Competition: RESHAPE 19 | cognified matter
We are moving towards an era of augmentation. Wearables, smart devices, and e-textiles are new solutions for future hybrid generations of interconnected humans and devices….
Insight: Alex Nikolov & Emmy Koski from Loom Festival
Loom festival is an interdisciplinary arts festival based in Barcelona taking place on May 4, 2019, at Utopia 126. Behind Loom festival are Loom collective, an…
Festival: ‘Loom’ Barcelona
Loom festival is an interdisciplinary arts festival based in Barcelona that includes interactive audiovisual installations, performances and musical acts. Loom Festival 2019 is taking place…
CLOT Magazine recommends: APRIL
BARZAKH by The Waldorf Project, Shredded Wheat factory Welwyn Garden City, 9 April – 12 May 2019 The Waldorf Project have been engineering the most…
Editor’s Pick: ‘Temes de Disseny’, by ELISAVA Barcelona School of Design and Engineering
ELISAVA is a centre specialised in design and engineering located in the center of Barcelona close to Les Rambles attached to the Pompeu Fabra…
Open Call: Mira X Hangar Immersive Narratives for 360º Projection Dome
‘MIRA Digital Arts Festival’ and ‘Hangar’ are hoping to fill domes and planetariums with the most innovative of immersive art this year. Advertising for two…
Performance: ULTIMATE EMOJI, Albert Barqué-Duran
ULTIMATE EMOJI is one of the ten selected design prototypes to be presented at the Disseny Hub Barcelona for the 2019 Mobile World Congress….
Event: Lapsus x Unsound 2019
One of our favourite festivals, Unsound, is expanding territories to one of our favourite cities, Barcelona. In this occasion they are partnering with Lapsus,…
Computing Art, Interviews, Sound
MARTA VERDE, the artist who doesn’t know how to stop
Marta Verde feels at home crossing borders between fields and techniques, she never gets tired of exploring what technology puts on the plate, always hungry…
Curators, Digital Culture, Interviews, Sound
AIDA RODRIGUEZ, one of the minds behind MIRA festival
MIRA is a digital arts festival held annually in Barcelona (since 2011) and Berlin (since 2016) focused on new trends in digital culture…
CLOT Magazine recommends: NOVEMBER
MIRA festival, Fabra i Coats Barcelona, 8–10 November 2018 MIRA the digital arts is back in Barcelona. Focused on new trends in digital culture and technology,…
CLOT Magazine recommends: OCTOBER
Pierre Huyghe exhibition, Serpentine Gallery London, 3 October 2018 – 10 February 2019 Pierre Huyghe, one of the world’s leading conceptual artists, known for creating complex…
Architectures, Design, News, Scout & Trends
Talk: ‘Blending the Digital and the Material: current trends in fashion, design and material innovation’ Soho House BCN
In 1995, Nicholas Negroponte predicted that “being digital” would have us entering a realm increasingly unconstrained by the materiality of the world he was…
CLOT Magazine recommends: AUGUST
Whose Scalpel, Yen Tzu Chang, Music Hackspace, Somerset House Studios London, 9 August 2018 Taiwanese artist Yen Tzu Chang presents an artist talk followed…
Exhibition: ‘auto-màtic’ at Arts Santa Mònica in Barcelona
Arts Santa Mònica is a former Renaissance convent in the heart of Barcelona’s La Rambla, converted into a multi-disciplinary art centre with a special…
Sónar+D 2018: The Day After
To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit. Stephen Hawking Step outside on a clear, dark night, and…
Competition: RESHAPE18 | sensing materialities
Update: Reshape18| sensing materialities competition extend its closing deadline from August 31st to September 7th 2018 A design competition on new materialities…
CLOT Magazine recommends: JUNE
Sonar+D, Barcelona 13-16 June 2018 Sónar+D is an international congress exploring how creative minds are changing our present and imagining new futures, in collaboration with researchers, innovators and…
Digital Couture, Series, Sónar, Sound
Sónar+D 2018: Highlights
On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first human being to step foot on the moon. 49 years later, Sónar has become the…
Digital Couture, Sónar, The CLOTcasts
Sonar+D 2017 Marketlab
Technological research, design, art, industry and business with a strong focus on future trends were the central axis of Sónar+D 2017. This year’s edition…