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 of London’s psychogeography….
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…
Matter Still Matters (in The Immaterial Age), by Silvia Pizzocaro
The recurrent arguments of immateriality, with its claims for shapeless functions and for information as raw material, continue occurring in a pervasively tangible world: people…
Presence: curating in the context of contemporary digital technology: Marina Abramovic, by Agata Kik
With the changing nature of curating and the rapid development of contemporary digital technology, the idea of presence in the curatorial field shifts its concerns…
‘NEW SILK: Exploring design-science collaboration for new materials’, Kirsi Niinimäki, Camilla Groth & Pirjo Kääriäinen
New Silk is a 4 year material research project conducted at Aalto University aiming to produce new types of silk-like materials in the context of…
Body Sculptures, Contributors, Op & Ed, Sound
UR-Human Presence: Electronic Exorcisms in performative art practices, by Agata Kik
We need a theatre that wakes up nerves and heart. These words today sound as contemporary, as a century ago, when Antonin Artaud advocated his Theatre…
Biomedia, Contributors, Op & Ed
‘Observing Artists in the Field: Ecologies of Senses’, by Hannah Star Rogers & Bilge Hasdemir
The Bioart Society, based in Helsinki, Finland, is the foremost bioart organisation for individual artists in the world. It sponsors art-science collaborations with an…
Weaponised Silence: An Experience With Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s ‘Saydnaya, by Allan Gardner
I want to begin with a caveat – I have been to Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s Earwitness Theatre at Chisenhale Gallery once. I attended the…
AI & A.Life, Contributors, Op & Ed
GOGO’s dream. An attempt to fulfil the dream of my Google Home, by Davide Piscitelli
The short film The Red Balloon (1956) depicts the relationship between a young Pascal Lamorisse and his red balloon. From the moment the young…