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…
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 Culture, 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…
Computing Art, Interviews, Series, Sónar
ALEIX FERNANDEZ, visual illusions for the digital era
Barcelona has always been a place for design and experimentation. Digital design and visual arts have flourished in the last 20 years, but more…
Interviews, Sónar, The CLOTcasts
KENRIC MCDOWELL, bringing together humans and machines
Machine learning – a method of data analysis that automates analytical model building, or the science of getting computers to act without being explicitly…
Festival: MIRA Digital Arts Festival
A new edition of MIRA digital arts festival is taking place this week, starting today with the inaugural performance, to then run from the 9th…
Computing Art, Interviews, Sónar
TARIK BARRI, a journey of sound and light
Since he was a kid, programmer and audiovisual artist Tarik Barri knew what he loved: telling computers what to do. Barely aware that programming…
Computing Art, Interviews, Series, Sónar
ABSOLUTE RELATIVE, how our senses are linked to reality
How are our senses linked to reality? Can we trust our senses? How does our brain parse out contradictory sensory information? Exploring these questions…
Paper: Digital and Material Worlds: An artistic view
Last month CLOT Magazine editors gave a keynote talk at the 3rd International Conference on Biodigital Architecture & Genetics, at ESARQ (UIC Barcelona). Organized…
AI & A.Life, Computing Art, Series, Sónar
Sónar+D 2017: The Day After
Sónar’s 24th edition has, for another year, closed with great success. In terms of numbers at least, with 123,000 attendees – the highest in the…
Conference: 3rd International Conference Biodigital Architechture and Genetics
This month CLOT Magazine’s editors will be giving a keynote talk at the 3rd International Conference on Biodigital Architecture & Genetics, which runs from…