Press

A selection of articles, reviews, and features about our work.

2024
Molletama.cat newspaper: Art with AI from Estonia until China
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Raivo Kelomees writes about group exhibition Cultural Analysis & Synthesis curated by Mar Canet Sola and CUDAN Conference in SIRP (12 Jan)
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ERR.ee reports about our art installation Needle in a Haystack at KiKK Festival in Namur, Belgium
Dominique Moulon mentions Humans Need not to Count in his article about Biennial Chronicles 2024 in Art Press
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Dominique Moulon mentions Humans Need not to Count in his article about Biennial Chronicles 2024 in https://www.artinthedigitalage.net
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2023
SomMollet reports about our solo show Abello, Imaginary Landscape at Abello Museum in Mollet del Valles, Barcelona
Exibart writes about our solo show Abello, Imaginary Landscape at Abello Museum in Mollet del Valles, Barcelona
Visions of Destruction featured by Andres Burbano in his article ‘Si una máquina es inteligente, ¿debería ser creativa?’ in The Conversation
ERR Culture reports about Loading Ceramics group exhibition at Estonian Architecture Museum featuring Beneath the Cloud
Psychedelic Forms and our conference presentation ‘AI‑aided Ceramic Sculptures: Bridging Deep Learning with Materiality’ discussed by Raivo Kelomees in his article ‘AI and Originality’ in Estonian culture newspaper SIRP (21 Jul 2023)
Circular Knitic appears in the article ‘L’IA Bouleverse l’art’ discussing AI in contemporary art (PDF)
Interview on art, AI and the future of artistic work published in the Swedish Konstnären Magazine (nr 1 – 2023)
Our thoughts on generative AI and art featured in the Swedish art magazine Konstperspektiv (issue 1‑2023)
2022
Novaator publishes a story about our Dream Painter project on Estonian National TV
Cultural program OP from Estonian National TV pays a studio visit
Abello Museum in Mollet del Vallès announces the acquisition of ‘Data Shop’, which joins the National Art Collection of the Generalitat de Catalunya
Article ‘Decision Making: The Decisive Instant’ by Dominique Moulon and Catherine Bédard discusses our work Humans Need Not To Count in the group show at the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris
Novaator publishes a story about our Dream Painter project
2021
The book ‘Ethnographic Experiments with Artists, Designers and Boundary Objects’ (UCL Press, 2021) features our work in several chapters
Reet Varblane reviews the group exhibition ‘Life in Decline’ and our piece Rescue Plan in Sirp (1 Oct 2021)
Francisco Martinez’s article ‘Life in decline: artists on Estonia’s post‑industrial East’ in Deep Baltic (9 Sep 2021) analyses the exhibition and includes our work
Maria Helen Känd’s article ‘The wound that needs healing’ on Arterritory (6 Sep 2021) reviews Life in Decline and mentions our contributions
Juhan Raud writes about Life in Decline exhibition (featuring our artwork Rescue Plan) in Postimees (31 Aug 2021)
Maria Helen Känd reviews Life in Decline exhibition in ERR Culture (28 Aug 2021)
Ode Maria Punamäe writes about UIT Festival and our NFT Shop in ERR Culture (20 Aug 2021)
2020
Soft, fluffy power – review of our telematic performance 'We Are the Clouds' in C Magazine (p.1–5)
A Buddhist monk bops to Beethoven – Korea JoongAng Daily reports on our brain‑wave knitting performance (29 Nov 2020)
Artwork celebrates Beethoven’s 250th birth anniversary – feature article in The Korea Times (27 Nov 2020)
Visualising Beethoven’s music through brain waves – article in The Korea Herald (14 Nov 2020)
Kudumismasin koob Beethoveni muusika salli sisse by Ave Häkli in ERR Kultuur (25 Nov 2020)
Beethoven to connect Europe and S.Korea for brainwave-knitting telematics performance in Aju Business Daily (13 Nov 2020)
Decoding New Technologies in Art and Design, ARS Electronica Garden Tallinn featured in In Kepler's Gardens (Ars Electronica 2020)
Curating Mass Media featured in The Building as Screen: A History, Theory and Practice of Massive Media by Dave Colangelo (p. 144-156)
Solo show review Varvara & Mar: Chameleon by Steph Wong Ken in C Magazine (Vol 143, p. 67-68)
2019
Interview by Triinu Soikmets in NOAR about our practice (Aug 2019)
Review: Chameleon – at the junction of art and data in FREQ Magazine (May 2019)
Interview Conversation with Varvara Guljajeva by Arlene Tucker (Pixelache Festival, 24 April 2019)
Juhan Soomets article about our exhibition Chameleon in Sirp (25 Jan 2019, p. 17)
Our artwork Humans Need Not to Count at Objects of Attention exhibition reviewed by Kerttu Palginõmm in Sirp (25 Jan 2019, p.18-19)
Article about Data Shop in THE SPUR residency publication, Bòlit Contemporary Art Center, Girona (p.48-53)
DataShop in Plurality Of Digital Practices by Dominique Moulon in Art in the Digital Age
