DIGICULT | Digital Art, Design and Culture

Established in 2005 Digicult is one of the main international platforms investigating the impact of technologies and sciences on art, design and contemporary culture.

From online avatars to different dynamics of everyday routine: the exhibition “Máscaras”

“Shifting Proximities” will be the Nxt Museum’s first exhibition

The connection between nature and humanity: the exhibition “The Politics of Nature”

In “Anthropocene On Hold”, 20 artists address the impact of a global pandemic on arts ecosystems and earth’s resilience and sustainability

Also artwork changes: the exhibition “Conservator C’s Day”

The exhibition “Tomás Saraceno. Aria” (re)opens to the public

Machine and Mind, Rethinking Affect

Future of Classroom: On Bringing Light and Information into Buildings (or Doing Away With Buildings Altogether)

Mario Savini: Arte transgenica. La vità è il medium

Memesis: community and self-definition in the age of memes

Donato Sansone – I dream, so I make video

His “short trips”, his videos, bring us in a parallel reality, a third one, in the same time the realm of reality and the one of the resting consciousness. Our guide between these two worlds is Donato Sansone, the smiling host on the threshold of the door of his dreams. Interview by Marco Aruga.... READ MORE...

Towards Togetherness. Interview with Tabita Rezaire.

Tabita Rezaire is an artist, healer, health-tech-politics practitioner and kemetic and kundalini yoga teacher, based in Cayenne, French Guyana. Anna Gorchakovskaya has recently had a chance to talk to Tabita about her cross-dimensional practices, about togetherness, healing and a genuine sense of connectedness, about her vision of life, art and digital technologies in connection with the current historical moment.... READ MORE...

Discussing “The Question of Intelligence” with Curator Christiane Paul

The exhibition "The Question of Intelligence: AI and The Future of Humanity", which should have run from the 7th of February to the 8th of April at the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons/The New School in New York, engaged with the relationships that humans sustain with machines and vice versa and brought insights on artificial intelligence's bias and potential in unlocking new opportunities. Report and interview by Marie Chatel... READ MORE...

Francesca Marconi: i confini e le comunità come arte

Francesca Marconi ha approfondito con noi il metodo dei suoi progetti e alcuni temi trasversali della sua ricerca, che si muove tra partecipazione, arte e attivazione di comunità. Intervista di Silvia Scaravaggi... READ MORE...

Broadcasting alienation: interview with Laura Yuile

ASSET ARREST is a podcast series set around the viewing of different luxury properties led by artist Laura Yuile, who poses as a potential buyer. In her work, she explores notions of the domestic and the urban through the intimate (or public) matters of living together, and the effects of globalization and technological development upon living space itself. Interview by Fabiola Fiocco.... READ MORE...

The Political Possibility of Sound. Interview with Salomé Voegelin

What are the political potentials of listening? How does sound define the crossing of the territories of contemporaneity, of the differences in race, gender, social belonging? Salomé Voegelin continues her analysis on listening practices in her new book. Interview by Leandro Pisano... READ MORE...

Books

Mario Savini: Arte transgenica. La vità è il medium

A cosa ci riferiamo quando parliamo di arte transgenica? In questo panorama spinoso, che più di tutti lega a doppio filo arte e scienza, filosofia e biotecnologie, questioni giuridiche e tabù ancestrali cerca di fare ordine il libro di Mario Savini “Arte transgenica: la vita è il medium”, edito nel 2018 da Pisa University Press.... READ MORE...

The dark mirror. Interview with Clément Lambelet.

Simone Arcagni: l’Occhio della Macchina

We are all entrepreneurs. Nobody is safe. Interview with Silvio Lorusso

Digital Stretch Marks: Bodies, Genders and Technologies

Digital Demagogue. Authoritarian Capitalism in the Age of Trump and Twitter

Calls

“La Condition Humain”: Call for Proposals for the Exhibition

"La Condition Humaine" will present the works of international artists who are dealing with the art, society and technology. The project will also gather thinkers who critically reflect current human condition in the age of technological supremacy.... READ MORE...

Call for Contributions: Ecomusicology Sounding Board’s section

International Call for digital art projects – Biennale Nemo edition 2021

Open Call. Art Jameel Commissions: Digital.

(Video) selfie as digital performance – Open Call

transmediale: new Artistic Director – deadline: 06/01/19

Reports

Digicult Agency curates exhibitions, events, workshops, educational activities, publications, lectures and meetings, giving consultancy on communication strategies and digital publishing tools.

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Education

Seminario “Arte e Futuro”. RUFA Roman University of Fine Arts, Roma

Curatorial

CLICK CLACK. Kinetic installations by Virgilio Villoresi

Curatorial

Seminario “La Stampa per l’Arte”: Procedimenti artigianali tra tecniche tradizionali e nuove tecnologie

Digimag Journal is an interdisciplinary publication seeking high-standard articles and reviews that focus on the impact of the last technological and scientific developments on art, design and contemporary society.

Digimag Journal

Digimag 76 / Summer 2017

Digimag 75 / Spring 2017

Digimag 74 / Winter 2013

Digicult Editions is a publishing initiative whose goal is to be active in the publication of the Digimag Journal and critical and theoretical books. Digicult Edition uses all the tools of a contemporary digital publishing.

