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tekhnē x CLOT Magazine: Mutating Traditions – Elettrocontaminazioni Meridiane, sonic speculations on Southern Italy
Text by CLOT Magazine and Agostino Quaranta [Introduction by CLOT Magazine] This essay below was born in response to the third issue of tekhnē journal: an online periodical that grew out of a wider collaborative project of European breadth, geared to tracing the emancipatory potential of technology in music and
Chronoclasty. A Clandestine (D)rift Log
Text by Cecilia Scarfò Everything is recorded. If it is recorded, then it can be edited. If it can be edited, then the order, sense, meaning, and direction are as arbitrary and personal as the agenda editing. If reality consists of a series of parallel recordings that usually go unchallenged,
Biennale Danza 2026 – Time does (not) exist? Relational temporalities
Text by Katažyna Jankovska What is time? Is time a linear progression, or can multiple temporalities coexist at once? As Achille Mbembe observes, we are experiencing a clash of temporalities: geological, deep, historical, and experiential times that fold into one another. If we are accustomed to thinking of time as
DEUS EX MACHINA – Deconstructing Digital Divinity
Text by Oscar Lund In Philip K. Dick’s 1968 sci-fi novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, a new religion has spread across the decaying and abandoned Earth: Mercerism. The fictional religion was first conceptualised in Dick’s short story, The Little Black Box, in which disciples enter a “mystical communion”
Reflections on Iklectik, events at a car park, current venue ecosystem & models
Text by Atay Ilgun PARKS is a new recurring live programme at IKLECTIK, London. Well-settled into their new home in Peckham Levels, the independent cultural platform has evolved into more than a ‘gig space’, becoming an Art Lab that shapes a radical, cross-disciplinary approach to culture-making. With PARK, iklectik are
Jaleh Negari’s ‘ما به هم می رسیم | We Reach Each Other’, the self as a project & as an unfinished one
Text by Robert Barry From a distance, Jaleh Negari’s Pattern of Life Analysis II (2025–26) might almost be mistaken for a digital print. You see blocks and shapes in abstract configurations, networks of sky blue rectangles, green dashes and deep orange squares in a field of white space, not a
Feeling Smartly: In the dust motes
Text by Sarah-Jane Field SMART, when applied to devices – phones, home automation hubs, or robot carpet cleaners – connotes complex, algorithmic and seamless functionality. In contrast, smart human behaviour is likely to be exhibited by someone who thinks, feels, and responds beyond expectations, perhaps with originality or intuition, and
Dismantling & reinventing visibility, exploring Jen Liu’s artistic & intellectual process
Text by Rodrigo Guzman-Serrano There is a persistent assumption built into the concept of visibility that being visible means being relevant, accounted for, and enfranchised. But to be seen is also to be exposed, vulnerable, surveilled even. Across an art practice spanning video, painting, sculpture, and archival research, Jen Liu
The Phone Talks Back: A monologue on Shenzhen & the architectures of consumer technologies
Text by Ruba Al-Sweel The following monologue is excerpted from ‘Plastic Pilgrims’ (2025), a film by Ruba Al-Sweel, which is written from the perspective of a stolen and resold phone. The monologue narrates the phone’s journey from Shenzhen (colloquially mythologised as the world’s graveyard for stolen iPhones and electronics) and,
FIBER Festival 2026 – The day after: A single drop can change the course of a river
Text by Hannah van den Elzen We are living in turbulent times. The present feeling haunted by catastrophe: genocide, ecocide, the violence of Big Tech, and the unsettling experience of watching things fall apart in real time. “A single drop can change the course of a river”, a phrase spoken
Bienal Climática, exploring industrial memory & ecological futures in Avilés, Spain
Text by Belén Vera During the last decade, climate crisis has gradually shifted from being a recurring subject within contemporary art to becoming one of its main conceptual and curatorial infrastructures. Today, it feels almost impossible to imagine a biennial, museum programme or international art festival that does not engage,
Concatenations, on computation, intrinsic knowledge & grains of sand
Text by Sabina Oțelea Could a grain of sand be investigated independently of its encompassing totality? Could its origin be traced, its future mapped? The friction between a grain of sand and a small infinity of others can be best understood experientially. A small infinity is a number far greater
Multi-Agent worlding, reimagining narrative beyond systems
Text by Joey Holder Social media platforms have become the primary infrastructure of public discourse, increasingly shaped by AI-driven systems whose logic operates beyond public scrutiny. Recommendation algorithms sort and amplify content not toward shared understanding but toward engagement, collapsing distinctions between signal and noise, representation and effect, producing a
Technologies of Meaning: Navigating INDEX Biennial of Art & Technology 2026
Text by Dom Stevensson There’s a particular joy to walking through Braga. Its compact streets and layered architecture encourage a slower mode of attention, recalling the Situationist dérive, where wandering through urban space becomes a way of forming new relationships with thought itself, allowing ideas and observations to emerge gradually
The hills grew organs: Three views of posthuman Appalachia
Text by Eddie Lohmeyer Field Report [03.001]: Post-Appalachia The following transcript and field observation serve as the initial entry in an ecological survey [03.001] of Appalachia. Time: atemporal, non-existentCoordinates: indeterminate, nonlocal, dispersed across strata I refer to this region as post-Appalachia, though it has held many names over the seasons.
tekhnē x CLOT Magazine: Of underground frequencies, hidden infrastructures & the material life of sound
Text by Irem Erkin Materia Prima, in Latin ‘raw matter‘ or ‘first material,’ is the theme of the second issue of Tekhnē journal. Materia Prima refers, in this issue’s context, to the physical materials such as metals, minerals and electronic components that form the foundation of sound technologies. Rather than