This year’s edition of the Glitch Festival, an Eldorado of digital and new media art, digs deep into artists encounters into digital technology. Titled Run, Computer Run, the program, diverse as the online landscape itself, explores social, economic, cultural and political issues effecting life online today, through exhibitions, music workshops, read more…
Highlights
Music
Dripping Wax: The Knife, Majical Cloudz, Phoenix and Pharmakon
Our new music review considers life post-gender and post-JLS.
Dripping Wax: Bowie, Wavves, Community Games, ASIWYFA in Review
Our hardy crew of wheat/chaff separators take on Aladdin Sane, Popical Islanders and some unwanted weed demons
Interview: MØ
Swedish pop’s new shining light in profile.
Interview: Morgan Geist
New York disco don Morgan Geist talks about passing fashions, convenience and the value of music.
Interview: Raime
Blackest Ever Black duo interviewed ahead of Dublin A/V Show.
Arts and Culture
Interview: Evan Roth
Draw a triangle with the co-ordinates hacktivism, interactive art and gif mashups, and the zone created is where Evan Roth calls home. Having recently coloured Dublin’s streets with the Science Gallery’s Propulsion Paintings workshop, Roth returns for a collaborative show with found material artist Constant Dullaart for GLITCH.
Hack the Oceans
The work produced within the narrow confines of the Hacklab, which teeters on the corner of Fenian St and Westland Row, lies somewhere in the hazy ether between art and science. It’s a space where despite (or perhaps because of) the technical anarchy that hacking meets DIY, as designers tinker with read more…
April Exhibitions: Aleana Egan, Ben Rivers + Simone Kappeler, Seamus Nolan
Artsdesk’s pick of the month’s exhibitions including Egan’s post-minimalist meditations, outmoded camera equipment at the Douglas Hyde and the 10th President of Ireland.
Live Collision Festival
Live performance festival invading alternative spaces – and its audience.
Food & Drink
The Best Sandwiches In Dublin
We are a nation of sandwich eaters, as deli counters everywhere from Grafton Street to Dingle will attest. Every cafe, counter and hatch does its own variation, with ingredients ranging from withered ham to slow-roasted pork and from slathered mayo to lemon basil aioli. But which is the best? Is that too personal a question, or is there an answer?
Film
Something In The Air
[A] liberal eclecticism which, counter to the film’s tepid suggestion, 1970s revolutionary movements failed as a (partial) result, rather than in spite, of.
The Hangover Part III
Alan, once an unpredictable, hilarious misfit, is now pathologised as a dangerous lunatic in need of rehabilitation
The Great Gatsby
How are we to take a death seriously when it looks like something out of a cabaret?
Clubbing
7 Inches: Subject
Twisted Pepper’s native deep house, disco and techno night Subject hits its big sixth birthday this month. With a history of impeccable bookings (including the Belleville Three, Shed and Levon Vincent), the monthly club shows no signs of greying hairs just yet. Here are honcho Ro Hayes’ seven deepest cuts read more…
Interview: Container
Industrial techno champ talks about having “no business being in a dance club”
The Essential: John Heckle
Get to know the Liverpool producer making some of the finest techno music in the world right now.
