We are our environment [1]. This short phrase opens up the full dimension of the multi-layered tensions between humans and the material environment, to which…
Art and science have always maintained diverse relationships with each other. For some years now, however, these have been explored anew in the context of…
The Sun Machine Is Coming Down! So reads the prophetic call filling my DM’s in a sudden gush. Over the last months, few messages spread…
AI & A.Life, Art Laboratory Berlin, Biomedia, Op & Ed
As the grand finale of the exhibition Under the Viral Shadow at Art Laboratory Berlin, the conference held on October 9 brought together the artists…
AI & A.Life, Interviews, Scout & Trends
“If we continue to restrict ourselves to viewing nature as a domain, as a work tool or material, rather than as a partner, everything is…
When the pandemic hit, we needed to rapidly reimagine our behaviours, routines and interactions. Now, after a year into the pandemic, those changes, which were…
August 2020: SAGA’s self-folding LUNARK habitat –– envisioned for a life on the moon and carefully tailored to house the two-person crew during their three-month…
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…
In the early 1950s, when the business with the ‘black gold’ took off at an enormous pace, the Arab states of the Persian Gulf became…
Architectures, Interviews, Scout & Trends
Two figures are walking through a vast scenery. Diffuse light sheds a gleam over the featureless territory. Packed up inside puffy white suits their walk…
I came across Steve Bishop for the first time last year, when I visited his installation Deliquescing at KW Berlin which got under my skin…