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.

A virtual ecosystem for creativity: new synthesis’ online project “Walkthroughs – A Further Look

“Artists & Agents”, the interaction between secret services and performance art

“How to Make a Paradise – Seduction and Dependence in Generated Worlds”

“The Botanical Mind Online”, a new online project about the significance of the plant kingdom to human life

The Fridman Gallery’s first online-only exhibition “All at Once”

Floraphilia. Revolution of plants”, a vision of nature

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

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...

The beauty of a borderless world. Interview with teamLab

Innovation and team working: teamLab creates an art making use of technological tools, tending to make them disappear, highlighting the experience they’d like to propose to the public. Interview by Marco Aruga... READ MORE...

The machine of the spirit. Interview with Ennio Bertrand

Ennio Bertrand found in technologies his “colours”, discovering how they could move in unison with his thoughts, and form the basis for his works. Interview by Marco Aruga... 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

International Call for digital art projects – Biennale Nemo edition 2021

This call for projects is organised in two sessions and is centred around the theme of the next edition of the Nemo Biennial, that will take place from October 2021 to January 2022: “BEYOND REALITY? Revealing the invisible through art, science and technology.”... READ MORE...

Open Call. Art Jameel Commissions: Digital.

(Video) selfie as digital performance – Open Call

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

AWMAT 2019: Impact! Call for Papers

SIGGRAPH Digital Arts: Call for Application | Deadline: 15/09/2018

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

“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...

“Nam June Paik TV Wave”: when TV, broadcasts and telecommunication become art

Nam June Paik Art Center unveils a new exhibition titled Nam June Paik TV Wave from May 12, 2020 to March 7, 2021.... READ MORE...

International Call for digital art projects – Biennale Nemo edition 2021

In “SOUNDMUSEUM” visitors become active performers, thanks to sound and multi-sensory experiences

The exhibition features 22 works across multifaceted categories, from sound installation, audience-driven performance, interactive sound installation, light art to visual music by 13 internationally recognized artists and collectives.... READ MORE...

“Love Story”: visual shocks and interpretative narratives by Francesco Vezzoli

In each story Fondazione Prada’s followers and, more generally, Instagram’s users will be invited to choose between two possible options, to take sides in favour of one of the two proposed statements, to accept the necessarily simplistic binary logic of surveys, to participate in an only apparently easy game.... READ MORE...

“Silver”, Rachel MacFarlane’s new site-specific animated painting

Originally intended as a response to the dioramic features of Super Dutchess, MacFarlane created the site-specific painting, "Sliver", through her established practice of meticulously observing multi-faceted maquettes.... READ MORE...

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...

“Come Behind Me, So Good!”, new computer animation music video

In this video for Kazu Makino, a combination of photogrammetry, which Rhizomatiks has cultivated in various past projects, and cutting-edge software and hardware are used to collect abundant data to realize seamless mixed reality work on a large scale.... READ MORE...

A virtual ecosystem for creativity: new synthesis’ online project “Walkthroughs – A Further Look

Walkthroughs - A Further Look is synthesis’ response to the current challenging times. Now more than ever, synthesis thinks it is important to stay connected, creative and get inspired. Walkthroughs of VR artistic experiences is what synthesis has envisioned.... READ MORE...

“Artists & Agents”, the interaction between secret services and performance art

HMKV‘s exhibition "Artists & Agents - Performance Art and Secret Services" has been closed since Monday, 16 March 2020 due to the Corona pandemic. The exhibition has duely closed on 19 April 2020. To cover the time until the reopening of the HMKV with the next ehxhibition on 02 June, HMKV is making this exhibition accessible for you at Artists & Agents Online.... READ MORE...

“How to Make a Paradise – Seduction and Dependence in Generated Worlds”

Under the exhibition title How to Make a Paradise Frankfurter Kunstverein has invited nine artists and collectives to present a broad spectrum of artistic projects dealing with the human desire for digital escapism, and the aspiration to expand human capabilities with technology.... READ MORE...

“The Botanical Mind Online”, a new online project about the significance of the plant kingdom to human life

Humanity’s place in the natural order is under scrutiny as never before, held in a precarious balance between visible and invisible forces: from the microscopic threat of a virus to the monumental power of climate change. Camden Art Centre has launched this online programme of new artist commissions, podcasts, films, texts, images and audio, expanding on and enriching the ideas and issues informing the show.... READ MORE...

The Fridman Gallery’s first online-only exhibition “All at Once”

Fridman Gallery is honored to welcome Regine Basha’s curatorial exploration "All at Once", an exhibition featuring images, sound, video, and performance. The gallery’s first online-only exhibition comes on the unusual occasion of new social distancing practices amidst a global pandemic.... READ MORE...

Open Call. Art Jameel Commissions: Digital.

Art Jameel, an independent, international organisation that supports arts, education and heritage in the Middle East, announces an Open Call for proposals to Art Jameel Commissions: Digital.... READ MORE...

Floraphilia. Revolution of plants”, a vision of nature

The exhibition Floraphilia. Revolution of plants, at Temporary Gallery, frees the world of plants from the reactionary context of interior design magazines and eco-trends, revealing its emancipatory potential leading to social transformation.... READ MORE...

Swiss Media Art: knowbotiq, Alan Bogana, Félicien Goguey

The exhibition Swiss Media Art: knowbotiq, Alan Bogana, Félicien Goguey can finally take place. HeK would like to invite you to an online vernissage on May 27th 2020.... READ MORE...

“Critical Zones”: a multidimensional communication about the critical state of the Earth

The exhibition Critical Zones about the critical state of the Earth now coincides with the coronavirus pandemic, evincing core questions of the ecological crisi... READ MORE...

Artists’ Film International: the twelfth edition selected a work by Francesco Pedraglio

GAMeC confirms and continues its participation in the Artists’ Film International, the prestigious video-art network that since 2008 has involved some of the most important international contemporary art institutions, along with artists from all around the world.... READ MORE...