Op & Ed
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
‘Time Machine’, Hiroshi Sugimoto puts time at the centre of everything in a metaphysical maypole dance
Text by Juliette Wallace Time Machine is the title of the retrospective exhibition of photography’s poet of paradox, Hiroshi Sugimoto [1]. And what an apt
L.E.V. Matadero 2023: The Day After, between sound, the virtual & the physical to navigate the uncertainty of what is to come
Text by Ana Moriyón & Pablo Durán We find ourselves at a historic crossroads in which AI is becoming ubiquitous. Creations lack a discernible origin,
Visual Essay: The Letter Rack, a speculative exercise on the emergence of new spatial relationships
Text by Stefano Corbo The Letter Rack is a speculative exercise on the emergence of new spatial relationships once we stop thinking of future cities
VOlumens Festival 2023: The Day After, a transversal vision of Digital Art & Sound
Text by Corld Witizen When people think about Spain’s music scene in general, Valencia is one place that instantly pops into the mind of the
Digital Priestesses & Chimeric Computing: Heesoo Kwon’s Leymusoom is a Cyborgian Goddess (Part 1)
Text by Katherine Jemima Hamilton I first encountered Heesoo Kwon’s Leymusoom Universe in 2019 at her solo show Watertight Mesh in a basement gallery in
‘UNLEASHED UTOPIAS: Artistic Speculations about Today & Tomorrow in the Metaverse’, exploring an ideal way for humans & technology to co-exist
Text by Juliette Wallace As technology continues to make its mark on the day to day, the art world is taking note. In a realm
Berlin Atonal 2023: The Day After, challenging the notion of experimental music (wknd 1)
Text by Olya Karlovich I vividly recall my first Berlin Atonal. I bought tickets on the advice of more progressive friends without having clear expectations
Swords into plowshares: Artist Pedro Reyes destroys weapons, builds hope
Text by Robert Barry The city of Culiacán in north-western Mexico known for its hot summers, the beauty of its natural surroundings and a boisterous