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Holly Herndon, Proto: the sound of Spawn

Released in May 2019, Proto is the last album of Holly Herndon, one of the most curious performer and experimental composer. This album is the third part of a project that involves electronics, the body and its sounds, the society, and ultimately machine learning, used to interpret the society and show it, online and offline.... READ MORE...

Tagging Aesthetics #4: (Machine) Learning Stereotypes. Interview with Max Dovey

Nicola Bozzi interviewed Max Dovey: working with stereotypes, tags, and algorithms in live settings, the UK-based artist has tried to define the “hipster” stereotype algorithmically, find out what makes a person male or female in a computer's eyes, and highlight the human labour necessary for machine learning. I spoke to him about a few of his artworks.... READ MORE...

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...

Tagging Aesthetics #3: Materialising Accountability. Interview with Simon Boas

Artist Simon Boas has been working on the themes of accountability, consent, and privacy for several years, sometimes touching upon stereotype and identity as well. His works make me think of the collective definition of identity, the fact that people get entangled in wider and looser labels.... READ MORE...

From the real to the digital and return. 12CYFEST addresses digital identity in its fickle essence

ID is a broad, multifaced concept art has addressed since the very beginning of times. The ID. ART:TECH EXHIBITION intends to delve into all the different shades and meanings it has acquired in our digital present by juxtaposing new media art and technology with contemporary portrait paintings.... READ MORE...

A data universe made of memories, AI and architecture. Interview with Refik Anadol

Digging into his extensive research on memory and his site-specific public art projects, Yonca Keremoglu talks with Refik Anadol about his projects around both public and private spheres.... READ MORE...

More Eskimo than Artist. Intervista con Theo Jansen

Alcune considerazioni sull'esposizione "Dream Beasts" di Theo Jansen, a partire da una breve intervista all’artista. In mostra le sue sculture cinetiche zoomorfe, destinate alle enormi e scenografiche spiagge dei Paesi Bassi.... READ MORE...

Tagging Aesthetics #2: Presence and Participation. Interview with Marguerite Kalhor

Marguerite Kalhor, through the selfie, the beauty tutorial, the food review and, more recently, video game reviews, uses established social media tropes to explore the performative dimension of online experience, often driven by anxiety and expectations. Interview by Nicola Bozzi.... 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...

The future around the corner: interview with Heather Dewey-Hagborg

Human beings have always needed to face their time and raised questions about the future, on the edge between the fascination and the fear for rapid and complex... READ MORE...

Surrogate. An Ideal Love

The show "Surrogati. Un amore ideale", curated by Melissa Harris, from February 21 to July 22, 2019 in the Osservatorio Fondazione Prada in Milan, creates a direct dialogue between the photographic works of two artists, Jamie Diamond and Elena Dorfman. Both artists highlight the emotional ties between human beings and surrogates, dolls, substitutes.... READ MORE...

Tagging Aesthetics #1: Of Cats and Models. Interview with Jacopo Calonaci

Nicola Bozzi interviewed Jacopo Calonaci, an illustrator with a prankster's DNA. His Instagram account is a great example to discuss how starting an art project from scratch can muster up a following on what is probably the most competitive platform around.... 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...

Perpetual Translation. Interview with Paul Destieu

Looking at the works of Paul Destieu, Filippo Lorenzin questions the Marseille-based artist about the evolution of media and their situation in our contemporary environment. His work studies the border between emergence and collapsing of a system.... READ MORE...

Sonic Acts 2019: discovering the controversy of the hereafter between the past and future

The 25th Anniversary of the Sonic Acts happened across Amsterdam. The combination of art, science and research becomes the ground to speculate on new ways to live and face the fast progress of contemporary society.... READ MORE...

Frieze Art Fair LA 2019 explored how to unite the art world with Hollywood

The Paramount Movie Studio in Hollywood was the location for the inaugural edition of the Frieze Los Angeles Art Fair. This sold-out event is considered a very successful venture by artworld standards.... READ MORE...

Islands, ghosts and utopias. An interview with Elise Florenty & Marcel Türkowsky

In this interview Mario Margani discusses with Elise Florenty and Marcel Türkowsky the issues of multiple representation of a land taking their recent exhibition as a point of departure, and focusing on their interest for unconventional modes of narrations, and on their nomadic ways to develop film projects.... READ MORE...

The dark mirror. Interview with Clément Lambelet.

Never more than today human beings live in symbiosis with technologies that he created himself. Today as in the past, technologies are accurate mirrors of their societies, of human desires, fears and needs. Bianca Cavuti discusses these topics with Clément Lambelet, who handles issues about the relationship between society and technology, control ideologies and Artificial Intelligence.... READ MORE...