Insight: ‘THE CAMILLE DIARIES’, finding kin and ‘m/othering’ life
Donna Haraway introduces us to the Camilles in the final chapter of “Staying with the Trouble” as “one of the children of the compost who…
Insight: ‘Macht Natur- Farming The Uncanny Valley’
Human hands have been radically transforming the natural world through the use of technology and machines. Over time, our relationship with the environment has been…
Biomedia, Contributors, Op & Ed
‘Marianna Simnett: Contagion and Monstrous Politics’ by Eleanor Wakeford
You and I, who are looking ahead to the future monster. We talk about synthetic reproduction. You say that it shouldn’t be called reproduction but…
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…
Insight: Cybersex versus virus, a digital night at Klub Verboten
Viruses have always been attracted to sex. Cases of viral transmissions or contractions have been haunting the most indulgent erotic fantasies since the ancient times,…
Exhibition: ‘The Otolith Group: Xenogenesis’ at ICA, Virginia, EEUU
The ICA is the only U.S. venue for Xenogenesis. Opened in 2018, the ICA showcases an ever-changing slate of exhibitions, performances, films, and special programs…
Exhibition: ‘TESTER 011’ at Rampa Lab in Ljubljana, Slovenia
Rampa Lab, a laboratory for hacking science, art and society with programmes that develop the potentials within the youth, is run in close collaboration with…
Open Call: Biofriction 2020
Hangar, Bioart Society, Kersnikova Institute, and Cultivamos Cultura are leading Biofriction, a Creative Europe project devoted to supporting Bioart and Biohacking practices. Hangar is a…
Insight: Rachel Foley’s ‘Technocratic Birth’ and the future of reproduction
Rachel Foley is an American designer exploring the intersection of emerging technologies with our existing social, economic, and cultural systems. Through design fiction, realism, film,…
Biomedia, Digital Culture, News
Insight: Mary Magic’s ‘Molecular Queering Agency’ at EcoFutures festival
Mary Maggic (Mary Tsang) is a Chinese-American artist and biohacker originally from Los Angeles. As her research for the past 3-4 years has been mostly…
Tate Exchange: ‘Higher Resolution’ by Hyphen-Labs
Tate Exchange, founded in 2016, is a platform at Tate Modern and Tate Liverpool that explores how art makes a difference in society in response…
Event: Design and Politics Season at Arcade East
Arcade East is a new exhibition space located in Hackney (London) created to focus on innovative forms of art and digital practice. Every summer Arcade…
Biomedia, Interviews, Series, STATE Studio
EMILIA TIKKA, storytelling in synthetic biology
Emilia Tikka’s speculative take on the genetic manipulation of ageing takes us to a rustic future, where a couple embrace– one symbolising the seemingly inevitable…
PAZ TORNERO, thinking through juxtapositions
Since roughly the middle of the 20th century, the concept of creativity has been popularly viewed as constitutive part of both art and science. Inasmuch…
Biomedia, Body Sculptures, Interviews, Key Artists
ORLAN, beyond any conception of the body
There aren’t any artists that have explored matters concerning beauty and aesthetics of the body so profoundly as ORLAN has. The French performance artist does…
Curators, Interviews, Series, STATE Studio
JOHANNA WALLENBORN, curator at STATE Studio Berlin
Johanna Teresa Wallenborn has worked all over the world – from Seoul to Los Angeles, and now Berlin, where she is acting as curator…
Affective Labour, Sound and the Body, Agata Kik
Who cares? A radio tale is a project co-curated by Agata Kik, Naz Bescan, Ibrahim Cisse, Benedetta d’Ettorre, Alba Folgado and Harriet Costello as part…
Live broadcast: ‘Who cares? A radio tale’ at Resonance FM
Naz Bescan, Ibrahim Cisse, Harriet Costello, Benedetta d’Ettorre, Alba Folgado and Agata Kik, are the curators behind Who cares? A radio tale. They will…