Festival: Sónar+D 2020 takes over the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB)
On March 11 the WHO announced COVID-19 outbreak as a pandemic and the world went into a lockdown leaving our lives and plans on a…
Event: Futurological Congress at TRANSART festival in Bolzano, Italy
Bolzano is a city in northern Italy and is one of the urban centers within the Alps. Bolzano is the starting point of TRANSART, a…
Exhibition: ‘Ai-Da Robot: Do Robots Dream of Electric Bees?’ at Annka Kultys Gallery
Ai-Da, named after Ada Lovelace, is an artificial intelligence robot who makes drawings, painting, and sculptures. She is a humanoid with human facial features and…
Editor’s Pick: ‘VESTIBULAR_1’ by Albert Barque & Marc Marzenit at Ars Electronica
Artist and researcher Albert Barqué-Duran and composer and musician Marc Marzenit are premiering today VESTIBULAR_1, an immersive audio-visual installation that induces to the audience illusory…
Online publication: ‘Cosmic Bulletin 2020’ by the Institute of the Cosmos
The Institute of the Cosmos is presenting the Cosmic Bulletin 2020, edited by Marina Simakova and designed by Alan Woo. The bulletin was commissioned for…
New column: ‘In principle, yes…’ will explore and exploit technology for social justice
Next week we’ll be starting a monthly column dedicated to speculative political interventions. Contributor Yunus will bring a series of short texts aiming to spark…
Immersive screenings: MIRA.mov by MIRA Festival in Barcelona
MIRA Festival in Barcelona is another of the festivals reinventing themselves in this transitional (hopefully) year. The impossibility of big gatherings is pushing curators, programmers…
Exhibition: Jeremy Shaw’s ‘Quantification Trilogy’ at JSC in Berlin
In her insightful book Video Art (Phaidon Press, 2020), renowned curator and founder of the video exhibition and collection programmes at MoMA Barbara London recalls…
Sound commission: freq_wave – seven seas by TBA21-Academy
TBA21-Academy can’t stop surprising us with multidisciplinary projects and commissions. And for this one, they have as involved of the most renowned sound artists and…
Online exhibition: Silicon Valet x New Art City present Dismal Sessions 001-021
Silicon Valet, the virtual parking lot for expanded internet practice, has joined forces with New Art City, a virtual exhibition platform for new media art…
Art intervention: Katarzyna Krakowiak’s ‘It begins with one word. Choose your own’ at Mies van der Rohe Pavilion
Artist Katarzyna Krakowiak creates sculptures, sounds, sound compositions and situations, all of them to find languages to describe architecture. Her latest project is a new…
Exhibition: Trevor Panglen at PACE Gallery London
PACE Gallery London is re-opening their physical space on 10th September with an exhibition exploring artificial intelligence, the politics of images, facial recognition technologies, and…
Online event: ‘Black Womxn Time Camp (004)’ by Black Quantum Futurism
Taking place on Sunday 20 and 27th of September, as a part of Black Quantum Futurism‘s Black Womxn Temporal Portal project, Black Womxn Time Camp is…
Insight: Invernomuto’s BLACK MED, exploring different sound journeys across the black Mediterranean
‘The only truth is music: it blends with the heartbeat universe and we forget the brain beat’. Jack Kerouac’s quote from 1967’s Desolation Angels almost…
Insight: Beyer and Sizemore’s speculative material research ‘For the Rest of Us’
Coming from a background in Industrial Design, the California based duo Hank Beyer and Alex Sizemore are working at the borders of Art and Design,…
Exhibition: ‘Real Feelings: Technology and Emotion’ at HeK in Basel
When in January we met Ariane Koek at a café in London we could not imagine what the future had in store for us when…
Multimedia project: Oscar Powell’s ‘a ƒolder’
Oscar Powell, L’Enfant terrible of the industrial/noise-techno and one-half of Diagonal records, is back with a whole new conceptual multimedia project. Known for his tracks…
Editor’s Pick: Lucrecia Dalt’s ‘Seca’ video by Pedro Maya with Candela Capitán
Lucrecia Dalt, Colombian musician, sound artist and RVNG Intl. family member shares her second single, titled Seca, from her forthcoming release No era sólida. The…
Exhibition: ‘And Say the Animal Responded?’ At FACT Liverpool
After the pandemic standstill, FACT Liverpool have been able to jumpstart their physical exhibition programme with a show aiming once more to make us reflect…
Insight: on Pei-Ying Lin’s “Virophilia”
The coronavirus pandemic has led to a radical global shift in the ways in which humans articulate their relationship with viruses. While the impact of…