L.E.V. Matadero 2025: The Day After, when performance meets the machine
Text by Jacobo García Our contemporary life is wholly embedded in screens; there is a screen on the treadmill in the gym, multiple screens in the car we drive to get there, and a screen on our wrist, where a clock used to sit. Our screen-equipped phone faithfully reminds us of how many hours we […]
‘Not A Word From Me’, Lucy Railton, Rebecca Salvadori & Charlie Hope on shaping perception through texture, rhythm & embodied sound
Text by Eleni Maragkou Sometimes, a simple encounter can leave an indelible mark. One fleeting convergence can linger long after it has passed – a moment of recognition and alignment when the senses are fully attuned, and the world feels simultaneously intimate and expansive, stretching into months, years, decades. Not A Word From Me, the […]
Insight: Metamorph of Mihai Barabancea, Balkan simulacra in Post-Internet Eastern Bloc
Text by Piotr Bockowski Mihai Barabancea’s photo-image practice is a testimony to his adventurous method of “Balkanic Futurism”, which aims beyond the art of photography, or visual art in general, by indulging in excessive experiments with urban anthropology; testifying to extreme lifestyles, weird behaviours or monstrous beauty of city outcasts on the streets of Bucharest […]
Insight: ‘Emerging Exits’, a sensory experience in one of the largest bunkers in the Netherlands
Text by Hannah van den Elzen Hidden in the landscape of the Hoge Veluwe in Arnhem lies an architectural megastructure that has been open to the public only rarely: the Diogenes Bunker, one of the largest bunkers in the Netherlands. The exhibition Emerging Exits reopens this hidden site, transforming its monumental architecture into a living […]
YEHWAN SONG, crafting anti-friendly webs for a more expressive Internet
Interview by Daniela Silva In an era where digital interfaces are increasingly streamlined for speed and efficiency, Korean artist and web designer Yehwan Song invites us to reconsider our relationship with the internet. Her work challenges the conventions of user-centered design by embracing discomfort and unpredictability, urging users to engage more deeply with digital spaces. […]
Insight: ‘8.33, Perception de l’invisible’, Jésus Baptista brings water & steel into a rare & harmonious equation at SEMIBREVE festival
Text by Neshy Denton In certain aspects, when the invisible becomes tangible, the sole purpose of remaining unseen consequently proves the perspective’s big role in such condition. More momentously, it gives said object, individual or thing that finds itself in lack of sight, the need to remain conscious of its trivial part in the universe. […]
Unsound Kraków 2025: WEB entanglements -Highlights
Text by CLOT Magazine Kraków has long been the city where Unsound festival unfolds its complex cartographies of experimental sound, and this October 7 to 12, it returns with a new theme: WEB. If last year’s Noise edition was about rupture and abrasion, this year shifts the focus toward entanglement, mapping how artists, genres, geographies, and […]
Atonal 2025 – The House That Jack Built: five days of noise & darkness in the looming corridors of Kraftwerk Berlin
Text by Dom Stevenson The Noise Went On, The Cup Was Dropped, The Speakers Were Stretched, The Bells Were Rung, The Building Shook, And The Drums Were Hit. This Is The House That Jack Built. Much like the cadence of the nursery rhyme, Atonal 2025 unfolded as a cumulative story – each day layering new […]
Festival: L.E.V. Matadero 2025, an experimental view of electronic sound creations, audiovisual & extended realities in Madrid, Spain
Text by CLOT Magazine Since 2019, L.E.V., the International Festival of Audiovisual Creation of Gijón, has expanded its reach to Matadero Madrid (Spain). L.E.V. Matadero, known for showcasing experimental electronic music, digital art, and extended realities, returns to Madrid for its seventh edition from September 18 to 21 to explore the intersection of technology, sound, […]
‘Delphinium Maximum’ at the Bauhaus Museum Dessau: when the flower laughs at you aloud
Text by Leoni Fischer A lady dressed in elegant black poses on a white pedestal amid a fantastical nature. Tall flower spikes rise from large vases, each spike densely packed with thick pale blossoms, whose throats enclose a dark eye. In contrast to this floral explosion unfolding around her, the young woman appears all the […]
CTM x ICA London 2025: sonic invocations & expansive futures
