TYPOTHEQUE, the real power of words
Typotheque is a Netherlands-based type design company, focused on constantly searching for and developing new forms of creative expression in written form. Founded in 1999…
Insight: ‘Augmented Body, Altered Mind,’ delving into the workings of the brain(s) in real-time
The project grew out of AlanJames Burns’ residencies at the Performance Corporation and Science Gallery in Ireland. Initially presented during the Carlow Arts Festival in…
Biomedia, Contributors, Op & Ed
‘Crossing the Bridge, a collection of technological, experimental, sensitive & emotional works’ by Juliette Wallace
The “Decade of Restoration” (the title the United Nations gave to the last ten years of our ecosystems) has been rocky. So rocky that this…
Festival: MIRA Digital Arts Festival 2022 Barcelona
Digital arts festival MIRA returns to Barcelona on November 11-12. Running in the Catalan capital since 2011 (plus a couple of stints in Berlin), it’s…
FILIPA RAMOS, ecological entanglements of animals & humans in art & culture
An art curator and an animal lover; writer, researcher and lecturer; the Artistic Director of the Galeria Municipal do Porto in Portugal, Filipa Ramos, is…
Digital Culture, Interviews, Scout & Trends, Sound
CHRIS SPEED, blending URL/IRL alternatives to the white cube aesthetic
Chris Speed (CVS), a Goldsmiths Computational Arts program student, began his career solely as a digital artist. But his passion for music, rooted in teens…
Exhibition: ‘Tracing the Nature Cosmos’ at Pocko Gallery in London
In the early 70s, chemist James Lovelock formulated the theory of Gaia, co-developed with microbiologist Lynn Margulis. The Gaia hypothesis meant that humans were tightly…
Event: PARADISE ART LAB 2022, Art & Technology at Paradise City, South Korea
The Paradise Cultural Foundation is hosting the 2022 Paradise Art Lab Festival from May 20 to 29 at Paradise City, a hotel and resort located…
Body Sculptures, Computing Art, Interviews
HENRY MOVA, blurring the lines of art and human advancement
Our societies are increasingly becoming more and more influenced by technology as time passes. In recent years, the art world has seen an inflow of…
Computing Art, Curators, Interviews
LÍVIA NOLASCO-RÓZSÁS, beyond matter & the museums of the future
Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás is a curator and researcher from Hungary with work developed at international contemporary and media art institutions. Her interest in the constantly changing…
Computing Art, Digital Culture, Interviews
KRISTA KIM, fluorescently taking back our screens
It’s a gift and a curse – We cling to this phrase to explain away character traits and quirks of personality that manifest in helpfully…
Insight: New Rituals, spirituality in perpetual expansion and the pulse of the “now”
While spirituality, in some respects, embodies a process of pronounced introspection, it is also a quest and tension towards a sense of connectedness that goes…
Digital Culture, News, OTHERWISE
Event: ‘POLYMORPHIC FUTURES’ by OTHERWISE at Gessnerallee Zurich
OTHERWISE — Polymorphic Futures is a hybrid festival dedicated to the potential of artistic research to contribute to societal and ecological transformations. Over eight months…
Festival: Submerge 2022, innovative performance, music and creative technology
Submerge is a Manchester-based producing organisation, and international festival of innovative performance, music and creative technology, bringing together artists, audiences, and communities through radical live…
Computing Art, Digital Culture, Interviews
LAUREL JOHANNESSON, on manipulated photographies exposing the body’s vulnerability
Artist Laurel Johannesson focuses on generating experiences involving water, site-specific installations that play into the relations between body – nature, real – dream. She devotes…
Festival: MUTEKES, stimulating reflection on electronic music and the digital
MUTEKES takes place on March 7-13, 2022, in Barcelona. This 13th edition is unique because it will be one of the first occasions in Barcelona…
Exhibition: ‘Post-Growth (Na De Groei)’ by the DISNOVATION.ORG collective
How long can we continue pursuing economic growth? What ideological, social and biophysical factors precipitate the current environmental crises? What agency is available for transformative…
Insight: UBERMORGEN & Nye Thompson’s UNINVITED, the alluring and pernicious potential of horror movies
Who is dwelling inside the security cameras that continuously oversee our daily activities? Do we have any agency while being watched? Does the monitoring affect…
Exhibition: Libby Heaney’s ‘Ent-’, quantum computing as medium and subject matter
Commissioned by LAS Ent- is a major exhibition by artist and physicist Libby Heaney at The Schering Stiftung who has been experimenting with quantum computing…
Exhibition: ‘Sentient Windows’, Carson Teal’s newest body of ethereal digital work
Canadian multidisciplinary visual artist and experimental producer Carson Teal uses visuals and audio to create moments that transcend the confines of physical space. He interlaces…