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Balancing Technologies and Thoughts
When you first see Chloë Cheuk’s works, new media art may not be the first thing coming to mind. [...]
Digital Art is Afloat amongst Stormy Seas
The internet is the new ocean. As with the high seas in the late fifteenth century, today humans have [...]
Where Science Meets Art, Immerse Yourself in Helga Griffiths’ Multi-sensory Worlds
Euan McPherson | Ed Kiran Sajan | 22 November 2020 © Courtesy of the [...]
What is the Digital Sublime: The Awe & Terror of New Media Landscapes
What upsets our sense of harmony, self-preservation and spatiotemporality but, at the same time, fascinates us with a chaotic [...]
Time Travel and Digital Art: How Nicole Welch’s Time-lapse Video Art Collapses Time
Australian new media artist Nicole Welch explores the passage of time in her moving image works, immersing viewers in [...]
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Leading Auction House Christie’s Listing Bitcoin Art for the First Time
The world’s largest auction house, Christie’s, will be presenting Bitcoin artwork for the first time. Block 21 of “Portraits [...]
Crypto Art Fraud on Rarible Sparks Governance Discussion
On Feb. 8, artist Karan Singh notified via Twitter, the blockchain-based art platform Rarible that some of his work [...]
Webtoon series
New Media Artist Siyu Cao Connects East and West in Webcomic Series
Francesca Miller | Ed Cristina Brooks | 2 November 2020 Artist Siyu Cao talks [...]
Webcomic Series: Female artists rise to the top – Introduction
This is the first of a series of articles on female webcomic artists from around the world, telling how [...]
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Who is Miquela Sousa?
The 19-year-old is a singer, a model and an Influencer who is worth $6m. What is the Miquela's phenomenon? [...]
Delving into the Liminoid – Snow Yunxue Fu
Exploring how one artist uses digital and new media art to play with our sense of reality and immersion, [...]
Interviews and biographies
Sound and Motion: Arash Akbari Bridges Worlds
Iranian artist Arash Akbari’s newest work Sonomotion blends hypnotic visuals with experimental tracks to examine the ways that sound [...]
Composer Samm Anga Explores Digital Music and Multimedia Channels
If you’ve ever joined one of our Agora Talks, you’ve most probably experienced the work of Samm Anga in [...]
About the net with Wade Wallerstein from Silicon Valet
From anthropology to digitalogy, there is only one jump that Wade Wallerstein did brilliantly with his project: Silicon Valet. [...]
Scenographer, Architect and Artist: Rebecca van Beeck defies artistic labels
South African artist Rebecca van Beeck talks with our Editor about her migration online during lockdown and her participation [...]
Where Science Meets Art, Immerse Yourself in Helga Griffiths’ Multi-sensory Worlds
Euan McPherson | Ed Kiran Sajan | 22 November 2020 © Courtesy of the [...]
Neurons, simulated intelligence (2020) – Refik Anadol
Refik Anadol's algorithmic art is a merging of man and machine. Robert Perry | Ed Francesca Gransden | [...]
In Africa
Lethabo Huma: Painting Without a Brush
Lethabo Huma’s artwork highlights how the medium of painting is no longer just for physical paint, but also digital [...]
‘Existence as Protest’: The Necessity of Osinachi’s Character Explorations
Prince Jacon Osinachi Igwe, known as Osinachi, is a Nigerian born artist who explores cultural, sexual and racial identity [...]
How architecture enhances digital experiences?
Over the past few months nostalgia has been omnipresent in our hyperconnected memory culture. Alexandra Busila | Ed [...]
In the Middle East
Sound and Motion: Arash Akbari Bridges Worlds
Iranian artist Arash Akbari’s newest work Sonomotion blends hypnotic visuals with experimental tracks to examine the ways that sound [...]
With Love, From Nowhere: The Places of The Non-Yet – Ellie Niblock and Alaa Tarabzouni
What’s the value of non-places that we can’t visit and aren’t real? “With Love, From Nowhere: The Places of [...]
In Australia
Time Travel and Digital Art: How Nicole Welch’s Time-lapse Video Art Collapses Time
Australian new media artist Nicole Welch explores the passage of time in her moving image works, immersing viewers in [...]
Conflict in My Outlook_We Met Online (2020) – Xanthe Dobbie
Can a Buzzfeed-style quiz capture your online sexual persona? Would you want your results to be public? Queer Australian [...]
Hyper-linking away from loneliness with Amrita Hepi
Can a chatbot help us find deeper human connection? In Hyper-linked at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, [...]
Cinopticon (2020) – Giselle Stanborough
Conceptual artist, Giselle Stanborough considers the boundary between the public and private spheres in the context of online life. [...]
Tara Marynowsky, Coming Attractions at The National: New Australian Art 2019
Films such as Pretty Woman, watched and re-watched over time, can become like familiar friends. Elizabeth Harris | [...]
Companionship in the Age of Loneliness (2020) – KAWS
What a perfect title in Covid19 times ... Elizabeth Harris | Ed: Francesca Gransden | 4 April 2020 [...]
