Interview: Martine Syms
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by Gazelle Mba
1w ago
The American artist on her debut feature The African Desperate and creating work where humour and pain connect. Martine Syms works across film, video, programming, photography, sculpture, performance, and writing. Her skills run deep and wide. She retains artistic control over every aspect of the projects she undertakes, from cinematography to editing and graphic design, seeing it through from beginning to end. For the LA-born artist, the interaction of Blackness with technology is a fruitful place from which to explore the ways that power functions and behavioural social conditioning takes sh ..read more
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Interview: Rabit
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by Henry Bruce-Jones
2w ago
The Houston native on DJ Screw, his city’s musical legacy and What Dreams May Come, his most ambitious project to date. Houston sounds like no place on earth, but these days everything sounds like Houston. From H-town’s finest – Megan Thee Stallion, Beyonce, Solange, Travis Scott – cloud rap prodigy Yung Lean and witch house pioneers Salem, the loose bounce and languid pace of the Southern sound has crept slowly but surely into the sonic textures of our everyday. Though broad in its reach and spanning over two decades in evolution, within its essence is the revolutionary sound of DJ Screw. It ..read more
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Interview: Universal Everything
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by Francesca Gavin
3w ago
How the British digital art collective create generative work that evolves with time and human interaction. Let’s start with depicting the human soul. British media art and design collective Universal Everything (UE) create diverse projects that aim to do just that. From buildings covered in giant digital animations to 3D-printed sculptural characters, AI-generated futurist fashion shows to interactive digital mirrors, UE’s projects are connected by a desire to explore how to depict and create emotion. Matt Pyke established the collaborative studio in 2004, initially working on graphic design ..read more
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Interview: Ivan Michael Blackstock
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by Mahoro Seward
1M ago
The dance artist and choreographer on the intense process and personal experiences that went into creating the award-winning Traplord. ‘Dance is the way I communicate’, says Ivan Michael Blackstock. ‘I’ve never thought of it as something separate from me’, a truth that makes itself clearly felt over the course of an hour’s conversation with the 36-year-old choreographer and dance artist, whose award-winning show Traplord was commissioned by and premiered at 180 Studios. Though the setup of our chat is conventional – we sat across from one another on office chairs – the words he speaks convey b ..read more
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Interview: VTSS & Actual Objects
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by Claire Mouchemore
1M ago
LA-based studio Actual Objects on how they suspended reality in their collaboration with electronic musician VTSS. In the opening scene for VTSS’s Notoriously Fast music video, a lone motorcyclist speeds around a bend on the edge of a dark forest. As night falls, the rider blends in with the looming sky above and the asphalt that lines the road below. The unknown biker journeys on, blazing through a green-lit vortex-like underground tunnel that blurs into the background as the biker gains speed, clearly impatient to reach their destination. Suddenly the video cuts to a flash of scene ..read more
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Interview: Theo Triantafyllidis
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by Günseli Yalcinkaya
1M ago
The digital artist on how Mark Zuckerberg’s sterile vision of the metaverse inspired his latest online multiplayer game. Theo Triantafyllidis’s latest project is an online multiplayer game called Feral Metaverse. Still in the early stages of development, the game takes place in a bare and strange environment, where players must work together to solve an undisclosed goal that reveals itself over time. There’s no text or speaking functions, and the map is intentionally disorientating. “I’m trying to get players to develop their own ways of communicating based on choreography and body movement ..read more
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Interview: Klein
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by Fact
1M ago
South London friends and collaborators Klein and Curtly Thomas on identity, experimentation and technology. Klein redefines what it means to be an artist for the precarious composite of the now. To list the variety of roles she plays would be to miss the point of her wide-ranging practice, a mode of playful experimentation that sees her adopting, rearranging and discarding the conventions of discipline, genre and form so rapidly that it can be tough to keep up. At once prolific and obfuscating, she is just as likely to upload a project to YouTube without telling anyone as she is to collaborate ..read more
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Interview: 33EMYBW
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by Merilyn Chang
2M ago
How prehistoric biota inspired the SVBKVLT artist’s captivating new album, Holes of Sinian. This feature was originally published in Fact’s F/W 2023 issue, which is available to buy here. “The failure of evolution is not decisive,” SVBKVLT’s 33EMYBW says, when asked about the concept behind her upcoming album Holes of Sinian. She thinks for a moment longer then says, “I can send you more information over email if this doesn’t make full sense.” For the past decade or so, China’s underground scene has remained partially elusive to the West. The internet has parted digital curtains to reveal ..read more
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Ibby Njoya – Mustafa
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by Charlene Prempeh
2M ago
180 Studios resident artist showcases his passion for transmuting colour. Ibby Njoya feels colour. “I see emotions. [Colour] is the way for me to translate some of the things that I can’t write or find the right way to say when I’m talking,” he explains. Njoya’s vivid, whimsical practice is evident in his collaborations with Hermes, Louis Vuitton and Gucci, and his celebrated art installations for 180 Studios, such as Mustafa – which premiered as part of 2022’s Future Shock exhibition. “My goal was to always be an artist and to have the freedom to create in any form,” he says. Colour is the st ..read more
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Interview: Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley
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by Gazelle Mba
2M ago
The digital media artist on challenging the art world’s exclusion of Black trans people and creating art through interactive technology. While the possibilities of who we can be are endless, digital embodiment comes with its risks and dangers, especially for those who inhabit marginalised bodies. Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley’s intervention into the discourse of bodies and technology takes the form of the construction of a Black trans archive that allows her to memorialise those who have come before her, documenting their lives. This work of remembrance cannot be detached from the work of imagin ..read more
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