Biomedia, Digital Culture, News
Pioneering environmental artist Agnes Denes is back with a new major installation, forty years after her seminal work Wheatfield – A Confrontation (1982), when she…
While spirituality, in some respects, embodies a process of pronounced introspection, it is also a quest and tension towards a sense of connectedness that goes…
Body Sculptures, Interviews, Key Artists
Even the most traditionally-seen art forms seem to not be able to miss the impact of new technologies; and theatre, dance and other performative arts…
Design, Interviews, Key Artists, Sound
For over thirty years, British artist Vicki Bennett – aka People Like Us – has been radically approaching audiovisual collage. Self-described as redirector and decomposer,…
Since 1991, British artist Vicki Bennett (People Like Us) has been working across the field of audio-visual collage, repurposing pre-existing footage from both the experimental…
Sheffield Doc/Fest, the pioneering digital art strand, is presenting from Mon 13 to Sun 19 Jan 2020 at the Barbican Centre, two installations, Echo by…
Interviews, Key Artists, Sound
If one would be forced to consider base level categorisations of musical instruments, it would perhaps feel instinctive to look to the contrasting nature of…
Many contemporary artists have a hand in a range of disciplines which broadens their remit beyond their core set of influences and intentions, and for…
AI & A.Life, Contributors, Op & Ed
To be more than a human means to be more than his brain, to be more than the cognitive self, it means to be her…
Emma-Kate Matthews as an architect, artist, and composer has built an amazing array of transdisciplinary projects between the interconnected fields of architecture, acoustical engineering and…
Interviews, Key Artists, Sound
In The Last Angel of History (1996), a film-essay by John Akomfrah that deals with concepts of Afrofuturism tracing de deployments of science fiction within…
Next week, on 12 April 2019, legendary Cybotron returns to perform live at Barbican London, showcasing a creative collaboration between Detroit’s pioneering Juan Atkins…
BARZAKH by The Waldorf Project, Shredded Wheat factory Welwyn Garden City, 9 April – 12 May 2019 The Waldorf Project have been engineering the most…
Digital Culture, Key Artists, News, Sound
Ryoji Ikeda was back at the Barbican for a dual show. Both parts contrasting but complimentary of the work of the groundbreaking Japanese audiovisual composer. Ikeda…
On the 7th October 2018 Barbican Hall gives its stage to Estela Oliva, who as Clon presents two London premieres, jointly titled as ‘New Rituals’….
Dawns, Mine, Crystal, Yunchul Kim, Korean Cultural Centre London, 18 September – 3 November 2018 The Korean Cultural Centre, London (KCCUK) presents Dawns, Mine, Crystal, the first UK…
Pioneering Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto and experimental electronic musician Alva Noto were together again to offer their new show called “Two” at the Barbican….
Whose Scalpel, Yen Tzu Chang, Music Hackspace, Somerset House Studios London, 9 August 2018 Taiwanese artist Yen Tzu Chang presents an artist talk followed…
“My definition of beauty is something very simple, which can express something very complex.” There’s no better way to define Carsten Nicolai’s work, one…
Computing Art, Interviews, Key Artists
The work of artistic couple Anne Cleary and Dennis Connolly revolves around the intriguing art of looking. According to them, how we look at…