Text by CLOT Magazine The London Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) once again will become a vessel for CTM Festival’s exploratory ethos from 4 to 6 September 2025. For their third collaboration, CTM x ICA have staged three nights that traverse fractured rhythms, spectral folk, and disjointed narratives, drawing together artists who stretch the limits […]
Berlin Atonal 2025 Highlights: how a space can hold art, music, bodies & histories
Text by Mila Azimonti In a landscape where many city-format festivals devoted to sonic research are beginning to resemble one another, location becomes a decisive marker. Kraftwerk looms above them all—a structure steeped in predatory stillness, its grey concrete slabs and vertebral pillars holding an echo stretched taut as wire. Into this vast, mortared carcass, […]
SEMIBREVE 2025: Highlights from Braga’s immersive festival of sonic exploration, digital art & collaborative performance
Text by CLOT Magazine SEMIBREVE, the Portuguese festival taking place in the city of Braga, is celebrating its 15th edition from 23-26 October 2025 with a programme that spans collaborative projects, sound art, audiovisual performances, installations, clubbing experiences, workshops, and artist talks set across a range of venues in Braga such as the iconic Theatro […]
Designing Sustainable AI: Inside the MUTEK AI Ecologies Lab (Part 2)
Text by Patrick Tanguay In one corner of the building, three rooms with people at keyboards, some in animated discussion. While they might appear to be doing ordinary computer work, they’re actually creating 3D worlds, developing emotionally responsive digital creatures, and building tools to measure environmental impact. Moving through the rooms, you spot unusual equipment: […]
BODIES OF WATER, interdisciplinary experiences to explore tangible & environmental action at Berlin’s River Panke
Text by Rae (Mee-Jin) Tilly Science has a curious tension: it is simultaneously the most inaccessible and accessible field of academia for the general public to grasp. Years of cumulative studies are needed to dissect and discuss scientific methods, extrapolate meaning from data, or even understand the significance of numbers placed before or after a […]
Biennale: Biennale Danza 2025, artistic innovation & critical research on the intersection between body, technology & choreography
Text by Irem Erkin The 19th International Festival of Contemporary Dance will take place from July 17 to August 2, 2025, under the artistic direction of Wayne McGregor. Past themes have focused on the uniqueness of our physical intelligence, including Touch, Interaction, Interoception (the chemical self), and Sensation. This year’s edition continues La Biennale’s commitment […]
Label feature: Modern Obscure Music, reframing sound as art
Text by Mila Azimonti Music is the only art form that vanishes as it is experienced, which is a bit of an ontological crisis if you think about it. Unlike painting or sculpture, which exist in space as static forms, music unfolds in time, making it more abstract, contingent on performance, acoustics, and context. Its […]
Toward an Ecological AI: Introducing MUTEK’s AI Ecologies Lab (Part 1)
Text by Patrick Tanguay As AI systems proliferate globally, their environmental footprint grows alarmingly [1]. Data centers powering these technologies consume electricity equivalent to small nations and billions of gallons of water annually. This impact extends to all AI-using sectors, including arts and culture. Artists now face a challenge: how can they harness AI’s creative […]
CIRCLE, dissolving boundaries through a dodecahedron
Interview by Neshy Denton There’s a moment where repetition becomes barely perceptible. It sort of stops being a pattern and reforms into the arms of a ritual. No longer craving your teasing attention, the notion of time bleeds into stretched insignificance. The band Circle inhabits that slight shift, where structure slowly unravels and instinct begins […]
‘Fermenting Textiles’, an intimate portrait of the act of mud-dyeing fabrics that opens a dialogue in the field of fabric colouring
Text by Juliette Wallace Art Laboratory Berlin, one of the city’s first dedicated art/science spaces, never fails to produce fascinating, stimulating and often rather special exhibitions. Fermenting Textiles is no exception. An intimate portrait of an action both gestural and practical, the act of mud-dyeing fabrics opens a dialogue across continents and ages – from […]