Insight: Microbial Cosmologies, a future built around the microbial world
Among its many impacts, the covid-19 pandemic has challenged our eagerness to move freely and safely through towns and across borders. This year inside has…
Biomedia, Interviews, STATE Studio
ALEXANDRA DAISY GINSBERG, creatively asking how we can make the world “better”
With the many impending crises looming over humanity, it is difficult imagine what the world of tomorrow may be like. Our reliance on technological innovations…
In conversation: Vanessa Lorenzo and Debbie Ding on expanding the human ways of perceiving the world
The realm of contemporary art is vigorously growing and morphing. While all definitions of practices and institutional frameworks have shifted and blurred, contemporary art is…
‘THE BODY GARDEN’ by Fred Erik & Pleun van Dijk
No other being has transformed its surroundings so radically as humans. Throughout evolution, our clever use of technology has made us into a dominant force…
Architectures, Interviews, Key Artists
PHILIP BEESLEY, the divine technology
From the Buddhist concept of completeness in Nirvana to James Hilton’s Shangri La, a utopian place of perfection, to the biblical depiction of heaven, to…
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…
Digital Couture, Interviews, Scout & Trends
MARIA CASTELLANOS, deconstructing what counts as a human
Maria Castellanos is an artist and researcher exploring relationships between body and technology in a number of significant art&science projects. Her artistic practice is…
Biomedia, Design, News, Robotics & Kinetics
Insight: ‘Elowan’ and plant augmentation, Harpreet Sareen
Lots have been said and written about human enhancement, robotic prosthetics, cyborgs and even human-animal communication augmentation. But what about plants? What if machines…
Editor’s Pick: Art Futura 2018: The Day After
Stour Space, located in a formerly disused building in Hackney Wick, is from the outside fairly nondescript – a seemingly unlikely location for this…
Computing Art, Interviews, Scout & Trends
VIRAJ JOSHI, ‘AirWire’: coding and hand gesture
“We often find the world of coding and electronics abstract and inaccessible.” This is a statement I am sure many would agree with. Even to…
‘AmazonCare(s). Is this the future of our NHS?’ by Artemis Vergou & Miki Chiu
It’s 2030, and the NHS has been bought over by Amazon. The new service is called AmazonCare, and like all things Amazon, it’s faster, cheaper,…
Design, Interviews, Scout & Trends
AIWU, exploring a future society driven by technology
Ruiheng Sun, as known as AIWU, holds two BE degrees; one in Facility Agricultural Science and Engineering, and the other in Industry Design (Hohai University,…
HYPHEN-LABS, human-centred design, progressive politics and technology
Last year the National Center for Women and Information Technology presented a report on the gender divide within technology. It revealed that the number of…
Computing Art, Interviews, Scout & Trends
COMMON TASK, a cybernetic Russian eutopia
This November marks the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, the overthrow of the Provisional Government in Russia and the installation of the first…
Discussion Panel: CRYPTIC 2017: Art and Science
CLOT Magazine will be collaborating with Neus Torres Tamarit and Ben Murray bringing a discussion panel on the subject of art, science, and technology, for…
Design, Interviews, Key Artists, Thinkers
DUNNE & RABY, using design as a tool to critique, debate, and speculate
In opposition to the narrow role of consumer-driven design in the development of existing and emerging technologies, design duo Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby…
MARIAH WRIGHT, using design to reflect on what is arounds us
In times where our environment feels threatened, designers look, interpret, question and speculate about novel improved futures. For Mariah Wright, her explorations lay at the…
AUGER-LOIZEAU, questioning technology and its application in our everyday life
Speculative design, closely related to critical design, explores new roles for design in relation to the cultural landscape’s influence on existing and emerging technologies,…