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…
Computing Art, Interviews, Key Artists, Sound
JULIEN BAYLE, exploring audiovisual creativity in live performance and installations
Julien Bayle works through art and code. In the age of posthumanism, he deals with matters of interaction between human and technology, using this one…
AÏSHA DEVI, the sounds of the most inner humanness
Swiss-born, with Nepalese-Tibetan heritage, sound artist Aisha Devi produces ritualistic music, while giving clubbing spiritual meaning. She believes in a performance that is active, in…
30D Records, on techno encouters and what lies beyond us
“Are you awake? You were talking recently about the meaning… of our… life… unselfishness of art… Let’s take music… music miraculously penetrates into the very…
Biomedia, Body Sculptures, Interviews
FELIPE OSORNIO, linking art to the body, disease, and death
Firstly born in Querétaro, Mexico in 1991 and reborn again in 2017, Felipe Osornio is the only performance artist with three kidneys. Working under the…
Computing Art, Interviews, Key Artists
MICHA CÁRDENAS, algorithms and poetics of trans people of colour
micha cárdenas is an artist, theorist, poet and assistant professor at UC Santa Cruz working with the algorithms and poetics of trans people…
Design, H0 Institute, Interviews, Scout & Trends
MAËL HÉNAFF, on how technology will make us the humans we always wanted to be
Technology is viewed in different manners. Some see it as positive. Most see it as negative. Some are neutral. However, there are some who take…
AI & A.Life, Computing Art, Interviews
FREDERIK DE WILDE, revealing the inaudible, intangible, and invisible
If I lose the signal on my phone, how will I know where I am? If I can’t see something microscopic, how can I know…
Biomedia, Interviews, Thinkers
MARIO SAVINI, enriching the bio-ethical debate in the field of biomedia
Mario Savini (PhD, University of Teramo) is an independent scholar, art critic and journalist interested in art, science and new technologies. Until 2009 he directed…
Computing Art, H0 Institute, Interviews, Scout & Trends
DAVIDE PISCITELLI, Ecological criticism through Digital Manipulation
Davide Piscitelli’s field of interest lies in ‘objects’ of an ubiquitous nature, unbound to spatiotemporal boundaries. To put it simply, these hyperobjects are entities in…
MARIE MCPARTLIN, directing a new wave of interdisciplinary creativity
Marie McPartlin is the current director of Somerset House Studios, a space that exists as a progressive counterpart to the much older neo-classical building that…
Interviews, Sound, Thinkers, Unsound
DEFORREST BROWN JR, radical practices for ‘rythmanalitical’ speculative theories
DeForrest Brown is a New York based music writer, curator and media theorist. His work blends the production of music with technology and social experience….
Interviews, Scout & Trends, Sound
BOD [包家巷], between visual design and building digital utopias
Nicholas Zhu, aka bod’s [包家巷] music operates as a visceral leg of an oscillating whole. After punctuating last year with two prior EPs, Zhu emerges…