensing through the Skin
Recent Arts is a project by Valentina Berthelon and Tobias Freund, whose combined artistic practice embodies the synergy of art and technology, going beyond the…
BRUCE & STEPHANIE THARP, drawing new boundaries in design
In the span of the last 20 years, design and design thinking has disseminated into new roles. Born from a need to account and create…
Biomedia, Computing Art, Interviews
HELEEN BLANKEN, and the aestheticization of nature
Nature and culture were for centuries regarded as opposites and held as separate spheres. Within the last century, this view slowly shattered and shifted to…
RICHARD CHARTIER, a pulsating journey into microsounds and pink noise
Human beings have an extreme curiosity and capacity to understand and dissect what pushes our limits of perception, both on the micro and macro scale….
KRISTINA PULEJKOVA, earthly ecologies through the lenses of digital technologies
Kristina Pulejkova, born in Macedonia, is a London-based multimedia artist, whose practice mostly concerns environmental issues, which she investigates through use of technology. Her interactive…
AI & A.Life, Digital Culture, Interviews
LAUREN McCARTHY, the coder among the wild beasts
Of all the things that drive people to technology and coding, the most common reason, I’ve come to learn, is their own humanity. Lauren McCarthy…
AI & A.Life, Interviews, STATE Studio
CHRISTIAN MIO LOCLAIR, humanising machines to understand our existence
After a career as a robot-dancer, computer scientist, and choreographer, Christian Mio Loclair subverted his “nature imitating machines” practice into an exploration of nature by…