Op & Ed, Robotics & Kinetics, Sound
A Little Peace and Quiet’, a 1985 episode of the cult television series The Twilight Zone, ends with the image of a nuclear warhead hovering…
We live in an Epoque of great distances. Great distance between us and our native places. Or between us and our next travel destination. Or,…
Every autumn in the charming city of Utrecht there is a meeting of minds and bodies who come together in the spirit of one central…
Contributors, Op & Ed, Series, Sónar
Dystopia is a common theme on sci-fi literature, from classics such as the two little gems A Brave New World or 1984 are, to more…
AI & A.Life, Contributors, Op & Ed
To be more than a human means to be more than his brain, to be more than the cognitive self, it means to be her…
Computing Art, Contributors, Op & Ed
Remember when data was a somewhat mysterious but specific collection of figures and potential facts that existed on actual paper or inside huge, beige-grey machines…
For the past few years, the term ‘Anthropocene’ has taken on an identity of its own. Coined by Paul Crutzen in 2000, with political intentions…
RE:SOUND is part of the Media Arts Histories conference series, bringing together leading researchers, artists, and scientists on a series of interdisciplinary topics for over…
Derived from the Czech word for “hard work” or “slavery”[1], the robot is a powerful concept that allows us to explore themes such as aliveness,…
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…
Digital Culture, Op & Ed, Sónar, Sound
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.Albert Einstein Sónar 2019 have hosted more than 80 premieres, tech shows, and unique…
(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…
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…
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
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…
Digital Culture, Op & Ed, Sónar, Sound
The 26th edition of Sónar, Barcelona’s Festival of Music is back in July. From the 17 to 20 July some of the best creatives, thinkers,…
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…
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…
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 as an architect, artist, and composer has built an amazing array of transdisciplinary projects between the interconnected fields of architecture, acoustical engineering and…