Open Call: 65th BFI London Film Festival – LFF EXPANDED 2021
The BFI is opening submissions for XR and Immersive arts at the 2021 edition of the BFI London Film Festival taking place 6-17 October. Now in…
Insight: Microbial Cosmologies, a future built around the microbial world
Among its many impacts, the covid-19 pandemic has challenged our eagerness to move freely and safely through towns and across borders. This year inside has…
Speculative futures: ‘Hope in the Heat’, imagining hopeful visions of a climate-altered future
Hope in the Heat is a collaboration with futures design studio and Somerset House Studios resident Superflux. Superflux have been working with the Future Producers…
Body Sculptures, Digital Culture, News
Event: ‘TRANSGENESIS’ an abstract machine at The Orange Garden London
TRANSGENESIS is a new series of experiments by Agnes? Curated by Arturo Passacantando, Tommaso de Benedictis, and Charlie Mills is on view at The Orange…
Exhibition: Alan Warburton’s ‘RGBFAQ’, spatial video essay at arebyte Gallery London
arebyte’s 2020 programme takes the notion of Systems as its point of departure. Continuing from the 2019 theme, Home, Systems invites artists to respond to…
Insight: NOETIC, Dia Munoz on the voice of the plants
Dia Munoz is a multidisciplinary Ecuadorian artist based in London focused on the interplay between human behaviours, nature and technology. Her research revolves mainly around…
Editor’s Pick: Ramón Oliveras feat. Lukasz Polowczyk’s ‘What Remains’ video premiere
What Remains When Nothing is Left is an experimental composition based on a reconstruction of a micro poem written by artist and poet Lukasz Polowczyk. It…
Online exhibition: ‘Pieces of Me’, diving into the emerging global NFT marketplace
TRANSFER gallery in partnership with left.gallery – an artist-run gallery producing and selling downloadable objects – present Pieces of Me, an online exhibition posed as…
Exhibition: ‘Interspecies Futures [IF]’, defying the borders between fiction and reality
Center for Book Arts promotes active explorations of artistic practices related to the book as an art object. Founded in 1974, Center for Book Arts…
Computing Art, Digital Culture, News
Online exhibition: ‘Next Nature_Post Camouflage’ — Studio Frederik De Wilde
Artist Frederik De Wilde gravitates towards un/under-explored crossovers between art and science and, by extension, technology. For him, both art and science require creativity and…
Exhibition: ‘In the Age of Post-Drought’, how can contribute to research on water issues
The CID – centre for innovation and design at Grand-Hornu (Belgique) aims to promote contemporary design through exhibitions and mediation activities, highlighting innovation, experimental research,…
Open call: ‘Connect’ — artistic residencies at CERN and in scientific laboratories worldwide
Since 2014 CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics in Geneva, and Pro Helvetia Swiss Arts Council have worked together to foster experimentation through the…
Virtual Factory series: Tai Shani’s fantastical worlds ‘The Neon Hieroglyph’
The Factory, designed by Rem Koolhaas’s OMA, is a cultural space currently being built in the heart of Manchester and home to the Manchester International…
Art Russia Fair 2021: ‘The Resistance’, the act of resisting, or the capacity to resist by Daniel Solomons
Art Russia Fair is a contemporary art fair that combines art with a professional educational program. It took place between 1-4 April at Gostiny Dvor,…
Online: Sonic Cellumonials, an online cellular ceremony for you and your microbes
Artist duo Baum & Leahy have co-created together with sound artist Sofie Birch, artist and designer Greg Orrom Swan and scientific advisors Oluf Borbye Pederen…
Editor’s Pick: James Ginzburg’s ‘Absence Intact’ video premiere
James Ginzburg, one half of the industrial-experimental duo Emptyset, has wrestled with extremes, tearing apart techno and harsh noise frameworks and re-assembling them with endearing…
Insight: GREY MATTER AR, exploring the poetic and existential potential of selfies and AR filters
GREY MATTER AR is a series of Snapchat filters exploring the poetic and existential potential of AR and social media. With this project, artist Karen…
Festival: Driving the Human, an eco-social renewal for the collective future
Driving the Human is an artistic and scientific collaboration set up in 2020 with the aim of engaging until 2023 in the development and proposal…
Festival: Celebrating the 30th edition of ArtFutura — The Future Arrives Early
ArtFutura is a festival of Digital Culture, and Creativity established in 1990. Since then, each edition has explored and presented cutting-edge trends and projects concerning…
Biomedia, Digital Culture, News
Online: Material Futures Symposium 2021, exploring the impact of materials
The MA Material Futures, Central St Martins, University of the Arts London, presents a series of three evening talks at the intersection of design, biology…