Read, Watch & Listen

What if everything was the same - but it looked better? Emily Downe presents her animated short, 'Better', exploring the ideal worlds of a perfectionist culture.

This poem by R Moulden was the stimulus for Boy Blue's new show REDD

Bitcoin might be faltering, but Bettina Warburg thinks that technology can still reinforce trust online.

Although she won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival and directed Marlon Brando to an Oscar nomination, filmmaker and director Euzhan Palcy’s work remains neglected in the UK, and her films are rarely shown. Here are three things you should know about the director.

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.