AI & A.Life, Computing Art, Series, Sónar
Sónar+D 2017: Highlights
With only 5 years of existence, Sonar+D is becoming a world reference showcase of the latest trends in digital art and creative technologies –…
Exhibition: How much of this is fiction, demystifying fake news and post-truth politics a FACT Liverpool
Politics is poisoned. Propaganda, lies, manipulations, alt-facts, fake news, selective hacks and leaks are the hallmarks of the politics of our age. Appeals to…
Technology-based art as a trigger for political and social change, by Eran Tsafrir
Politics is poisoned. Propaganda, lies, manipulations, alt-facts, fake news, selective hacks and leaks are the hallmarks of the politics of our age. Appeals to emotion…
Computing Art, Interviews, Sónar
TEAMLAB, digital art transcending boundaries
teamLab is a Japanese collective and creative group that aims to blur the boundaries between art, science, technology and creativity, through co-creative activities. This…
ASVOFF, Digital Culture, Interviews, Series
OSCAR TOMICO, how our clothes will change our lives
Barcelona-born but based in the Netherlands, designer Òscar Tomico is one of these young academics with a beyond impressive curriculum. Dr Tomico is an Assistant…
ASVOFF, Digital Culture, Interviews, Series
PAULINE VAN DONGEN, exploring interaction through responsive materials
For Dutch fashion designer Pauline Van Dongen, technology is ‘a means to create dynamic expression within fashion. [Technology] offers ways to enhance our senses…
Computing Art, Interviews, Series, Sónar
LAWRENCE LEK, building enigmatic and paradoxical spaces
Lawrence Lek is a German-born, Malaysian-Chinese artist that creates speculative architectural scenarios and uncanny simulations. He builds enigmatic and paradoxical spaces, using gaming software,…
In sci-art, art should not merely be a servant of science, by David Harris
In a recent editorial in Leonardo journal, Assoc. Ed. Jack Ox stated about art-science that “well-designed presentations must be articulated in a clear and cogent…
ASVOFF, Digital Culture, Interviews, Series
KATIA VEGA, proposing novel ways of interacting with the world
When we think about cosmetics, the first words that come to our mind are lipstick, rouge, foundation, eyeshadow or mascara, to name just a few….
ASVOFF, Digital Culture, Interviews, Series
RICARDO O’NASCIMENTO, sensorial experiences through digital interaction
To bring about sensorial experiences through digital interaction: that’s one of the main creative aims of Ricardo O’Nascimento. An artist and researcher in the…
Computing Art, Interviews, Scout & Trends
HANNA HAASLAHTI, on gestalt psychology and computer vision
Hanna Haaslahti is a media artist based in Helsinki (Finland). With a background in photography and set design, her work encompasses interactive installations, projections…
RYOICHI KUROKAWA, digitally colliding with all the senses
Synesthesia is a neurological phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second one. Synesthetes…
Computing Art, Interviews, Sound
ROBERT HENKE, digging deep into the limits of sound and space
Thinking about who is at the forefront of exploring the nature and potentiality of sound and sensory spaces and Robert Henke is one of…
Interviews, Key Artists, Series, Sound, Unsound
CHRIS WATSON, making audible the inaudible
I came across the work of Chris Watson when first introduced to his glacier recordings (1). I was immediately fascinated. These peculiar sounds had…
Design, Interviews, Scout & Trends
SARAH DAHER, sending messages through the air by releasing chemical molecules
Interdisciplinary designer Sarah Daher explores the relationships between humans, nature and technology and imagines future scenarios in which humans in which humans will engage with…
MARTIN J. KEMP, Emeritus Professor of the History of Art
Art and science, what we conceive as two completely separated disciplines, were intimately intrincate centuries ago, during the Renaissance for instance, exemplified in figures like…
Interviews, Robotics & Kinetics, Sound
COD.ACT, when sound and movement become mechanical poetry
In an age when the virtual world is becoming so prominent in our lives, especially in western cultures, where for example, less and less…
NESTOR PESTANA, exploring possibilities of utopian and dystopian futures
Systematically exploring predictions and possibilities of utopian and dystopian futures, recent graduate of MA Design Interactions at the RCA, Nestor Pestana, creates speculative scenarios…
Interviews, Scout & Trends, Sound
YOSHIMASA KATO, colliding neurobiology, sound art and kinetic sculpture
Dr. Yoshimasa Kato is a japanese artist, whose work spans from sound and media art to kinetic light sculpture. CLOT Magazine came across his…
ARTHUR I. MILLER, Professor Emeritus of History and Philosophy of Science
Science is not only about experiments but also about understanding the natural and technological world around us by asking simple questions such as why, where…