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)…
Body Sculptures, Interviews, Key Artists
STELARC, examining ideas around the obsolescence of the human body
Professor Stelarc, Distinguished Research Fellow at the School of Design and Art at Curtin University Perth, Australia, does not need an introduction. When he…
Biomedia, Interviews, Key Artists
ANDREW PELLING, growing ears on apples
From unusual and extraordinary perspectives is how projects get started in the laboratory of Andrew Pelling, a place where the highest values are curiosity…
Biomedia, Interviews, Key Artists
ORON CATTS, confronting and re-evaluating what life is
Reflections into materiality of life, the core of existence itself, has been the creative motor of Oron Catts* (along with his partner and main…
Interviews, Key Artists, Series, Sound, Unsound
CHRIS WATSON, making audible the inaudible
I came across the work of Chris Watson when first introduced to his glacier recordings (1). I was immediately fascinated. These peculiar sounds had…
Biomedia, Interviews, Key Artists
VICTORIA VESNA, understanding how humans interact with technologies
Leading artist Victoria Vesna, Ph.D., is Director of UCLA’s Art|Sci Center and Professor at the UCLA Department of Design | Media Arts and one…
Design, Interviews, Key Artists, Thinkers
DUNNE & RABY, using design as a tool to critique, debate, and speculate
In opposition to the narrow role of consumer-driven design in the development of existing and emerging technologies, design duo Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby…
Biomedia, Interviews, Key Artists
MARTA DE MENEZES, creating artworks that literally live and die
The work of visual artist and curator Marta De Menezes, who creates artworks that literally live and die, combines both biology and art. Menezes, crossing…
BOMPAS & PARR, all about food and science
Sam Bompas and Harry Parr, are two of a kind. They live in a world of wobbly jelly buildings and towers, where flowers change…
Biomedia, Interviews, Key Artists
PAUL VANOUSE, a magician playing tricks with DNA
There seems to be compelling evidences that we are entering on what is called the “Anthropocene” era, a new geo-historical period in which humans are…
Biomedia, Interviews, Key Artists
HUNTER COLE, when molecular genetics materializes in digital art
Molecular biology is a branch of science that analyses the role of the DNA, RNA and cell function, aiding our understanding of biological activity,…
JENNIFER WILLET, reinventing the role of biotechnology and providing alternative futures
Biotechnology is one of these words that have become fairly ubiquitous in our present days, but is the lay audience aware of what it…