MIRA Festival 2022: The Day After
For its 2022 edition, Barcelona’s MIRA Festival moved from the post-industrial setting of the Fabra i Coats to the rather more nondescript Fira Montjuic. While…
Contributors, Digital Culture, Op & Ed
‘Alfie Bown’s Dream Lovers, exploring the new digital architectures and its effects’ by Nicholas Burman
For as long as digital technologies have existed, they’ve been a means through which sex and desire have been filtered and fed back to us….
‘Dialogues between the sound, visual and digital-performative arts in Eufònic Urbà at Centre d’Arts Santa Mónica’ by Nicholas Burman
In the heavily automated, networked “internet of things” future we’re unevenly rattling towards, there’ll be an increasing amount of discussion about interaction and interfaces. Actor–network…
Audio & Visual, Sound, The CLOTMix
CLOTMix: FOCUS presents On sound
Our new mixtape steems from recently launched journal-zine FOCUS On Sound, an anthology of scholarly articles and artist responses to the subject of sound. A one-shot…
Curators, Digital Culture, Interviews
ULRICH SCHRAUTH, curator of the LFF Expanded Programme 2020
BFI Southbank brought in Ulrich Schrauth to curate their debut Expanded programme of XR work for the 2020 edition of the London Film Festival. It’s…
‘BFI’s London Film Festival Expanded: The Day After’ by Nicholas Burman
The 2020 edition of BFI’s London Film Festival presented the institution with two challenges: how to have a festival in the age of social distancing,…
BAFF AKOTO, exploring diasporic consciousness and African culture in virtual reality
Further proof that the current arts zeitgeist is dominated by the acronyms XR and VR, this year’s London Film Festival features LFF Expanded*, a new…
Insight: ‘VR Para Llevar’ brings Latin American virtual realities to the fore
Like many precarious workers in the creative industry, Carla Serrano Pesquera found herself unemployed when COVID-19 hit. Determined to find some balance and opportunity amongst…