Architectures, Computing Art, Interviews
SCANLAB, turning moments and spaces into compelling experiences
ScanLAB is a tale of a meeting between two worlds, brought to life by two architects. One story is that of the existing reality, one…
Computing Art, Interviews, Scout & Trends
MARTIN CALVINO, conveying scientific knowledge in artistic form
Martin Calvino is an artist with a scientific background who is “enthusiastic about placing himself in situations in which the artistic mind can surprise…
CHRISTOPHER LUTTERODT-QUARCOO, upheaving dominant historical and political narratives
Christopher Lutterodt-Quarcoo (CL-Q for short), is a multifaceted creative investigator whose work is rooted in the complexities of living as an African in…
Fort Process, Interviews, Sound
FORT PROCESS Geoff Reader, Graham Newbury, Daniel Mackenzie & Alistair Strachan
Fort Process, the one-day multidisciplinary experimental sound and art festival, is back on the 22nd of September for its third edition next month. With…
Biomedia, Computing Art, Interviews, Scout & Trends
GREG ORROM SWAN, A Measure of Minerality
When Greg Orrom Swan muses that he is “absorbed by the minutiae of the everyday,” he captures succinctly the question that this magazine has…
LUCRECIA DALT, earthly encounters with sound and flesh
Liminality, borders, skin, geologic formations and, at the same time, identity and belonging, are some of the concepts experimental sound artist and musician Lucrecia Dalt…
ANASTASIA PISTOFIDOU, gesturing between ourselves and the natural world
When Anastasia Pistofidou* moved from Greece to Spain in 2010 to study at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC), she already had…
AI & A.Life, Biomedia, Interviews
CHRISTA SOMMERER & LAURENT MIGNONNEAU, questioning life at different levels
Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau are not only internationally renowned media artists but also pioneering names in media art(s) culture(s) scene. Their works have…
Body Sculptures, Interviews, Scout & Trends
OLEG DOU, a concatenation of bodily possibilities
Oleg Dou’s photographs and sculptures are often described as grotesque and repulsive, but the unsettling nature of his heavily edited photographic portraits derives from…
Interviews, Robotics & Kinetics, Sónar
NICOLE L’HUILLIER, playing music in zero gravity conditions
One week after receiving a degree in architecture with maximum distinction from the University of Chile, in search of novel creative inspiration, Nicole L’Huillier…
SUSAN ROGERS, discovering new ways of creating sounds
Susan Rogers is the director of the Berklee Music Perception and Cognition Laboratory in Boston. But before that, she became famous as one of the…
Interviews, Scout & Trends, Sound
MICHAEL BEGG, sounds of daily life that lurk just beneath the surface
Michael Begg is quick to cite his sources. Talking about the wells of inspiration for his work, he credits a stranger on a train,…
Biomedia, Interviews, Scout & Trends
LUIZ ZANOTELLO, the digital is now more material than ever
Berlin-based Brazilian new media artist and designer Luiz Zanotello has been applying his background in design and technology into his practice-based artistic research and…
Architectures, Interviews, Thinkers
BENJAMIN H. BRATTON, director of The New Normal at Strelka Institute
Benjamin Bratton is the author of two essential books that help us understand the dominating effects of technology in a post/late-modernity: Dispute Plan to Prevent…
Design, Interviews, Scout & Trends
LOUIS ALDERSON-BYTHELL, a dichotomy of inspiration with biology and fashion design
Fashion: a reflection of our times, politics, showcase of individuality. Follow it or not, fashion is inescapable for the mere fact that everyone wears…
YANN NOVAK, ambiental explorations of sound and light
Listening to a Yann Novak composition is akin to sitting in Pacific Northwest rainfall. Whispers of field recordings and modular synthesizers gently percolate the atmosphere,…
Design, Interviews, Scout & Trends
HELENE STEINER, manipulating the natural world
At this particular moment, Helene Steiner is the CCO of Cell-Free Technology, a company that makes biocomputers capable of sequencing and analyzing DNA, which she…
Computing Art, Interviews, Scout & Trends
MARCUS VOLZ, an insight into the generative art debate
Generative art refers to the use of an autonomous system to produce artwork. Hence, such a system can either be the creator of the work…
Biofabricate, Design, Interviews, Series
RICHARD BECKETT, challenging the aesthetics of human structures and objects
Richard Beckett is a London-based architect and designer, and co-founder of BiotA Lab and Syn.De.Bio (Synthetic Design Biotopes) where his creativity has nourished with…
TONY ROLANDO, and the new wave of modular synthesis
There was a point a decade ago where the ubiquity of the onstage glowing apple caused something to crack in the electronic musician. The…