Insight: GREY MATTER AR, exploring the poetic and existential potential of selfies and AR filters
GREY MATTER AR is a series of Snapchat filters exploring the poetic and existential potential of AR and social media. With this project, artist Karen…
Festival: Driving the Human, an eco-social renewal for the collective future
Driving the Human is an artistic and scientific collaboration set up in 2020 with the aim of engaging until 2023 in the development and proposal…
Festival: Celebrating the 30th edition of ArtFutura — The Future Arrives Early
ArtFutura is a festival of Digital Culture, and Creativity established in 1990. Since then, each edition has explored and presented cutting-edge trends and projects concerning…
Insight: ‘Ten Songs for a Lar’, how objects from the past inspire the present
Objects from the past can turn out to be inspiring elements destined to reinterpret in the present by revealing a renewed meaning during different moments…
‘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…
Online exhibition: ‘[Un]seen Warsaw’, AI and virtual walks by Ivona Tau
[Un]seen Warsaw is a virtual exhibition produced and curated by the artist Ivona Tau that aims to show Poland’s capital under a different light, reshaping…
Exhibition: ‘Glitch Art: Pixel Language’ at the Bavan Gallery, Tehran (Iran)
For curators Mohammad-Ali Famori and Sadeq Majlesi, the meaning of the word “glitch” extends further than a malfunctioning screen. Glitch has become a genre of…
AI & A.Life, Interviews, Robotics & Kinetics
EMANUEL GOLLOB, doing nothing with artificial intelligence
Emanuel Gollob is an Austrian artist who uses artificial intelligence to make his audience “do nothing”. The idea behind the project is the sensation that…
Contributors, Digital Culture, Op & Ed
‘Kid Xanthrax, on the immanence of digital anti-aesthetics’, a visual interview with Griffin Martell
The pseudonymous digital art provocateur Kid Xanthrax exists at the periphery of cyberculture, invoking irreverence for commercial, fine art “practice” through grotesque, “dank” meme aesthetics…
Editor’s Pick: Matteo Zamagni’s video rework for Object Blue & TSVI’s ‘Thought Experiment’
Matteo Zamagni, the Italian-born London-based new media artist, recently presented his video collaboration with electronic music producers Object Blue and TVSI. Conceptually focused on the…
Editor’s Pick: Huma’s ‘Coherence’ video premiere
Huma is the personal project of Andrés Satué. Born in Galicia but based in Barcelona, he has an extensive career in musical experimentation, from his…
Contributors, Op & Ed, Robotics & Kinetics
‘When sculpture transcends form, a view on new media artist collective BREAKFAST’, by Silvia Iacovcich
For the new media artist collective BREAKFAST, the past three years have been an exciting sequence of projects blossoming worldwide. The collective boasts an extensive…
Events: Architecture at Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona
Barcelona is getting ready to host three international events in the field of architecture. These are the World Capital of Architecture and the World Congress…
Editor’s Pick: Dialect’s ‘Under~Between’ video premiere
Dialect is the longstanding project of Liverpool-based artist Andrew PM Hunt. His music is described (by the label, much more eloquently than we could) as a cross-pollination…
Biennale: ‘Bodies of Water’, the 13th Shanghai Biennale
Power Station of Art (PSA), the first state-run museum dedicated to contemporary art in mainland China, host Body of waters, the 13th Shanghai Biennale. Proposing…
Festival: ‘Reference Realities’ new artistic horizons for fashion’s virtual life
Opening today, Reference Realities is the virtual platform of Reference Studios, conceived in partnership with digital creators Claudia Rafael and Ben Wegscheider of Bureau Cool….
Open call: ‘BRILLIANT’ by Lumiere Durham 2021
This year’s edition of Lumiere, the largest festival of light in the UK inaugurated in 2009, will take place from Thursday 18th to Sunday 21st…
Event: Additional Tones, a tribute to Maryanne Amacher at Serralves Portugal
Additional Tones: A Tribute to Maryanne Amacher is an homage to the renowned sound artist taking place this weekend at Serralves, the well-known art institution in…
Digital Culture, News, Robotics & Kinetics
Exhibition: Gallery private views with robots at Tetem Artspace Netherlands
Something that in the internet subcultures circles almost started as a joke or meme – attaching a camera or an iPad to someone’s else body…
Insight: Colette Aliman & Lauriane Heim’s ‘Soundscapes of Fear’
Evolving practices on sound art reveal a broader cultural awareness that sight does not exclusively govern our perception of reality. Emerging as an open-ended practice…