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Latest Post

All the winners of Prix Ars Electronica 2020

2020 marks a turning point in the 33-year history of the Prix Ars Electronica: for the first time since 1987, the international jury meetings were purely virtual; a movement of anonymous citizens received a Golden Nica for the first time in honor of its innovations and creative digital activism.... READ MORE...

Donato Sansone – I dream, so I make video

“Keep Yourself Clean”, the first solo exhibition by VOLNA

The exhibition "Keep yourself clean" spaces and installations were created using video game development tools (Unreal Engine) that simulate real-time scenes and lighting effects. Exhibition visitors are invited to immerse themselves in the surroundings of each installation and can move freely in the room and choose any observation point.... READ MORE...

Towards Togetherness. Interview with Tabita Rezaire.

First date of the series of INBTWN – In Between

XL was and will be the new format of Centrale Fies: originally conceived for the 40th anniversary of Drodesera and the 20th of Centrale Fies, it discovers now a new correspondence into the research on an "off format" that breaks the one-shot summer tradition and weaves together all Centrale Fies' annual events.... READ MORE...

“La Condition Humain”: Call for Proposals for the Exhibition

Call for Contributions: Ecomusicology Sounding Board’s section

Deeply interdisciplinary, the field of ecomusicology is a branch of study exploring the various and complex nexus between people, nature and sounds. E... READ MORE...

The Speculative Design of Immaculate Motherhood

In the next five years, the artificial womb will become a medical reality. Ectogenesis, outside-the-womb gestation, is increasingly viable for human embryos. Will it lead to a feminist utopia, or is it the newest manifestation of an age-old male fantasy? This question has occupied the minds of feminists, science-fiction writers, artists and scientists for decades. Article by Patricia de Vries... READ MORE...

Innovation in and for Europe: STARTS 2020 prize winners

Science, Technology and arts (STARTS for short) limn a nexus at which insightful observers have identified extraordinarily high potential for innovation. And innovation is precisely what’s called for if we’re to master the social, ecological and economic challenges that Europe will be facing in the near future. In this STARTS Prize initiative, the European Commission’s focus is on projects and people that can make meaningful contributions to this effort.... READ MORE...

Rachel Rose’s first large-scale exhibition in Paris: a wide range of filmic techniques

Rachel Rose’s exhibition at Lafayette Anticipations – Fondation d'entreprise Galeries Lafayette, takes us on a labyrinthine journey that explores what it is that makes us human and the means we seek to alter, enhance, and escape that condition in an era of major unrest.... READ MORE...

From online avatars to different dynamics of everyday routine: the exhibition “Máscaras”

Originally scheduled for March, the exhibition "Máscaras (Masks)" — the Galeria Municipal do Porto’s first exhibition of 2020 — opened on June 2. Considering the current context, the exhibition has even greater relevance and urgency, given the new meanings that masks have now acquired.... READ MORE...

“Shifting Proximities” will be the Nxt Museum’s first exhibition

Through a three-fold programme, comprising exhibitions, performances and learning and research, Nxt Museum will fuse art and technology to seek, show and question "what is next".... READ MORE...

The connection between nature and humanity: the exhibition “The Politics of Nature”

Freely inspired by Bruno Latour’s book of the same name, this show, curated by Massimiliano Scuderi, is an attempt to relate together the interests of five international artists who have dealt with the theme of a possible harmonious relationship between humanity and nature, between a utopian vision and a project proposal.... READ MORE...

In “Anthropocene On Hold”, 20 artists address the impact of a global pandemic on arts ecosystems and earth’s resilience and sustainability

On the occasion of the Anthropocene On Hold exhibition, has invited 20 international visual artists to address the gravity of a global pandemic and its impact on art engagement and production as well as earth’s resilience and sustainability.... READ MORE...

Friction Atlas. A radical topography of public space

With the idea of starting a reflection on the use of public space - which is now increasingly regulated, limited and reduced - since 2014 Paolo Patelli and Giuditta Vendrame, through the project "Friction Atlas" collect, classify and make visible all the laws, rules and devices that regulate the way people move, meet, and gather in public space. Article by Fabiola Fiocco... READ MORE...

Also artwork changes: the exhibition “Conservator C’s Day”

“For conservator C, a workday begins with getting in the same room with a damaged work. Resembling a science lab at first glance, C’s workspace is where science... READ MORE...

The exhibition “Tomás Saraceno. Aria” (re)opens to the public

Saraceno creates immersive works and participatory experiences that suggest a new way of living in our world by making connections to non‐human phenomena such as dust particles and plants. The exhibition at Palazzo Strozzi will stay open until 1 November 2020, with all the measures to contain the COVID-19 epidemic.... READ MORE...

“Moon Gallery Garden”, artworks and prototypes designed to be sent to the Moon

In collaboration with Moon Gallery, Zone2Source is presenting the Moon Gallery Garden exhibition. Moon Gallery is an international platform for art, science and technology in collaboration with international space agencies. Moon Gallery intends to bring a 10 x 10 cm plate with 100 artefacts on a lunar lander to the moon as early as 2022.... READ MORE...