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…
To Boldly Smell What No Man Has Smelled Before by Clara Muller
Fifty years ago, on July 20, 1969, the Apollo XI mission successfully landed on the Moon. Half a billion Earthlings anxiously watched as American astronauts…
Architectures, Design, Op & Ed
IDZ arhitectura and the architectural artefacts in digital technology by Adriana Ciotau
Dana Anton and Ionut Anton (IDZ arhitectura) have always considered that it is not enough to have beautiful images as a result of a computation…
Dronica #10, a Deep Listening practice by Agata Kik
We do not only use our ears to hear but rather an act of listening belongs to the whole human body. What is more, ‘to…
Curators, H0 Institute, Op & Ed
‘Vulnerability as Common Ground’ by Michaela Büsse & Benjamin Burger
Between 01.-03.03.2019 a group of 50 artists, creatives, activists and researchers gathered for the first edition of OTHERWISE– a festival-as-research. The festival was initiated by…
The textures of Art Basel Hong Kong 2019 by Lidia Ratoi
Almost one month after Art Basel Hong Kong 2019, I wondered: what impressed me the most? What do I remember most strongly? Obviously, there were…
Emma-Kate Matthews, a cross-disciplinary creative practice by Adriana Ciotau
Emma-Kate Matthews as an architect, artist, and composer has built an amazing array of transdisciplinary projects between the interconnected fields of architecture, acoustical engineering and…
RE-TEXTURED: celebrating urban psychogeography & audio-visual nuance by Anastasia Niedinger
In a triangle of architecture, music and spectacle, Re-Textured beats on the unsung doors of audio-visual nuance and too often abridged esoterism…
Dark Havens, confronting Hidden Money & Power. The Art of Exposing Injustice, by Laura Netz
On April 5 and 6, 2019, at Kunstquartier Bethanien in Berlin, took place Dark Havens, a series of talks and workshops to explore the inner…
Biofabricate, Biomedia, Op & Ed
Maurizio Montalti and MOGU, bringing the biotechnological revolution, by Živa Brglez
Transdisciplinary, research, creativity, collaboration, bio-… there are just some of the keywords that pop-up very often, maybe too often, when we are talking about contemporary…
Aïsha Devi and her ‘disruptive chora’ by Agata Kik
Swiss-born, with Nepalese-Tibetan heritage, sound artist Aïsha Devi produces ritualistic music, while giving clubbing spiritual meaning. She believes in a performance that is active, in…