Summit: Global Community Bio Summit
The MIT Media Lab hosted the Global Community Bio Summit this September as part of it community biotechnology initiative. The Media Lab, which has…
Exhibition: Nonhuman Networks
Art Laboratory Berlin is a non-profit exhibition and research platform established in 2006 by the artist Christian de Lutz and the art theoretician Regine…
SERGE VUILLE & LUC HENRY, artistic experimentation, music, and living systems
In recent years artistic experimentation in music has been gaining more exposure to larger audiences. This results in unorthodox compositions that depart from conventional…
Festival: Ars Electronica 2017
This September, The Ars Electronica Festival returned to Linz Austria for another rousing year. The annual festival of digital and new media art is…
Biomedia, Interviews, Key Artists, The CLOTcasts
JOE DAVIS, from Microvenus to Astrobiology
Joe Davis is one of the seminal figures in Biomedia. His work has shocked and polarised the artistic community while at the same time…
BEAU WANZER, molecular biology and synths
It is not easy to find artists, especially musicians, with a scientific background and even less frequent, that they are trained as molecular biologists….
Digital and Material Worlds: an artistic view
‘Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living. Being digital is not just being a geek or Internet surfer…
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…
Exhibition: TBA21 – Tidalectics
Seas and oceans, and the strange creatures that they sustain life in, have fascinated human beings for thousand of years but at the same time…
Biomedia, Interviews, Scout & Trends
REN RI, investigating the relationship between bees and humanity
Ren Ri is a Beijing-based biomedia artist and beekeeper whose work investigates the relationship between humanity and nature. While Ri now considers himself more…
FERRAN ADRIA, sublime food deconstruction
“From time to time, Catalan good sense closes its eyes dnd lets things be”i Nicolau M. Rubió i Tudurí (Prologue to Viatges d’Alí Bei, 1932)…
On the question of Interspecies Creativity
In February 2017, CLOT Magazine in collaboration with LASER Leonardo, organised a roundtable discussion on ‘Interspecies Creativity’. The idea came out after our talk…
AI & A.Life, Computing Art, Op & Ed
ICCMR and Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival Voice 2.0
Computing technology is nowadays present in all aspects of music. For some, like Professor Eduardo R. Miranda, understanding the relationship between musical creativity and computing…
Biofabricate, Design, Interviews, Series
GINKGO BIOWORKS, biology by design
Synthetic biology is believed to be one of our best chances to address some of the global issues of an expanding world population such as…
ÓSCAR MARTÍN, sounds born out of algorithms and microorganisms
Óscar Martín is a sound artist and programmer working in the field of generative art. Typically, generative works are systems that, when set in…
Biofabricate, Design, Interviews, Series
JAMES CARNES, VP Strategy Creation & Lead for Open Source adidas Group
Massive hunting, fishing, agriculture, brought to scale by the industrial revolution and technological advances, have altered the environment and the atmosphere. Human beings have polluted…
SIMON PARK, the art of revealing microbial life
Dr Simon Park, a bacteriologist by training, creates artistic works using the natural creativity of these powerful microorganisms. Park, a senior lecturer in Molecular Biology…
BIOFABRICATE 2016: The Day After
BIOFABRICATE is the annual conference that brings together critical thinking and design to challenge both what we know and how we use materials. The…
Biomedia, Computing Art, Interviews
THERESA SCHUBERT, unfolding human existence in relation to other life forms
Generative art is the kind of art created with the use of a (generally) non-human autonomous system which can independently determine features of the art…
ASVOFF, Digital Culture, Interviews, Series
KATIA VEGA, proposing novel ways of interacting with the world
When we think about cosmetics, the first words that come to our mind are lipstick, rouge, foundation, eyeshadow or mascara, to name just a few….