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TAKE me BACK to JUPITER! An arcade game played by humans and houseflies
TAKE me BACK to JUPITER!, Drew Thornton‘s master project in Biological Arts at SymbioticA, is an immersive virtual reality console for flies. During the exhibition of the work, human and insect...
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Trees of Life – Stories for a Damaged Planet
Like many people across the world, i started the year dispirited by the images of the fires in Australia. The country, it seemed, had become a testbed for the extreme climate conditions we’d all be...
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Ingrid Torvund. Nature and macabre creatures
While in Frankfurt to visit Trees of Life – Stories for a Damaged Planet, i visited the House of Norway exhibition at the Museum Angewandte Kunst. That’s where i discovered and fell in love with Ingrid...
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The Manifesto of Rural Futurism
Rural areas are in crisis in many parts of the world. In Europe for example, an increasing number of villages and small towns are slowly dying. The demographic decline is due in part of an ageing...
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Trickle Down, A New Vertical Sovereignty
A prison in Liverpool, an Ethereal Summit in New York city, a prestigious Russian art auction at Sotheby’s, a market in North Manchester. These places and the communities that spend time there have...
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Propositions for Non-Fascist Living. Tentative and Urgent
Propositions for Non-Fascist Living. Tentative and Urgent, edited by Maria Hlavajova and Wietske Maas. Publishers MIT Press and BAK, basis voor actuele kunst write: Propositions for Non-Fascist Living...
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César Escudero Andaluz. So many ways to mess up with surveillance capitalism
Back in 2016, César Escudero Andaluz and Martín Nadal hacked an old calculator and turned it into Bitttercoin “the worst Bitcoin miner ever”. Relying on a rudimentary technology, the machine takes an...
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The Artefact festival 2020: Alone Together
Hikikomori is a form of extreme social withdrawal that has become a serious problem in many countries. Hikikomori individuals isolate themselves in their room for very long periods of time. Away from...
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B-hind. Celebrating the internet of anal things
Have you ever wondered what some of the most iconic works of media art would be like if they were created using today’s technology, science, knowledge and critical perspective on the world? That’s...
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Interview with Taavi Suisalu: symphony for lawnmowers, sound of abandoned...
Today, i’m interviewing Taavi Suisalu, an artist whose work i discovered a few years ago in Brussels. Suisalu was part of a group show about Estonian art and technology at BOZAR and his work really...
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Art as We Don’t Know It
Art as We Don’t Know It, edited by director of the Bioart Society Erich Berger, artist and researcher Kasperi Mäki-Reinikka, artist Kira O’Reilly and researcher Helena Sederholm. Graphic design by Safa...
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Survival of the fittest. Nature and high-tech in contemporary art
Survival of the Fittest at Kunstpalais in Erlangen. An exhibition that’s only one hour away by train from Munich and one of the last shows i got to see before the coronavirus put Europe on lockdown…...
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Paula Humberg: making visible the unseen victims of climate change
Paula Humberg is a photographer, bioartist and biology student whose works make visible a series of ecological realities we tend not to be aware of: the plight of endangered mammals in the Baltic sea,...
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Upcoming: Art & Animals in the Age of AI and Bio-Engineering
Public announcement! Next month, I’ll be giving online classes on the theme of Art & Animals in the Age of AI and Bio-Engineering with the School of Machines, Making & Make-Believe. Maurizio...
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Quantum: In Search of the Invisible
The inner levels of matter and energy follow rules and patterns so different from the ones we’re used to that they defy our mental schemes. Over the past few decades, quantum physics has been exploring...
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Art’s Work in the Age of Biotechnology. Shaping Our Genetic Futures
Art’s Work in the Age of Biotechnology. Shaping Our Genetic Futures, edited by scholar, curator and poet Hannah Star Rogers. Publisher The University of North Carolina Press writes: Evolution has...
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mEat me! Food for a post-anthropocentric society
Cellular agriculture, clean meat, cruelty-free, guilt-free meat! The promises and by-names of lab-grown meat might be seducing but they hide a series of unpalatable realities. The most contentious of...
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Book review: Hacker States
Hacker States, by political sociologist Luca Follis and cultural anthropologist, documentary video producer and interdisciplinary scholar Adam Fish. Publisher MIT Press writes: Luca Follis and Adam...
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The feminist and the manosphere. An interview with Angela Washko
How do you open up a dialogue with someone whose world views are the opposite of yours? How does an artist and feminist gets an “icon” of the manosphere to talk to her about role models, haircuts,...
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How do we make our genetic, biological and digital heritage future-proof?
Since the coronavirus has put a stop to my visits of exhibitions, conferences and festivals, I thought I’d use the pause as an opportunity to share with you some of the artworks that I keep babbling...
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