‘A Cabinet of Interactions: Carla Gannis’ WWWunderkammer and Social VR’ by Charlotte Kent
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 Exhibit! Yours Sincerely, Siebren Versteeg and bitforms’ by Charlotte Kent
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
‘The power of the collective – when participatory design, sustainability and resilience join forces ‘ by Simona Serban
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….
‘Editorial perspectives on digital identities and alternative realities’ by Lula Criado & Meritxell Rosell
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
‘Why Cookie Monster is the mascot of Big Tech – and has been since the 1960s’ by Lucy Hunter
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…
‘Designing organs at the Transpecies Society: Hybrid Practices between Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence’ by Tatiana Afanador & Judit Pares
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
‘A look into the lab of innovative fashion creation’ by Maren Häußermann
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
‘Marianna Simnett: Contagion and Monstrous Politics’ by Eleanor Wakeford
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
‘Marianna Simnett: Contagion and the Utopian Body’ by Eleanor Wakeford
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…
‘VR experience does not mean art’ by George Vitale
For most of history, technological change unfolded slowly. Centuries of incremental advances refined and built upon existing technologies. The speed of development of Virtual Reality…
‘Tomás Sánchez and his omen to the future’ by Silvia Iacovcich
When I observed Tómas Sánchez’s artwork for the first time I was about to turn eight years old – the guiltless age when you are…
‘Same cities?! With new apertures!’ by Simona Serban
Judging from the current global situation, our environment, due to one of the most unexpected of circumstances, gets a breather, the breather it so desperately…
‘To See it in Another Light: Lazzaro Art Doesn’t Sleep’ by Charlotte Kent
On May 17th at 9pm in New York City, as the virus waned but continues to haunt our lives, I wore a mask and joined…
‘The Gendered Cable Manifesto’ by Noam Youngrak Son
USB 3.0 Extension Cable – Male to Female Adapter CordHigh-Speed Male to Female HDMI Extension CableStraight Female to Female Adapter Cable Premium Stereo Gold-PlatedMulticoloured Dupont…
‘Everything might be alright. Emergencies and their perception, a veduta from Venice’ by Pietro Consolandi
Before the explosion If a genie from the future had visited Venice just a few weeks ago, showing images of an empty Piazza San Marco…
‘Windows on a Pandemic’ by Charlotte Kent
The borders of my life these days extend to the perimeter of my apartment in New York City. Living with someone who had been tracking…
‘THE BODY GARDEN’ by Fred Erik & Pleun van Dijk
No other being has transformed its surroundings so radically as humans. Throughout evolution, our clever use of technology has made us into a dominant force…
‘Suspensions (Hanging Out and Hanging In) – suspended by Covid-19’ by Agata Kik
“Suspensions can be characterised as passages, cracks, intervals, and interstices within the institutionally gridded space-times of neoliberal capitalism. Suspensions are both physical and conceptual, taking…
‘A Sculpture for the Age of Corona Virus: Dancing on the Line Between Art and Scientific Discovery’ by Mara G. Haseltine
In 2006 I installed one of my largest sculptures to date, 12 meters in diameter, SARS Inhibited. The Sculpture is situated in a reflecting pool…
‘Views on Quarantined Bodies Online’ by Piotr Bockowski
Global Quarantine started last month and by now an estimated quarter of the world population is living under lockdown due to the mass media accelerated…