Festival: Sónar+D 2020 takes over the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB)
On March 11 the WHO announced COVID-19 outbreak as a pandemic and the world went into a lockdown leaving our lives and plans on a…
On March 11 the WHO announced COVID-19 outbreak as a pandemic and the world went into a lockdown leaving our lives and plans on a…
Quiet Ensemble is an Italian art collective comprised of Fabio di Salvo and Bernardo Vercelli. Founded in 2009, they aimed to explore the relationship between…
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.Albert Einstein Sónar 2019 have hosted more than 80 premieres, tech shows, and unique…
Digital Culture, Interviews, Sónar
Quantum physics is a little bit weird, a little bit spooky. In the 20th century, it fundamentally challenged our aeons-evolved intuitions about the physical world…
K Á R Y Y N is an LA-based visual-composer, producing music with an intense physicality influenced by the aesthetics of her environment. The Syrian-Armenian-American…
New media researcher, art historian and international curator in art, science and technology, Natalia Fuchs is the curator at Gamma Festival (St. Petersburg). She will be speaking…
The 26th edition of Sónar, Barcelona’s Festival of Music is back in July. From the 17 to 20 July some of the best creatives, thinkers,…
GAMMA Festival, various locations Saint Petersburg, 11-14 July 2019 The 4th edition of GAMMA festival will be held this year from July 11th to July…
Sónar+D is the international congress that explores how creativity is changing our present and imagining new futures. A program developed in collaboration with researchers, innovators and…
Interviews, Robotics & Kinetics, Sónar
One week after receiving a degree in architecture with maximum distinction from the University of Chile, in search of novel creative inspiration, Nicole L’Huillier…
Susan Rogers is the director of the Berklee Music Perception and Cognition Laboratory in Boston. But before that, she became famous as one of the…
To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit. Stephen Hawking Step outside on a clear, dark night, and…
Digital Culture, Fort Process, News, Series
The materiality of nature seen through a digitalised scientific and technological glass. That’s how UK based Semiconductor approach their practice. Semiconductor are artist-duo Ruth…
On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first human being to step foot on the moon. 49 years later, Sónar has become the…
‘What are the new creative and technological territories that remain unexplored?’ Asks Sónar+D, the Congress dedicated to creative technologies, which runs parallel to Sónar…
Digital Culture, Sónar, The CLOTcasts
Technological research, design, art, industry and business with a strong focus on future trends were the central axis of Sónar+D 2017. This year’s edition…
Computing Art, Interviews, Series, Sónar
Barcelona has always been a place for design and experimentation. Digital design and visual arts have flourished in the last 20 years, but more…
Interviews, Sónar, The CLOTcasts
Machine learning – a method of data analysis that automates analytical model building, or the science of getting computers to act without being explicitly…
Computing Art, Interviews, Sónar
Since he was a kid, programmer and audiovisual artist Tarik Barri knew what he loved: telling computers what to do. Barely aware that programming…
Computing Art, Interviews, Series, Sónar
How are our senses linked to reality? Can we trust our senses? How does our brain parse out contradictory sensory information? Exploring these questions…