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…
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…
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…
Computing Art, 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…
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…
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE, the excitement of exploring new concepts
Jean-Michel Jarre. Where to begin? A goodwill ambassador for Unesco, president of the CICAC (the global body for authors’ societies), recipient of the Stephen…
Digital Culture, Key Artists, News
Editor’s Pick: ‘Equinoxe Infinity’, Jean-Michel Jarre
Electronic music pioneer Jean-Michel Jarre is releasing his brand new studio album Equinoxe Infinity, the sequel of his 1978 album Equinoxe. Jean-Michel Jarre has always…
Interviews, Key Artists, Sound
LAWRENCE ENGLISH, the philosopher of sound
Where does one start with when attempting to write about Lawrence English? With a career spanning almost over 20 years and using a broad…
Digital Culture, Key Artists, News, Sound
Performance review: Ryoji Ikeda at the Barbican
Ryoji Ikeda was back at the Barbican for a dual show. Both parts contrasting but complimentary of the work of the groundbreaking Japanese audiovisual composer. Ikeda…
Biomedia, Computing Art, Fort Process, Interviews, Key Artists, Series, Sound
URSULA DAMM, a cybernetic look on our public spaces
Ursula Damm is a media artist working at the intersection of art, science and technology on a delicately balanced ground. Besides, she is a…
Performance: ‘Two’, Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto at the Barbican
Pioneering Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto and experimental electronic musician Alva Noto were together again to offer their new show called “Two” at the Barbican….
Digital Couture, Key Artists, News
Exhibition: Joan Jonas at TATE Modern
Joan Jonas, a veteran of the late 1960s downtown New York scene, is one of the most significant artists in the history of video…
AI & A.Life, Computing Art, Interviews, Key Artists
COLDCUT, a journey through cut n’ paste and audiovisual innovation
There’s a particular type of artist (or musician) who, no matter how many years active, still possess an immense drive for discovery and experimentation….
Biomedia, Body Sculptures, Interviews, Key Artists
LYNN HERSHMAN LEESON & Thomas Huber, anti-body or antibody?
“The immune system is a plan for meaningful action to construct and maintain the boundaries for what may count as self and other in the…
Biomedia, Interviews, Key Artists
BERNDNAUT SMILDE, breaking light and making clouds
“Everything is temporary,” says Dutch artist Berndnaut Smilde, who uses the ephemeral nature of things as inspiration for his work. He makes perfect miniature clouds…
Interviews, Key Artists, Sound
JEFF MILLS, the wizard who came from space
The cosmos and what lays beyond our planet have fascinated human minds for thousands of years and have inspired a whole artistic and literary…
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…
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…
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…
FERRAN ADRIA, sublime food deconstruction
“From time to time, Catalan good sense closes its eyes dnd lets things be”i Nicolau M. Rubió i Tudurí (Prologue to Viatges d’Alí Bei, 1932)…