Akira: A Multidisciplinary artist choosing I Ching over AI
Text by Iris Colomb Ningrui Liu (aka Akira) is a multidisciplinary London-based artist from Shanghai who uses the I Ching as a compositional framework to approach performance, sound and visuals. She has experimented with multiple choice-making approaches involving this ancient system, ranging from embodied processes fueled by its spiritual roots to digital automation powered by […]
Swamping: On Curatorial Practices about Planetary Health & Wetlands
Text by Tuçe Erel Swamps and birds go together; when the swamp disappears, so do the birds.Annie Proulx’s Fen, Bog, and Swamp As Pauline Doutreluingne wraps up her series, Swamping, I am writing to share my personal reflection and review of the program. As a fellow curator working at the intersection of art and science, […]
OJO| |ÓLǪ́, on Eric Paul Rieges’s living weavings
Text by Daniela Silva There is a quiet clarity in the way Eric-Paul Riege, a Diné/Navajo artist, approaches material. Before anything becomes art, before it hangs, drapes, accumulates, or moves, he listens. The artist, whose practice expands through weaving, sculpture, sound, video, and performance, often says that materials have their own agency. They reveal themselves […]
CHRYSALIS. ARTISTS IN LABS, interdisciplinary experiences at Art Laboratory Berlin
Text by Rae (Mee-Jin) Tilly There is a prevailing notion that art and science are wholly separate fields. One discipline is seen as rooted in fact, ruled by reason. The other is considered an emotional process, where empiricism plays a lesser role. Yet this division is misleading. To me, they exist more as a Venn […]
Insight: ‘Between the Layers of Petrified Silence’, making the imperceptible dimensions of our environment tangible
Text by Àngels Miralda Kunstverein Arnsberg’s exterior space is distinctly removed from a traditional gallery setting. This hybrid indoor-outdoor venue is situated in a medieval church courtyard, where steps have echoed across stones for centuries. Approaching Louis Braddock Clarke‘s solo exhibition, visitors first encounter what appears to be a neutral blank wall. But this is […]
The Severed Wing, bed-bound artist Corinne explores the meaning of theatre & performativity
Text by Lyndsey Walsh The clattering of typewriter keys accompanies a rhythmic emergence of a written addressal by the artist Corinne to their audience in Act One of their performance, The Severed Wing. While this performance is set to happen in real-time in venues across the United Kingdom, Corinne is physically nowhere to be found […]
Call for applications: MFA Art & Technology / Sound Practices at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Text by CLOT Magazine The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) is one of the USA’s oldest accredited independent art and design schools. It was founded as the Chicago Academy of Design in 1866 and has since provided its students with a challenging education in the studio arts, as well as exhibition opportunities. […]
SEMIBREVE festival 2025: The day after, resonant lineages
Text by Jacobo Garcia Semibreve reached its 15th edition this year, a symbolic threshold that speaks of maturity: a festival that knows what it is, where it stands, and how it resonates within Europe’s experimental music ecosystem. Semibreve contemplates itself as a tapestry woven from multiple eras of sound: veteran voices and new experimenters, analogue […]
MIRA Digital Arts 2025, experimental visual art & sound: Highlights
Text by CLOT Magazine MIRA Festival returns where sound and avant-garde culture exude. Once again, the festival transforms Fira Montjuïc into a living organism of electronic music and digital art: a playground for the senses, a laboratory for new aesthetics, and a landscape where technology and emotion find a common tune. On November 7 and […]
Insight: ‘FRAMERATE by ScanLabs – Pulse of the Earth’, planet as the storyteller
Text by Daniela Silva At Pozu Santa Bárbara, a disused mining shaft in the valley of Turón in northern Spain, the earth pulses with light. Once a site of extraction and exhaustion, it now hosts an act of profound observation—a space where geology, memory, and machine vision converge. Here, the London-based studio ScanLAB Projects presents […]
The Vital Story of Undying Darkness: Gothic Recurrence
