•make your fridays matter with a well-read weekend
by Bansari Paghdar, Anmol Ahuja May 28, 2026
The solo exhibition staged at London’s Barbican Centre positions the speculative architect and filmmaker's fictions as imminent worlds rather than distant dreams and fears.
by Bansari Paghdar Jan 08, 2026
The ~log(ue) programme at the festival’s second edition attempts to reposition talks as slow, rigorous spaces for collective inquiry across design, film and architecture.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Nov 27, 2025
Guillermo del Toro’s much-anticipated ‘Frankenstein’ adaptation and the resulting online discussion lead to an exploration of the parable’s relevance in contemporary society.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Nov 07, 2025
The Word for World, an exhibition and book cartographically charting the great American writer's fictional terrains, encourages readers to pay attention to the possibilities of fiction.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Jun 06, 2025
STIR speaks to the artist and filmmaker on her solo exhibition at CARA, New York, and the themes of displacement, indigenous labour and science fiction prevalent in her work.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Apr 30, 2025
Written by architect Anna Kostreva, the book presents a fictional story depicting algorithms exercising control over humans and how this affects the built environment.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Apr 07, 2025
The Venice Architecture Biennale 2025 confers the prestigious honour on the American philosopher and Italian architect for their contributions to architectural thinking and design.
by Manu Sharma Apr 03, 2025
This behemoth art fair in West Asia returns with a promising digital art lineup in its 18th year.
by Hili Perlson Mar 28, 2025
The Swiss artist, who shot to fame in recent years, is staging her first institutional show in Switzerland at MASI Lugano, titled Many Moons.
by Akash Singh Mar 22, 2025
A recent book by science fiction author Christopher Brown explores the reclamation of abandoned lots with nature, intertwining nature-writing with personal memoir.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Feb 28, 2025
STIR looks at the production design of the speculative series' disorienting spaces and the inspirations it draws on to provide a compendium of references to pop culture.
by STIRworld Dec 08, 2024
Asia Now 2024, featuring guest curators Radicants, brought an intergenerational cohort of Asian artists grappling with community, tradition, ritual and modernity to Paris.
by STIRworld Oct 31, 2024
As AI technology continues to advance, STIR looks at artists like Harold Cohen and Yousuke Fuyama using AI for artistic and philosophical projects.
by Manu Sharma Oct 07, 2024
Dr Boris Magrini, Senior Curator, LAS Art Foundation, and visiting curator Mawena Yehouessi discuss the mysterious video game ‘ARE YOU SOULLESS, TOO?’.
by Bansari Paghdar Oct 02, 2024
In his ongoing series How We Learned to Stop Worrying, the photographer explores architectural remnants of the nuclear age and their influence on politics and culture.
by Shalmali Shetty Jul 21, 2024
STIR interviews Glasgow-based artist and maker Rae-Yen Song on their recently concluded exhibition which proposes collective and decolonial approaches to world-building.
by Anushka Sharma May 09, 2024
Elizabeth Parrish, Malaika Vaz and Vidita Vaidya: STIR revisits the discourses brought up by the three pioneering women and the potential of their path-breaking work.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Apr 22, 2024
Talks by Dr Anders Sandberg, a transhumanist scholar and Dr Brett Kagan, of Cortical Labs who invented DishBrain at Synapse presented a moral quandary prevalent when talking about humans, design and technology.
by Jerry Elengical Apr 11, 2024
In a conversation with STIR, the artist and architect dives into his creative process, influences, and the prescient tendencies of revolutionary science fiction works.
by Dilpreet Bhullar Feb 07, 2024
The intergenerational artists of the exhibition The World that Belongs to Us draw upon the nuanced colonial history to revisit its ramifications in current times.
by Almas Sadique Feb 01, 2024
The programme comprises two exhibitions, three publications and a wide array of public screenings, lectures, performances, workshops and installations.
by Manu Sharma Jan 16, 2024
Curator Sarah Johanna Theurer ties the AI-activated video artwork to speculative science fiction by Octavia Butler.
by Anmol Ahuja Dec 24, 2023
STIRred 2023: In a year of sizeable returns for the business of film, STIR compiles a list of towering cinematic achievements with designs and other worlds to boast of.
by Anmol Ahuja Dec 13, 2023
Returning with a host of new photographs in his second book of the same name, Romain Veillon continues his exploration of a post-human planet in the present.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Nov 24, 2023
The book by Stephen Eskilson reveals how the relationship we share with technology is mediated by design to make digital culture seem 'warm and relatable'.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Nov 01, 2023
The Chengdu Science Fiction Museum in China celebrates the legacy of science fiction in the country with an undulating design that is a fusion of parametric design and fiction.
by Najrin Islam Jul 26, 2023
At the intersection of artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and science fiction, the exhibition Human Is explores the idea of humans as a concept and a body.
by Anmol Ahuja Mar 20, 2023
Winner of the Best Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards, EEAAO's production designer Jason Kisvarday speaks with STIR on the magic and mundanity of the film.
by Anmol Ahuja Mar 13, 2023
The Oscar-nominated production designers deliberate on exploring new Pandoran geographies, world building dynamics, and the titular way of water in 2022's biggest film.
by Vatsala Sethi Dec 31, 2022
Best of 2022: Artists that STIRred the art world by contributing to a technologically advanced future with virtual reality, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, and more.
by Vatsala Sethi Dec 26, 2022
Best of 2022: STIR looks at art galleries, art collectives, and movements that supported LGBTQ artists, people of colour, and diverse life forms.
by Sukanya Deb Dec 14, 2022
For the FIFA World Cup 2022, Qatar Museums commissioned significant international artists to create public artworks, transforming the capital city Doha’s landscape.
by Jerry Elengical Nov 28, 2022
Centred on modularity and material efficiency, the electric vehicle concept, designed for SOLID EV, exhibits a brutalist aesthetic in its reinterpretation of a café racer.
by Dilpreet Bhullar Nov 15, 2022
The experimental works, part of The Otolith Group: Xenogenesis exhibition at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, reflect the collective's commitment to ‘a science fiction of the present’.
by Jerry Elengical Nov 09, 2022
In the city of Changsha, this multifaceted cyberpunk-style recreational space has been described as an "offline social entertainment metaverse” born from an explosion of design.
by Sunena V Maju Oct 31, 2022
Introducing the reality of flying bikes and air mobility, A.L.I. Technologies Inc. exhibited the hoverbike, XTURISMO at the North American International Detroit Auto Show 2022.
by Shraddha Nair Oct 01, 2022
Vienna-based artist Yein Lee talks about her cultural influences and inspirations while growing up in South Korea.
by Rahul Kumar, Samta Nadeem Sep 13, 2022
Curator Ekow Eshun brought together 11 artists who inventively recycle and reconfigure elements of folklore, myth, science fiction, spiritual traditions, and legacies of Afrofuturism.
by Jerry Elengical Sep 03, 2022
In an interview with STIR, the Berlin-based curator sheds light on his book Anime Architecture and its accompanying exhibition AKIRA - The Architecture of Neo-Tokyo.
by Sukanya Deb Jul 11, 2022
Meta-space by Zhang Zikang looks at the continuities between virtual reality and spirituality, with the use of AI generated art, a conversation between nature and culture.
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