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.

In awareness of a common media sphere: the exhibition “Our Present”

“Human Learning”. It’s time to think about the “mechanical”

“Light Shop”, an explorative study of light: Jan Tichy’s solo exhibition

“Le Milieu Est Bleu”: between imaginary and conventions

Fusion Art selected Lollie Ortiz as 3-Dimensional Artist Spotlight: the exhibition on website

“Fictive Appearance”, Yotaro Niwa’s new installation

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

Digital Unpleasant Design: Uncomfortable Websites and Demanding Services

New visions: The first edition of Triennial for Photography and New Media

The inaugural Triennial for Photography and New Media brings together recent work of 31 international artists. Several works are exhibited for the first time and the Triennial is the first major international presentation of its kind in Norway. The first edition of the Triennale is titled New Visions.... READ MORE...

Advanced technology, prophetic work and mysterious meanings of life. Interview with 404.zero

Taking as starting points their most irrepressible fascinations with death, the unknown and the cosmos, 404.zero craft thrilling, precise, painterly code-art that broaches big philosophical questions and provides mesmerizing though highly speculative answers. Interview by Caterina Tomeo... READ MORE...

Do not get caught in the web – Interview with Geert Lovink

Geert Lovink is founder and director of "INC - Institute of Network Cultures", in Amsterdam, investigating the nature and the developments of the cultures in the web with meetings, publications and, obviously, online dialogues.... READ MORE...

“Line in the sand”, intervista a Daniele Spanò

"Chaos & cosmos" è il titolo dal carattere universale della tredicesima edizione del CYFEST, che anche quest’anno come di consueto parte da New York. Tra le numerose proposte artistiche la curatrice internazionale Isabella Indolfi, presenta la videoinstallazione di Daniele Spanò, "Line in the sand". Intervista di Caterina Tomeo... READ MORE...

Il Manifesto del Futurismo Rurale. Nuove geografie per territori al margine.

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

Giving images new lives. Interview with Kensuke Koike

What can be the role of abandoned photographs, which after a certain time cease to have their original intention? Teresa Ruffino interviews Kensuke Koike, a visual artist that, with a calibrated manipulation, transforms in an alchemic way the matter he comes across to create something new. ... 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

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

The transmediale Artistic Director’s central responsibility is the formulation of festival's artistic vision and its implementation on a content and structural level. The position requires the ability to critically examine topics at the intersection of art, technology, science, society.... READ MORE...

AWMAT 2019: Impact! Call for Papers

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

Open Call: Field_Notes – EOS | Deadline: 10/06/2018

The New Networked Normal: Open call for work | Deadline: 31/05/2018

Open call for Playbour – Work, Pleasure, Survival | Deadline: 22/04/2018

Reports

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

Digicult Agency

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.

Digicult Editions

Latest Post

Cao Fei: the exhibition “Blueprints” and her new installation “The Eternal Wave”

At the centre of exhibition "Blueprints" will be a new Virtual Reality artwork "The Eternal Wave", produced in collaboration with Acute Art. Based on the exact scale and scanned models of the artist’s studio, Cao Fei seeks to re-explore and re-imagine the past, reflecting the changing nature of humanity.... READ MORE...

When the human meets the nonhuman: the exhibition “Weather Report: Forecasting Future”

The exhibition Weather Report: Forecasting Future in Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma is themed around the complex and varied relations between the human and nonhuman in an age when climate change and mass extinction are threatening the future of life on Earth.... READ MORE...

“Unhomed”: how destabilise the notion of identity

The exhibition Unhomed also engages with how our bodily experiences inform and transform the city, our physical and mental presence adding new layers of understanding.... READ MORE...

New visions: The first edition of Triennial for Photography and New Media

“Sonya Rapoport: biorhythm”, a 21st century portrait

Charting her transition from modernist painter to ground-breaking conceptual artist, Sonya Rapoport: biorhythm provides an in-depth look at the artist’s output from 1974–83, a pivotal decade that marked a major shift in her work from abstract painting to the incorporation of emerging computer technologies.... READ MORE...

The impact of technology on the fashion industry. The exhibition “Making FASHION Sense”

The exhibition "Making FASHION Sense" showcases the radical transformation of fashion through technology, used as a transformative tool for artists, designers, as well as for the wearers of clothing, generating a reinvention of fashion systems.... READ MORE...

In awareness of a common media sphere: the exhibition “Our Present”

The exhibition Our Present shows how artists relate to the present, and the forms that they give to it.... READ MORE...

“Human Learning”. It’s time to think about the “mechanical”

Human Learning. What Machines Teach Us is an exhibition that documents the world using the technologies that shape it. The works in the exhibition feature a large variety of styles: interactive devices that make us learn their playabilities, generative installations whose processes are entirely autonomous and digital creations made out of digital forms.... READ MORE...

“Light Shop”, an explorative study of light: Jan Tichy’s solo exhibition

Fridman Gallery is honored to present Light Shop, Jan Tichy’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. Light Shop is an explorative study of light — its collection and dissemination, formation and commodification — taking place in the gradually fading Bowery Lighting District.... READ MORE...

Fondazione Mondo Digitale presents the Fashion Digital Night as part of the Rome Fashion Week in Altaroma

The Fashion Digital Night has ended: forty projects in the field of wearable technologies were created by young stylists, designers, developers and makers from all over the world. Report by Giada Totaro... READ MORE...

“Le Milieu Est Bleu”: between imaginary and conventions

Around the notion of ritual, inspired from the theatre, the artist Ulla von Brandenburg invites the public to take part in an immersive and renewed experience of the themes, forms and motifs that feed into her work.... READ MORE...

Radha May: When the archives disclose the ways of seeing

Until February 2 2020, ICA Milan hosts When the Towel Drops Vol. 1 | Italy, the video installation by Radha May (Elisa Giardina Papa, Bathsheba Okwenje and Nupur Mathur) and curated by Claudia D'Alonzo. The work is part an artistic rearch that explo... READ MORE...

Fusion Art selected Lollie Ortiz as 3-Dimensional Artist Spotlight: the exhibition on website

Lollie Ortiz is the 3-Dimensional Artist Spotlight winning artist for the month of January 2020. She is an award-winning artist based in San Francisco, California, USA.... READ MORE...

Advanced technology, prophetic work and mysterious meanings of life. Interview with 404.zero

“Fictive Appearance”, Yotaro Niwa’s new installation

Taking inspiration from Yuto Takamuro's book, the new spatial installation of Yotaro Niwa also leads the visitors back to experiencing the physical space. One medium used to construct the installation is the book contents itself.... READ MORE...

Loop, repetition and cyclicity: the exhibition “AGAINandAGAINandAGAINand”

"AGAINandAGAINandAGAINand" aims at inquiring into the theme of loop, repetition and cyclicity in the present time, by looking at things from different perspectives, through the works of artists who have made this issue the focus of their research.... READ MORE...

“Loud Matter”, photographs with stop motion technique

Loud Matter is a new audiovisual live performance that unites live created stop motion animation, drums, live code & 8 bit chiptune music.... READ MORE...

Imran Perretta’s experience at “the destructors”

Chisenhale Gallery presents the destructors, a film commission and solo exhibition by London-based artist Imran Perretta.... READ MORE...