Science

The post-digital condition – nomadism, fluidity and micromaterialism towards listening in the contemporary age

Originally published at Italian Magazine Blow-up. Translated by Laura Domínguez. “The digital revolution is over” It’s almost fifteen years now since Nicholas Negroponte, founder of MIT Media Laboratory in Cambridge, declared the trigger effect of radical transformation generated by digital…

September 8, 2015
Listening to the Processes that Shape the World: An Interview with John Grzinich

John Grzinich is passionate about sound and listening. Rather than just being someone who merely ‘works’ with those elements, he is deeply involved in the actual experience, placing the listening realm in a very important spot in his life, as…

July 27, 2015
micro | macro

As prelude to the exhibition »Infosphere«, the ZKM | Karlsruhe is presenting the large-scale exhibition »micro | macro« by Japanese artist and composer Ryoji Ikeda. The series of works entitled »supersymmetry« and the installation commission by ZKM entitled »the planck…

July 22, 2015
scalar field (f89406, f2784b, f64747, f62459) [excerpt]

Preview of a new audio-visual premiering at the Dancity Festival, July 3 – 5, 2015 In mathematics and physics, a scalar field associates a scalar value to every point in a space. The scalar may either be a mathematical number…

July 2, 2015
A Picture of a Thunder

When it comes to thunderstorms, lightning tends to steal the show, dazzling everyone with its spectacular displays, and overshadowing the powerful long-distance rumbles that accompany the atmospheric energy release. But now a team of scientists working at the Southwest Research…

June 14, 2015
infinite grain 09: sinan bökesoy

[infinite grain is a series of interviews inspired on microsound procedures, exploring a wide variety of topics in dialogue with artists who work with sound on installation, composition and improvisation] Algorithms have a special magic, a mystery that lies in life itself, from…

June 14, 2015