Read, Watch & Listen

Don’t be so sure, says Adam Greenfield, as he explores the thinking and impacts behind social credit. 

What makes a good violin? Violin maker and restorer, John Dilworth, investigates the history of violin making.

In the third workshop of our Life Rewired inspired Design Yourself project, our young creatives worked with artist Matthew Evans in a workshop that turned the Barbican into a composition using pixel sonification.  

Documentary maker Cecilia Valensise explores the transhumans already walking amongst us in the latest film in our Life Rewired Shorts series. 
 

Performance artist and musician CHRISTEENE talks to us about their creative process, what inspires them and their admiration for Sinéad O’Connor.

Music is Cuba’s lifeblood, an inseparable part of the country’s cultural identity. Here we pick a small handful of our favourites from the nations past, present and future.

Barbican Young Curator Anahi Saravia Herrera shares her experience and documents their process of creating the first Young Curators' exhibition and its importance in the early stages of the development of the Barbican Archive.

To celebrate our 'Anime's Human Machines' film season, Luís Azevedo (aka Beyond the Frame) looks at the way anime presents and builds cities on screen.

In the third and final episode of our series of contemporary artists’ responses to Lee Krasner, we talk to artist Jadé Fadojutimi to hear about the impact Krasner's work has had on her as an artist particularly their connection over colour. 

In the second workshop of our Life Rewired inspired Design Yourself project, our young creatives worked with artist Laurie Ramsell who led a practical workshop exploring the concept of ‘human’. 

Author and anime expert, Helen McCarthy presents a short history of anime at the Barbican and introduces the films selected for Anime’s Human Machines cinema season.

If you were inside a machine which could simulate biochemical processes - would you be real? Or would you actually be just a series of 1s and 0s? Enter the world of online gaming and meet the people who inhabit these virtual territories.