Sónar+D 2019: The Day After
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…
Digital Culture, Interviews, Sónar
LIBBY HEANEY, when quantum computing is more than a tool
Quantum physics is a little bit weird, a little bit spooky. In the 20th century, it fundamentally challenged our aeons-evolved intuitions about the physical world…
K Á R Y Y N, imagining trajectories with sound
K Á R Y Y N is an LA-based visual-composer, producing music with an intense physicality influenced by the aesthetics of her environment. The Syrian-Armenian-American…
NATALIA FUCHS, curating Art, Science and Technology
New media researcher, art historian and international curator in art, science and technology, Natalia Fuchs is the curator at Gamma Festival (St. Petersburg). She will be speaking…
Sónar+D 2019: Highlights
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,…
Event: Voices of Sonar+D by ME at Meliá London
Sónar+D is the international congress that explores how creativity is changing our present and imagining new futures. A program developed in collaboration with researchers, innovators and…
Interviews, Robotics & Kinetics, Sónar
NICOLE L’HUILLIER, playing music in zero gravity conditions
One week after receiving a degree in architecture with maximum distinction from the University of Chile, in search of novel creative inspiration, Nicole L’Huillier…
SUSAN ROGERS, discovering new ways of creating sounds
Susan Rogers is the director of the Berklee Music Perception and Cognition Laboratory in Boston. But before that, she became famous as one of the…
Scout & Trends, Series, Sónar, The CLOTcasts
ALBERT BARQUÉ & MARC MARZENIT, challenging the paradigms of creativity posed by zero gravity
The Zero Gravity Band is an immersive installation of light and sound 360º that tries to induce sensations of zero gravity and an…
Sónar+D 2018: The Day After
To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit. Stephen Hawking Step outside on a clear, dark night, and…
Sónar+D 2018: Highlights
On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first human being to step foot on the moon. 49 years later, Sónar has become the…
Festival: Sónar+D 2018 announcements
‘What are the new creative and technological territories that remain unexplored?’ Asks Sónar+D, the Congress dedicated to creative technologies, which runs parallel to Sónar…
Digital Culture, Sónar, The CLOTcasts
Sonar+D 2017 Marketlab
Technological research, design, art, industry and business with a strong focus on future trends were the central axis of Sónar+D 2017. This year’s edition…
Computing Art, Interviews, Series, Sónar
ALEIX FERNANDEZ, visual illusions for the digital era
Barcelona has always been a place for design and experimentation. Digital design and visual arts have flourished in the last 20 years, but more…
Interviews, Sónar, The CLOTcasts
KENRIC MCDOWELL, bringing together humans and machines
Machine learning – a method of data analysis that automates analytical model building, or the science of getting computers to act without being explicitly…
Computing Art, Interviews, Sónar
TARIK BARRI, a journey of sound and light
Since he was a kid, programmer and audiovisual artist Tarik Barri knew what he loved: telling computers what to do. Barely aware that programming…
Computing Art, Interviews, Series, Sónar
ABSOLUTE RELATIVE, how our senses are linked to reality
How are our senses linked to reality? Can we trust our senses? How does our brain parse out contradictory sensory information? Exploring these questions…
AI & A.Life, Computing Art, Series, Sónar
Sónar+D 2017: The Day After
Sónar’s 24th edition has, for another year, closed with great success. In terms of numbers at least, with 123,000 attendees – the highest in the…
Computing Art, Interviews, Series, Sónar
SOLOMON ROGERS, a tangible world of speculative fictions
Affordable and easily available Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) are starting to become more than a plausible possibility, with reports estimating 56 million VR…
AI & A.Life, Computing Art, Series, Sónar
Sónar+D 2017: Highlights
With only 5 years of existence, Sonar+D is becoming a world reference showcase of the latest trends in digital art and creative technologies –…