HUB
HUB is a peer-reviewed and open-access research journal for reporting on arts, design, and performing arts.
HUB is published twice a year by i2ADS – Research Institute in Art, Design and Society (University of Porto, Portugal) and hosted on the Research Catalogue platform, an international artistic research infrastructure that enables multimedia publication.
Current issue
Issue #3 Autumn 2024
Guest Editors: Louise Carver & Jamie Allen.
Editors: Filipa Cruz, Manuela Bronze and Orlando Vieira Francisco.
The essays and expositions in this issue of HUB delve into the concept of Metabolic Media, exploring the interconnections between biological, technological, cultural, and ecological systems. Together, they offer a rich tapestry of perspectives, illuminating how processes of exchange, transformation, and interaction underpin the idea of media as metabolic and metabolising.
Through this metabolic mosaic, this special issue of HUB presents a dynamic and interconnected view of metabolic media, celebrating how media processes reflect and influence the metabolic flows of life itself. Each contribution invites readers to rethink how artistic, scientific, and technological practices can illuminate the entangled systems that sustain and shape our shared existence. Against a background of shifting, strained or even pathological metabolic relations across scales, forms, zones and bodies, these reflections and interventions intersect with media techniques and technologies as traditionally conceived and emergent, immanent and immediate metabolic flows systems and processes.
Jasmina Al-Qaisi, Caroline Ektander, Carlina Rossée and Alexandra Toland
