Who Is Carsten Nicolai: Alva Noto’s Code, Chaos, and Sonic Precision
In a cavernous gallery, monochromatic light pulses with mathematical precision. A bass frequency hums beneath the skin, felt before heard. The room vibrates—not just with sound, but with the sensation of perception itself shifting. This is unicolor (2014), one of Carsten Nicolai’s many experiments in sensory thresholds, where cognition collides with the unseen forces that […]
Who Is Hito Steyerl: A User’s Guide to the Digital War Zone
It begins as a joke. A voice, clipped and didactic, instructs: “How not to be seen? Become invisible.” The image shudders—low-resolution, a ghost of a file, a degraded pixel smear. Then: a military testing site in California’s Mojave Desert. The camera hovers over numbered targets, relics from an era when satellites learned to identify bodies […]
