Digital Culture, Op & Ed, Sound
L.E.V. Matadero Madrid, by Jacobo García
In 2007, a modest collective named “Colectivo Datatrón” decided what it seemed impossible, launch an avant-garde electronic music festival in Gijón. A city with a…
Architectures, Contributors, Op & Ed
‘Planetary Change, On Benjamin Bratton’s Terraforming and the Strelka 2020 programme’ by Tony Cho
While the term ‘terraforming’ is usually reserved for the extraterrestrial, Benjamin Bratton, the director of Strelka Institute and author of the New Normal presents a…
Architectures, Contributors, Op & Ed
‘SALON, city-architecture in the digital world’ by Adriana Ciotau
Architects are becoming more and more aware of the presence of technology-mediated cities. Alper Derinboğaz observed during his master’s program at UCLA in California: California…
Contributors, Digital Culture, Op & Ed, Sound
‘Noise and Wellness: Madeiradig’s Sonic Statement’ by Daniel Mackenzie
The unassuming island of Madeira is known for many things – Madeira wine, its round the year spring climate and forest walks. The slow pace…
‘Heavy Rotation: The Cyclical World of Sculpture’ by Daniel Mackenzie
Following earlier developments in the Middle East, the Copper Age brought into being such developments as the potter’s wheel and the first wheeled vehicles, kicking…
‘Daan Roosegaarde’s Presence as techno-poetic meditation upon human impact on Earth’ by Silvija Daniunaite
As you wander through eight hundred square meters of luminescent halls in the Groninger Museum, each bathed in an unfolding dance of phosphorescent blues and…
‘Archipiélago Madrid: A Bird’s Eye View’ by Jacobo García
Archipiélago is a music series organised at Reina Sofia Museum – leading modern art museum of Madrid – every September since 2017. Concerts and DJ…
Op & Ed, Robotics & Kinetics, Sound
‘Anxiety of Mutations’ Jon Rafman’s Dream Journal at Venice Biennale by Piotr Bockowski
A mytho-digital journey has been conceived by Jon Rafman in which the most severe anxieties of the 21st century techno-society melt into an obnoxious 3D-animated…
Op & Ed, Robotics & Kinetics, Sound
‘TAKIS: Sculptor of magnetism, light and sound’ by Frances Whorrall-Campbell
A Little Peace and Quiet’, a 1985 episode of the cult television series The Twilight Zone, ends with the image of a nuclear warhead hovering…
‘Aki Inomata, a closer look to the natural world’ by Lidia Ratoi
We live in an Epoque of great distances. Great distance between us and our native places. Or between us and our next travel destination. Or,…
‘Iris Van Herpen & Salvador Breed curating Le Guess Who? A shared notion of composition’ by Daniel Mackenzie
Every autumn in the charming city of Utrecht there is a meeting of minds and bodies who come together in the spirit of one central…
Contributors, Op & Ed, Series, Sónar
‘Solar Punk, a framework for hopeful futures’ by Jacobo García
Dystopia is a common theme on sci-fi literature, from classics such as the two little gems A Brave New World or 1984 are, to more…
AI & A.Life, Contributors, Op & Ed
Barbican ‘AI: More than Human’ – artificial agency, determinism and delusion of the cognitive self by Agata Kik
To be more than a human means to be more than his brain, to be more than the cognitive self, it means to be her…
Computing Art, Contributors, Op & Ed
On Ryoji Ikeda’s ‘data-verse’ trilogy by Daniel Mackenzie
Remember when data was a somewhat mysterious but specific collection of figures and potential facts that existed on actual paper or inside huge, beige-grey machines…
Anthropocene as the death of human narrative by Tony Cho
For the past few years, the term ‘Anthropocene’ has taken on an identity of its own. Coined by Paul Crutzen in 2000, with political intentions…
RE:SOUND 2019; Sound, Media and Art by Laura Netz
RE:SOUND is part of the Media Arts Histories conference series, bringing together leading researchers, artists, and scientists on a series of interdisciplinary topics for over…
A First-Hand Retrospective of the World’s First International Conference on Robotic Art, by Jenny Yang and Donatello T. Fletcher
Derived from the Czech word for “hard work” or “slavery”[1], the robot is a powerful concept that allows us to explore themes such as aliveness,…
On Hyperdub’s Flatlines and ‘On Vanishing Land’ by Stephen McLaughlin
Audio documents of installation pieces are a tricky thing, so much is caught up in site-specificity, and on the other hand, many are also doomed…
(Inter-) at Somerset House by Agata Kik
(Inter-) was the UK’s culmination of the Amplify project, which had its origin in 2018 in MUTEK Montréal, Canada’s festival devoted to electronic music and…
Design fiction and the precipice of politics by Sim Goodwin
We are sitting on the precipice of something. The world around us is changing ever faster, but our future seems evermore confusing. In no context…