Articles

Preserving memories for the future. The project “Archive for change”

Archive for Change is a project initiated by the artists and filmmakers Julie Ballands, Taryn Edmonds and Laura Maragoudaki in 2010, which had the aim to explore urban and social changes in Newcastle upon Tyne (UK). The project is actively supported by the local community and its organizations, because it investigates directly the constant process of transformation of the city, taking Newcastle’s West End as a case study.... READ MORE...

En Abîme. A Journey across Listening, Reading and Writing with Daniela Cascella

Daniela Cascella is an Italian writer based in London. Her work, which has ranged between critical and curatorial activities over the years, seems to gravitate around certain ongoing interests. Besides an attention to sound and musical experimentation, which characterizes her practice from the beginning, several of her curated projects focused on the relationships between sound, site, landscape, texts and literature.... READ MORE...

Accessible Music Hack Day

On Sunday 21 April Drake Music will run a hackday to create and share new instruments that break down disabling barriers to music making. Run in partnership with Furtherfield and Music Hackspace, makers will have the opportunity to work towards one of two prizes for the most innovative work... READ MORE...

Resonate 2013. International debate on the position of technology in art and culture

Resonate is a platform for networking, information, knowledge sharing and education. It brings together distinguished, world class artists, with an opportunity of participating in a forward-looking debate on the position of technology in art and culture. It is a project broad enough to encompass areas ranging from software engineering to visual arts theory, but also to create a bridge between culturally separated segments of the artistic and intellectual scene through a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach.... READ MORE...

Evan Roth: Flight Mode. Solo exhbition at Aksioma Project Space

Airports are the (non)places where the surveillance apparatus shows off its muscles. Airports are where security systems are first tested and fully employed. Airports are where privacy is immolated on the altars of control. Airports are the physical version of an information network. As such, airports have always fascinated artists, and they are the perfect playground for an artist who also happens to be a graffiti artist, a hacker and an open source coder, an artist such as Evan Roth.... READ MORE...

The Future Everything Summit 2013

The FutureEverything Summit of Ideas & Digital Invention is centred around the Conference on Thursday 21 and Friday 22 March at Four Piccadilly Place, Manchester. The Conference brings together artists, thinkers and industry figures from around the world, across multiple disciplines to take part in presentations, debates, panels and participatory sessions. Alongside the main Conference programme we also present a series of workshops, fringe events, innovation labs and an art programme over six days.... READ MORE...

The latest endeavours of DjSpooky: The Imaginary App and the The Met Reframed residency

Several authors in the past have widely focused on the artistic projects of Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid, an inexhaustible artist whose works have the ‘remix’ as a core concept and primary form of representation. The following article traces Miller’s latest endeavours, in particular his residency at the prestigious Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the forthcoming book project about the terrific production of apps for mobile devices.... READ MORE...