Digital Culture, Key Artists, Op & Ed
Ulysses Jenkins, writing on his approach to art-making in the memoir Doggerel Life, states that: Those familiar with the ancients have all recognized and resonated…
CTM/transmediale, Digital Culture, Op & Ed
A pandemic while we’re in a global culture and information war wasn’t the scenario I was hoping for. It’s been a clear signal showing problematic…
Language has been granted too much power. The linguistic turn, the semiotic turn, the interpretative turn, the cultural turn: it seems that at every turn…
It’s a curious time now to open up and close down in many ways. Winter is coming, the clocks have been set back an hour,…
In 2018, it was the last time I travelled to Kraków without a Covid-19 passport on hand. Presence was the theme of Unsound Festival already…
The Sun Machine Is Coming Down! So reads the prophetic call filling my DM’s in a sudden gush. Over the last months, few messages spread…
Computing Art, Contributors, Op & Ed
In a well-known scene from It’s never sunny in Philadelphia (2016), Danny Devito plays Ongo Gablogian, an “aht” collector that sashays around a gallery verbally…
Digital Culture, Op & Ed, Sound
This year L.E.V. celebrates its 15th anniversary as one of the leading experimental music festivals in Spain. Conditioned by pandemic restrictions to festivals plus the…
Curators, Digital Culture, Op & Ed
On October 6 to 10, 2021, liquidators, scientists, experts and representatives of public, state and cultural institutions of Ukraine, the USA, Canada, Finland, Germany, Great…
AI & A.Life, Art Laboratory Berlin, Biomedia, Op & Ed
As the grand finale of the exhibition Under the Viral Shadow at Art Laboratory Berlin, the conference held on October 9 brought together the artists…
Amoenus has turned IKLECTIK Art Lab into an Ambisonic setup this year, immersed in an amalgam of audio effects. In an organisational partnership, they experiment…
The past fifteen years or so has seen the traditionally uneasy relationship between the realms of science and the arts undergo a series of changes,…
AI & A.Life, Art Laboratory Berlin, Biomedia, Op & Ed
It is clearer now more than ever that the language of the virus has spread its infection throughout the body of our culture. From the…
Closed in the solitary of her West End studio, Chinese dancer WenZhe Li has been shedding her skin. Infamous for her offensive intimacy with cold-blooded…
Computing Art, Digital Culture, Op & Ed
This summer, I saw works of tangled bodies everywhere. There is a craving for skin contact as well as anxiety about proximity in this pandemic…
Biomedia, Digital Culture, Op & Ed
An obsolete soviet power plant in East Berlin has become a multimedia vehicle to the city’s origin this summer. Infamous for its techno/fetish club nights,…
There is something magical in Eleonora Orlandi’s educational and creative path. A young “architettrice” who, after some cultural nomadism (Prague, NYC, London), landed on the…
The video work Seil (Rope, 27’30“, 2016) [1] grabs my attention from the back of the gallery as I enter. I am drawn towards the…
Computing Art, Digital Culture, Op & Ed
Ownership of certain kinds of tokens on the Ethereum blockchain, known as “social tokens,” can act as an investment in an artist’s career or help…
In these turbulent times, Amy Sands’ paper and transparent acrylic works, along with her Bobbin Lace Fence Project – Projection Mapping, bring a sense of…