Coral systems, skeletons, living alga, water, the coil of a snake, and the movement of a bird's wings are just some of the natural phenomena that have fed into van Herpen's visual language. Her couture pieces borrow the natural world's rhythms and structures, adapting them into gravity-defying garments.
'SubWave,' created by Ryan Webber, Gwen Goins, and Rafia Santana, draws from the rhythms of the East River, including waves synchronized with the passing subway, revealing forgotten histories along the shoreline.
"We're living through a profound transformation in our relationship to images. Images, sensing systems, algorithms and the infrastructures around them have become active participants in the world-shaping decisions, identities, cultures and histories."
THE TITLE OF THE KW SHOW is "RATIO." The term comes from economics, this idea of balance. But I'm applying it to the conflict here in the DRC, which is based around our strategic rare minerals. I'm talking about customs, electronics, space, minerals. In my country, we only ever talk about making phones, about buying a new phone. I advise young people who are looking at the front of their phone-at the screen-to keep the back of their phone in mind;
In her visual art, Shlaina filmmaker, best-selling author, and creator of the Webby Award (which, incidentally, is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year)is best known for challenging conceptions of patriarchy, colonialism, and the passage of time. In his, Goldbergprofessor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at UC Berkeley, co-founder of Ambidextrous Robotics and the Moxie Instituteis best known for visualizing ideas through telerobotics, automation, and AI.
Padimai Art & Tech Studio will launch with Your view matter (2022/25), a VR work by artist Olafur Eliasson that was commissioned by the studio's founder, technologist and collector Vignesh Sundaresan, also known as Metakovan. The initiative comes four years after Sundaresan's record-breaking $69.3 million purchase of Beeple's Everydays: The First 5000 Days, a sale that thrust blockchain-based art into the global spotlight. Padimai, an independent entity, aims to move the conversation beyond speculation, toward long-term questions of technological infrastructure, digital sovereignty, and collective memory.
UFaudiO innovatively merges sound and art by transforming audio waves into kinetic visuals, revealing sound's hidden aesthetic through its responsive ferrofluid display.
E.A.T. emerged as a radical platform that reimagined the possibilities of creative practice through direct collaboration between artists and technologists.
Rather than reacting to sound or voice commands, the object responds to proximity and gesture, creating moments of interaction through presence, light, and motion.
