We often say that we live in a world of “data” (given), often forgetting that this is in fact “capta” (taken). The joint role of artists and scientists now could well be…
Entirely shot with a smartphone and a facial recognition application, the video is composed of a collection of attempts to replace identity and unexpected trade between faces and objects. In search of…
Uber (the taxi service) has made car traffic skyrocket in cities, extracting profits and resources from exploited territories and accumulating those profits in the Silicon Valley. This example is testament to the…
Aimée Mullins is an Olympian, ground-breaking model, beacon for design/tech and an actor. Born without fibulae, she was amputated below the knee at the age of one and learned to walk on…
Modern robotic and haptic technology in the form of surgical robotics, prosthetics and rehabilitation robotics has been widely applied for the improvement of surgical procedures, the training of new abilities, and the…
Wouldn’t it be nice to take a holiday from being a human? A holiday from the existential angst, worry and stress of life as a self-aware mortal being. Wouldn’t it be nice…
Two dresses, named “Can’t” and “Won’t”, displaying an aesthetic and motion reminiscent of microbial life, which react according to a facial expression recognition system and stop moving as soon as the on-looker…
Over the past 8 years Arne Hendriks has investigated if and how the human species can become smaller. “The Incredible Shrinking Man” investigates the possibility of a smaller human species. Small people…
As soon as the colloquium is over, Alexandra Midal undertakes the flashback exercise. Her synthetic and personal re-reading unravels the spool of time and narratives, proceeding in between myth, animism and apocalypse but also…
For its 10th anniversary, HEAD – Geneva is hosting the International Conference Narratives of a Near Future which addresses the challenges that the next generation will have to meet by crossing, in…