We have certainly heard it many times, from our yoga teachers, our holistic doctors, and various unofficial and scientifically tenuous channels. But does music really…
In the dawn of the past winter solstice, as London was just collapsing into the third lockdown, I decided to indulge in my weekly routine…
To drive is not just to be at the wheel of a car, helm of a ship, conductor- or directorship, but also the inner force…
If one thing has been informing new horizons for art, in recent years, it is the consolidation of novel narratives and the era of disinformation…
“Architecture in general is frozen music” – Friedrich von Schelling The Theophany sound installation by artist project Disinformation is a work of electromagnetic sound art,…
The 2020 edition of BFI’s London Film Festival presented the institution with two challenges: how to have a festival in the age of social distancing,…
AI & A.Life, Contributors, Op & Ed
Phreaking started in the 1950s and was slang for exploring and messing with the telecommunication system. Some curious users dialed around, learning how the phone…
Some argue mail art waned in the 1990s when the internet provided an alternate collaborative space, suggesting it is a kind of proto-net art [1]….
Digital Culture, Op & Ed, Sound
Matadero in Madrid was a former slaughterhouse and now one of the most important cultural spaces of the city was once again where the L.E.V….
AI & A.Life, Contributors, Op & Ed
“The creativity of culture has no outcome, no conclusion. It does not result in art works, artifacts, products. Creativity is a continuity that engenders itself…
“The effects could well be called unprecedented, magnificent, beautiful, stupendous, and terrifying. No man-made phenomenon of such tremendous power had ever occurred before. The lighting…
I walked through a painting studio to get into my VR set up and attend the (re)opening of XR artist Carla Gannis’s [1] new show…
Email exhibition is the transcoding this moment calls for. How could the email, in all its mundane glory, not become an exhibition space? Consider it…
Architectures, Contributors, Op & Ed
Today’s architecture is significantly different compared to previous styles mainly because the challenges the planet faces have finally gotten some of the attention they deserved….
In his seminal 1964 work Understanding Media, philosopher and media theorist Marshall McLuhan claimed that the medium through which a message was transmitted was so…
Contributors, Digital Culture, Op & Ed
Before he trained his appetite to edible fare, Cookie Monster devoured computers. In 1967, two years before Sesame Street hit the PBS airwaves, the woolly…
The design of cybernetic organs does not have many current references from which to seek inspiration. However, we think that Transpecies Society members are tinkering…
Contributors, Digital Couture, Op & Ed
Change the system—materials, production, consumption. We can make it better. Sustainability. Quality. Democracy. Inclusion. These words are behind the concept of the creations of fashion…
Biomedia, Contributors, Op & Ed
You and I, who are looking ahead to the future monster. We talk about synthetic reproduction. You say that it shouldn’t be called reproduction but…
Biomedia, Contributors, Op & Ed
Defying fantasies of control, corroding internal integrity, and ignoring the borders that define and defend identity, contagion is considered a threat to individual, national and…