Critical digital culture and media arts · Since 1993
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Thames & Hudson,book, ISBN 978-0500026861, English, 256 pages, 2025, UK Madeline Schwartzman’s Alive appears to seamlessly continue and develop her previous two books, See Yourself Sensing and See Yourself X, both successful collections of destabilising →
CD – Persistence of Sound The works collected in Tutti Frutti, a rather ironic and charming title for such a conceptually dense selection, span nearly four decades, from 1983 to 2020, initially conceived in analog studios and, since 1996, with →
Young people moving across the EU for work account for 14.1% of the total, and some countries have progressively reconsidered their policies, if only subtly, to address irrational fears of losing national identity. This is the conceptual territory of Deutsch →
CD – Kohlhaas Even in the drone music field, lamentation is now finding unexpected and open forms. With tri-n-os, Anton Lambert and Thanos Polymeneas Liontiris propose their contemporary interpretation of this expression, conceived as a tool for internalizing mourning, pain, →
Aksioma, book, ISBN 978-9617173666, English, 192 pages, 2025, Slovenia The authors of Are you a software update? analyse and deconstruct the subtle mechanisms of power exerted through online technologies. This compelling book is a reader from Aksioma’s →
CD – Futura Resistenza Suzana Lașcu, Robert Kroos and Reinier van Houdt have worked on recordings of old pinball machines – largely from the museum in Rotterdam dedicated to this pre-Internet hobby – transforming them into various musical textures. It →
Stephanie Rentschler employs speculative design and interdisciplinary research to connect the social, ecological, and technological. Her outstanding SlimeMoldCrypt exemplifies this approach. It uses Physarum polycephalum, a slime mould capable of modifying its network of tendrils in response to stimuli, creating →
CD – UNRec Anouck Genthon and Lionel Marchetti develop with Suite blanche a composition that puts space at the center of its structure, understood not as a simple sound container but as an active element of the musical process. The →
Spector Books, book, ISBN 978-3959058933, English, 240 pages, 2025, Germany There is a growing cultural interest in the non-visual, in stark contrast to the endless screens that convey the past and present at →
Arvida Byström (author of Inflated Fiction) is a model and artist who uses her physical and digital body as artistic territory. In Biblically Accurate Babe, she utilises an AI-powered website to artificially undress her own body, discovering how realistic the →
2CD – Penultimate Press Using the acronym C.D., this project recalls Colonia Dignidad, the German evangelical sect accused of abusing minors in Germany, which then moved to Chile in 1961 to freely continue its training activities. Outwardly, the community seemed →
