Paul Carey-Kent speaks to artist Sarah Derat about ‘RƎTRO/GRADƎ’, her recent show at Super Dakota in Brussels, which made an immediate impact despite being a complex construction using geological phenomena as analogies for human bodily experience.
Read MoreIn 2016 Lis Fields participated in a study tour of Fukushima, examining the effects of the disaster and issues around radioactivity. Here, she brings her expertise to bear unusually in considering an artwork, Chair from Half Life by Elliot Walker, recently featured in the exhibition 'The Glass Heart: Art, Industry & Collaboration' at Two Temple Place, London.
Read MoreVisitors to Geneva can currently see Pace’s ‘Inner Cosmos, Outer Universe’, a group exhibition showcasing works by seventeen artists from across the gallery’s international programme. They share, says the gallery, ‘a fascination with space, from cosmological heights to the molecular foundations of the self’. Here we take a look at the work shown by five of the artists: Leo Villareal, Kiki Smith, Latifa Echakhch, Richard Pousette-Dart, and Jeff Koons.
Read MoreArtist and sculptor Conrad Shawcross not only creates works about mathematics and science, he also approaches his artistic investigations in a comparable manner, experimenting with concepts and building on the results in depth over many years as he pursues particular streams of thought.
Read MoreIn this interview, husband and wife art partnership Rob and Nick Carter discuss creating dialogue between art history and cutting-edge technology and their experiences of working with 3D printing, computer-generated imagery, and robotics.
Read MoreAlexander James Hamilton’s latest works look as though they might be created from CGI or AI platforms, but are in fact analogue photographs made with resonance physics, liquid, and light. We caught up with the groundbreaking photographer to discuss gravitational waves, cymatics, and the expanding universe.
Read MoreNot only do teamLab work at the scientific cutting edge of the latest technology to create artworks, they use it to give fresh perspectives on such phenomena as the nature and causes of ocean currents. Here, they discuss waves, vortices, and technology as a creative material.
Read MoreThe Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut, currently provides a fascinating insight into the interface between science and the materials used by artists through its exhibition, ‘Prima Materia: The Periodic Table in Contemporary Art’.
Read MoreAlicja Kwade speaks to us about the difficulties of defining what is real, the subjectivity of time, the possibility of alternate worlds, and the origin of life.
Read MoreArtist Sougwen Chung has found novel ways not just to work with robots and computers, but to collaborate with them as partners, and in the process to research where AI ends and the human artist begins.
Read MoreArtist, Lisa Pettibone, is a dynamic proponent of interdisciplinary creativity – investigating astronomy and physics through a wide range of collaborative projects. Here, she discusses her creative process and the ways in which art is moving into space.
Read MoreIn this interview we caught up with biotechnological artist Anna Dumitriu to discuss robots, microbiology, and rabbit holes.
Read MoreLondon’s Gazelli Art House is currently staging a retrospective of Harold Cohen (1928-2016). Cohen was the first leading artist to take the possibilities of computer-made art seriously and here we reflect on his work.
Read MoreArtist Noémie Goudal discusses the parallel ways in which both photography and our modelling of the universe appear to depict objective truths, but turn out to be human constructions.
Read MoreMariele Neudecker’s multidisciplinary practice is propelled by a relentless curiosity about the world. In this interview, the artist speaks to us about her wide-ranging projects with scientists and researchers, our relationship to landscape, and the nature of perception.
Read MoreArtist trio, Troika, discuss ways in which the ‘real’ is giving way to the ‘digital’, consider the past and future of the world as a story of salt, and speak to us about their new project exploring chemical gardens.
Read MoreIn this extended tenth interview for our Spotlight series, we explore the work of astrophysics-informed, phenomenological artist, Félicie d’Estienne d’Orves.
Read MoreArtist, Takis, was known for his kinetic sculptures and his explorations into electricity and magnetism. In June 2021, White Cube gallery presented the first major European exhibition of Takis’s work since his death. We spoke to Toby Kamps, the show’s curator, to find out more.
Read MoreExploring the material nature of our physical world and the aesthetic sublime with art duo, Semiconductor.
Read MoreDavid Rickard is an artist whose work moves between sculpture and performance, art and physics, chance and necessity. He’s particularly fascinated by the slippages between our everyday perceptions and what, through science, we understand to be the underlying reality.
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