Computing Art, Digital Culture, News
Insight: Lumen Prize 2020, welcome to the metaverse
The Lumen Prize is a global contest that celebrates art created with technology. Launched in 2012, Lumen is run by Lumen Art Projects, a not-for-profit…
Online concert: ‘Exploring Exoplanets Through Music’ by David Ibbett
The Science Museum of Virginia run experiential exhibits, programs, films, and interesting lab demos, among many other initiatives. They encourage discovery and generates ideas in…
Insight: Colette Aliman & Lauriane Heim’s ‘Soundscapes of Fear’
Evolving practices on sound art reveal a broader cultural awareness that sight does not exclusively govern our perception of reality. Emerging as an open-ended practice…
Architectures, Key Artists, News
Insight: ‘Utopia Saved’, Lee Bul and the Russian avant-garde that informed her work
Lee Bul’s first exhibition in Russia, Utopia Saved opened on November 13 in St Petersburg’s Manege Exhibition Hall. For three months, Manege is a place…
Insight: We’re all Bats Listening Art Channel
The pandemic has changed how we listen to music. With venues closed worldwide and no perspective of live music for the foreseeable future the We’re…
Insight: VHW7 by Sun Araw and Theo Triantafyllidis, audiovisual unveilings of new exoplanets
Exoplanets (per definition those planets outside our solar system) have become a matter of scientific and general interest in the last few years again. With…
Insight: Brad Nath, swaying along with the sinister whispers of the rubble
Chalky rustling fills the room. The dark stage reveals an assemblage of thirteen cored building bricks stacked on top and beside each other like a…
Insight: ‘Digital Atmosphere’, a new Augmented Reality experience by Studio Above&Below
The minds behind London-based art and design studio Studio Above&Below are Daria Jelonek & Perry-James Sugden. They founded the studio after graduating from the Royal…
Insight: El Hardwick’s debut album “8”, a modern age sci-fi cautionary tale
El Hardwick’s debut album “8” is dropping on November 20th on 33-33. Calling it, a concept album falls short; it is an epic sci-fi cautionary…
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: AMOENUS, bringing immersive sound to a new level
Immersive sound offers space itself as a new instrument to play with – for musicians and sound artists; this opens the door to completely different…
Insight: NEO, a synthesis of the arts in menswear fashion
The presentation of fashion is never just about the clothes. In the eighties, the models used to dance to music on the runways, in recent…
Insight: How digital artists are creating online galleries with HUAWEI Themes
Change and adaptation are the only constants in our lives, and experimentation at all levels is the motor of creativity. Both acceleration and transformation in…
Insight: Invernomuto’s BLACK MED, exploring different sound journeys across the black Mediterranean
‘The only truth is music: it blends with the heartbeat universe and we forget the brain beat’. Jack Kerouac’s quote from 1967’s Desolation Angels almost…
Insight: on Pei-Ying Lin’s “Virophilia”
The coronavirus pandemic has led to a radical global shift in the ways in which humans articulate their relationship with viruses. While the impact of…
Insight: Bat ultrasounds and music composition in Stuart Hyatt’s Field Works ‘Ultrasonic’
Bats are one of the most intriguing of mammals species, with their ability to fly thanks to their membranous wings and communicating by ultrasounds that…
Insight: Video art meets architectural politics, Rob Heppell’s short film for Nazar’s ‘Bunker’
In recent years contemporary political art seems to be experiencing a substantial upturn, contemporary artists are deeply concerned with the current social and political issues…
Insight: Multiverse, an interdisciplinary concert series that combines music & science in live performance
The arts have always been about sharing. Subjective interpretations of shared experiences are displayed both for the artist themselves and also for an audience. In…
Insight: ‘VR Para Llevar’ brings Latin American virtual realities to the fore
Like many precarious workers in the creative industry, Carla Serrano Pesquera found herself unemployed when COVID-19 hit. Determined to find some balance and opportunity amongst…
Insight: Styx across the River Lea by The Judgement Hall
For the past 3 years the iconic for post-industrial subcultures River Lea, snaking in between East End and far East London, has been giving birth…