Editor’s Video Pick: ‘Kilis’ by BZMC’s with Vica Pacheco’s animations
Maxime Primault is a French musician who has generated many projects over the years, including Black Zone Myth Chant (or BZMC), originally described as «Sun…
Biomedia, Body Sculptures, News
Insight: Explantes, exposing human vulnerability to encourage organ donation
In The Phenomenon of Life, philosopher Hans Jonas described the idea of a living organism as an individual body that asserts an independence of identity…
Exhibition: ‘Outwitting Cancer – Making Sense of Nature’s Enigma’ at the Crick Institute London
Outwitting Cancer: Making Sense of Nature’s Enigma is a free exhibition that opened on 25 September 2021 and will run until 15 July 2022 at…
Art Laboratory Berlin, Biomedia, News
Insight: Diving into Marta de Menezes & Luís Graça’s ‘Paired Immunity’
Since the late nineties, Marta de Menezes has been working at the intersection of art, biology and biotechnology. Her work is focused on evolution, immunity,…
Project & exhibition: Serpentine is Becoming CLIMAVORE
Cooking Sections —established in London in 2013 by Daniel Fernández Pascual and Alon Schwabe— examines the systems that organise the world through food. They explore…
Art Laboratory Berlin, Biomedia, News
Exhibition: ‘Paired Immunity’ at Art Laboratory Berlin
Art Laboratory Berlin presents Paired Immunity, an exhibition that presents two works by bio artist Marta de Menezes and her partner, the immunologist Luís Graça. …
Art Laboratory Berlin, Computing Art, Digital Culture, News
Online conference: ‘Under the viral shadow’ by Art Laboratory Berlin
Last Saturday, the international interdisciplinary online conference Under the Viral Shadow Art Laboratory Berlin (ALB) explored various networks – biological, cybernetic and social – also in light…
Insight: Phytocene, how sound, science and technology spans non-human languages
The simultaneous coexistence of multiple arenas, the surfacing of more and more osmotic communities, the proliferation of phenomena of mutual hybridisation and reciprocal interpenetration have…
Exhibition: Gary Zhexi Zhang’s ‘Cycle 25’, exploring fictions in finance, sovereignty and cosmic speculation
Writer and artist Gary Zhexi Zhang writes about art and technology. He explores conceptions of ecology, knowledge systems and technical systems, along with politics and…
Exhibition: Jakob Kudsk Steensen’s ‘Berl-Berl’ at Halle am Berghain Berlin
Berl-Berl is a live and virtual experience. From 10 July to 26 September, visitors will experience a journey through a virtual swamp that covers Berlin’s…
Insight: the uncanny plant-life speculations of 30drop’s “Photosynthetic Zone Manifesto”
It is widely known the key roles plants play in human cultures across the globe and across and generations; from Greek and Northern European mythology,…
Open Call: EARTH WATER SKY Residency by Science Gallery Venice
Earth Water Sky is Science Gallery Venice’s 3-year residency programme for artists interested in the environment and the latest in cutting edge environmental knowledge. Every…
Performance: ‘Phytocene’, a live experimental performance at Le Marais Paris
Phytocene, from the Ancient Greek word phytos (plant), is a collective work by Oscar-winning sound designer Nicolas Becker, musician Agoria and bio-physicist Nicolas Desprat, produced…
Talks & Workshops: DocFest Exchange at Sheffield DocFest 2021
Sheffield DocFest is an international film and arts festival and marketplace with the mission to spark imaginations and empower our capacity for change. Part of…
Editor’s Pick: Matteo Zamagni’s video rework for Object Blue & TSVI’s ‘Thought Experiment’
Matteo Zamagni, the Italian-born London-based new media artist, recently presented his video collaboration with electronic music producers Object Blue and TVSI. Conceptually focused on the…
Art Laboratory Berlin, Biomedia, Interviews
ART LABORATORY BERLIN, looking at the past, present, and future of interdisciplinary art
Much like the projects that Art Laboratory Berlin gravitates towards, the space itself defies any and all categorical boundaries traditionally upheld in the art world….
Editor’s Pick: ‘A Glorious Accident’ by Eugenio Ampudia
How do viewers relate to 3-dimensional artworks has been one of the central questions of contemporary sculpture: the reappropriation of space and reinvention of form,…
Exhibition: ‘The Flavor Genome’ by Anicka Yi at Espace Louis Vuitton München
Espace Louis Vuitton is an exhibition place encouraging creation of new contemporary artworks in Tokyo, München, Venezia, Beijing and Seoul. Inaugurated in 2014 the Espace…
STEVE BISHOP, orchestrating the notions of everyday life
I came across Steve Bishop for the first time last year, when I visited his installation Deliquescing at KW Berlin which got under my skin…
Biomedia, Interviews, Key Artists
MARTA DE MENEZES, creating artworks that live and die
The work of visual artist and curator Marta De Menezes, who creates artworks that literally live and die, combines both biology and art. Menezes, crossing between…