DIGICULT | Digital Art, Design and Culture

Garage Museum of Contemporary Art is pleased to present Moving Atmospheres, a monumental new installation by Argentine environmental artist Tomás Saraceno, which is curated by Iaroslav Volovod. The work opened to the public on September 11 alongside the 2nd Garage Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art, and will remain on view through March 14, 2021.... READ MORE...

DesignNews

Not all biennials are the same: “Le Biennali Invisibili”

Le Biennali Invisibili is an online project that provides a non-linear form of storytelling through a series of 11 "invisible biennials," each based on a fictional scenario created by the authors of the project, and accompanied by a critical response from an external contributor. The 11 short texts are inspired by Italo Calvino’s novel Invisible Cities and depicted... READ MORE...

The exhibition “not in, of, along, or relating to a line”

The NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) Art Gallery, has opened its first virtual exhibition, titled not in, of, along, or relating to a line. Co-curated by Chief Curator at NYU Abu Dhabi and NYUAD faculty member and artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg, the exhibition invites a new perspective on virtual and screen-based contemporary art, of particular relevance during COVID-19.... READ MORE...

CTM 2021 Festival, the 22nd edition: Transformation

CTM 2021 Festival: “Transformation” aims to respond to some of the challenges facing arts and culture in these exceptional times. This 100% online edition is an attempt to experiment with new digital formats, see how CTM can continue to support ongoing artistic work, and find moments of interaction and togetherness as a remote music community and audience.... READ MORE...

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“A stranger’s soul is a deep well”: the mystery of the other

Fridman Gallery presents A stranger’s soul is a deep well, a multidisciplinary exhibition highlighting the work of nine contemporary artists. The works on view reflect the artists’ respective interior lives, hidden from the outside gaze and detached from judgements and trends.... READ MORE...

Glitch Art, the first glitch video art group exhibition in Iran

A group video art exhibition titled Glitch Art: Pixel Language, curated by Mohammad-Ali Famori and Sadeq Majlesi, has opened on December 25 at Bavan Gallery in Tehran, Iran and will continue for eleven weeks until March 12. In this exhibition, 27 glitch artists from all around the globe, create works to identify the value of pixels, so they can force our minds to to reread the pixel language.... READ MORE...

Interviews

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

Caterina Tomeo

Spatial Momentum. An interview with IOCOSE

Claudia D'Alonzo

Donato Sansone – I dream, so I make video

Marco Aruga

Towards Togetherness. Interview with Tabita Rezaire.

Anna Gorchakovskaya

The Digicult Agency produces and curates curate art exhibitions, events, workshops, educational activities, publications lectures and lectures, giving consultancy about art and culture communication strategies.

Digitalks: un ciclo di incontri tra arte, produzione, tecnologia e scienza

Il corpo tra arte, design speculativo e possibili visioni del futuro

I nuovi corpi: Arte, Intelligenza Artificiale e Biotecnologie. Ciclo di workshop, Adiacenze

Fantomologia: dal micro al macro ai fenomeni del reale, CUBO Unipol

Workshop “Arte e Futuro”, Adiacenze Bologna

Report

Brainstorming and Artificial Intelligence for a visionary future.

Giada Totaro

On Saturday 21st of November 2020, from the Sala Fucine OGR in Turin, in live in streaming on Zoom and Youtube, 2500 under 35s met in a digital event lasting 10 hours in the form of a collective brainstorming around to the topic “Which Borders in the New World?”. The objective of the Visionary Days project-event, now in its fourth edition, is to concretize the ideas... READ MORE...

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Focus

The Exoticization and Commodification of the Black Body

Sara Merzenich

From being sold as a commodity to being used to sell commodities, the exploitation of the Black body has been the backbone of the creation of Western civilisation. Although this exploitation is painfully obvious to recognize in some instances – i.e. the Transatlantic slave trade – in other instances it is less obvious and well masked under the pretext... READ MORE...

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Calls

Media Art Fund & Media Art Fellows – Call for projects

Two new funding programs of the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) will support cooperative media art & digital culture projects of institutions and independent initiatives in NRW. The Call for Projects is addressed to all institutions and initiatives, alliances and collectives, places and spaces of media art & digital... READ MORE...

Books

ART AND DIGITAL CREATIVITY FOR A COMPLEX IMAGINARY

STEAM Atelier is pleased to share its first ebook, free and bilingual, distributed by publisher Noema: "Art and digital creativity for the construction of a complex immaginary". The ebook, first of its kind in Italy, brings together STEAM theories and techniques, and it has been possible as part of the STEM2020 call and thanks to the winning project BEcoming... READ MORE...

