Contents - Various Artists

Iris Objekt

Musings on Michael Fassbender’s iris, eye payment systems, digitally rendered interiors, the meaning of refraction and how to make eyes more real in software.

Imagining and Imaging the Future: A Conversation with Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs

Interview

Imagining and Imaging the Future: A Conversation with Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs

Danaé Panchaud met Zurich-based duo Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs to discuss the unexpected visions of the future they create in their work.

Acchiappafantasmi

Essay

Acchiappafantasmi

What would you do when the technical gear you use takes on a life of its own? In this essay, Keith Fullerton Whitman describes how he found himself confronted with this question in a recent performance.

Auditions: Field Recordings as Otherly Zones of Entanglement. Part 3

Compiled

Auditions: Field Recordings as Otherly Zones of Entanglement. Part 3

In the 3rd and final part of this series, Lawrence English concludes his non-linear investigation into field recordings absorbed in the horizon of audition.

Auditions: Field Recordings as Otherly Zones of Entanglement. Part 2

Compiled

Auditions: Field Recordings as Otherly Zones of Entanglement. Part 2

Lawrence English continues his non-linear investigation into field recordings absorbed in the horizon of audition.

The Unbearable Artist: In Conversation with Kubra Khademi

Interview

The Unbearable Artist: In Conversation with Kubra Khademi

Artist Kubra Khademi has committed herself to the continuous reflection of the condition of women’s lives in Afghanistan. Philomena Epps met her for V/A.

No One Can Hear You Stream. Part 2: Voices in Your Head.

Essay

No One Can Hear You Stream. Part 2: Voices in Your Head.

In the second part of his essay about the current regime of digital music platforms, Tobi Müller wonders what streaming did to music itself – and what the future might hold.

No One Can Hear You Stream. Part 1: You May Also Like This.

Essay

No One Can Hear You Stream. Part 1: You May Also Like This.

Tobi Müller traces the fundamental cultural transformation the triumphant advent of streaming platforms entails.

Intimacy and the Machine: Godposting – or: New Internet Esotericism

Column

Intimacy and the Machine: Godposting – or: New Internet Esotericism

Did the internet find God? In her second column for V/A, the American cultural critic Biz Sherbert went in search of new forms propelled by Catholic or religious iconography and practice…