Varvara & Mar featured in visitmytent
Data Shop, ermetic data can by Chiara Ciociola in Neural magazine (vol 61)
2018
DataShop discussed in Aquae Blog and La Maleta (Tejiendo Pixeles)
Our works Sunday Painter and Wild Bits reviewed in KUNST.EE and in the Wild Bits exhibition catalog Wild Bits
Varvara & Mar featured in Art Reveal Magazine and Finnair BlueWings magazine
Circular Knitic and our Camaleó exhibition covered by Experimenta Magazine and Uncovering CTRL
Interviews with Varvara & Mar published in Nùvol and Diari de Girona
Our practice discussed in the book L’art au-delà du digital by Edmond Couchot and Norbert Hillaire (2018)
Sunday Painter and Wild Bits exhibition reviewed by Raivo Kelomees in SIRP
Our work featured in ARTEFUSE by Séverine Vanina
VHMOR blog writes about our works
2017
Our work examined in the book Handbook of Digital Games and Entertainment Technologies
Projects such as Chameleon and #digitallandscapes featured in articles in El País and Blekinge Läns Tidning
Interview about interactive art in Estonian Art Magazine
SUPERMARKET 2017 Stockholm Independent Art Fair Exhibition Catalogue (p. 58)
El País: Los patrimonios inmateriales de la época digital by Roberta Bosco
El País: Dame datos (y tecnología) y haré arte by Isabel Valdes (25 Jul 2017)
Merle Luhaäär discusses PERRO group exhibition in SIRP
2016
Varvara & Mar included in the book The Art Market in the Age of Access
Our installation Wishing Wall featured by Creators Project (Vice)
SPAMpoetry on the cover of Vikerkaar December issue with article by Raivo Kelomees
Interview by Stacey Koosel in SIRP
Are Today's Politicians Reptiles? by Andrew Salomone in Creators Project
Interview in Echo Gone Wrong by Merle Luhaäär
Progetto grafico, Open Technologies International graphic design magazine nº30 (NeuroKnitting featured, p.74-76)
article on The Rhythm of Wind in Creators Project
Neural writes about Data Drops
Raivo Kelomees: On media art in Estonia and the Baltics mentions our work
Spanish newspaper Heraldo writes about Data Drops at Etopia, Zaragoza
2015
Chameleon and Wishing Wall highlighted in the London Design Festival guide
Our open‑source knitting machine Circular Knitic covered by Shareable.net
NeuroKnitting in KLANGHYPOTHESEN, Material, Forschung, Kunst (Subnet, 2015, pp.19-21)
SPAMpoetry in double – Magazin für Puppen-, Figuren- und Objekttheater, Nr. 31 (Theater der Zeit, p.12)
5 Projects Leading the Open Source Revolution in Fashion on Shareable.net
Interview by Filippo Lorenzin in Furtherfield
Interview by Jerneja Rebernak in Digicult
Artsy: 6 Couples Who Are Shaping Contemporary Design
WiFipedia mentioned in Sirp and Estonian press
Paloma G. Díaz article in El Asombrario
Make Magazine writes about Circular Knitic
Circular Knitic on Creators Project
2014
DevArt: creating art with code for Google - interview by Pau Waelder in Art.es
Barcelona TV cultural program Artic covering The Highest Human Tower
Ara.cat writes about The Highest Human Tower at Mobile World Centre
Estonian Postimees covers Shopping in 1 Minute
Maribor TV reportage about Varvara & Mar solo show at Maribor City Gallery
LaSexta talks about creative coders
Wishing Wall in PANTA magazine issue 4
El País writes about Wishing Wall at Barbican, London
El Diario article about Wishing Wall
Italian La Repubblica writes about us
Deutsche Welle explores SPAMpoetry
Interview in Craftivism: The Art of Craft and Activism (pp.69-75)
NeuroKnitting in Australian Homespan magazine
Wired magazine mentions NeuroKnitting
2013
Interview in ELOQUENCE international creators magazine (Feb 2013, pp.26-31)
El País article about Binoculars project by Roberta Bosco y Stefano Caldana
NeuroKnitting featured in:
CreatorsProject
Adafruit
Make Magazine
Esquire
Information Aesthetics
El Pais
Mircrosiervos
Fashioning Tech
NUMRUSH
Neuro Gadget.com
Graphisme & Interteractivite
Frizzifrizzi
GIZMODO
DVICE
Ecouterre. Wearable Technology
Crunch Wear
Knittyblog
Designboom
Hemslojd
, and many other publications
Arduino blog writes about Knitic
Knitic appears in Courrier International
Roberta Bosco y Stefano Caldana write about stitches and pixels in El País
Hackaday blogs about Knitic
2012
edgargonzalez.com architecture blog writes about The Rhythm of Sao Paulo
El País discusses The Rhythm of Sao Paulo at SP_Urban Digital Festival
MAKE magazine reports on Kombi
Obieg reviews Baltic Goes Digital in Gdansk, Poland
O TEMPO newspaper in Belo Horizonte writes about residency at Marginalia+LAB
Polish Art & Business Magazine mentions Baltic Sea Radio
Sydsvenska (South Sweden newspaper) published article about SPAMpoetry
Swedish newspaper Skanes Fria writes on SPAMpoetry
El País writes about exhibited works at JUSTMAD3 in Madrid
2011
Diaria de Balears writes about Crida residency program in Palma, Mallorca
Diario de Mallorca reports on The Flux of Sea performance at Es Baluard Art Museum
ABC.es reportage about The Flux of Sea
Interview in Macedonian cultural magazine