Computing Art, Interviews, Key Artists
CLEARY & CONNOLLY, the art of looking
The work of artistic couple Anne Cleary and Dennis Connolly revolves around the intriguing art of looking. According to them, how we look at…
VISIBLE CLOAKS, transcending culture through sound
In a shaker, place 1 ½ parts of computerised exotica, ½ part of linguistics, 1 part of ethnography and transculturalism and ¼ part of…
Design, Interviews, Scout & Trends
AIWU, exploring a future society driven by technology
Ruiheng Sun, as known as AIWU, holds two BE degrees; one in Facility Agricultural Science and Engineering, and the other in Industry Design (Hohai University,…
HYPHEN-LABS, human-centred design, progressive politics and technology
Last year the National Center for Women and Information Technology presented a report on the gender divide within technology. It revealed that the number of…
Computing Art, Contributors, Interviews
KATY CONNOR, the body, vertigo and the scientific sublime
“I’m always trying to challenge the fixed point of view, its security and the political, military and techno-scientific systems that uphold the privilege of…
Computing Art, Interviews, Scout & Trends
COMMON TASK, a cybernetic Russian eutopia
This November marks the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, the overthrow of the Provisional Government in Russia and the installation of the first…
Computing Art, Interviews, Series, Sónar
ALEIX FERNANDEZ, visual illusions for the digital era
Barcelona has always been a place for design and experimentation. Digital design and visual arts have flourished in the last 20 years, but more…
Interviews, Sónar, The CLOTcasts
KENRIC MCDOWELL, bringing together humans and machines
Machine learning – a method of data analysis that automates analytical model building, or the science of getting computers to act without being explicitly…
Curators, Digital Couture, Interviews
LIAM O’SHEA, bringing experimental music, art & technology
Liam O’Shea is a dedicated and passionate musician, promoter and DJ, who ‘was always attracted to the otherworldly sounds Jimi Hendrix created back in the…
Biofabricate, Design, Interviews
ALI SCHACHTSCHNEIDER, (re)imagining fashion through biotechnology
New York designer, artist and researcher Ali Schachtschneider is reinventing today’s fashion using biotechnology. As a resident artist and design experimenter at Genspace, the world’s…
Interviews, Key Artists, Sound
ROBIN RIMBAUD aka SCANNER, sound impressions of space and time
In The dreamer is still sleep – one of the latest artworks of Robin Rimbaud (aka Scanner)- the British artist explores the dreamy state…
BYRON RICH, tactical biopolitics
In an era where technology-based solutions to everything seem to be the norm, where do we draw the line between meaning and absurdity? What’s…
SERGE VUILLE & LUC HENRY, artistic experimentation, music, and living systems
In recent years artistic experimentation in music has been gaining more exposure to larger audiences. This results in unorthodox compositions that depart from conventional…
AI & A.Life, Interviews, Sound
GREG FOX, new shapes of drumming
There is a certain type of drummer who has never seen eye to eye with technology. Rhythm and drum beats relate to something primal,…
Biomedia, Interviews, Key Artists, The CLOTcasts
JOE DAVIS, from Microvenus to Astrobiology
Joe Davis is one of the seminal figures in Biomedia. His work has shocked and polarised the artistic community while at the same time…
NORIMICHI HIRAKAWA, the juxtaposition between human imagination and coding
Looking at the artwork datum from 2017 by Japanese media artist Norimichi Hirakawa, the viewer is presented with an audiovisual installation consisting of a…
Biomedia, Interviews, Scout & Trends
AMANDA BAUM & ROSE LEAHY, a view on multispecies experience
I came across the work of Amanda Baum and Rose Leahy for the first time last year in Barcelona. We did not have a…
BEAU WANZER, molecular biology and synths
It is not easy to find artists, especially musicians, with a scientific background and even less frequent, that they are trained as molecular biologists….
Biomedia, CTM, Interviews, Series
EVELINA DOMNITCH & DMITRY GELFAND, a phenomenology of art and physics
For Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand, an artistic duo based in Amsterdam, perception and observation are central processes in their practice. Observation is the…
Curators, Interviews, Thinkers
DR CHARISSA N. TERRANOVA, writer and Professor of Aesthetic Studies
Dr. Charissa N. Terranova is a U.S. based writer and educator currently an Associate Professor of Aesthetic Studies at the Edith O’Donnell Institute of…