ARIANE KOEK, disentangling our realities with Art and Physics
The world’s largest and most prominent particle physics research centre sits just outside Geneva and made the headlines in 2012 with the discovery of the…
Digital Culture, News, STATE Studio
Event: ‘Dynamic Nodes’ by CLOT Magazine at STATE Studio Berlin
What is the Universe? What is the reason for its existence? and what is the very fabric it is made of? As thinking entities, we…
Intervention: QT UR EA at Trauma Bar und Kino Berlin
Trauma Bar un kino in Berlin is becoming one of the most exciting venues in the city’s cultural scene thanks to a extremely thrilling programme….
Open Call: The European Commission’s STARTS Prize 2020
From January 9 and until March 2, 2020 scientists, technologists, artists, institutions, labs, and companies can submit their lighthouse projects for the STARTS Prize 2020….
Exhibition: ‘Mud Muses’ at Moderna Museet Stockholm
Last week to catch Mud Muses – A Rant About Technology exhibition in Stockholm. How do we understand the relationship between life and technology in…
CHRISTINA J. CHUA, creative director at so-far Singapore’s art and technology platform
Gallerist and art writer, Christina J. Chua began her career in the visual arts while still in high school in Singapore, publishing her first art…
MAX COOPER, the aesthetic meaning of physical laws
Studying sciences at school, it seemed like nature was something that could be mastered through knowledge. We could calculate the weight of a star, reverse…
Exhibition: ‘life.formed: Shapes of non-human ecologies’ at TENSION Gallery
Becky Lyon is a London-based artist examining how humans are impacting the development of life on earth through the intentional and unintentional blending of biology…
Exhibition: ‘Making FASHION Sense’ at HeK in Basel
HeK in Basel is devoted to all art forms that address and reflect upon new media and technologies. HeK features exhibitions, small festival formats, performances…
HAROON MIRZA, playing with waveforms, light, and our conscious relationship to existence
Artist Haroon Mirza’s interest includes physics, shamanism, artificial intelligence and astrology. There are many things in between such as music and sound theory, art and…
Exhibition: ‘24/7: A wake-up call for our non-stop world’ at Somerset House Studios
Until February 23, 2020, at Somerset House (London) is on display the exhibition 24/7: A wake-up call for our non-stop world. Inspired by the book…
Festival: Tentacular, a festival for critical technologies & digital adventures at Matadero Madrid
Extremophilia literally translates to “love of the extreme” from its Greek and Latin roots. It describes microorganisms that thrive in extreme conditions that would be…
Biomedia, Digital Culture, Interviews
Insight: Into Ami Clarke’s exhibition ‘The Underlying’
The work in The Underlying utilises live sentiment analysis of online news production and social media, relating to BPA’s (Bisphenol A*) to consider how surveillance,…
Architectures, Design, Interviews, Key Artists
GREG LYNN, applying technology in architecture and design
The nature of technology is explored in Greg Lynn’s practice, in a way in which technology changes the way we perceive architecture and how we…
Op & Ed, Robotics & Kinetics, Sound
‘TAKIS: Sculptor of magnetism, light and sound’ by Frances Whorrall-Campbell
A Little Peace and Quiet’, a 1985 episode of the cult television series The Twilight Zone, ends with the image of a nuclear warhead hovering…
Interviews, Key Artists, Sound
SUZANNE CIANI, a conversation on technology and timbre
If one would be forced to consider base level categorisations of musical instruments, it would perhaps feel instinctive to look to the contrasting nature of…
SIMON SCOTT, dreamlike elegance in audio diaries
Simon Scott is a sound ecologist and multi-instrumentalist from Cambridge, England, also best known as the drummer od Slowdive, the influential shoegaze band that produces…
EMPTYSET, from the algorithmic to the architectural—filling the spaces between our ears
Can you automate the production of music? Can something intricate and moving be composed with the help of AI? For many, the almost invisible iterations…
BEATIE WOLFE, beaming music into space
Many contemporary artists have a hand in a range of disciplines which broadens their remit beyond their core set of influences and intentions, and for…
ZIV ZE’EV COHEN, technology’s impact on human modes of perception and thought
When we are thinking about relationships between ourselves and technology one thing tends to stand out: our dependence on technology. The reason is quite simple….