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We asked five artists and designers how technology is reshaping the future of creativity
Cindy Valdez Cindy Valdez is the co-founder of Migration of Matter, a Berlin-based studio that, by merging the ancient craft...
Leigh Patterson & Michael A. Muller
It’s endearing watching Leigh Patterson and Michael A. Muller evade the question: what do you do? The insistent distillation regarding...
Working at the intersection of art and research, Sarah Newman explores how technology can teach us more about what it means to be human
Florida-born artist Sarah Newman grew up in a household that de-emphasized technology. “We didn’t have video games, cable television, or...
Seoul-based light artists Kimchi and Chips conjure form at the edge of materiality
“We received about two calls per week for dinner reservations,” says Elliot Woods referring to the time when the arts...
Perera Elsewhere appropriates technology and makes room for creative freedom
Cables and cigarette butts lie all over the floor, a drum set off to one side, while speakers blare out...
Artist Paolo Cirio exposes the social manipulation tactics invented by Big Tech
When in early 2018 news broke that British political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica had harvested the personal data of 87...
Japanese gadget maker Yuichiro Katsumoto hacks everyday objects to make life a little less serious
Yuichiro Katsumoto’s design ethos hinges on his ability to see the potential for joy and exploration in mundane objects. The...
Mapping the future of wearable technology with artist collective Kobakant
‘I am…’ states the first speech bubble on the wall of Kobakant’s studio. The corresponding tiles offer the words ‘creative’,...
Japanese sneakerhead Tetsuya Shono
It all started with a book: Six Stories of GORE-TEX® Products Vol. 2 is the brainchild of Jörg Haas who...
Studio Drift are advancing AI technology in the arts by simulating nature
Night has fallen on a beach in Miami, Florida. Hundreds of guests, including the ‘who’s who’ of the international art...
Media proprietor Eric Kuhn explains why we should “never use technology for technology’s sake” and how to build bridges with social media
Kuhn was Hollywood’s first social media talent agent, and he knew exactly what he wanted to do in that position....
How are cities looking towards the future? A discursive dinner with ideas on the menu
For a city to provide something for everybody, it needs to be created and shaped by everybody. How does that...
Daito Manabe: Making use of deep brain data
As a former DJ, Daito has now established himself as a talented programmer, engineer and media artist working with many...
NOME reopens with an exhibition by James Bridle
NOME reopens with an exhibition by James Bridle After two years’ worth of provocative exhibitions, NOME is now relocating to...
Textile development, technological innovation and musical intervention with Dutch designer Borre Akkersdijk
From a vibration-integrated pillow created to help dementia patients communicate to a music-playing, Wi-Fi and GPS tracker-incorporated onesie for SXSW,...
Looking at the International Design Scene at Berlin’s TYPO Labs Conference
When browsing the internet, when checking street signs, when looking at the ingredients of the yogurt we eat, we gather...
Pushing the Boundaries of Human Perception through Artistic Exploration
As part of transmediale/CTM festival’s vorspiel, this exhibition running from January 26 – 29, Dark Science at Spektrum Berlin hopes...
The newly released HOLO 2 explores the boundaries of 21st century creativity
Keeping a nice balance between the left and right brain—HOLO 2 put theoretical computer scientist Scott Aaronson in conversation with...
Alien Matter: Technology and culture merge in Berlin-based arts festival, transmediale
The program begins with ever elusive, a festival running from February 2nd to 5th, that encompasses a conference, screening program,...
Inside Pioneer Works, New York's collaborative wonderland for the arts and sciences
It is, without sounding hyperbolic, an organization multifaceted with creativity and underpinned by iconoclastic entrepreneurship, with curiosities that beckon around...