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…
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
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…
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 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
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…
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
“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…
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
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,…
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
This November marks the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, the overthrow of the Provisional Government in Russia and the installation of the first…
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
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…
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…
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,…