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…
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…