Text by Caterina Avataneo Scorpio season has knocked once again, boosting Halloweenish taste for velvet, candlelight, and gloom. As per tradition, bookshops go goth, stacking their windows with special editions of Bram Stoker and Mary Shelley, while pâtisseries stage their own miniature danse macabre with pumpkin desserts and spun-sugar cobwebs. Despite its obsession with death, […]
Unsound Kraków 2025 – WEB: immersive listening, unwavering curation & an intangible fabric of community
Text by Dom Stevenson Immersive listening, unwavering curation, and an intangible fabric of community –the kind that only a late return to the Hotel Forum can reveal. It was Saturday evening – the penultimate day of Unsound. I sat at a bar in Kraków around a small outside table with four others – a mix […]
Gill Gatfield’s ‘Habeas Corpus’: Networked Resistance in Posthuman Worlds
Text by Tamar Torrance From the outset, Gill Gatfield’s Habeas Corpus casts the body as arbiter and object: both the first point of contact and contested locus of control. Referencing the Latin legal writ – meaning literally “you have the body” – the project’s name is double-edged, invoking the structures that safeguard individual freedom from […]
TRANSFORM25: performance as collective memory – Highlights
Text by CLOT Magazine From 21–25 October 2025, Leeds becomes a crucible for radical performance as TRANSFORM25 returns with a programme that feels both urgent and intimate, echoing the festival’s reputation for pushing boundaries across theatre, dance, and installation. Transform is the UK’s leading festival for inclusive, international performance. The festival nurtures, creates and presents extraordinary, […]
Oblique Futures & Diagonal Records at ICA London – Between Eye & Ear: Experiments in Audiovisual Perception
Text by Mila Azimonti There’s hardly anything neutral about adding visuals to a music performance. Images never merely “adorn sound” — research shows as much. Once sight enters the equation, the eye takes over judgment, steering how we make sense of what we hear. Sometimes subtly, other times entirely, visuals reorganise perception itself, often in […]
MILOš TRAKILOVIć, investigating the power structures underlying contemporary warfare through time-based media
Interview by Hannah van den Elzen The interdisciplinary artist Miloš Trakilović primarily works with digital media, translating complex theoretical ideas into sensorial experiences. And this goes beyond mere spectacle – by carefully considering how moving images unfold into physical space, the artist extracts the narrative core of a work (which, according to the artist, can […]
Panel Discussion: CHRYSALIS ARTISTS IN LABS at Art Laboratory Berlin for Berlin Science Week 2025
Text by CLOT Magazine Berlin Science Week 2025 will host a panel discussion for CHRYSALIS ARTISTS IN LABS, the new project by Art Laboratory Berlin, which surfaces as a cross-pollination chamber between scientific inquiry and artistic speculation. On 8 November 2025, under the umbrella of BSW, the project’s panel discussion will expose the inner workings […]
Radical Rituals for Sustainable AI: From Lab to Forum with MUTEK AI Ecologies Lab
Text by Patrick Tanguay The MUTEK AI Ecologies Lab concluded with a public presentation and mini-conference at the MUTEK Forum, themed “Radical Rituals.” In the apparently haunted basement of Monument-National, with a vibe somewhere between solarpunk speakeasy and Batcave, the Playground provided an atmospheric backdrop for thoughtful work on artificial intelligence’s ecological footprint. MUTEK Forum […]
SASHA KOJJIO, navigating the inner architecture of light & language
Interview by Daniela Silva Operating in the liminal territory between art, technology, and architecture, Sasha Kojjio constructs sensorial environments where light, sound, and text converge into immersive emotional experiences. His works—part installation, part algorithmic meditation—act as portals into perception itself, asking how meaning, rhythm, and emotion can be translated across media and spatial forms. Moving […]
‘EGO in the Shell’, how artist Emi Kusano explores memory, surveillance & identity in the age of generative AI
Text by Juliette Wallace By descending into one’s inner depths, one encounters the future – Rilke Technology and the accelerating development of AI are having a profound effect on our perception of self and, in turn, identity. The avalanche of information we are exposed to on a daily basis through our algorithmic rhythms is flooding […]