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“The Unknown Mine Zone”, the exhibition at the new Transnatural gallery

Virus Attack ! First computer pandemics

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

VRE20: VRE – Virtual Reality Experience Extended Edition

Modern Love (or Love in the Age of Cold Intimacies)

“Lina Bo Bardi – A Marvellous Entanglement”

“Capture”, Facial Recognition and Artificial Intelligence

“Crepuscolo”, the technological supremacy of aerial views

BARABÁSILAB: Hidden Patterns. The language of network thinking

Thought is my main medium. Interview with Emilio Vavarella

An opportunity to (re)listen carefully to the world: A conversation with Chris Watson

Donato Sansone – I dream, so I make video

Towards Togetherness. Interview with Tabita Rezaire.

The Digicult Agency curates and organize exhibitions, performances, workshops and public lectures while developing educational and dissemination activities. It also offers tools for digital publishing and communication strategies for art and culture.

The exhibition “COLONY SOUND” is a sensory total experience

ARoS Aarhus Art Museum presents the American artist duo Freeman & Lowe with a comprehensive exhibition in terms of both set design and content. COLONY SOUND is a unique and sensory total experience, staging the transition to a post-apocalyptic and dystopian future.... READ MORE...

“Lina Bo Bardi – A Marvellous Entanglement”

Lina Bo Bardi – A Marvellous Entanglement is an enthralling tribute to the great Italian Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi by the English ar... READ MORE...

“Capture”, Facial Recognition and Artificial Intelligence

Paolo Cirio created a database with 4000 faces of French police officers to crowdsource their identification with Facial Recognition technol... READ MORE...

“Crepuscolo”, the technological supremacy of aerial views

So many stars have fallen, Pieces the planetary system are shattered, Because my body is so torn apart E. de Martino, Il mondo mag... READ MORE...

Focus

Machine and Mind, Rethinking Affect

We live in a world where technologies are increasingly blurring the boundaries of affect, between man and machine. As technology becomes more integrated into our lives, will we become more integrated into technology? Article by Claire Burke... READ MORE...

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

Since at least a decade we have access to technologies that enable us to remotely perform the majority of tasks related to learning. Do we still need physical space for learning?... READ MORE...

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

Pierre Chaumont examines Memes, visual jokes that are made of an image of pop culture on which is added a humoristic text, and "Memesis", the process of a community creating itself through the spreading of its culture.... READ MORE...

Digital Unpleasant Design: Uncomfortable Websites and Demanding Services

The way we navigate the internet is increasingly processed and shaped by algorithms. Selena Savic will look into the design of algorithms that we interact with on a day-to-day basis, from online purchases to social networks or surveillance systems.... 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

OPEN CALL: Premio Termoli 62nd edition. Architecture and Design Section

The MACTE Foundation is pleased to announce the Open Call for the 62nd edition of the Premio Termoli-Architecture and Design Section, applications can be sent until November 26, 2020. The purpose of the contest of the 62nd Premio Termoli–Architecture and Design Section is to design an urban bus stop shelter, meant for the city of Termoli.... READ MORE...

OPEN CALL SETI x AI: European ARTificial Intelligence Lab offers residency

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

Call for Contributions: Ecomusicology Sounding Board’s section

International Call for digital art projects – Biennale Nemo edition 2021

Open Call. Art Jameel Commissions: Digital.

Digimag Journal is our online publication seeking articles, interviews and essays that focus on the impact of the technological and scientific research on art, design and contemporary culture.

Digimag Journal

Digimag 78 / Spring 2018

Digimag 77 / Winter 2017-2018

Digimag 76 / Summer 2017

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

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Design for visualization of science

Investigations on the cultural economy of Media Art

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“The Unknown Mine Zone”, the exhibition at the new Transnatural gallery

Transnatural opens its new exhibition space, featuring The Unknown Mine Zone exhibition and the launch of the new label collection, situated in the vibrant Amsterdam West quarter.... READ MORE...

Virus Attack ! First computer pandemics

Espacio Byte, digital art museum, presents a new exhibition on computer viruses. An approach to the aesthetic dimension of disruptive phenomena in the digital ecosystem. The curatorial project raises an analogy between pandemics in the biological and digital sphere, and how both end up interfering in the dynamics of human activities.... READ MORE...

