Insight: ‘Duel’ Kinetic installation by VOLNA Collective
VOLNA is an art collective from St Petersburg whose visual art installations revolve around the interplay of light and darkness. The group first came together…
ZIV ZE’EV COHEN, technology’s impact on human modes of perception and thought
When we are thinking about relationships between ourselves and technology one thing tends to stand out: our dependence on technology. The reason is quite simple….
Exhibition: ‘Crepuscolo’ by Matteo Zamagni at Anise Gallery London
Matteo Zamagni is an Italian-born new media artist and director based in London. A while back we feature his excellent Horror Vacui, a short film…
Festival: TodaysArt 2019 in The Hague
TodaysArt is an annual international festival of art, music, and technology taking place in The Hague, Netherlands. Since its inception in 2005, TodaysArt has been…
Event: AI x Music Festival at Ars Electronica
At first glance, Artificial Intelligence and music have little in common. Music is one of the most emotional art form allowing people to express their…
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…
Insight: ART IN FLUX by Aphra Shemza, encouraging sustainability in artistic practice
Within the current art realm, technology (frequently coupled with science) is oftentimes employed for its spectacular properties, fashionable aspects or general edginess. The bet seems…
Insight: Living Symphonies at Epping Forest by Jones/Bulley
Western thinking and practice over the last centuries have brought a tangible separation of human beings from the rest of the natural world. Many scientists,…
Design, Interviews, Robotics & Kinetics
CHRISTOPHER BAUDER, unfolding the allure of light and motion
Christopher Bauder is a media artist and interaction designer living and working in Berlin. His work in large scale spatial art installations began following his…
Installation: Illuminated River by Leo Villareal
Few structures are so iconic as the numerous bridges of London and the river that runs beneath them. Thus, from May 31st to September 1st…
Installation: Neural Mirror by Ultravioletto
This summer is seeing the 62nd instalment of the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy. Founded in 1958 as an opera festival, the event…
Exhibition: ‘Olafur Eliasson: In real life’ at Tate Modern
Olafur Eliasson is a Danish-Icelandic artist who, through his art, aims to raise awareness about environmental and social crises. His work ranges across various media…
LIA, the software art pioneer and the fluidity of code
Austrian artist LIA is considered one of the pioneers of digital art and has been producing works since 1995. She is one of the very…
Editor’s Pick: Installation ‘Displuvium’
Displuvium is an artistic research conceptualised and created by Fragmentin, an art practice based in Lausanne, in close collaboration with Swiss designer Renaud Defrancesco. Fragmentin…
BINDER-A, new tools for experiential environments
binder-a is a Seoul-based collective of designers utilising cutting edge techniques and technologies to produce innovations in the field of interactive installation. Pushing the boundaries…
Event: ‘Port Out, Starboard Home’, 10 years of Posh Isolation
Posh Isolation the project founded by Christian Stadsgaard and Loke Rahbek in 2009 in Copenhagen are celebrating their 10th anniversary this weekend. Posh Isolation focuses…
Biomedia, Computing Art, Interviews
HELEEN BLANKEN, and the aestheticization of nature
Nature and culture were for centuries regarded as opposites and held as separate spheres. Within the last century, this view slowly shattered and shifted to…
RICHARD CHARTIER, a pulsating journey into microsounds and pink noise
Human beings have an extreme curiosity and capacity to understand and dissect what pushes our limits of perception, both on the micro and macro scale….
Event: Voices of Sonar+D by ME at Meliá London
Sónar+D is the international congress that explores how creativity is changing our present and imagining new futures. A program developed in collaboration with researchers, innovators and…
Festival: ‘Loom’ Barcelona
Loom festival is an interdisciplinary arts festival based in Barcelona that includes interactive audiovisual installations, performances and musical acts. Loom Festival 2019 is taking place…