While billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos tout colonising Mars and space exploration as the solution that would save the human race, multi-faceted artist…
Art Laboratory Berlin, Biomedia, Op & Ed
Following the opening of Hackers, Makers, Thinkers: Collective Experiments in Social Fermenting, Art Laboratory Berlin, in collaboration with Weizenbaum Institute at Universität der Kunste Berlin…
Contributors, Digital Culture, Op & Ed
Archivio Contemporaneo is a limited edition paper and multimedia catalogue, conceived and produced by Visioni Parallele Creative Studio. The main aim behind the project is to…
Contributors, Digital Culture, Op & Ed, Sónar
Is code synesthetic? It is a question that emerged for me after experiencing Quayola’s new work Transient. The idea behind the piece is to exploit…
Contributors, Digital Culture, Op & Ed
“Remain will edge it…”Nigel Farage, June 23rd 2016 On the night of the 2016 UK Brexit Referendum, a single phrase echoed through social media and…
Computing Art, Contributors, Op & Ed
It’s the afternoon of a jet-lagged day and I sat there thinking to myself: we’ve discussed dissociation, fatigue, and dodged the shadowy data question, all…
What technofeminism can teach the singularity [1] [W]e want new skin. The digital world provides a potential place where this can play out. Through the…
The Art of Science, a new book published by the UK based Welbeck Publishing Group dives headfirst into the shared threads of “human curiosity, craft…
The technological singularity contains nightmares. Not the ones depicted in sci-fi movies or video games that feature human survivors at war with omnicidal superintelligent robots, but vivid…
We are our environment [1]. This short phrase opens up the full dimension of the multi-layered tensions between humans and the material environment, to which…
Voice in the Mirror was an exhibition and a unique experiment never before performed, and never repeated since. Now, 5 at years since its staging…
Contributors, Digital Culture, Op & Ed
The HOBO projects bring flaneurism to cyberspace. In the society of surveillance capitalism, services such as Google Street View commodify human living space by turning…
What happens when a human addresses a piece of stone? An essential question in Emily Young’s ongoing research as an artist. With stone as her…
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…