LOTTA STÖVER, reviving plastic into a medium of the modern era
Lotta Stöver works as a student and media artist in the Digital Media program of University of the Arts in Bremen. Her works are growing…
Interviews, Robotics & Kinetics
Insight: MORITZ SIMON GEIST & techno robots
Moritz Simon Geist is a media artist and robotic musician. As a robotic musician, he uses everything from the clicking of failing hard drives,…
Digital Couture, Interviews, Scout & Trends
MARIA CASTELLANOS, deconstructing what counts as a human
Maria Castellanos is an artist and researcher exploring relationships between body and technology in a number of significant art&science projects. Her artistic practice is…
Biomedia, Interviews, Scout & Trends
TH3MAX, and the aestheticization of pain
In the world of all kinds of alienations, in the world of spectacles, where “everything that was directly lived is now merely represented in…
Insight: Al¿ve by Arvid&Marie and Vincent Van Dijck
In their latest project Al¿ve, Arvid&Marie pose one question to their audience: can there be digital life? Arvid&Marie is a duo of artists comprised…
Design, Interviews, Scout & Trends
ALICE POTTS, ways to use sweat to create accessories
In the past couple of years the discipline of material innovation has seen an increasing number of interdisciplinary collaborations which are producing new exciting…
Insight: Soliquid, experimenting with new morphologies
3D Printing is an increasingly popular fabrication technique – we are witnessing a multitude of materials, from plastic to bio-resin, machines such as small 3D…
Biomedia, News, Robotics & Kinetics
Exhibition: The new State of the Living, PERMM Museum of Contemporary Art
Between 28th November 2018 and February 17th, 2019, the PERMM Museum of Contemporary Art welcomes a large scale international project: THE NEW STATE OF THE…
Design, Interviews, Scout & Trends
CHRISTINA HAXHOLM, exploring ideological forecasts for the future
Over the last couple of years, the fashion and textile industry has taken a great interest in the new possibilities that the biotechnology industry is…
Interviews, Scout & Trends, Sound
THOMAS ANKERSMIT, exploring psychoacoustic properties of sound
Thomas Ankersmit is a musician and composer based in Berlin and Amsterdam. Working primarily through sound and installation, he produces complex and incredibly physical…
Event: Gene editing, sexual reproduction and the arts
On October 27th, interdisciplinary group ArtSci Salon will present a panel discussion addressing the topic of gene editing and sexual reproduction from a sciart perspective….
Interviews, Scout & Trends, Sound
STUART HYATT, documenting the poetic sounds of planet Earth
A soundscape is a collaboration between biotic and abiotic elements in a landscape: wind slicing through tree branches, river water churning through a floodgate,…
Biomedia, Interviews, Series, Unsound
GEZA SCHOEN, chemistry, smell, and art
Escentric Molecules, a project developed by the Berlin-based olfactory artist Geza Schoen is a project that highlights the still unfairly ignored Iso E Super…
Exhibition: ‘Material Far Futures’ at The Future Laboratory
The materials of tomorrow will be smarter, stronger, more dynamic and less ecologically damaging. But how will future materials change the design of our products?…
Editor’s Pick: ‘Metaphonics: The Complete Field Works Recordings’ by Stuart Hyatt
Field recordings have the capacity to capture and preserve the acoustic characteristics of places and people; usually confined to the realms of research and the most…
Architectures, Design, News, Scout & Trends
Talk: ‘Blending the Digital and the Material: current trends in fashion, design and material innovation’ Soho House BCN
In 1995, Nicholas Negroponte predicted that “being digital” would have us entering a realm increasingly unconstrained by the materiality of the world he was…
Exhibition: ‘ARTEFACT FOOTWEAR, FUTURES’ at London Design Festival 2018
Every September London Design Festival takes over London with a nine-day celebration, comprising of over 400 different events, exhibitions and installations. Established in 2003,…
AI & A.Life, Contributors, Op & Ed
GOGO’s dream. An attempt to fulfil the dream of my Google Home, by Davide Piscitelli
The short film The Red Balloon (1956) depicts the relationship between a young Pascal Lamorisse and his red balloon. From the moment the young…
Exhibition: London Design Biennale 2018
To be able to express ourselves is a wondrous ability with which we humans have been bestowed. The faces we make, the ways we…
AI & A.Life, Contributors, Op & Ed
The new relation with technology and the myth of AI as human, by Davide Piscitelli
The myth of the Sentient Machine Over the last 60 years, the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has raised new ethical questions, challenging our…