Computing Art, News, Scout & Trends
Programme: alt.barbican
Barbican and The Trampery have launched alt.barbican, an arts accelerator that will encompass work across artificial intelligence, radio manipulation, wearable tech and more. They…
ASVOFF, Digital Culture, News, Series
Festival: Lucy McRae wins ASVOFF9
Director Lucy McRae has won the wearable technology fashion film prize Diane Pernet presents A SHADED VIEW ON FASHION FILM 9 for her film “Institute of Isolation”…
Body Sculptures, Interviews, Key Artists
STELARC, examining ideas around the obsolescence of the human body
Professor Stelarc, Distinguished Research Fellow at the School of Design and Art at Curtin University Perth, Australia, does not need an introduction. When he…
ASVOFF, Digital Culture, Interviews, Series
KATIA VEGA, proposing novel ways of interacting with the world
When we think about cosmetics, the first words that come to our mind are lipstick, rouge, foundation, eyeshadow or mascara, to name just a few….
Unsound Krakow 2016: Highlights
What happens when you unite an exquisite selection of the most avant-garde audio and visual artists with talks, workshops, films and installations in some…
Sónar 2016: Highlights
A music festival at the forefront of the most advanced electronic music and cutting-edge digital and new media technology for more than 20 years: what…
JOANNA ZYLINSKA, writer, lecturer, artist and curator
The Earth has entered a new geo-historical period, significantly human-influenced, called Anthropocene. Humans, acting as agents, have left (and continue leaving) their fingerprints: biospheric,…
YUICHI ITO, colliding neurobiology, sound art and kinetic sculpture
Dr. Yuichi Ito is a japanese sound and media artist, theorist and researcher. CLOT Magazine came across his work through an exciting collaboration project…
Interviews, Scout & Trends, Sound
YOSHIMASA KATO, colliding neurobiology, sound art and kinetic sculpture
Dr. Yoshimasa Kato is a japanese artist, whose work spans from sound and media art to kinetic light sculpture. CLOT Magazine came across his…
ART ORIENTÉ OBJET, bluring the constraints of what it is to be human and our relationship with animals
When coming across the work of Art orienté objet (the artistic duo comprised of Marion Laval-Jeantet and Benoit Mangin) for the first time, one…
LAURA DAZA, alchemic techniques and natural materials to manufacture pigments
Laura Daza is not only a designer and an artist but also a colour hunter and maker. Colombian-born but living and working in London I…
EFFIE KOUKIA, blurring the boundaries between art, health and edible products
Many everyday products —plastics, inks, vaseline or cosmetics— are made of petroleum, a fossil made up of refined crude oil which has a negative…
Design, Interviews, Scout & Trends
ELLA BULLEY, transforming raw materials into crafted artefacts
Saccharum officinarum (sugarcane) is a perennial grass cultivated to produce sugar and other raw materials. Most of us when we see the sugarcane think of…
Design, Interviews, Scout & Trends
YAEL LEVIN, blending mechanical elements with jewellery
Yael Levin is a jewellery designer living and working in Tel-Aviv (Israel) who uses the human body as inspiration. Yael explores materials combining forms,…
NICOLAS ESTRADA, blending materials, textures and stones
I met Nicolás Estrada about five years ago in Barcelona and I have since followed his work and travels closely. Nicolás is a Colombian jeweller living…
SOOMI PARK, on human emotions, desires and interactions
Soomi Park is a multimedia artist based in London and Seoul who uses wearable devices and sensors to create installations focused on human emotions, desires…
LANZAVECCHIA+WAI, friendship and sustainable design consultancy
Designers Francesca Lanzavecchia and Hunn Wai are the founders of Lanzavecchia + Wai, a stunning creative design studio based in Pavia (Italy) and Singapore….
RÓMULO CELDRÁN, creating a new sense of tangible reality
It was love at first sight. Oversized, hyper-realistic, delicate and sensitive are some of the words that describe the creative universe of visual artist…
Biomedia, Interviews, Scout & Trends
RAFAEL GÓMEZBARROS, understanding the society in which we live
My first exposure to Rafael Gómezbarros’s work (Colombia, 1972) was at the Saatchi Gallery’s show ‘Pangaea: New Art from Africa and Latin America’. Rafael was showcasing…
Biomedia, Body Sculptures, Interviews
LUCY GLENDINNING, using the human body to provoke the viewer
British artist and poet Lucy Glendinning blends the human figure, poetry, and philosophical questions to create expressive and disturbing sculptures to explore the nature of society….