‘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…
MARTIN J. KEMP, Emeritus Professor of the History of Art
Art and science, what we conceive as two completely separated disciplines, were intimately intrincate centuries ago, during the Renaissance for instance, exemplified in figures like…
WILLIAM MAYERS, design historian, writer and curator
American writer, curator and design historian William Myers is the author of two of must-read books focused on exploring how the traditional boundaries between art…
ARTHUR I. MILLER, Professor Emeritus of History and Philosophy of Science
Science is not only about experiments but also about understanding the natural and technological world around us by asking simple questions such as why, where…
AUGER-LOIZEAU, questioning technology and its application in our everyday life
Speculative design, closely related to critical design, explores new roles for design in relation to the cultural landscape’s influence on existing and emerging technologies,…
MATTHEW WOOLHOUSE, digital humanist and researcher
Professor Matthew Woolhouse, digital humanist and researcher at the McMaster Institute for Music and the Mind at McMaster University, is leading Nokia* funded research analysing millions of…