Insight: ‘Closed Circuit’ – architectural + immersive sound installation
“If we sit and talk in a dark room, words suddenly acquire new meanings and different textures. They become richer, even than architecture, which Le…
Insight: Shai Baitel on curating Zaha Hadid’s “Close Up” exhibition at MAM Shanghai
Between July 3 and August 29, the Modern Art Museum (MAM) Shanghai hosts the Close Up – Work & Research exhibit, where visitors are invited…
MANUELA MOSCOSO, the curator behind the Liverpool Biennial 2021
Manuela Moscoso is an Ecuadorian artist and curator whose current work asks us to question the fluidity and permeability of our bodies. Through her curatorial…
Exhibition: ‘Synchronicities’ at B-Part Am Gleisdreick Gallery Berlin
When the pandemic hit, we needed to rapidly reimagine our behaviours, routines and interactions. Now, after a year into the pandemic, those changes, which were…
Computing Art, Interviews, Robotics & Kinetics
FILIPA VALENTE, mechanical interactions amid bodies and spaces
Formally trained and practising as an architect, Filipa Valente develops her cross-disciplinary practice between experiential design and architecture. Her interactive and immersive installations seduce the…
Computing Art, Interviews, Robotics & Kinetics
ERROR-43, creating organisms as an extension of our existence
Error-43 are a group of architects with a common interest: merging humans and machines organically. Starting from this concept, the ERROR-43 Research Lab. was born….
Online: New Art City Festival, a community celebration of Internet Art
New Art City celebrates its first anniversary this month. In just one year, the online exhibition space has become an exemplary platform for displaying and…
Online exhibition: ‘[Un]seen Warsaw’, AI and virtual walks by Ivona Tau
[Un]seen Warsaw is a virtual exhibition produced and curated by the artist Ivona Tau that aims to show Poland’s capital under a different light, reshaping…
Insight: Inside flora&faunavisions’ Magenta Moon Campus
Communicating engagingly is key no matter the medium. With over 20 years of delivering design experiences, the studio flora&faunavisions (FFV) triggers memories and emotions through…
Architectures, Design, Interviews
ROBOCOOP, a provocative and reflexive approach to design
ROBOCOOP – RomaBologna Cooperation – an art duo project initiated in 2012 by two photographers and architects, has research and experimentation as core beliefs for…
Event: The Planet as Festival by Terraforma Festival at Museo MACRO in Rome
The Planet as Festival is a new project by the people behind Terraforma. It takes its name and inspiration from Ettore Sottsass’s iconic series from…
Art intervention: Katarzyna Krakowiak’s ‘It begins with one word. Choose your own’ at Mies van der Rohe Pavilion
Artist Katarzyna Krakowiak creates sculptures, sounds, sound compositions and situations, all of them to find languages to describe architecture. Her latest project is a new…
Architectures, Interviews, Scout & Trends
SAGA Space Architects, on a mission to the equidistant between moon and earth
Two figures are walking through a vast scenery. Diffuse light sheds a gleam over the featureless territory. Packed up inside puffy white suits their walk…
STUDIO FORMAFANTASMA, the importance of environmental awareness translated into design
What is most striking about Studio Formafantasma, is their incredible inclination to wonder at the natural world and it’s biological, chemical, physical processes and –…
‘Same cities?! With new apertures!’ by Simona Serban
Judging from the current global situation, our environment, due to one of the most unexpected of circumstances, gets a breather, the breather it so desperately…
Interviews, Robotics & Kinetics
COLLECTIF SCALE, immersive sonic landscapes bathed in dancing lights
Spanning a wide variety of creative and professional backgrounds, Collectif Scale is a Paris-based multidisciplinary collective, composed of young artists and technicians, whose work revolves…
‘Everything might be alright. Emergencies and their perception, a veduta from Venice’ by Pietro Consolandi
Before the explosion If a genie from the future had visited Venice just a few weeks ago, showing images of an empty Piazza San Marco…
YUGE ZHOU, on the intricacies of human interactions, connections, isolations and longing across urban and natural environments
Yuge Zhou is a Chicago-based artist, art director and curator whose work focuses on the complex intricacies of human interactions and behaviours. Zhou has a…
‘There is no place like home’ by Flavio Martella and Atxu Amann y Alcocer
The coronavirus, for the nations that reacted with the quarantine, provoked what was considered impossible: the (temporary) disappearance of the material public sphere. In a…
‘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…