A furry digital creature resembling a crossbreed between Yeti, Bulgarian protective spirits Kukeri or fantasy anime demons and a simulation of a prehistoric man is…
Biomedia, Interviews, Scout & Trends
Eryk Salvaggio’s most recent album release, Worlding, involves fungi manipulating the knobs of a specially designed synthesiser that intercepts fungal nervous system signals and translates…
Escaping mass media of formulaic overstimulation, a contemporary London music event dedicated to uncompromised deep listening has to abandon club dead-ends and symbolic bankruptcy of…
Biomedia, Contributors, Op & Ed
A squatted sewage in North London called the Dungeons of Polymorphous Pan has been hosting Chronic Illness events for 7 years now, during which it…
From the beginning of its occupation in 2015 the squatted sewage of the Dungeons of Polymorphous Pan has been obsessively invested in the theatrical devolution…
As hygiene obsessed restrictions paralysed German cultural institutions two years ago, transmediale curators decided to deconstruct the mass-congestion format of their global festival. Animated by…
All hope abandon ye who enter here is written over the gate of Dante’s Inferno and according to Karl Marx, the same words are repeated…
Contributors, Digital Culture, Op & Ed
The HOBO projects bring flaneurism to cyberspace. In the society of surveillance capitalism, services such as Google Street View commodify human living space by turning…
‘Mixed reality’ techno-ecologies we live in desperately demand a digital era Gesamtkunstwerk that would encapsulate its problematics in an exciting but non-simplistic way. Most Dismal…
Mycotopia is a utopian concept of Paul Stamets, which involves a wide variety of maverick fungal biotechnologies and other inventive practical solutions for improving the…
Lupus opened the portal of The Judgement Hall 4 years ago, at the same time setting a rather difficult challenge to the post-industrial music event…
Closed in the solitary of her West End studio, Chinese dancer WenZhe Li has been shedding her skin. Infamous for her offensive intimacy with cold-blooded…
Biomedia, Digital Culture, Op & Ed
An obsolete soviet power plant in East Berlin has become a multimedia vehicle to the city’s origin this summer. Infamous for its techno/fetish club nights,…
Fungal activity has been complicit in the undercurrents of Victorian sewage that swallowed the source of Hackney Brook, one of the many forgotten rivers of…
In the dawn of the past winter solstice, as London was just collapsing into the third lockdown, I decided to indulge in my weekly routine…
For the past 3 years the iconic for post-industrial subcultures River Lea, snaking in between East End and far East London, has been giving birth…
Viruses have always been attracted to sex. Cases of viral transmissions or contractions have been haunting the most indulgent erotic fantasies since the ancient times,…
Global Quarantine started last month and by now an estimated quarter of the world population is living under lockdown due to the mass media accelerated…
The exhibition Mushrooms: The Art, Design And Future Of Fungi invites us to ever-mutating life of symbiotic hybrids and shows that co-existence of diverse bodies…
Op & Ed, Robotics & Kinetics, Sound
A mytho-digital journey has been conceived by Jon Rafman in which the most severe anxieties of the 21st century techno-society melt into an obnoxious 3D-animated…