Insight: EMA Expo 2021, exploring media art, sound art, audio-visual and digital art
The EMA Expo program is dedicated year after year to the modern interdisciplinary dialogue of the arts and current topics of the social agenda to…
SIGURÐUR GUÐJÓNSSON, creating experiential universes through uncovering hidden landscapes
Icelandic artist Sigurður Guðjónsson blends moving imagery and sound to create experiences built through the intimate observation of matter. Investigating cameras, optical instrumentation and natural…
Computing Art, Digital Culture, Op & Ed
‘Digital art galleries that lead the conversation around blockchain art and digital art’, by Charlotte Kent
Auction houses certainly provide a service to the art industry but their secondary market foundation makes them perhaps not the ideal place to cultivate emerging…
Art Russia Fair 2021: ‘The Resistance’, the act of resisting, or the capacity to resist by Daniel Solomons
Art Russia Fair is a contemporary art fair that combines art with a professional educational program. It took place between 1-4 April at Gostiny Dvor,…
Computing Art, Digital Culture, Op & Ed
‘John Gerrard, Blockchain and the Environment’ by Charlotte Kent
I’m sitting at the computer during the Spring Equinox on a glorious day when any number of people I know are gardening, walking through parks,…
Curators, Interviews, Key Artists
PETER WEIBEL, the past, present and future of artistic inventiveness
The extraordinarily complex and layered intersection between art, science, and technology has moved from the margins to become a well‐established and institutionalised approach. Curator, artist…
Computing Art, Digital Culture, Op & Ed
‘Talking about Art and the Blockchain’ by Charlotte Kent
Questions of high and low art, aesthetics, and curation arise when talking about blockchain and art because many in the art world have not been…
Insight: ‘Ten Songs for a Lar’, how objects from the past inspire the present
Objects from the past can turn out to be inspiring elements destined to reinterpret in the present by revealing a renewed meaning during different moments…
‘Dialogues between the sound, visual and digital-performative arts in Eufònic Urbà at Centre d’Arts Santa Mónica’ by Nicholas Burman
In the heavily automated, networked “internet of things” future we’re unevenly rattling towards, there’ll be an increasing amount of discussion about interaction and interfaces. Actor–network…
Editor’s Pick: ‘Semionautics Report’ by Elaine Tam & Andrew Copolov
A terrier-mix dog by the name of Nipper is sat listening to a gramophone, ears pricked, with a quizzical look on its face. This 1890s…
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: ‘Portraits of a Mind’, an enticing tribute to Bitcoin’s history by Robert Alice
Myths have existed for as long as humanity has. We all love a great story, even better if it poses a great mystery. Portraits of…
Online event: OTHER SKIES: An Exoplanetary Festival
CLOT Magazine is pleased to announce a new collaborative project with Multiverse Concert Series and SciArt Initiative, OTHER SKIES: an exoplanetary festival, a one-day online event…
Exhibition: ‘Glitch Art: Pixel Language’ at the Bavan Gallery, Tehran (Iran)
For curators Mohammad-Ali Famori and Sadeq Majlesi, the meaning of the word “glitch” extends further than a malfunctioning screen. Glitch has become a genre of…
Contributors, Digital Culture, Op & Ed
‘Kid Xanthrax, on the immanence of digital anti-aesthetics’, a visual interview with Griffin Martell
The pseudonymous digital art provocateur Kid Xanthrax exists at the periphery of cyberculture, invoking irreverence for commercial, fine art “practice” through grotesque, “dank” meme aesthetics…
Contributors, Op & Ed, Robotics & Kinetics
‘When sculpture transcends form, a view on new media artist collective BREAKFAST’, by Silvia Iacovcich
For the new media artist collective BREAKFAST, the past three years have been an exciting sequence of projects blossoming worldwide. The collective boasts an extensive…
Online series: The DAOWO Sessions, Artworld Prototypes. Reinventing the art world with blockchain
We know it, the world has gone bitcoin, cryptocurrency, blockchain crazy. Every day around us. Terms can be confusing, but more and more the general…
Open call: ‘BRILLIANT’ by Lumiere Durham 2021
This year’s edition of Lumiere, the largest festival of light in the UK inaugurated in 2009, will take place from Thursday 18th to Sunday 21st…
Computing Art, Digital Culture, News
Insight: Lumen Prize 2020, welcome to the metaverse
The Lumen Prize is a global contest that celebrates art created with technology. Launched in 2012, Lumen is run by Lumen Art Projects, a not-for-profit…
Conference: Multimedia Encounters, experimental Approaches to Ethnographic Research by UCL MAL
The Multimedia Anthropology Lab at University College London (UCL MAL) is presenting an online conference and virtual exhibition, Multimedia Encounters: Experimental Approaches to Ethnographic Research,…