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Historian of science Flora Lysen interviews filmmaker and researcher Richard Ramchurn about his latest artwork TheMOMENT, exploring the future of technology, the body and the brain.
Can digital art provide solutions that can be carried forward into real life politics? This article explores the transformation of digital art by the Coronavirus pandemic, and questions what these changes mean for the working-class, the oppressed minorities and political consciousness from an anti-imperialist standpoint.
How has the Artist Support Pledge shaped the concept of self-selling art? Art writer Kate Reeve-Edwards discusses how artists are taking back control of their work through Instagram, questioning what impact this will have on the relationship between artists and galleries.
MA Curating students meet on WhatsApp to discuss their experiences of art and curatorial practice as it moved online during Covid-19. Through online projects and an analysis of the digital transformation of art, the three emerging curators discuss their experiences.
How will emotion tracking technologies integrate into everyday life, and what does this mean for the human body? Exploring the bio-sensing world and research behind their new artwork machine-in-the-middle, Rod Dickinson and Nathan Semetzidis reveal their thoughts in this exclusive interview.
In the course of the pandemic, the dimensions of everyday life became restructured. Domestic and public space shrank, whilst our virtual worlds opened. How can exhibition design and online art help us connect with our environments, and redefine personal space?
On our final journey, Frodlaw Anele demonstrates a series of technological items found in the future. Visit this video artwork as the final chapter in this series to transform your imagination of the sort of objects we might found ourselves using in everyday life.
Frodlaw Anele helps us prepare for yet another special trip. Demonstrating the essential technological items that will enhance her human cognitive and bodily potential, Anele presents her new object series discovered on a journey to the past, reimagined for the future.
HYPERREAALIYAH’s video work proposes a vision of a distributed consciousness called Skeedari, emerging out of the data megastructure of cyberspace. Can this speculative being disrupt our understanding of mind, and its relationship with technology?
Enter The New Herulians’ portal and discover the Magic Sphere of Helios, a magical orb that with a touch of a finger, will download your thoughts, sensations and desires.
Beyond Biology: Robots, Telepathy and Artificial Brains was a multidisciplinary panel discussion exploring the rise of sentient machines. In this article we share our key takeaways about the social future of humanity in a technological world.
A video artwork exploring the technological objects of our future, and their growing relationship and integration with the body. In part one of three in this artwork series, take a trip with our futuristic guide Frodlaw Anele as she navigates through time and space to explore the devices of our future.
William Dreams explores the biological and practical potential of brain implants. In this near future, humans and artificial intelligence combine cognitive abilities, using the altered state of dreaming to organise smart cities.
Connect the neurons of our artificial brain. For the duration of The Downloadable Brain season we invite audiences to contribute to Sarah Selby’s living artwork, which transforms and develops through machine learning technology. Make sure you visit at a later date to watch it change throughout the programme.
We are looking for proposals that explore the biological connection between humans and technology, through multi-disciplinary approaches in art, science and technology. Apply by Sunday 11th April for funded opportunities in writing and art.
Blog Short Series #3: Mediated content has become the sole channel for connecting audiences with culture, creating an advent of new engagement practices and a steep learning curve in how these are approached. As audiences disappear into the unknown territories of their homes, what do we know about the quality of their experience?
Blog Short Series #2: What makes an online artwork memorable, and not just another digital image amongst the hundreds that you have consumed that day? Read this review of recent online exhibitions and their approach to visitor experience, featuring shows by arebyte, Art in Flux and the Piksel Festival.
Blog Short Series #1: Introducing a new set of articles analysing the internet as a medium of expression in art and curatorial practice. As Covid forces industries, practices and disciplines online, how can new digital methods be applied to better communicate their content to audiences?
On Tuesday July 28th we will be launching a Kickstarter campaign for a public programme on the downloadable brain! Read our plans for the next season and learn about our amazing donor gifts on offer to supporters.
Join our latest campaign to end loneliness through a letter writing initiative which provides offline solutions for connecting people during lockdown. All the proceeds will be donated to Campaign to End Loneliness. Simply take part by sending a letter to a friend, donating and sharing. Write, donate, communicate!