Data Meditations: New rituals for new possible worlds (part 1)

A lot has happened in 2020. In the pandemic world of covid19, the small HER research center, started by artists / hacktivists / researchers Salvatore Iaconesi and Oriana Persico, is changing its skin to become HER: She Loves Data: a new type of organ... READ MORE...

Morgan Doctor’s “STRANGERS”, a telematic and transmedia art project

Aporia is proud to announce the launch of Morgan Doctor’s "STRANGERS", a telematic and transmedia art project that reimagines the traditional definition of the ‘album’ together with the traditional role of the “record label”. "STRANGERS" explores the actions of connecting and disconnecting, and the fragile boundary between intimacy and estrangement.... READ MORE...

“Digital Cultures 2020: Imagined Futures”, an online festival of arts & technology

The online festival will bring back former visions of the future, dismissed as intriguing yet far-fetched fantasies a decade or even a few months ago. The event, organised by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, offers a wealth of artistic programmes and debate, and aims to further understand and overcome the barriers of delivering a hybrid festival in today’s social and political climate. ... READ MORE...

The exhibition “COLONY SOUND” is a sensory total experience

CONNECTED. Patchlab Digital Art Festival

The 9th edition of the Patchlab Festival CONNECTED held from 23rd to 25th October will present the artworks of over 35 contemporary audiovisual artists from around the world. Today we are connected mainly via the Internet, but we also find ourselves all sharing a new situation with restrictions caused by a pandemic, compelling us to think about the future facing an accelerated digital revolution.... READ MORE...

OPEN CALL: Premio Termoli 62nd edition. Architecture and Design Section

VRE20: VRE – Virtual Reality Experience Extended Edition

From the 16th to the 18th of October 2020, these are the dates of the second edition of VRE – Virtual Reality Experience, festival dedicated to VR Cinema and to the vast world of Immersive Technologies and their impact on our present and near future.... READ MORE...

Modern Love (or Love in the Age of Cold Intimacies)

The exhibition "Modern Love" explores the state of love and intimate relationships today, in the age of the Internet, social media, and high capitalism.... READ MORE...

“Lina Bo Bardi – A Marvellous Entanglement”

Lina Bo Bardi – A Marvellous Entanglement is an enthralling tribute to the great Italian Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi by the English artist and filmmaker I... READ MORE...

“Capture”, Facial Recognition and Artificial Intelligence

Paolo Cirio created a database with 4000 faces of French police officers to crowdsource their identification with Facial Recognition technology and through the platform https://Capture-Police.com Cirio also printed the officers’ headshots as stree... READ MORE...

Donato Tranquillo Minerva | Lycosa tarantula

Sorry, this entry is only available in Italian.... READ MORE...

“Crepuscolo”, the technological supremacy of aerial views

So many stars have fallen, Pieces the planetary system are shattered, Because my body is so torn apart E. de Martino, Il mondo magico, Boringhieri, 19... READ MORE...

BARABÁSILAB: Hidden Patterns. The language of network thinking

Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art in Budapest, in accordance with its openness to new approaches in art and interdisciplinarity, is awaiting its visitors in October 2020 with a spectacular new exhibition. The show will feature incredibly int... READ MORE...

The triptych Human, Machine, Technology in “METAMORPHOSIS”

Coming back this Fall, ELEKTRA presents METAMORPHOSIS, a prelude exhibition to the 5th edition of the International Digital Art Biennial, postponed to 2021.... READ MORE...

OPEN CALL SETI x AI: European ARTificial Intelligence Lab offers residency

The European ARTificial Intelligence Lab is now offering artists who are working with artificial intelligence or experimenting with its applications the chance to complete a residency at the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute in Mountain View, California, and the Ars Electronica Futurelab in Linz.... READ MORE...

“Formafantasma: Cambio” reopens at Serpentine Gallery

Cambio (from the medieval Latin cambium, 'change, exchange') is an ongoing investigation conducted by Formafantasma into the extraction, production and distribution of wood products and the timber industry. This exhibition aims to put into question t... READ MORE...