In our interview with Chris Solarski we learn more about his masterclass on game design entitled « Kinaesthetic Time Capsules, » where he also evoked cultural identity. “When we play a game, we are engaging in a highly curated physical experience, which can be used for artistic effect—not just entertainment,” says Chris Solarski, game designer and cultural…

knowbotiq conducted a field trip in December 2023 into the wetlands around Shanghai, invited by CAO Jiamin and BI Xin of the Chronus Art Center. They asked the people encountered to draw cards out of the Untooling: Carbon Flux deck and provide answers. Against the backdrop of a grand national movement of emission reduction and…

La langue allemande est l’invitée d’honneur du Salon international du livre de Turin de cette année (Salone Internazionale del Libro di Torino, du 9 au 13 mai 2024). Dans le cadre du programme « Literatur Parade. Gastsprache Deutsch #SalTo24 », quelque 25 autrices et auteurs germanophones établis en Allemagne, en Autriche et en Suisse se rendront au Piémont. Parmi les…

Together with a swarm of multidisciplinary collaborators, “Hiving and HUMing” explores alternative methods and modalities of apiculture that centre bee logics and sensibilities. “Hiving and HUMing” is a long-term, process-oriented multisensory project by visual artist Dunja Herzog (Switzerland) and beekeeper Thembalezwe Mntambo (South Africa) exploring the relationship between bees, plants and humans. Central to the…

« The Gap », a collaboration between musicians and activists Felinto and Simon Grab, investigates the unspoken sounds of the black diaspora and the wounds that make up Brazilian identity

The result of a three-year collaboration between artists Tobibi Bienz [Switzerland] and Victoria Papagni [Argentina], co-creation project “Fears and Affections: that day we fell in love with vermins” combines performance, installation and bugs to discuss inter-species relationships, feelings of fondness and abjection 

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Swiss curator Danaé Panchaud worked with photography collectives KOZ from Morocco and collective 220 from Algeria, between 2021 and 2023, towards producing stories through photography attempting to transform the Algerian-Moroccan borders into gateways rather than walls of separation. Overpassing the « I, » meeting the « you » to build the « we » by creating a joint artistic work that…

The percussion and contemporary music duo reConvert has toured Asia for the first time in their 10-year trajectory within the contemporary European music scene. From February to March 2024, reConvert had the chance to perform in influential cultural spaces in Hong Kong (Floating Projects, Cheung Chau Cinema), Shanghai (SYSTEM), and Taipei (Digital Art Center Festival).…

Synergies encourage les programmes axés sur la recherche et les processus qui favorisent les échanges entre art, science et technologie.

Avec l’établissement progressif de l’intelligence artificielle, les outils d’IA sont de plus en plus utilisés dans la pratique de la traduction. Malgré ses progrès, l’IA n’égale pas encore les facultés des traductrices et traducteurs humains, qui expérimentent toutefois déjà activement ces nouveaux outils, mettant au point des approches créatives pour les appliquer efficacement dans le…

Après une décision de principe en novembre 2023, le Conseil de Fondation s’est donc résolu, lors de sa séance du 28 février 2024, à opter pour la cessation des activités du bureau, pour la fin de l’année 2024.