The day after: Berlin Atonal X(Xenakis)100, an abyssal time embodying multiplicity
While on the way to Berlin, time-bending, going in and outside of the grid, we [the writers] started to question historicity through the legacy of…
Insight: ‘Membranes Out of Order’, examining multiple perspectives of engagement emerging from art, biotech & ecology
Responding to the uses (and potential misuses) of biotechnology and the interwoven socio-political, biological, and cognitive connotations of their implementation, Membranes Out of Order is…
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…
AI & A.Life, Body Sculptures, News
Insight: Assembly Lines by Sougwen Chung, states of meditation, multi-robotic kinematics & biosensors
For nearly a decade, the practice of artist and researcher Sougwen Chung has been evolving around co-creation with robotic units. Each generation of the artist’s…
Insight: Tokoro Studio & the |ADSR| series, a newcomer to London’s experimental scene
In a city like London, it’s always exciting to see new experimental music spaces flourishing and budding new experimental nights and scenes. More exciting even…
Insight: designing new ways for humans to interact with computers in creative practice with Dr Rebecca Fiebrink
Dr Rebecca Fiebrink is a Professor of Creative Computing at the UAL Creative Computing Institute in London. Inventor of the Wekinator, a tool that has…
Insight: ‘Bending the River’ to keep Los Angeles afloat at the Fulcrum Arts festival
The majority of the world’s earliest cities were built along rivers because they were essential to the city’s survival. Rivers provide habitat for plants and…
Insight: ‘Datafixation’ at Ars Electronica 2022, a humanoid beast facing technocapital
A furry digital creature resembling a crossbreed between Yeti, Bulgarian protective spirits Kukeri or fantasy anime demons and a simulation of a prehistoric man is…
Insight: Dotcom Séance, resurrecting ghost companies & reexamining their role in Web3
New-Zealand born Berlin-based Simon Denny’s creative practice reflects an interest in technology and its advancement from the technical perspective and more profoundly explores technology’s sustained…
Insight: ‘In Our Code’, a collaboration between humans and machines in the language of code
Unit London, a global artistic platform and a pioneering contemporary gallery model, has brought together 11 innovative artists in collaboration with renowned generative art patron…
Insight: ‘Fragments of Sonic Extinction’, approaches on the extinction of natural sounds
Kalas Liebfried is a multidisciplinary artist and curator working with installation and performance, exploring the sculptural and socio-political potentials of sound with a focus on…
Insight: Destination Mars, building a house out of this world
No other planet has captured our collective imagination as Mars since we first saw it as a star-like object in the night sky. Mars is…
Insight: ‘Three in the Field’, architectural forms to tell stories of & for the diaspora
London-based artist Issi Nanabeyin is trained in Architecture. He holds an Architecture Bachelors and Masters at the Bartlett from University College of London. So being…
Insight: freq_wave, a sound installation aimed to reflect on the depth of the oceans
freq_wave (Pacific; Los Angeles) is an immersive installation by pioneering new media and conceptual artist Carl Michael von Hausswolff, who has transformed the interior of…
Insight: Artificial Renaissance, artistic human connection via an artificial bond
Today it is possible to dream and imagine in pixels, compose them in harmony through codes and algorithms, and finally download them to the physical…
Computing Art, Key Artists, News
Insight: ‘The Artist’s New Tools’, envisaging new frontiers of painting
Finishing at the end of the month, The Painter’s New Tools exhibition at Nahmad Contemporary gallery is showcasing a set of artworks by artists who…
Computing Art, Key Artists, News
JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION, contemporary positions within the current artistic landscape
The present is as much an abstract construct that seeks to impart order or grasp the impermanence of temporality as it is an experiential state…
Insight: ‘Radyo Somatodelia’, experiments in sonic animism
I feel something about the projects’ origins can be conveyed by a picture of me as a science student at the University of Hiroshima. It’s…
Insight: ‘Seed Systems – Speculative Ecologies in XR Art’, how to reimagine ecological systems
Sky Fine Foods and peer to space have joined forces to present Seed Systems: Speculative Ecologies in XR Art. This hybrid exhibition will be presented…
AI & A.Life, Digital Culture, News
Insight: Ian Cheng’s ‘Life after BOB, The Chalice Study’ at LAS
New York-based artist Ian Cheng has been creating live simulations since 2012. He explores the human mind and “an agent’s ability to deal with an…