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
“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
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
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…
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…
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, a new book published by the UK based Welbeck Publishing Group dives headfirst into the shared threads of “human curiosity, craft…
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…
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…
Submerge is a Manchester-based producing organisation, and international festival of innovative performance, music and creative technology, bringing together artists, audiences, and communities through radical live…
Useless Bodies? is one of the most ambitious thematic investigations realised by Fondazione Prada to date. Open from March 30 to August 22, 2022, in…
Computing Art, Digital Culture, Interviews
Artist Laurel Johannesson focuses on generating experiences involving water, site-specific installations that play into the relations between body – nature, real – dream. She devotes…
Design, Digital Couture, Interviews
In our digital age, ideas of beauty are being continuously transformed. The imagination and creativity of artists like ines alpha are at the forefront of…
CTM/transmediale, Digital Culture, News
Already a week in, CTM 2022 Contact asks how we might establish positively transformative modes of contact with other realities beyond our own, be it…
On February the 3rd, London FOLD’s in-house arts platform Futur.Shock will present an evening of sonic experimentation, electro-acoustic instrumentation and live performances. This night is…
How do we conceptualise our body? It once was customary to derive a person’s identity from their inalienable bodily “constants” of gender and race, but…
Computing Art, Digital Culture, News
Vellum LA is the first physical gallery for NFT-backed digital art in Los Angeles. Located on Melrose Ave it aims to meaningfully situate the digital…
Computing Art, Digital Culture, News
Artist Leo Villareal has long been interested in deploying the simplest modes of technology to engender entrancing experiences and reconfigure how people interact with and…
Face-filters are probably one of the biggest current trends from our digital existence. From the more fun or artistic versions to the beauty cannons enhancing…
Our feelings and sense of togetherness take place and unfold in different layers of reality. We inhabit different dimensions simultaneously, and they are subsequently becoming…