Discussion: ‘Body and Identity: Metamorphosis in the Digital Age’ at the NEW NOW online platform
How do we conceptualise our body? It once was customary to derive a person’s identity from their inalienable bodily “constants” of gender and race, but…
Discussion: ‘Transhumanism: Beyond the Human Frontier?’ at the NEW NOW online platform
Transhumanism is a global scientific and philosophical movement whose followers seek to achieve a radical enhancement of humanity’s physical and intellectual capacities and strive to…
Discussion: ‘New ecological thinking: art initiatives and eco-activism’ at the NEW NOW online platform
Manege Central Exhibition Hall continues its series of discussions as part of the NEW NOW, an international online platform. NEW NOW is a forum for…
Discussion: ‘Mental Health: the Third Unconscious’, at the NEW NOW online platform
NEW NOW is an international online platform for exchanging ideas about and interpretations of reality and for research on the present moment. NEW NOW is…
Digital Culture, Manege, News, Thinkers
Programme: NEW NOW by Manege, a forum for the exchange of ideas to explore and generate new meanings
The trigger to the programme is the absolute uniqueness of the present moment. Humanity as a whole is facing the necessity to analyse its history…
Digital Culture, News, Thinkers
Online Discussion: Serpentine’s ‘Future Art Ecosystems 2 x the Metaverse’
Serpentine Arts Technologies will present Future Art Ecosystems 2 and discuss the metaverse and the opportunities and challenges facing artists, producers and cultural institutions within…
Interviews, Scout & Trends, Thinkers
CAROLINE SINDERS, exploring digital activism and Internet violence
An attentive interlinking of research, activism and art is what draws Caroline Sinders‘ eye and practice to the discussion and exposure of social dynamics whose…
‘Notes from the Underworld’ by Stefano Corbo
In 1638, seven years after Mount Vesuvius erupted, the Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher traveled to Naples and climbed the volcano that had just caused the…
MARTIN EYERER, the mind behind The Creative Code at Factory Berlin
Martin Eyerer isn’t your typical tech executive. Having had a long career as a DJ from founding multiple companies in the music industry, Eyerer has…
Biomedia, Interviews, Thinkers
MARIO SAVINI, enriching the bio-ethical debate in the field of biomedia
Mario Savini (PhD, University of Teramo) is an independent scholar, art critic and journalist interested in art, science and new technologies. Until 2009 he directed…
Interviews, Sound, Thinkers, Unsound
DEFORREST BROWN JR, radical practices for ‘rythmanalitical’ speculative theories
DeForrest Brown is a New York based music writer, curator and media theorist. His work blends the production of music with technology and social experience….
AI & A.Life, Digital Culture, News, Thinkers
Event: Serpentine Galleries’ Work Marathon 2018
Every year since 2000 The Serpentine Galleries with it’s two contemporary art spaces, the Serpentine Gallery and the Serpentine Sackler Gallery, in Hyde Park…
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…
Architectures, Interviews, Thinkers
BENJAMIN H. BRATTON, director of The New Normal at Strelka Institute
Benjamin Bratton is the author of two essential books that help us understand the dominating effects of technology in a post/late-modernity: Dispute Plan to Prevent…
Affective Labour, Sound and the Body, Agata Kik
Who cares? A radio tale is a project co-curated by Agata Kik, Naz Bescan, Ibrahim Cisse, Benedetta d’Ettorre, Alba Folgado and Harriet Costello as part…
Curators, Interviews, Thinkers
DR CHARISSA N. TERRANOVA, writer and Professor of Aesthetic Studies
Dr. Charissa N. Terranova is a U.S. based writer and educator currently an Associate Professor of Aesthetic Studies at the Edith O’Donnell Institute of…
DR BEN WOODARD, Philosopher
During German Romanticism (the dominant intellectual movement in the philosophy, the arts, and the culture of German-speaking countries in the late-18th and early 19th centuries)…
Audio & Visual, Interviews, Series, The CLOTcasts, Thinkers, Unsound
JOHANNES KLABBERS, on posthumanist therapy
Johannes Klabbers is an Australian writer and posthumanist therapist living and working in The Netherlands. This year, he served as the ‘resident therapist’ at…
Curators, Interviews, Thinkers
JENS HAUSER, writer and art curator
Art produced by the intersection with science, technology and new media arises from philosophical reflections and specific scientific research. But more importantly, the epistemiological…
Design, Interviews, Key Artists, Thinkers
DUNNE & RABY, using design as a tool to critique, debate, and speculate
In opposition to the narrow role of consumer-driven design in the development of existing and emerging technologies, design duo Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby…
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