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…
Architectures, Interviews, Key Artists
JENNY E. SABIN, crossing boundaries in architecture research collaboration
When we think to Jenny E. Sabin, we think about the background and ambitions that have cross boundaries in research collaboration. Her extraordinary motivation drove…
Interviews, Key Artists, Sound
SUSO SÁIZ, a giant in ambience, timbre and texture
Not many outside of Spain knew about Suso Sáiz’s music before 2016, only hardcore ambient fans and niche record collectors. Even in the country he…
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…
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, 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…