MIRA Festival 2022: The Day After
For its 2022 edition, Barcelona’s MIRA Festival moved from the post-industrial setting of the Fabra i Coats to the rather more nondescript Fira Montjuic. While…
Insight: ‘Bending the River’ to keep Los Angeles afloat at the Fulcrum Arts festival
The majority of the world’s earliest cities were built along rivers because they were essential to the city’s survival. Rivers provide habitat for plants and…
Editor’s pick: KUEENG by Ana Sting & Chloé Caillet, dance as a transforming spiritual practice
We are presenting Kueeng, an intimate and personal audiovisual work by artist and creative director Ana Sting and DJ and producer Chloé Caillet. This piece…
Insight: ‘Datafixation’ at Ars Electronica 2022, a humanoid beast facing technocapital
A furry digital creature resembling a crossbreed between Yeti, Bulgarian protective spirits Kukeri or fantasy anime demons and a simulation of a prehistoric man is…
Events: X100, a special Berlin Atonal’s edition celebrating Iannis Xenakis
Berlin Atonal, the annual festival originating in the German capital’s electronic experimental music art scene of the 80s, having relaunched its new version in 2013,…
Insight: ‘Requiem For Clouds’ by inklingroom, a dance dialogue with sound
‘Requiem For Clouds’ is a performance project commissioned by inklingroom, a London-based art platform specialising in combining contemporary dance and music. The collective debuted their…
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Insight: ‘Broken Spectre’, Richard Mosse’s poignant depiction of the Amazonian ecological crisis
Richard Mosse’s new immersive video installation, Broken Spectre, currently showing at 180 The Strand in London, sees the artist digging into the Brazilian Amazon’s ecological…
SEMIBREVE festival 2022: The Day After
Europeans nowadays live accustomed to a hyper-caloric diet of music experiences. The music festival explosion is well known and documented: we live in an era…
Events: Futur.Shock Strange Attractor 3-Purge at FOLD London
London’s experimental live sound and performance monthly night at FOLD Futur.Shock is back with the new season’s 3rd chapter, Purge. Collectively over the last few…
Video premiere: Missing Ear’s ‘Lost and found’, a rebellious act against information overload
Premiering today is the video for Lost and found, a track from the new album Skyquakes from drummer and sound designer Matteo Gualeni, aka Missing…
Insight: Examining the future of plants & humans with “Our Biotech Planet”
Art & Science Node, a Berlin-based platform for art, science, and technology intersections, in collaboration with the EU CHIC Innovation Consortium, a research and innovation…
Video premiere: Joachim Spieth’s ‘Terrain’ by Stanislav Glazov
German-based artist, DJ and producer Joachim Spieth founded the music label Affin in 2007. Spieth just released his Terrain, his fourth long-player on his Affin…
Insight: SEMIBREVE Art Programme 2022 brings experimental multimedia artistic gestures to Braga
SEMIBREVE is entering its second decade this year. Happening 27 – 30 October 2022 and spawned in Braga, Portugal’s Silicon Valley of the XXI century,…
Event: WHIST, where Virtual Reality meets theatre experience
AΦE is a UK-based dance company founded by Aoi Nakamura and Esteban Lecoq. AΦE has strived to rethink live performances and reinvent audience participation since…
Event: Rebecca Salvadori – The Sun Has No Shadow, two evenings of film & music
Rebecca Salvadori is a London-based video artist and experimental filmmaker with a long trajectory in filming environments following a non-hierarchical/chronological layering and sequencing of audio…
Insight: Dotcom Séance, resurrecting ghost companies & reexamining their role in Web3
New-Zealand born Berlin-based Simon Denny’s creative practice reflects an interest in technology and its advancement from the technical perspective and more profoundly explores technology’s sustained…
L.E.V. Matadero 2022: The Day After
In the year of the so-called return to normality, everything seems normal, except it is not. After emerging from the nightmare, panic and paranoia of…
Insight: ‘In Our Code’, a collaboration between humans and machines in the language of code
Unit London, a global artistic platform and a pioneering contemporary gallery model, has brought together 11 innovative artists in collaboration with renowned generative art patron…
Symposium: ‘Dis/Assembly of Performative Things’, performance as a strategy
The Dis/Assembly of Performative Things is dedicated to performance as a strategy for designers to question their discipline, the contexts it operates in as well…
Video premiere: CRUHDA – ‘Lux Ahena’, the light of bronze or the inner fight for light
The video we are premiering today is Cruhda’s Lux Ahena, directed by Judith Adataberna. The track is the first single of Cruhda’s homonymous second album Lux Ahena (Humo Internacional, 2022),…