Dasha Ilina: DIY, humour, yoga, martial arts and human-machine interactions

Center For Technological Pain. Credit: Dasha Ilina

Dasha Ilina recently got an honorary mention at Ars Electronica for her faux corporation offering therapy for those constantly on their phones, the ‘Center For Technological Pain’.
 

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‘Art as We Don’t Know It’: Against the Unbearable Whiteness of Bioart

What if this is the only world she knew?,2018. Performance, installation. Commissioned by SymbioticA for Unhallowed Arts. Photo by Sohan Ariel Hayes.

The recently published 'Art as We Don’t Know It' catalogue showcases art and research that has grown and flourished within the wider network of both the Bioart Society and Aalto University's Biofilia lab in Finland during the previous decade. Review.
 

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Adriana Knouf: “I launched fragments of my hormone replacement medications to the ISS”

On March 6, 2020, five research payloads from the MIT Media Lab’s Space Exploration Initiative were sent to the International Space Station. Among them, the Sojourner 2020 project, a payload of artworks selected by SEI’s arts curator Xin Liu. Adriana Knouf’s TX-1 is one of the curated projects.
 

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Oki Wonder FoodLabs tantalize the senses

KitchenLab in Okinawa © Agryfp

As Oki Wonder Lab gleefully camps out in Okinawa, most Hackterians are stuck indoors. An online KitchenLab hosted live from Helsinki offered an entertaining glimpse of localized baking, while other experiments are fermenting and distilling across the global network.
 

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Système K, chaos and survival in Kinshasa

Kongo Astronauts © Renaud Barret

Documentary filmmaker Renaud Barret followed several young artists in Kinshasa. His film “System K” was released in January.
 

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HackteriaLab ferments isolation in Okinawa

Toru Oyama chez Sonda Labo. © Dusjagr

Oki Wonder Lab just may be the most remote un-disciplinary DIYbio camp going on in the world right now. Hackteria’s latest event is currently taking place in Okinawa.
 

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‘REALTIME: Making Digital China’, some highlights on the book content

'REALTIME : Making Digital China' © Dennis de Bel

'REALTIME : Making Digital China' is an investigation about China's digital and urban infrastructure, practices and imaginary spaces. It attempts to capture the pace, scale and depth of China's complex and imaginary spaces. Extracts.
 

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Spring at Science Gallery London: Attention Reproducers!

"Once you care, you're future", Laura Yuile, 2019. © Rebecca Lennon, courtesy of Birth Rites Collection.

The new exhibition at London’s Science Gallery, "considers gender in relation to fashion, reproductive technologies, gaming and changing ecologies".
 

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Berlin: Interview with Tad Ermitaño at Club Transmediale’s MusicMakers HackLab 2020

CTM 2020's MusicMakers HackLab finale at radialsystem Halle. © Udo Siegfriedt / CTM 2020

Makery met Tad Ermitaño, a key figure in new media art in the Philippines and Southeast Asia, to discuss his experience at MusicMakers Hacklab, CTM's week-long collaborative laboratory.

 

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Aerocene Pacha: a solar balloon that soars above saltlands in Argentina

Aerocene Pacha © Aerocene Fondation

Above the Salinas Grandes salt flat in the Argentinean province of Jujuy, Aerocene set a new symbolic record was for a new way of floating in the air: 100% solar-heat-powered human flight.
 

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