RENNY RAMAKERS, reimagining the world with design thinking
In 1993, art historian Renny Ramakers and designer Gijs Bakker brought the work of young Dutch designers to the iconic Salone del Mobile in Milan….
FILIPA RAMOS, ecological entanglements of animals & humans in art & culture
An art curator and an animal lover; writer, researcher and lecturer; the Artistic Director of the Galeria Municipal do Porto in Portugal, Filipa Ramos, is…
Digital Culture, Interviews, Scout & Trends, Sound
CHRIS SPEED, blending URL/IRL alternatives to the white cube aesthetic
Chris Speed (CVS), a Goldsmiths Computational Arts program student, began his career solely as a digital artist. But his passion for music, rooted in teens…
Unsound Kraków 2022 — The 20th Edition: Highlights
Unsound Kraków 2022, takes place across eight days from 9th to 16th October. Since the first edition in 2003, Unsound has filled the city of…
Computing Art, Contributors, Digital Culture, Op & Ed
‘Libby Heaney’s art embodies the uncertainty of a post-quantum future’ by Fiona Glen
A cluster of white geometric pillars that resembles a technological acropolis, or the idealised space ship interiors in 20th century sci-fi – sterile but emanating…
‘An Ecological Provocatrice, a reflection on Chris Korda’s universe’ by Andra Amber Nikolayi
While billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos tout colonising Mars and space exploration as the solution that would save the human race, multi-faceted artist…
Symposium: Embracing Uncertainty, MA Art & Science 10 Year at CSM London
MA Art and Science at Central Saint Martins is celebrating their tenth year with Embracing Uncertainty: MA Art & Science 10 Year Symposium on Friday,…
Heart of Noise Festival 2022– Love Action: Highlights
In the summer festival season, Heart of Noise, as usual, stands out from other musical gatherings with similar lineups and high-profile promos. From June 2-5,…
Contributors, Digital Culture, Op & Ed
‘Archivio Contemporaneo, reinterpreting the notion of archives’ by Visioni Parallele
Archivio Contemporaneo is a limited edition paper and multimedia catalogue, conceived and produced by Visioni Parallele Creative Studio. The main aim behind the project is to…
Open Call: Unsound 2022 – BUBBLES
Unsound festival has just announced that the theme for Unsound Kraków 2022 – the 20th-anniversary Edition- is Bubbles. Plus a call for entries from artists,…
Contributors, Digital Culture, Op & Ed, Sónar
Is code synesthetic? On Quayola’s Transient by Marcus du Sautoy
Is code synesthetic? It is a question that emerged for me after experiencing Quayola’s new work Transient. The idea behind the piece is to exploit…
Pandemic tactics for a global media festival – transmediale 2021-22
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…
Contributors, Digital Culture, Op & Ed
Reality check ahead, DMSTFCTN on their book & performance ‘ECHO FX’
“Remain will edge it…”Nigel Farage, June 23rd 2016 On the night of the 2016 UK Brexit Referendum, a single phrase echoed through social media and…
Biomedia, Digital Culture, News
Insight: on the return to Gaia, a look through art exhibitions exploring our relationship to planet Earth
Pioneering environmental artist Agnes Denes is back with a new major installation, forty years after her seminal work Wheatfield – A Confrontation (1982), when she…
Computing Art, Digital Culture, Interviews
KRISTA KIM, fluorescently taking back our screens
It’s a gift and a curse – We cling to this phrase to explain away character traits and quirks of personality that manifest in helpfully…
‘Lo-fi & Pinkscale: Xngularity for a Postcapitalist Age’ by Ryan Madson (Part 2)
What technofeminism can teach the singularity [1] [W]e want new skin. The digital world provides a potential place where this can play out. Through the…
Insight: Recent Art’s Hypertext – A non-linear way of presenting information
Some call it the Information Age, Computer Age, Digital Age, or New Media Age. Regardless of the name, we are now living in a period…
‘The Art of Science’, on human curiosity, conceptualization & craft by Lyndsey Walsh
The Art of Science, a new book published by the UK based Welbeck Publishing Group dives headfirst into the shared threads of “human curiosity, craft…
Insight: The disappearance of Tianzhuo Chen – transmediale 2022
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…
‘Lo-fi & Pinkscale: from Cosmotechnics to Xngularity’ by Ryan Madson (Part 1)
The technological singularity contains nightmares. Not the ones depicted in sci-fi movies or video games that feature human survivors at war with omnicidal superintelligent robots, but vivid…