RACHEL PIMM & GRAHAM CUNNINGTON, suspending geology in its mutations
As nature preservation has become a major global concern, artists Rachel Pimm and Graham Cunnington scrutinise the magnitude of the physical world and its undisclosed…
Design, Interviews, Key Artists, Sound
PEOPLE LIKE US, beyond cinematic linear perspective
For over thirty years, British artist Vicki Bennett – aka People Like Us – has been radically approaching audiovisual collage. Self-described as redirector and decomposer,…
Biomedia, CTM/transmediale, Interviews, Sound
PATRICIA DOMINGUEZ, unearthing plant knowledge
Patricia Dominguez is an artist, educator and activist from Chile whose work merges socio-political and economic matters with mysticism and ancient botanical knowledge. She is…
ROBERT GERARD PIETRUSKO, inspecting data perspectives through sound & design
Robert Gerard Pietrusko is a designer, composer and educator who investigates the strain of everlasting data in time and space. Using multiple resources and jumping…
MOST DISMAL SWAMP, the murky enmeshed poetics of post-internet hypercommunication
‘Mixed reality’ techno-ecologies we live in desperately demand a digital era Gesamtkunstwerk that would encapsulate its problematics in an exciting but non-simplistic way. Most Dismal…
NADJA, glancing at extraterrestrial territories with atmospheric textures of shoegaze
The various lockdowns haven’t stopped the band, Nadja, from gazing beyond the four walls of their flats: from far beyond our stratosphere, their latest album,…
THE JUDGEMENT HALL, resistance in the age of surveillance capitalism
Lupus opened the portal of The Judgement Hall 4 years ago, at the same time setting a rather difficult challenge to the post-industrial music event…
DEMO, from moving image to experimental politics
DEMO – Deptford Moving Image Festival was launched in 2019 in South London. Under the title Hyperworlds, the first edition examined unconventional ways of being…
ELI KESZLER, capturing the transitory edge of stillness
Experimental percussionist, composer and visual artist Eli Keszler challenges the reminiscence of the past two years through his latest project, Icons, out now via Lucky…
Interviews, Scout & Trends, Thinkers
CAROLINE SINDERS, exploring digital activism and Internet violence
An attentive interlinking of research, activism and art is what draws Caroline Sinders‘ eye and practice to the discussion and exposure of social dynamics whose…
BORGHILDUR INDRIÐADÓTTIR, an artist on a journey to the Moon
Borghildur Indriðadóttir is an Icelandic artist who taps into her experience in architecture, performance and acting methods to question our understanding of power and systematic…
ISLAND PEOPLE, how »II« circles our gloomy moments of stillness
Despite the name, we can’t really say Island People are stuck in their haven. On the contrary, the modus operandi of the quartet (mastering engineer…
Curators, Digital Culture, Interviews
arebyte Gallery, the avant-garde of the contemporary digital renaissance
arebyte is a London-based art organisation, paving a pioneering path through digital art programming, marking new points, peaks and perspectives at innovative intersections of art…
SIGURÐUR GUÐJÓNSSON, creating experiential universes through uncovering hidden landscapes
Icelandic artist Sigurður Guðjónsson blends moving imagery and sound to create experiences built through the intimate observation of matter. Investigating cameras, optical instrumentation and natural…
HAINBACH, exploring new sound depths using nuclear research equipment
Crafting beauty from what could be seen as obsolete and exploring new sound depths with it almost sounds like Hainbach’s motto: the composer has a…
AI & A.Life, Interviews, Scout & Trends
TERRA0, enabling the forest to become an autonomous economic agent
“If we continue to restrict ourselves to viewing nature as a domain, as a work tool or material, rather than as a partner, everything is…
Digital Culture, Interviews, Sound
KEITH RANKIN, responding to cultural shifts in information processing
The ceaseless stream of data that has become a defining feature of our present reality continues to present new potentialities for those invested in the…
KARIN OHLENSCHLÄGER, four decades curating media art
Karin Ohlenschläger is a curator, art critic, and the artistic director of LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial in Gijón, Spain. With four decades…
KRISTIN MCIVER, exploring big data and the deep state to uncover the invisible
Multimedia artist Kristin McIver dives deep into the digital seas to explore environmental emergencies and the epistemological crisis of the XXI century and brings to…
Interviews, Scout & Trends, Sound
GANG OF DUCKS, electronic music as a conceptual framework for exploration or research
Gang of Ducks is a multidisciplinary group established in 2013 in Turin. Although they most often engage in work through audio, the group’s output includes…