Interviews
Broadcasting alienation: interview with Laura Yuile
ASSET ARREST is a podcast series set around the viewing of different luxury properties led by artist Laura Yuile, who poses as a potential buyer. In her work, she explores notions of the domestic and the urban through the intimate (or public) matters of living together, and the effects of globalization and technological development upon living space itself. Interview by Fabiola Fiocco.... READ MORE...
Algorithmic Imagery: Interview with Mike Tyka
Mike Tyka is an artist and researcher with a PhD in Biophysics. In conversation with Teresa Ruffino he explains how, in his sculptural works, he expresses the arbitrary representation of molecules and how he started working with algorithms as an artistic tool describing his experience and vision for the future of this technology.... READ MORE...
Footprints: gli ecosistemi di Marco Barotti
Sorry, this entry is only available in Italian.... READ MORE...
Do not get caught in the web – Interview with Geert Lovink
Geert Lovink is founder and director of "INC - Institute of Network Cultures", in Amsterdam, investigating the nature and the developments of the cultures in the web with meetings, publications and, obviously, online dialogues.... READ MORE...
Grafting as art practice. Interview with Aurèce Vettier
aurèce vettier is composed by Anis Gandoura and Paul Mouginot, both engineers whose expertise in AI technology provide a unique perspective on the limits and perks of working with AI to make art. They both live and work in Paris, France.... READ MORE...
St_age Season 2: a digital space dedicated to the desire to change
During the pandemic, TBA21 created an emergency fund which has lead to St_age, a production online platform that allows artists to incubate new ideas or finish projects that were halted because of the pandemic.... READ MORE...
Advanced technology, prophetic work and mysterious meanings of life. Interview with 404.zero
Taking as starting points their most irrepressible fascinations with death, the unknown and the cosmos, 404.zero craft thrilling, precise, painterly code-art that broaches big philosophical questions and provides mesmerizing though highly speculative answers. Interview by Caterina Tomeo... READ MORE...
La fabbrica è esplosa: evviva la fabbrica. Intervista con Fabrizio Bellomo
Fabrizio Bellomo porta avanti da alcuni anni la ricerca sulle interconnessioni tra strumenti, rappresentazioni e retoriche del lavoro. Con FILM, presentato nel 2020 con il debutto a novembre al Torino Film Festival (che si è svolto interamente online) nella sezione ITALIANA.DOC, affronta la rielaborazione di proprie esperienze e ricerche sviluppate tra l’Italia, la Serbia, l’Albania e la Germania, paesi nei quali Bellomo ha prodotto interventi e realizzato mostre negli ultimi anni. Il cortocircuito, illuminate e talvolta ironico, tra vecchi e nuovi paradigmi visivi e sociali nella relazione tra essere umano e macchina mette in risalto il continuo ritorno e rinnovamento di dinamiche di smaterializzazione del lavoro, managerializzazione dell’esistenza umana, appiattimento, omogeneizzazione culturale e (auto)sfruttamento.... READ MORE...
Sara Tirelli and the VR Pavilion at 2020 Resilienze festival
Hera Immersive Area is a space within Resilienze 2020 festival dedicated to new technologies in relation to art and scientific research and aimed at exploring environmental issues through innovation. This interview focuses on the VR Pavilion, both because of the long-lasting acquaintance and the deep esteem towards Sara Tirelli and her artistic and research path that has been going on for a very long time in Italy and internationally.... READ MORE...
Luigi Turra, profeta del vuoto e dell’invisibile
Turra, sound artist, compositore riduzionista, elettroacustico ed esperto di musica concreta, ha presentato un nuovo lavoro che esplora l’equilibrio acustico tra il silenzio e la percezione tattile del suono, temi centrali della sua ricerca. L'opera, "Tactile.Surface" (2019), indaga in modo radicale ed alchemico l’utilizzo sia delle tecniche analogiche sia digitali per manipolare e ri-assemblare i suoni.... READ MORE...
Performing the Archive of Future Gestures. Interview with Julien Prévieux
Julien Prévieux is a multidisciplinary artist that for years has investigated the relationship between technologies and the human, employing diverse formats and languages. Many of his works escape specific language and discipline categories. They are open processes, social experiments on what the artist defines as "crisis wrecks", iconic residues of financial scandals, legal cases, traces of symbolic structures or visual codes produced by economic and political systems.... READ MORE...
Thought is my main medium. Interview with Emilio Vavarella
Emilio Vavarella is an artist of Italian origin who intersects interdisciplinary artistic practice and theoretical research, with particular reference to the hidden mechanisms that underlie the relationship between human beings and technological power. Interview by Giada Totaro.... READ MORE...
An opportunity to (re)listen carefully to the world: A conversation with Chris Watson
According to Chris Watson, one of the foremost sound recordists of wildlife and of the most remote areas on Earth, lockdown has changed our sound perception and has become an extraordinary opportunity to listen to the home environment of urban areas and interact again with the surrounding nature. Interview by Caterina Tomeo.... READ MORE...
Donato Sansone – I dream, so I make video
His “short trips”, his videos, bring us in a parallel reality, a third one, in the same time the realm of reality and the one of the resting consciousness. Our guide between these two worlds is Donato Sansone, the smiling host on the threshold of the door of his dreams. Interview by Marco Aruga.... READ MORE...
Towards Togetherness. Interview with Tabita Rezaire.
Tabita Rezaire is an artist, healer, health-tech-politics practitioner and kemetic and kundalini yoga teacher, based in Cayenne, French Guyana. Anna Gorchakovskaya has recently had a chance to talk to Tabita about her cross-dimensional practices, about togetherness, healing and a genuine sense of connectedness, about her vision of life, art and digital technologies in connection with the current historical moment.... READ MORE...
Spatial Momentum. An interview with IOCOSE
Pointing at a New Planet is a 3D animation video loop by IOCOSE collective. A web-based version of the work is available until the 23rd of July 2020 within the frame of INBTWN programme. Pointing at a New Planet by IOCOSE is available to watch until the 23rd of July on www.inbtwn.it/. It is the first work of INBTWN - In Between, a programme curated by Claudia D’Alonzo dedicated to the relationship between body and technologies, functioning as the second chapter of XL, the new format of Centrale Fies.... READ MORE...
Discussing “The Question of Intelligence” with Curator Christiane Paul
The exhibition "The Question of Intelligence: AI and The Future of Humanity", which should have run from the 7th of February to the 8th of April at the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons/The New School in New York, engaged with the relationships that humans sustain with machines and vice versa and brought insights on artificial intelligence's bias and potential in unlocking new opportunities. Report and interview by Marie Chatel... READ MORE...