J. G. Biberkopf (Gediminas Žygus) works within the paradoxical relationship between club music and art music. Assembling a collage spanning a vast range of influences from dark ecology, sound studies, architecture, media…
Kevin Slavin works at the crossing of biology and art. Here, Slavin introduces us to the emerging investigative field of “urban metagenomics.” The reduction in costs of DNA sequencing has opened up…
Feeling For You is an ongoing, frequently updated performative lecture that reverse engineers the artist’s practice through a series of personal anecdotes, google searches, images, audience reactions, and video clips. Meandering through…
Using examples of “caves” he created, including some for an exhibition at the Centre Pompidou, the architect Michael Hansmeyer explains how algorithmic programming allows for unrivalled complexity in architecture. The division of…
‘Will you find beauty in this sea of data?’ A question posed by the artist, encapsulating the intense reality of the present, while Arunanondchai introduces us to his grandmother who is descending…
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…