Read, Watch & Listen

For our most recent Barbican Session, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and prodigious whistler Andrew Bird performs ‘Sisyphus’ from his latest album My Finest Work Yet. 
 

Vybarr Cregan-Reid considers how the way we use tools changes the way we look.

Japanese sound designer Yuri Suzuki reimagines Raymond Scott's sixty-year-old electronic sequencer machine as a piece of music software that uses artificial intelligence to compose music.

Discover how artists Nicky Deeley and Graham Naylor met and came up with with the idea behind Blue Planet Black Hole.

We look back at our May 2019 Instagrammer, Silje Bergum to explore her Barbican shots.

What makes us human? Why do we fear artificial intelligence and robots? 'AI: More than Human' curators Suzanne Livingston and Maholo Uchida unpack the big questions explored in this interactive exhibition.

Urvashi Aneja imagines four alternative futures for work in the global south.

Cheek by Jowl director Declan Donnellan tells us about the company’s production of The Knight of the Burning Pestle.

Professor Denis Donoghue introduces the poems and Gideon Lester, Artistic Director of Fisher Center at Bard, visits the locations in T.S Eliot's masterpiece that inspired the multi-disciplinary performance.

Late-50s New York. In Greenwich Village bars and Times Square burger joints painters, writers, critics, musicians were making a new world. Filmmakers were right there too, advocating for freedom from convention.

How much do you rely on technology? Meet the residents of a remote community in the heart of the Scottish Highlands in ‘WiFi in the Glen’ to learn some of the surprising ways technology has influenced this ancient place.  

Big data, AI, and algorithms - everything we're reading this year as part of Life Rewired