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, Scout & Trends, 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…
Digital Couture, Series, Sónar, Sound
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 Couture, 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…
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 –…
Audio & Visual, Interviews, Series, Sónar, The CLOTcasts, Unsound
MATMOS, the domesticity of concréte sounds
The American experimental electronic duo Matmos are M.C. Schmidt and Drew Daniel. Both artists are the main core of the outfit but they are…
Computing Art, Interviews, Sónar
TEAMLAB, digital art transcending boundaries
teamLab is a Japanese collective and creative group that aims to blur the boundaries between art, science, technology and creativity, through co-creative activities. This…
Computing Art, Interviews, Series, Sónar
SERGI JORDÀ, leading the team that invented the ReacTable
We met Sergi Jordà on a cold and sunny winter day last March in Barcelona. And while we shared thoughts about common interests, careers…
KODE9, devoiding of content an empty circle
Steve Goodman (better known as Kode9) is an artist, DJ and founder of the influential record label Hyperdub. Born in Glasgow and resident in London,…
Computing Art, Interviews, Series, Sónar
LAWRENCE LEK, building enigmatic and paradoxical spaces
Lawrence Lek is a German-born, Malaysian-Chinese artist that creates speculative architectural scenarios and uncanny simulations. He builds enigmatic and paradoxical spaces, using gaming software,…