Primal machines: The cybernetics of Salvador Marino
Apr 13, 2021by Manu Sharma Apr 13, 2021
Argentina-born cybernetic prostheticist Salvador Marino discusses post-humanist bio-politics.
Manu is a new media artist and an arts scholar, with a Masters in Asian Art Histories from LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore. When he is not busy writing about art in the internet age, you can find him hard at work, making music videos.
‘Amber’: A look at Peng Ding's art from the outside
Apr 06, 2021by Manu Sharma Apr 06, 2021
Chinese artist Ding Peng’s bleak vision of the future is explored through his art practice.
Visual abstraction with artist Maria Takeuchi
Mar 29, 2021by Manu Sharma Mar 29, 2021
Brooklyn-based Japanese audio-visual artist Maria Takeuchi, aka ÉMU, talks art, nature and quarantine.
Distorted composites: a conversation with Ukrainian artist Demian Feriy
Mar 17, 2021by Manu Sharma Mar 17, 2021
Kyiv-based Demian Feriy discusses his uncanny digital art practice with STIR, the one where he uses distortion and weirdness to create beauty with an element of mysticism and awe.
Exploring the fascinating world of artist Steven Baltay
Mar 11, 2021by Manu Sharma Mar 11, 2021
American 3D artist Steven Baltay talks of his practice that clubs together various artistic genres and his works that are a critique of consumer-driven capitalist excess.
Navigating the real and virtual with Ofir Liberman
Mar 05, 2021by Manu Sharma Mar 05, 2021
Israeli digital artist Ofir Liberman is on a quest to find technology that connects us to reality and rouses his audience from virtuality.
Morphing fauna with Berlin-based digital artist Sofia Crespo
Feb 27, 2021by Manu Sharma Feb 27, 2021
Sofia Crespo, who uses machine learning techniques to create images of biotic life, talks to STIR about her fascination with artificial life in the digital space.
The dark dreamscapes of Ceren Aksungur
Feb 23, 2021by Manu Sharma Feb 23, 2021
A Turkish artist based in Antwerp, Ceren Aksungur aka ‘Dolce Paganne’, discusses her ominous practice with STIR.
Paulo Abreu discusses expression through the physical form
Feb 17, 2021by Manu Sharma Feb 17, 2021
STIR interviews Brazilian photographer and visual artist Paulo Abreu to explore his sublime and melancholic gestural configurations.
Exploring the vivid and alien world of Gabriel Massan
Feb 13, 2021by Manu Sharma Feb 13, 2021
Brazilian digital sculptor Gabriel Massan subverts colonialist stratifications through their decentralised lifeforms.
Casey Jex Smith speaks of his sublime and fluid realms
Feb 03, 2021by Manu Sharma Feb 03, 2021
STIR explores the masterful blend of subtlety and weight of Casey Jex Smith’s minimalist yet highly intricate works.
Robert Steven Connett and his biotic curiosities
Jan 27, 2021by Manu Sharma Jan 27, 2021
STIR speaks with American artist Robert Steven Connett to shed light on his preternatural paintings.
Artist-activist collective INDECLINE talks about its politically provocative work
Jan 19, 2021by Manu Sharma Jan 19, 2021
A representative of the notorious US-based collective INDECLINE discusses the group’s history, practice and trajectory.
‘Reading’ the gluttonous hellscape of Gregory Jacobsen
Jan 16, 2021by Manu Sharma Jan 16, 2021
American painter Gregory Jacobsen takes STIR on a journey through his corpulent and violent realm.
Comic artist tom.af.brockbrock seeks to rekindle creative curiosity within his work
Jan 11, 2021by Manu Sharma Jan 11, 2021
Tom Karlsson of Sweden discusses his quest to return to a state of youthful wonderment, and its centrality to his artistic practice.
Exploring the bizarre world of Justin Tomchuk’s ‘Interface’
Jan 06, 2021by Manu Sharma Jan 06, 2021
Canadian Youtuber Justin Tomchuk takes viewers on a surreal journey through his two-year-old animation project.
ROM Corruption artists distort old videogames to create glitch artistry
Dec 23, 2020by Manu Sharma Dec 23, 2020
Four ROM Corruption artists - Jordan Bortner, Dawnia Darkstone, Sabato Visconti and Rudy Paganini - highlight the practice and purpose of their craft.
Traversing the absurd worlds of Pancreas Supervisor
Dec 15, 2020by Manu Sharma Dec 15, 2020
Minneapolis-based artist Pancreas Supervisor creates visceral assemblages that defy rational thought.
Political painter Mark Bryan and his vibrant, satirical work
Dec 04, 2020by Manu Sharma Dec 04, 2020
STIR speaks with American satirist Mark Bryan, and discusses ethos, practice and trajectory.
Pablo Iglesias Prada captures human evil through his expressionist works
Nov 28, 2020by Manu Sharma Nov 28, 2020
Spanish artist Pablo Iglesias Prada seeks to capture human emotions and vice within his sinister paintings.
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