IDIL TABANCA, a creative director looking into a post lockdown future
Idil Tabanca has gone from being one of the founding editors of the successful New York-based art and fashion magazine BULLETT to being the Creative…
‘Editorial perspectives on digital identities and alternative realities’ by Lula Criado & Meritxell Rosell
In his seminal 1964 work Understanding Media, philosopher and media theorist Marshall McLuhan claimed that the medium through which a message was transmitted was so…
In conversation: Jaime de los Ríos and Brandon Tay discuss the meaning of new physicalities
As we settle deeper into an uncomfortable co-existence with the pandemic, with various approaches from governments of different countries, as well as different phases in…
Insight: Inside Reina Suyeon Mun’s space/time artworks
Reina Suyeon Mun didn’t plan to become an artist. After spending years preparing herself to study engineering physics she was struck by the thoughts that…
In conversation: Rosana Antolí and Teow Yue Han discuss the network of gestures and the digital infrastructure of movement
TikTok, the video-sharing social network is being excessively more popular within the tedium of home quarantine [1]. A radical virtuality has been borne out of…
Curators, Digital Culture, Interviews
DOREEN A. RÍOS, digital practices that challenge physical standards
Doreen A. Ríos is an independent curator, chief curator of the Centre for Digital Culture in Mexico City and a lecturer of the M.A. in…
ELAINE WHITTAKER, the delicacies of biological embroidery
Elaine Whittaker, a bioartist based in Toronto, Canada, uses a wide range of media such as sculpture, installation or digital-images to create artworks that allow…
BRANDON BALLENGÉE, how humans co-exist with nature and alter the ecosystem
Amphibians, birds, environmental catastrophes, ecological destruction, extinct species and overfishing, are some of the themes that define the creative universe of Brandon Ballengée. With…
Design, Interviews, Scout & Trends
ELLA BULLEY, transforming raw materials into crafted artefacts
Saccharum officinarum (sugarcane) is a perennial grass cultivated to produce sugar and other raw materials. Most of us when we see the sugarcane think of…
CHRISTINA AGAPAKIS, making cheese from human bacteria
Christina Agapakis —biologist and artist— explores new scenarios in order to question the relationship between humans and bacteria. Human microbes, evolutionary biology, cheese and scent are…
NICOLAS ESTRADA, blending materials, textures and stones
I met Nicolás Estrada about five years ago in Barcelona and I have since followed his work and travels closely. Nicolás is a Colombian jeweller living…
SOOMI PARK, on human emotions, desires and interactions
Soomi Park is a multimedia artist based in London and Seoul who uses wearable devices and sensors to create installations focused on human emotions, desires…
Biomedia, Body Sculptures, Interviews, Key Artists
KIRA O’REILLY, human body, art, and biomedical research
Kira O’Reilly is an internationally recognised bioartist and performer who is blurring the frontiers of art, science and performance by using her body as an…
Architectures, Design, Interviews
LANZAVECCHIA+WAI, friendship and sustainable design consultancy
Designers Francesca Lanzavecchia and Hunn Wai are the founders of Lanzavecchia + Wai, a stunning creative design studio based in Pavia (Italy) and Singapore….
Biomedia, Interviews, Scout & Trends
CLAIRE MORGAN, art, living materials, taxidermy and literature
Visual artist Claire Morgan utilises taxidermy to create sculptural installations. Her surreal and fascinating universe is inhabited by botanical and zoological specimens suspended from…
SASS BROWN, cutting-edge clothing from upcycled materials
Designer, teacher, writer, lecturer, innovator and global nomad —born in Canada and raised in Montreal, New York, New Orleans, Scotland and London— Sass Brown…
Biomedia, Interviews, Key Artists
ANNA DUMITRIU, using emerging technologies and biological matter as an artistic medium
My first exposure to the creative universe of Anna Dumitriu was when I read a piece about her work in The Guardian. Her work…
Design, Interviews, Scout & Trends
JALILA ESSAÏDI, spider silk and human tissue to make bulletproof skin
Bioartist Jalila Essaïdi has always been inspired by stories. Stories about safety, vulnerability and silk spiders. Stories about using silk in combat. Stories about…
REBECCALOUISE LAW, using hundreds of suspended flowers
Every week Columbia Road in East London has transformed into a parade of flowers thanks to the Sunday flower market. Rebecca Louise Law —London-based…
RÓMULO CELDRÁN, creating a new sense of tangible reality
It was love at first sight. Oversized, hyper-realistic, delicate and sensitive are some of the words that describe the creative universe of visual artist…