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. 
 

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.

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.

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.  

How can technology help us resurrect extinct smells from nature? We meet artist Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg about 'Resurrecting the Sublime', featured in our AI: More than Human exhibition. 

Join the centennial celebrations of one of the greatest choreographers of the 20th century with a live broadcast of the performances in London, Los Angeles and New York. 

We caught up with the team working on 'Avalanche: A Love Story' during rehearsals.

How could the potential of technology impact the way we perceive reproduction and ultimately human life? We explore the future of reproductive medicine in The Children of Tomorrow. 

What if you could live forever but just didn’t want to? In Ollie Wolf’s ‘The Last Forever Woman’, we meet Alma, an immortal 217-year old who is feeling just that. 
 

Accordionist Bartosz Glowacki performs the animated third movement ‘Thieves’ from Five views on the Archipelago Gulag by Ukrainian composer Victor Vlasov in the entrance to the Exhibition Halls.

In Vivek Vadoliya's 'Kasaragod Boys', we meet a group of young boys, living in the predominately Muslim district of Kasaragod and see the world the way they project it online through social media.  

Welcome to the Uncanny Valley, a nostalgic and familiar place that looks and feels very much like the human experience, but with something a bit strange in the corner of your eye...