Insight: ‘Bending the River’ to keep Los Angeles afloat at the Fulcrum Arts festival
The majority of the world’s earliest cities were built along rivers because they were essential to the city’s survival. Rivers provide habitat for plants and…
Biomedia, Interviews, Scout & Trends
JEAN-FRANÇOIS KREBS, haptic experience and a slimy poetics
In Metamorphoses, Ovid tells tales of countless transformations undergone by Gods and mortals. Changing into flora and fauna, and sometimes back again, there is a…
Exhibition: Fujiko Nakaya. Nebel Leben at Haus der Kunst Munich, the delicate poetry of nature
Haus der Kunst, the renowned museum and centre for contemporary art in Munich, presents the first comprehensive survey exhibition outside of Japan of the ground-breaking…
Audio & Visual, Sound, The CLOTMix
CLOTMix: CLOT Magazine presents Jana Winderen
The next mixtape instalment comes from the hand of one of the sound artists we have long followed and admired. Jana Winderen is contributing to…
KRISTIN MCIVER, exploring big data and the deep state to uncover the invisible
Multimedia artist Kristin McIver dives deep into the digital seas to explore environmental emergencies and the epistemological crisis of the XXI century and brings to…
Exhibition: ‘In the Age of Post-Drought’, how can contribute to research on water issues
The CID – centre for innovation and design at Grand-Hornu (Belgique) aims to promote contemporary design through exhibitions and mediation activities, highlighting innovation, experimental research,…
Biennale: ‘Bodies of Water’, the 13th Shanghai Biennale
Power Station of Art (PSA), the first state-run museum dedicated to contemporary art in mainland China, host Body of waters, the 13th Shanghai Biennale. Proposing…
MENHIR, meditations on reverberating matter through speculative sonic inquiry
Menhir, an art collective based in Madrid, is a site-specific sonic study, inquiring into ideas of speculative territory and different states of the psyche. Situated…
Exhibition: The 2019 Biennale de Lyon
The Lyon Biennale has long been one of the most important contemporary art events in the world, and this year for its 15th iteration, it…
Architectures, News, Series, STATE Studio
Exhibition: ‘Hydrosphären’ at STATE Studio Berlin
STATE Studio is devoted to exploring the synergies between science, art, and innovation. To celebrate 70 years of Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft STATE collaborates with Fraunhofer-Netzwerk für Wissenschaft,…
TOMOKO SAUVAGE, exploring the sonic properties of water
Tomoko Sauvage, the Japan-born musician and artist, has been exploring sonic properties of water in different states for over ten years. The title of…
Interviews, Scout & Trends, Sound
NELO AKAMATSU, meditave studies of water and sound
When experiencing the installations of Nelo Akamatsu, one might be gently overcome by a very delicate, physical sense of calmness. The artist incorporates Japanese…
Biomedia, Interviews, Key Artists
BERNDNAUT SMILDE, breaking light and making clouds
“Everything is temporary,” says Dutch artist Berndnaut Smilde, who uses the ephemeral nature of things as inspiration for his work. He makes perfect miniature clouds…
Biomedia, CTM/transmediale, Interviews, Series
EVELINA DOMNITCH & DMITRY GELFAND, a phenomenology of art and physics
For Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand, an artistic duo based in Amsterdam, perception and observation are central processes in their practice. Observation is the…
YOLANDE HARRIS, techno-intuition and sonic consciousness
Yolande Harris, is a composer, visual artist and academic, who aims to reinterpret from a post-humanist perspective the techno-ecological spaces we are meant to…
JANA WINDEREN, haunting a palette of deep sea sounds
Seas and oceans, and the strange creatures that they sustain life in have fascinated human beings for thousand of years. And some people have…
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…
KAREN MIRANDA ABEL, bringing water ecologies from nature to the gallery
In times when the techno-metropolitan environments (where most of us live nowadays) seem to have disconnected us from our earthy habitats and their seasonalities,…