Books

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.

Digicult Editions

Design for visualization of science

Investigations on the cultural economy of Media Art

Streaming Egos - Goethe Institute

Latest Post

Hybrid spaces and audiovisual experience at Louvre

A major event dedicated to new cinema and contemporary art, the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin will take place from February 23 to 28, 2021, live online from the Louvre auditorium. This new edition will have a hybrid form, to rethink the notions of shared cultural space and time, with events and programmes filmed and broadcast live on the event’s website,... READ MORE...

Reactivating Videographies: art and digital media

With the aim of bringing to the fore different working methods and formats in video art inside the current health care context, the online exhibition Reactivating Videographies displays a selection of works which are arranged to form a reflection on video art and its artists. Thus, a virtual public space comes into being over a two-year period to showcase... READ MORE...

Media Art Fund & Media Art Fellows – Call for projects

Business, art, and technology – Better Factory Open Call

Better Factory unlocks equity-free funding opportunities and premium services for collaborative experiments to bring the European Manufacturing Industry to the forefront of the digital transformation. Better Factory invites European Manufacturing SMEs, Artists, and Technology suppliers to engage in a set of one-year collaborative experiments to redesign ... READ MORE...

Open Call – Driving the Human: Eco-Social Renewal

From February 10 to April 9, 2021, Driving the Human invites designers, artists, scientists, initiatives, and agents from any fields of expertise from anywhere in the world, to join us in shaping sustainable and collective futures that combine science, technology, and the arts in a transdisciplinary and collaborative approach.... READ MORE...

OPEN CALL LANDSCAPE2021

Il 28 Gennaio il Collettivo Zeugma, durante l'intervista in diretta Facebook su Good Vibes, lancia “Landscape2021” una Call per Sound Artist e Video Artist. Landscape2021 invita i suoi partecipanti ad esprimersi attraverso opere audiovisive che mettano al centro l'utilizzo del suono per raccontare l'interazione tra uomo-territorio.... READ MORE...

Bioart challenge: tra frontiere della biologia e immaginario dell’arte

Il MUSE – Museo delle Scienze di Trento cerca creativi, artisti visivi e designer per avviare una collaborazione su un percorso di ricerca artistica nel campo della BioArt. Il bando, che si inserisce nell’ambito del progetto europeo ACDC (Artificial Cells with Distributed Cores to Decipher Protein Function), scade il 15 marzo 2021.... READ MORE...

“Moving Atmospheres”, from the Anthropocene to the “Aerocene”

DesignNews

Not all biennials are the same: “Le Biennali Invisibili”

Full Spectrum Curatorship Programme 2021 from IMPAKT

IMPAKT invites emerging and aspiring curators with a specific interest in media art and its relationship to technology and society to apply for the Full Spectrum Curatorship Programme. Applications are open until March 1, 2021. Full Spectrum Curatorship is a programme from IMPAKT that aims to bridge the gap between theoretical knowledge and the practical and... READ MORE...

The Exoticization and Commodification of the Black Body

Sara Merzenich

ActivismArticles

The exhibition “not in, of, along, or relating to a line”

CTM 2021 Festival, the 22nd edition: Transformation

NewsSound

“A stranger’s soul is a deep well”: the mystery of the other

Glitch Art, the first glitch video art group exhibition in Iran

SAVE HUMANITY

Artisti da tutto il mondo hanno collaborato per la collettiva "Save Humanity", a cura di Vera Agosti, ospitata, in occasione della Giornata del Contemporaneo, nei giorni della pandemia, sull'omonima pagina Facebook. Nata da un'open call online e da inviti da parte della curatrice, l'esposizione vuole essere un monito e un'esortazione, nonché una possibilità... READ MORE...

Call for Artists and Photographers. Innovate Grants

Innovate Grant is a new initiative that supports photographers and artists through quarterly grants, and it is now accepting submissions for Winter 2021. Innovate Grant awards (2) $550.00 grants each quarter, to one Visual Artist and one Photographer.... READ MORE...

Rethinking Our Futures: Molior international symposium

Molior is celebrating its 20th anniversary in February 2021 with the presentation of an international symposium on collaborative curating practices in the digital age. Titled Rethinking Our Futures: Art and Collaboration, the symposium invites Canadian and international curators to share experiences virtually and to collectively reflect on issues related to their practice in a context shaped by an increasing use of digital technologies.... READ MORE...