As physical places are shut, people are locked into their homes and the online business world is booming. Zoom, Shopify, Instagram, Clubhouse have all adapted to engage, advertise and sell to their customers. Zoom parties, Clubhouse talks, Instagram Lives, this is about how social it has gotten in Covid times. I have thought about these tools for Studi0 and how they can or cannot be used in terms of engaging and replacing events in the art sector and here are my thoughts on it:

I think I connect the idea of home with the forest, nature and a sense of belonging together. I feel more comfortable in nature than in the city because I really enjoy observing everything in nature, even the smallest leaf. Everything in nature is so beautiful to me.

In the last couples of weeks one thing has been resting at the tip of the world's tongue, NFT. Many hail them as the future of collectables, a beacon of hope burning brightly in favour of a decentralised and democratised art system; others as the worst thing that could happen, a pyramid scheme ready to devour the eager, tech-savvy young artist. But what are NFT’s? Why did one just sell for $69.3 million, and can I make one?

Read up on some thoughts around how music connects with the art and the artist itself. Listen to the Spotify Playlist our 18 amazing artist have put together with their most listened songs while creating.

“My work is driven by a basic interest in corporeality and related questions of volume, surface, form and colour. They are based on a deep engagement with current debates about body norms, gender, desire, but also with pop culture and feminism.”

In our first of these informal intro’s Raffael Bader will be writing about his works in the Chapter One of Becoming Habits.