Art & Tech Today

Step inside A Shroud Woven of Solar Threads , the major exhibition by artists Ala Roushan & Charles Stankievech, curated by Juliet Kothe and Nadim Samman.  Filmed on location at Halle am Berghain, the exhibition reimagines a 4000-year old Mithraic ritual, reconstructed through a speculative constellation of ancient sounds, lost language, unearthed imagery, and turbulent atmospheres. Everything...

Artist and filmmaker Cyrill Lachauer and producer/DJ Rhyw sit down to unpack their new short film 'The Prologue', woven throughout with footage and sound straight from the film itself. Content note: this video includes mention of drug overdose and death. Lachauer traces the film's origins back to hopping freight trains for his earlier film 'Slack', and how this led him to Bosni...

Step inside RAGE BAIT, the major exhibition by Eva & Franco Mattes in Venice, with curators Nadim Samman and Luisa Haustein. Content warning: This video contains discussion of suicidal ideation as part of the exhibition. Together, they unpack how the exhibition explores artificial intelligence, internet memes, AI training data, online performance, digital empathy, and the ways technology is tr...

Silvia Dal Dosso explores memes as one of the defining cultural languages of the internet age. From questions of authorship and collective creativity to AI-generated content and online belief systems, Dal Dosso argues that memes are far more than disposable jokes. They are tools for creating meaning, expressing cultural anxieties, and negotiating shared realities in increasingly complex digital en...

Lil Internet argues that 'understanding' digital technologies isn’t enough. We need to feel what they are doing to us. As social media and algorithmic systems reshape our cognition, memory, and behaviour, this conversation explores why theory has failed to translate into real awareness. Lil Internet argues that we need to see digital technologies as environments that actively shape who we...

We speak with cultural and media scientist, Paul Feigelfeld. From digital addiction and data extraction to the myth of decentralization, this conversation explores how today’s technological systems are shaping democracy, community, and the way we think. Why are programmers rarely trained to consider the ethical and political consequences of what they build? And what would it mean to design technol...

Warning: Contains flashing lights that may affect viewers with photosensitive epilepsy. We speak with Carsten Nicolai, aka Alva Noto, one of the most influential figures in experimental electronic music and audiovisual art. This episode was recorded in Berlin on the occasion of Alva Noto's first performance in the city for five years, at the legendary Berghain. The interview explores Nicolai’s...

In the debut episode of Art & Tech Today , experimental artist Most Dismal Swamp sits down with curator Rebecca Edwards for a deep dive into The Bastard Fields —a trippy, disorienting film that drags the emotional and cultural undercurrents of online life into the light. The conversation spills into the chaos of the digital psyche: neural media loops, meme-speak spirals, depressive realism, an...