‘Obscene performing machines of WenZhe Li’s mental Eelness’ by Piotr Bockowski
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
‘Tangled Together in an Age of Virus’ by Charlotte Kent
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
‘Jakob Kudsk Steensen’s Swamp Song of Berl-Berl’ by Piotr Bockowski
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,…
‘Eleonora Orlandi, an architettrice in LA’ by Maurizio De Caro
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…
‘Gusztáv Hámos & Katja Pratschke, explorations of consciousness & its intersection with cinema’ by Anne Murray
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
‘Jonas Lund Land & Social Tokens, a distributed decentralised autonomous artistic practice’ by Charlotte Kent
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…
‘Amy Sands’ “Lace Reimagined”, how to create lace patterns from digitised images’ by Anne Murray
In these turbulent times, Amy Sands’ paper and transparent acrylic works, along with her Bobbin Lace Fence Project – Projection Mapping, bring a sense of…
AI & A.Life, Biomedia, Op & Ed
‘Art Laboratory Berlin’s “Swarms, Robots and Postnature” and the Power of the Masses’ by Lyndsey Walsh
Whether it be in flocks of birds, schoolings of fish or even herds of mammals, individuals who come together seem to find power through acts…
Curators, H0 Institute, Op & Ed
‘Vulnerability as Common Ground, a video essay’ 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…
‘Éva Mayer: Terra Incognita, Ani Molnár Gallery, Budapest’ by Anne Murray
Éva Mayer’s exhibition at Ani Molnár Gallery in Budapest, curated by Lili Boros, delves into the limbic space of fertility, hope, and loss and its…
Computing Art, Digital Culture, Op & Ed
‘Digital art galleries that lead the conversation around blockchain art and digital art’, by Charlotte Kent
Auction houses certainly provide a service to the art industry but their secondary market foundation makes them perhaps not the ideal place to cultivate emerging…
‘Bottom of the Well’, traumatic video-narratives of Chronic Illness 13 by Piotr Bockowski
Fungal activity has been complicit in the undercurrents of Victorian sewage that swallowed the source of Hackney Brook, one of the many forgotten rivers of…
Computing Art, Digital Culture, Op & Ed
‘John Gerrard, Blockchain and the Environment’ by Charlotte Kent
I’m sitting at the computer during the Spring Equinox on a glorious day when any number of people I know are gardening, walking through parks,…
Computing Art, Digital Culture, Op & Ed
‘Talking about Art and the Blockchain’ by Charlotte Kent
Questions of high and low art, aesthetics, and curation arise when talking about blockchain and art because many in the art world have not been…
The kaleidoscopic narrative theories and sounds of Holly Childs & Gediminas Žygus, realities that are a mirage or mirages that are real illusions (Part 2)
We retake our interview with writer and artist Holly Childs and artist Gediminas Žygus (formerly known as J.G. Biberkopf) from where we left in Part…
‘Dialogues between the sound, visual and digital-performative arts in Eufònic Urbà at Centre d’Arts Santa Mónica’ by Nicholas Burman
In the heavily automated, networked “internet of things” future we’re unevenly rattling towards, there’ll be an increasing amount of discussion about interaction and interfaces. Actor–network…
Contributors, Digital Culture, Op & Ed
‘Kid Xanthrax, on the immanence of digital anti-aesthetics’, a visual interview with Griffin Martell
The pseudonymous digital art provocateur Kid Xanthrax exists at the periphery of cyberculture, invoking irreverence for commercial, fine art “practice” through grotesque, “dank” meme aesthetics…
Contributors, Op & Ed, Robotics & Kinetics
‘When sculpture transcends form, a view on new media artist collective BREAKFAST’, by Silvia Iacovcich
For the new media artist collective BREAKFAST, the past three years have been an exciting sequence of projects blossoming worldwide. The collective boasts an extensive…
‘Posthuman Island: the story of a whistleblower’s cry for help’ by Cultural Policy
This research is a collaboration between artists from the USA, Ukraine, South Korea, England, and Germany. The show includes the work of BIPOC, non-binary and…
‘How motion graphic designers bridge the gap between what is real and what is fiction’ by Maren Häußermann
The pendulums swing back and forth in an endless movement. All three pass in perfect adjustment through holes in a hollow cylindrical form that moves…