Op & Ed

EET by Cai Guo-Qiang & Kanon: divination in the digital age
Text by Katažyna Jankovska What’s it like to reimagine ancient divination practices through the lens of new technology? When faced with uncertainty, people throughout time

The power of data: How AI is revolutionising design
Text by Daniela Silva AI (Artificial Intelligence) is a branch of computer science that focuses on creating machines or software that can perform tasks that

Dimensions: Digital Art Since 1859
Text by Juliette Wallace Close your eyes and picture the word “digital”. What does it look like to you? You may be imagining electricity, computer

Rosso Polare, building a world where all sounds are equal
Text by Daryl Worthington A bird sings like a synthesizer on ‘mana’, the opening track on Rosso Polare’s new album, Bocca D’ombra. The avian call

Supporting grassroots culture: Flatland Projects & the importance of community infrastructure
Text by Charlie Clark The South East coastal art scene has been particularly burgeoning over the past few years. With Margate rapidly becoming the new

On deep ecology of Chinese femborgs
Text by Piotr Bockowski The breeding ground for global industrial society, which forms our techno-womb, the People’s Republic of China inherited a profoundly patriarchal tradition,

Channel, Somerset House’s alternative pathway for creation & discourse
Text by Juliette Wallace Circumstance dictates action. Pathways are created in accordance with necessity: a trajectory can abruptly change direction and carve out new channels

Mike Nelson: Extinction Beckons, an exhibition at teh Hayward Gallery
Text 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

‘If a Tree Falls in a Forest’, a collection of interviews
Text by Katažyna Jankovska If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? Commonly

Rendering queer bodies against the automated gaze
Text by Auryn Reeve In the current formation of society, informatics and the pursuit of data have produced a surveillant system in which predictive methods

Parallel Worlds, the science of alternative universes & our future in the Cosmos
Text 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

Fabrice Hyber & the Meaning of Life
Text by Juliette Wallace Fabrice Hyber is unique; artist, mathematician, entrepreneur, environmentalist and irrepressibly positive lover of life, Hyber has made a career of combining

Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2022, holding on to hope in an uncertain world
Text by Daniela Silva The number of architecture and design events occurring in cities worldwide has significantly increased during the past 20 years. The design

Crossing the Bridge, a collection of technological, experimental, sensitive & emotional works
Text by Juliette Wallace The “Decade of Restoration” (the title the United Nations gave to the last ten years of our ecosystems) has been rocky.

Toxic geographies & nonhuman temporalities at Sonic Acts 2022
Text by Katažyna Jankovska Understanding of time depends on what is valued in time. Capitalism sustains itself on ideas of the future and the perpetual

Arquiteturas Film Festival, when architecture takes the stage in Porto
Text by Daniela Silva It was René Clair who claimed that the art that is closest to cinema is architecture [1]. Since the beginning of