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 recent years contemporary political art seems to be experiencing a substantial upturn, contemporary artists are deeply concerned with the current social and political issues…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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
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…
“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…
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
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, a contemporary artist based in the UK, addresses her work as a search for the human essence in the material and the…