Video Premiere: ‘In The End We Become Our Avatars’, seeking to answer some of the questions plaguing our strange present
Text by Christopher Michael The promise of eternal life has haunted contemporary technology for quite some time. Tech entrepreneurs have spent billions investing in anti-aging, consciousness uploading, and ‘neurolink’ technologies in hopes of extending their biological lives. Ray Kurzweil even predicts by 2045, the ‘singularity’, a moment where humans and machines will become one, may […]
Berlin Atonal 2023: The Day After, challenging the notion of experimental music (wknd 2)
Text by Martyn Riley Every festival has its very own personality. A mix of curation, demographic, place and where it lies in history. This was a weekend of opposites. One of intensity and calm, the saturated and the spacious, visceral and sublime. What Atonal does well, and always has, is to create a human/non-human feedback […]