Online conference: Metaculture 2020
Metaculture is a hybrid conference on global trends of contemporaneity. A project that explores different cultural discourses following basic research approaches and welcomes everyone who’s…
Insight: VHW7 by Sun Araw and Theo Triantafyllidis, audiovisual unveilings of new exoplanets
Exoplanets (per definition those planets outside our solar system) have become a matter of scientific and general interest in the last few years again. With…
‘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…
Insight: Video art meets architectural politics, Rob Heppell’s short film for Nazar’s ‘Bunker’
In recent years contemporary political art seems to be experiencing a substantial upturn, contemporary artists are deeply concerned with the current social and political issues…
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…
JAY CROCKER, conveying on new minimalism and graphic scores
Many composers have wrestled with the idea of how to represent their music and compositions outside the traditional linear notation. In the 20th century, some…
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…
JOANIE LEMERCIER, projecting the sublime of light and space
Light as a medium, Space as a canvas with these words is how Joanie Lemercier defines his work. The French visual artist’s practice is primarily…
DASHA RUSH, transcending mind and space
In Tarkovsky’s masterpiece Stalker, the stalker, a sort of a smuggler visitor guide to the Zone [an exclusion area in which the normal laws of…
RROSE, a sinuous sound veil between the avant-garde and the darkness
Death as a creative driving force; with such a bold statement experimental artist and musician Rrose closes this interview and sets forth a most conspicuous…
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,…
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….
Interviews, Key Artists, Sound
JUAN ATKINS, reinventing the future with techno
In The Last Angel of History (1996), a film-essay by John Akomfrah that deals with concepts of Afrofuturism tracing de deployments of science fiction within…
30D Records, on techno encouters and what lies beyond us
“Are you awake? You were talking recently about the meaning… of our… life… unselfishness of art… Let’s take music… music miraculously penetrates into the very…
LUCRECIA DALT, earthly encounters with sound and flesh
Liminality, borders, skin, geologic formations and, at the same time, identity and belonging, are some of the concepts experimental sound artist and musician Lucrecia Dalt…
Biomedia, CTM/transmediale, Interviews, Series, Sound
GUY BEN-ARY, feeling like becoming a Rock and Roll star
Words by Meritxell Rosell (Twitter @dancingmoog) What if one day you woke up feeling like becoming a Rock and Roll star? Guy Ben-Ary, a LA…
Fort Process, Interviews, Series
LOUISE MACKENZIE, evolution and the genetic code blended with post-humanism
Louise Mackenzie, a contemporary artist based in the UK, addresses her work as a search for the human essence in the material and the…