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…
Curators, H0 Institute, Interviews
MICHAELA BüSSE & BENJAMIN BURGER, Otherwise Festival: a call for new mindsets to envision a better future
It’s hard to ignore the stories and statistics; our human reign over the Earth is coming to a sputtering end. We’re dragging our climate, our…
GAZELLE TWIN, surrounded by androgynous demons
Gazelle Twin, aka Elizabeth Bernholz, last album Pastoral (Anti-Ghost Moon Ray) features dreamy synths and voices, in a hallucinatory schizoid stat that announces more a…
Design, Interviews, Sound, Unsound
Insight: ALEKSANDRA GRüNHOLZ, the allure of the dark and the grotesque
When we cannot make sense out of all the information, with which we are bombarded each day. When we cannot use reason to comprehend the…
BRAD LANER, a life in sound experimentation
Brad Laner is a musician and producer, well-known for his participation in the American shoegaze scene with Medicine, formed in 1990, as an experimental postpunk…
Interviews, Scout & Trends, Sound
YUI ONODERA, building new worlds for us to live within
Auteur Brian Eno and his groundbreaking Music for Airports may be famous the world over, but for the uninitiated, the definition or allure of ambient…
Biomedia, Interviews, Series, STATE Studio
EMILIA TIKKA, storytelling in synthetic biology
Emilia Tikka’s speculative take on the genetic manipulation of ageing takes us to a rustic future, where a couple embrace– one symbolising the seemingly inevitable…
PAZ TORNERO, thinking through juxtapositions
Since roughly the middle of the 20th century, the concept of creativity has been popularly viewed as constitutive part of both art and science. Inasmuch…
AI & A.Life, Computing Art, Interviews
JAKOB KUDSK STEENSEN, creating overwhelmingly complex worlds
Jakob Kudsk Steensen is a Danish artist and art director based in New York; currently, he is shortlisted for the Future Generation Art Prize, which…
Interviews, Scout & Trends, Sound
NICOLA SERRA, ritualistic gatherings and curating in the expanded field
Nicola Serra, born in Sardinia Island, is a London-based musician, aka IlSantoBevitore, who besides his music practice curates Dronica festival (famous for its peculiar location…
Interviews, Robotics & Kinetics, Scout & Trends
JONGHONG PARK, creation by observation
A broad range of humans who have access to any type of 21st-century machinery have gotten used to doing a broad range of things…
Interviews, Key Artists, Sound
RICHARD DEVINE, pushing sound to its furthest limits
Sound design is the [maybe no to so obvious but] intricate art to create soundtracks for a variety of disciplines from filmmaking to television production,…
Biomedia, Interviews, Scout & Trends
ŠPELA PETRIČ, relaying between humans and plants
A basic belief, embedded in many, if not all, Western religions and philosophies, is that human beings are central to the world. It is…
REHAB HAZGUI, hacking sound and biological systems
Designer and multimedia artist, Rehab Hazgui explores experimental electronics and biohacking through electromechanical sound installations and live performances involving handmade audio devices and modular synthesisers….
Biomedia, Body Sculptures, Interviews, Key Artists
ORLAN, beyond any conception of the body
There aren’t any artists that have explored matters concerning beauty and aesthetics of the body so profoundly as ORLAN has. The French performance artist does…
Digital Culture, Interviews, Scout & Trends
Editor’s pick: ‘Horror Vacui’ by MATTEO ZAMAGNI
Matteo Zamagni is an Italian born new media artist, currently living and working in London. Through the use of emerging technologies, Zamagni creates audiovisual…
Interviews, Robotics & Kinetics
Insight: MORITZ SIMON GEIST & techno robots
Moritz Simon Geist is a media artist and robotic musician. As a robotic musician, he uses everything from the clicking of failing hard drives,…
Curators, Interviews, Series, STATE Studio
JOHANNA WALLENBORN, curator at STATE Studio Berlin
Johanna Teresa Wallenborn has worked all over the world – from Seoul to Los Angeles, and now Berlin, where she is acting as curator…
Computing Art, Digital Culture, Interviews
BEN GROSSER, understanding the perception of social media
Nothing in this (digital) world is true. And Ben Grosser understands this. True to his own circuit bending philosophy, Ben Grosser uses software to…
Computing Art, Interviews, Scout & Trends
MAX HATTLER, audiovisual abstraction in the moving image
Whatever a writer may write of Max Hattler, it will be futile. Max Hattler is something you live. Feel. Experience. Max Hattler is an…