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‘Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today’, on contemporary modes of spectatorship for performance exhibitions, interventions & invocations
Text by Nicholas Burman Around a year ago, I attended an ‘Art and Technology’ panel at a festival. During the event, a co-founder of an
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‘Sweet Dreams’, how Marshmallow Laser Fest dig deep into the worlds of appetite, human desire & the evolving landscape of food
Text by Juliette Wallace Most of us have sweet memories of being kids, sitting at the breakfast table propped on our knees and looking up
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A contemporary Loneliness, exploring the political form loneliness takes within neoliberal societies
Text by Elena Bray & Iacopo Prinetti The research: a project on contemporary Loneliness The pervasive Loneliness [1] and its phantasmal and material presence in
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FIBER 2024, ‘Outer/Body’ & ‘Neighbouring Frequencies’ highlight the interconnectedness of bodies with ecological, technological systems & sound art
Text by CLOT Magazine This year’s edition of FIBER Festival delves into the theme Outer/Body with two exhibitions that will explore the interconnectedness of bodies
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Rewire 2024: The Day After, exploring our relationship with sound & art
Text by Martyn Riley Rewire 2024 and Proximity Music weft and warped together throughout its four-day duration; much like observing the constant near-chaos of The
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Sonic Flows, exploring the mythic phenomenon in emerging art practice through performance & choreography
Text by Charlie Clark The recent eclipse experienced by many in North America stands as a testament to the timeless wonder we feel at these
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‘À la recherche de Vera Molnar’, a heartfelt homage to the pioneering computer artist
Text by Juliette Wallace Remaining true to her 1% disorder practice, the seminal 20th-century computer artist Vera Molnar died just one month before her 100th
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OpEd: Resonating Selves & Quantified Perspectives (Part II)
Text by Manuela Naveau In computers, the “mathematical objectification” (…) never transforms back into a life-world sense, but at best, into contemplation or life of
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Festival: Rewire 2024 – Sound & Music Programme Highlights
Text by Martyn Riley The perennial (ad)venture in sonics and performing arts, known as Rewire, continues undaunted since its inception back in 2011. Always explorative
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OpEd: Resonating Selves & Quantified Perspectives (Part I)
Text by Manuela Naveau In computers, the “mathematical objectification” (…) never transforms back into a life-world sense, but at best, into contemplation or life of
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The men with two brains: Guy Ben-Ary & Nathan Thompson discuss ‘Music for a Surrogate Performer’
Text by Robert Barry In 1965, a man sat on a chair with electrodes strapped to his head and performed a piece of music using
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Art to Break: The Stakes of Pervasive Digital Smoothness
Text by David Rollinson It is difficult to think of a more intimate creative prosthesis than a laptop. Its innumerable functions and impeccable memory, around
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SEMIBREVE festival 2023: The Day After, a hidden treasure in the small world of experimental music festivals
Text by Jacobo García In the city of eternal rains, also known as Braga, during the last weekend of October, a drop of water takes
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Unsound Kraków 2023: The Day After, polish composers provide the festival’s memorable moments on its biggest stages
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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
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Digital Priestesses & Chimeric Computing: Heesoo Kwon’s Leymusoom is a Cyborgian Goddess (Part 2)
Text by Katherine Jemima Hamilton While Kwon’s undertaking is grandiose, it is not naive that she would believe in the power of technology to usher