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…
Computing Art, Interviews, Scout & Trends
MARTA DI FRANCESCO, the poetics of dream-like realities
Poetics. Even the word itself sounds ethereal. In an almost synesthetic manner, hearing poetics triggers a reaction – a dreamlike state, of serenity and beauty….
CARLO ZANNI, on how the art world doesn’t know how to sell videos
Imagine a world where works of art do not become the exclusive property of the highest bidder, where the assignation of the term art does…
AI & A.Life, Interviews, Scout & Trends, Sound
LOREM, the gravitas of an AI music composer
Lorem, conceived by Italian musician and Publisher, Francesco D’Abraccio, is a multidisciplinary project involving AI and video artists, musicians and instrument designers as well as…
Digital Culture, Interviews, Sound
CHINABOT, Pan-Asianness in experimental music
Formed out of necessity, Chinabot is a growing platform and collective with a mission to change the dialogue surrounding Asian music within the experimental music…
SURACHAI, the dark modular synthesis master
The L.A. based producer Surachai released the album Come, Deathless on BL_K NOISE, the label he runs with Drumcell (Hypoxia), on January 25, 2019. Surachai’s…
HANS BERG, working on the contexts of art, music and the intersection of the two
Hans Berg is an artist and musician currently living and working in Berlin. Berg produces an eclectic output ranging from what could be considered more…
MARIANNA SIMNETT, mythologising and medicalising the body
Causing several viewers to faint at her Serpentine Galleries screening of botox injection to the throat in The Needle and the Larynx (2016), Marianna Simnett’s…
Interviews, Key Artists, Sound
JUAN ATKINS, reinventing the future with techno
In The Last Angel of History (1996), a film-essay by John Akomfrah that deals with concepts of Afrofuturism tracing de deployments of science fiction within…
Digital Culture, Interviews, News, Scout & Trends
Insight: Radical Residency at Unit 1 Gallery | Workshop
From the 5th April, the Unit 1 Gallery | Workshop is hosting an exhibition showcasing the work of 10 artists from across the globe that…
Biomedia, Curators, Interviews
MARKUS REYMANN, new artistic horizons for our seas and oceans
From the 10,000 meter deep Tonga Trench and the threatened coral reefs of Jamaica to the coastal city of Kochi, India and the famously water-crossed…
Computing Art, Interviews, Scout & Trends
SHOHEI FUJIMOTO, From Code to Nature
Focused rays of lights reflect off in wavelike form- it’s repetitive nature puts the audience at ease and in awe, much like the ebb…
AI & A.Life, Interviews, Scout & Trends
DARIA JELONEK, light, day & technological nature
You wake up in the middle of the night. It’s dark but for the thin street-lamp-orange frame peeking out from behind the curtains. You know…
Body Sculptures, H0 Institute, Interviews, Scout & Trends
Insight: ‘Speculative practices of body mutations’
H0 institute for Metamorphosis has just organised the first edition of OTHERWISE, 3-day post-Anthropocene-themed multisensorial and experimental festival-as-research, which took place in Zurich. Among festival’s…
Architectures, Computing Art, Interviews, Sound
NONOTAK, experiencing space throughout sound and light
Nonotak is a Paris-based duo and media artists interested in immersive experience through sound, light and space interaction. Within a background in illustration and…