Terminus (2020) – Jess Johnson and Simon Ward
Choose your own adventure or fated quest? Jess Johnson and Simon Ward’s cybernetic world captures the unease of reality. [...]
In the UK
Under Surveillance with Trevor Paglen’s New Exhibition at Pace Gallery London
Trevor Paglen's complex and pioneering work examines the systems and technologies that shape society. Computing systems that collect, interpret [...]
Procreate and be a mother … – Helen Benigson and Paola Lucente
What does it mean to become a mother in the 21st Century? Alexandra Busila | Ed YoungMi Lamine [...]
Video Art and Films
Digital Art is Afloat amongst Stormy Seas
The internet is the new ocean. As with the high seas in the late fifteenth century, today humans have managed to harness communication technologies to bring each other into closer contact. Henry Tudor [...]
We will be seen – visibility in the works of Martine Syms
Immerse into a digital realm, where stories are told through the eyes of an artist committed to depicting real life, in an uncensored whirlwind of video, performance, archive and image. Lauren Gee | [...]
Speaking through screens, the spatial imagination of Sondra Perry
Technology is the chosen vocabulary of artist Sondra Perry, whose body of works form an unapologetic discourse on race, class and identity. Lauren Gee | Ed Francesca Gransden | 10 July 2020 [...]
Blue Prints (2020) – Cao Fei
Explore Cao Fei’s physical and virtual worlds as Blueprints re-opens at Serpentine Gallery Robert Perry | Ed Francesca Gransden | 19 February 2020 Cao Fei, Asia One, 2018, Video, 63’20”. Courtesy [...]
NIRIN: 22nd Biennale of Sydney (2020) – Lisa Reihana
Drawing attention to often sidelined and disenfranchised art and creators, Sydney’s 22nd Biennale curated by indigenous artist, Brook Andrew, has seized the opportunity to feature stories which all too often sit on the periphery [...]
It’s Not Easy Being Green: Maria Mahfooz’s first solo exhibition delves into the digital and green screen.
It’s Not Easy Being Green, sang Kermit the Frog. Elspeth Walker | Ed: Clare Deal | 5 June 2020 30 Q’s with Maria Mahfooz. © Courtesy of the artist. [...]
Any Means Necessary: The Interdisciplinary World of Jamilah Sabur
Journeying home in the works of Jamilah Sabur Lauren Gee | Ed Clare Deal | 29 May 2020 Jamilah Sabur. Un chemin escarpé / A steep path, 2018. [...]
Ellen Pau: video art pioneer and self-taught woman artist
Get to know Hong Kong-born, media artist Ellen Pau and her unique journey to becoming one of the world’s most prominent video artists. Lauren Gee | Ed Francesca Gransden | 15 [...]
Art is Still Here: A Hypothetical Show for a Closed Museum (2020) – Lu Yang
M WOODS gallery in Shanghai has released an incongruous online group show. Elizabeth Harris | Ed Francesca Gransden | 27 April 2020 © Courtesy of the artist. ‘Welcome [...]
Tara Marynowsky, Coming Attractions at The National: New Australian Art 2019
Films such as Pretty Woman, watched and re-watched over time, can become like familiar friends. Elizabeth Harris | Ed Clare Deal | 11 May 2020 © Courtesy of the [...]
Performance
Hyper-linking away from loneliness with Amrita Hepi
Can a chatbot help us find deeper human connection? In Hyper-linked at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, [...]
Cinopticon (2020) – Giselle Stanborough
Conceptual artist, Giselle Stanborough considers the boundary between the public and private spheres in the context of online life. [...]
Procreate and be a mother … – Helen Benigson and Paola Lucente
What does it mean to become a mother in the 21st Century? Alexandra Busila | Ed YoungMi Lamine [...]
The New Media Sculpture and Performance of Colette Bernard
Looking at how technology is enhancing pre-existing artistic practises. Elspeth Walker | Ed Francesca Gransden | 10 July 2020 [...]
Blue Prints (2020) – Cao Fei
Explore Cao Fei’s physical and virtual worlds as Blueprints re-opens at Serpentine Gallery Robert Perry | Ed Francesca Gransden | [...]
How Digital Art subverts the gender imbalance in the arts
Women Artists Teaching Machines How To Dream ... Alexandra Busila | Ed Clare Deal | 14 June 2020 [...]
It’s Not Easy Being Green: Maria Mahfooz’s first solo exhibition delves into the digital and green screen.
It’s Not Easy Being Green, sang Kermit the Frog. Elspeth Walker | Ed: Clare Deal | 5 June [...]
Opera Calling (2007) – !Mediengruppe Bitnik
What do you think about this playful performance? YoungMi Lamine | 28 April 2020 [...]
Neurons, simulated intelligence (2020) – Refik Anadol
Refik Anadol's algorithmic art is a merging of man and machine. Robert Perry | Ed Francesca Gransden | [...]
Quarantine Chat!
Talk on the phone with someone else stuck at home. YoungMi Lamine | 12 March 2020 [...]