SØREN SOLKÆR, a glimpse of the universe written in the sky
It came to him in a vision. Or perhaps it was more of a memory. A large flock of birds, grouped together in a dense,…
Biomedia, Interviews, Key Artists
ADAM ZARETSKY, garage implantables, reprotech & Art, germline hacks & designer baby options
Adam Zaretsky is one of the pioneers of the BioArt movement, with a prolific career spanning over two decades. Zaretsky’s work takes on multiple formats…
Label feature: LINE, worshipping sonority as a profound artistic manifestation.
A Line, a succession of points, a fine line, a route; or many, like when talking about LINE as a label, house, family and source…
Contributors, Key Artists, Op & Ed
‘Voltages, Buddhism & an infinite listening: a tribute to Éliane Radigue’ by Miguel Isaza
Electronic music is not a genre, nor is really a style, nor is limited to a series of technical methods. Beyond these more categorical discussions,…
Computing Art, Key Artists, News
Insight: ‘The Artist’s New Tools’, envisaging new frontiers of painting
Finishing at the end of the month, The Painter’s New Tools exhibition at Nahmad Contemporary gallery is showcasing a set of artworks by artists who…
Computing Art, Key Artists, News
JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION, contemporary positions within the current artistic landscape
The present is as much an abstract construct that seeks to impart order or grasp the impermanence of temporality as it is an experiential state…
Label feature: RASTER, a data synesthesia space of intertwined ideas, sounds & graphics
The avant-garde, by nature, implies more than following patterns. It is a sense of transgressing the tendencies as such, questioning them and even more: proposing…
Insight: Alienarium 5, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster’s new solo show at The Serpentine Gallery
Over 100 years ago the celebrated fiction writer H.G. Wells wrote one of the first science fiction novels to explore relations between humans and extra…
Body Sculptures, Interviews, Key Artists
BLANCA LI, the goddess dancer enthralled with new technologies
Even the most traditionally-seen art forms seem to not be able to miss the impact of new technologies; and theatre, dance and other performative arts…
Exhibition: Fujiko Nakaya. Nebel Leben at Haus der Kunst Munich, the delicate poetry of nature
Haus der Kunst, the renowned museum and centre for contemporary art in Munich, presents the first comprehensive survey exhibition outside of Japan of the ground-breaking…
Biomedia, Interviews, Key Artists
ACKROYD & HARVEY, exploring thirty years of photographic photosynthesis
From the catwalk to the London Olympics, street protests, cultural heritage sites and the world’s most important museums, few artists have treaded such expansive ground…
Digital Culture, Key Artists, Op & Ed
‘Ulysses Jenkins’ Without Your Interpretation, considering digital ritualism in New Media’ by Christopher Michael
Ulysses Jenkins, writing on his approach to art-making in the memoir Doggerel Life, states that: Those familiar with the ancients have all recognized and resonated…
Design, Interviews, Key Artists, Sound
PEOPLE LIKE US, beyond cinematic linear perspective
For over thirty years, British artist Vicki Bennett – aka People Like Us – has been radically approaching audiovisual collage. Self-described as redirector and decomposer,…
Curators, Interviews, Key Artists
PETER WEIBEL, the past, present and future of artistic inventiveness
The extraordinarily complex and layered intersection between art, science, and technology has moved from the margins to become a well‐established and institutionalised approach. Curator, artist…
Computing Art, Interviews, Key Artists
LÁSZLÓ BARABÁSI, revealing how networks determine complex systems
Network scientist Dr Albert-László Barabási is a revealer of the hidden order amongst the chaos that we find in complex systems. As a pioneer in…
Architectures, Key Artists, Manege, News
Insight: ‘Utopia Saved’, Lee Bul and the Russian avant-garde that informed her work
Lee Bul’s first exhibition in Russia, Utopia Saved opened on November 13 in St Petersburg’s Manege Exhibition Hall. For three months, Manege is a place…
Architectures, Interviews, Key Artists
PHILIP BEESLEY, the divine technology
From the Buddhist concept of completeness in Nirvana to James Hilton’s Shangri La, a utopian place of perfection, to the biblical depiction of heaven, to…
Architectures, Design, Interviews, Key Artists
GREG LYNN, applying technology in architecture and design
The nature of technology is explored in Greg Lynn’s practice, in a way in which technology changes the way we perceive architecture and how we…
Interviews, Key Artists, Sound
SUZANNE CIANI, a conversation on technology and timbre
If one would be forced to consider base level categorisations of musical instruments, it would perhaps feel instinctive to look to the contrasting nature of…
Architectures, Interviews, Key Artists
LEO VILLAREAL, deploying technology to engender entrancing light experiences
Add a sculpture to a town square and you still have a town square. Put the same sculpture in an empty room and you have…