Sustain-Release Music Festival

An immersive experience for the underground music community, limited to 500 people in upstate New York

With festival lineups looking more and more identical, and the overall experience becoming synonymous with struggle and exhaustion, two underground music veterans are offering a new kind of escape that ensures an intimate experience for their familial community—not to mention reasonable bathroom lines and a roof over your head at night. Sustain-Release is the brainchild of Brooklyn-based video artist and music producer Aurora Halal and …

Umbrellium’s Assemblance at Digital Revolution, London

A new, interactive installation in which teamwork reigns supreme

London’s cultural hotspot The Barbican is known for its visionary exhibitions, having hosted some of the city’s most exciting interactive art shows in the last few years, including Random International’s “Rain Room.” The locale continues its tradition of innovative art curatorship with new multimedia exhibition Digital Revolution, celebrating the transformation of the arts through digital technology since the 1970s. The Barbican commissioned a number of …

The Forgotten Works of Miroslav Šašek

The Czech illustrator is finally published in his homeland over 30 years after his death

Miroslav aek (19161980) is an all but forgotten figure in the history of Czech illustration. While the artist has had books published from Japan to the US (in huge print runs) and even had his work adapted for film, his books had never been published in his homelanduntil now. Last year, small Czech publishing house Baobabhelmed by graphic artist and illustrator Juraj Horvthbegan to publish …