Insight: Sasha R. Gregor’s ‘ThermoSibirsk’, a thermographic series on global warming
In 2018, the artist Sasha R. Gregor set off on the world’s longest railway route aboard the “Rossiya” train. This vast journey along the Trans-Siberian…
‘How motion graphic designers bridge the gap between what is real and what is fiction’ by Maren Häußermann
The pendulums swing back and forth in an endless movement. All three pass in perfect adjustment through holes in a hollow cylindrical form that moves…
Exhibition: ‘Immaterial/Re-material: A Brief History of Computing Art’ at UCCA Beijing
Immaterial/Re-material: A Brief History of Computing Art is a wide-ranging overview of the evolution of computing art from the 1960s to the present. The exhibition…
Online talk: Quantum Computing: Arts and Entanglement by Libby Heaney
On the occasion of Berlin Science Week 2020 and presented by Light Art Space (LAS), artist and researcher Libby Heaney will give an introduction on…
Exhibition: ‘AI: Love and Artificial Intelligence’ at Hyundai Motorstudio Beijing
Through video installations, three-dimensional animations, mirror tiles, multimedia interactive installations, electronic games and other forms, AI: Love and Artificial Intelligence focuses on “social intelligence” and…
AI & A.Life, Contributors, Op & Ed
‘Phreaking Hotline: Aliza Shvarts’ by Charlotte Kent
Phreaking started in the 1950s and was slang for exploring and messing with the telecommunication system. Some curious users dialed around, learning how the phone…
AI & A.Life, Contributors, Op & Ed
‘AI Am I? Yeah, We Are. Alexander Reben and the Machine’ by Charlotte Kent
“The creativity of culture has no outcome, no conclusion. It does not result in art works, artifacts, products. Creativity is a continuity that engenders itself…
GRETCHEN ANDREW, speaking the language of the Internet
Gretchen Andrew is a self-proclaimed “Internet Imperialist” and “Search Engine Artist”. With the premise that the internet can’t parse desire as a starting point, she…
Insight: Beyer and Sizemore’s speculative material research ‘For the Rest of Us’
Coming from a background in Industrial Design, the California based duo Hank Beyer and Alex Sizemore are working at the borders of Art and Design,…
NYE THOMPSON, affectivity of the artificially intelligent entity
Nye Thompson is a London-based artist, whose technology driven creativity stems from her expertise of 20+ years in the commercial software industry. Having belonged to…
AI & A.Life, Digital Culture, News
Virtual Talk: Trevor Paglen and Kate Crawford at PACE online
PACE Gallery has launched an online series that presents one-on-one conversations between artists, curators, writers, and leading thinkers of today, broadcast weekly on their Instagram…
AI & A.Life, Digital Culture, News
Online exhibition: ‘We=Link: Ten Easy Pieces’ at CAC
Due to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak social and economic routines have been interrupted, including cultural programming. In response to this current uncertainty and a time…
AI & A.Life, Digital Culture, News
Editor’s Pick: ‘Mutant Garden’ by Harm Van den Dorpel
Harm van den Dorpel is a Berlin-based Dutch conceptual artist regarded a key figure in the post-internet art movement. Alongside with other contemporaries, they developed a…
AI & A.Life, Interviews, STATE Studio
Kim Albrecht for ‘Dynamic Nodes’, January 23 at STATE Studio Berlin
The Distinction Machine in its most basic form is an experimentation on the language of machines. Not necessarily the language of code, which we use…
Digital Culture, News, Series, Sound, Unsound
Performance: Robert Henke’s CBM 8032 AV premiere at Unsound Krakow
Thinking about the appeal of the minimalism of code, when artists began to explore computers as a medium in the 1950s, technology was limited and…
AI & A.Life, Computing Art, Interviews
CASEY REAS, Creative Coding for Art and Design
Casey Reas writes software to explore emergent systems and his work spans installation, works on paper, and live performance. From works on paper to urban-scale…
Installation: Mutable VR by Chris Speed
Chris Speed is an audio-visual artist from London who creates visual abstractions across moving images. His work is a cross-section of 3d, audio-visual design and…
Digital Culture, Interviews, Sónar
LIBBY HEANEY, when quantum computing is more than a tool
Quantum physics is a little bit weird, a little bit spooky. In the 20th century, it fundamentally challenged our aeons-evolved intuitions about the physical world…
Architectures, Design, Op & Ed
IDZ arhitectura and the architectural artefacts in digital technology by Adriana Ciotau
Dana Anton and Ionut Anton (IDZ arhitectura) have always considered that it is not enough to have beautiful images as a result of a computation…
KIM ALBRECHT, contesting computing
The Distinction Machine in its most basic form is an experimentation on the language of machines. Not necessarily the language of code, which we use…