Op & Ed
Channel, Somerset House’s alternative pathway for creation & discourse
Circumstance dictates action. Pathways are created in accordance with necessity: a trajectory can abruptly change direction and carve out new channels in response to what
‘Mike Nelson: Extinction Beckons’ by Juliette Wallace
Fifty tonnes of sand, over 5,000 metres of reclaimed wood and a building’s worth of cement. These are the ingredients needed to produce the upcoming
‘If a Tree Falls in a Forest’ by Katažyna Jankovska
If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? Commonly associated with the absence
‘Rendering queer bodies against the automated gaze’ by Auryn Reeve
In the current formation of society, informatics and the pursuit of data have produced a surveillant system in which predictive methods reformulate the world and
‘Parallel Worlds, the science of alternative universes & our future in the cosmos’ by Michio Kaku
In Robert Frost’s poem ‘The Road Not Taken’, he wrote about something which everyone has experienced, the idea that at certain crucial times in our
‘Fabrice Hyber & the Meaning of Life’ by Juliette Wallace
Fabrice Hyber is unique; artist, mathematician, entrepreneur, environmentalist and irrepressibly positive lover of life, Hyber has made a career of combining seemingly incompatible fields in
‘Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2022, holding on to hope in an uncertain world’ by Daniela Silva
The number of architecture and design events occurring in cities worldwide has significantly increased during the past 20 years. The design community has been continuously
‘Crossing the Bridge, a collection of technological, experimental, sensitive & emotional works’ by Juliette Wallace
The “Decade of Restoration” (the title the United Nations gave to the last ten years of our ecosystems) has been rocky. So rocky that this
‘Toxic geographies & nonhuman temporalities at Sonic Acts 2022’ Katažyna Jankovska
Understanding of time depends on what is valued in time. Capitalism sustains itself on ideas of the future and the perpetual movement forward. Looking through
‘Arquiteturas Film Festival, when architecture takes the stage in Porto’ by Daniela Silva
It was René Clair who claimed that the art that is closest to cinema is architecture [1]. Since the beginning of the moving picture, film
‘Surrealism, materialism and metaphysics in the digital domain: On Jimmy Edgar’s crypto-based visual work’ by Miguel Isaza
Jimmy Edgar is an artist from Detroit, Michigan, known mainly for his musical work, located somewhere between techno, hip hop and glitch, under which he
‘The Analysis of Beauty’ by Disinformation – blind spots, kinetic depth effects & evolutionary neuroscience
The central nervous system is nature’s Sistine Chapel, but we have to bear in mind that the world our senses present to us – this
‘Voltages, Buddhism & an infinite listening: a tribute to Éliane Radigue’ by Miguel Isaza
Electronic music is not a genre, nor is really a style, nor is limited to a series of technical methods. Beyond these more categorical discussions,
‘Assessing Web 3.0 Aesthetics: In the Future Post-Hype of the NFTs, from Annka Kultys Gallery’ by Jacob Gries
Marshall McLuhan, the famous mid-century theorist and philosopher, was perhaps the first person to realize that modes of communication hold more influential sway over a
‘Fungal Fetishism, rotten performance at the Dungeons of Polymorphous Pan’ by Piotr Bockowski
A squatted sewage in North London called the Dungeons of Polymorphous Pan has been hosting Chronic Illness events for 7 years now, during which it
‘Alfie Bown’s Dream Lovers, exploring the new digital architectures and its effects’ by Nicholas Burman
For as long as digital technologies have existed, they’ve been a means through which sex and desire have been filtered and fed back to us.
