Curators, Digital Culture, Op & Ed
CHRNBL Forum 2021: The Day After
On October 6 to 10, 2021, liquidators, scientists, experts and representatives of public, state and cultural institutions of Ukraine, the USA, Canada, Finland, Germany, Great…
Insight: UFO, flints & a library of sounds reminisce the wasteland in Afterness by Artangel
Orford Ness is a spit on the Suffolk coastland, a peninsula with a frail location designated as a Nature Reserve in 1972, and since then…
Curators, Digital Culture, News
Insight: Exploring how Chernobyl impacted Ukrainian cultural heritage (Part 2)
In this second part about how the Chernobyl accident impacted not only the lives of millions of people, we will explore the consequences that the…
Curators, Digital Culture, News
Insight: Exploring how Chernobyl impacted Ukrainian cultural heritage (Part 1)
More than 35 years have passed since the Chernobyl accident, but its consequences remain the subject of discussion in the world scientific community today. According…
Curators, Digital Culture, News
Online Forum: ‘CHRNBL’, examining the impact of Chernobyl in current societies
On Saturday, April 26 1986, at the No. 4 reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat in the north of…
Unsound Kraków 2021: Highlights
The theme for this year’s edition of Unsound festival is dəəp authentic—the gradual shift back from online to IRL events, a phrase that involves a…
Contributors, Digital Culture, Op & Ed
‘Examining our relationship with mics and cameras in the digital age’ by Jadwiga Busby
In this day and age, our everyday lives revolve almost entirely around the digital world. Whether for study, work, or entertainment, we are constantly seeking…
Insight: Sasha R. Gregor’s ‘ThermoSibirsk’, a thermographic series on global warming
In 2018, the artist Sasha R. Gregor set off on the world’s longest railway route aboard the “Rossiya” train. This vast journey along the Trans-Siberian…
Open Call: Unsound 2021 ‘Dəəp Authentic’
Unsound festival have just announced the new theme for the 2021 editions, plus a call for entries from artists, writers, theorists and activists in response…
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…