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Blacklist #1: The militarisation of Police

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Blacklist is a series of public documentary film screenings and accompaning panel sessions thematically grouped around the significant societal and environmental challenges of our time. Themes include Militarisation of Police, Automated Systems and Artificial Intelligence, Mass Surveillance, 21st Century Fascism, Over-consumption, The 6th Mass Extinction, Food Security and Climate Change.... READ MORE...

Sonic Cyberfeminisms – Call for Contribution | Deadline: 12/02/2017

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In recent years, the relationship between sound, gender and technology has gained increasing attention. There have been a number of artist networks, archives and educational initiatives established in the hope of tackling the gendered exclusions. Sonic Cyberfeminisms will provide an opportunity to critically reflect and debates concerning sound, gender and technology.... READ MORE...

Ever Elusive: thirty years of transmediale

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Under the title ever elusive transmediale celebrates its 30-year anniversary with an entire month of activities from 2 February to 5 March 2017. The approach ta... READ MORE...

How much of this is fiction

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Showing at FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), the exhibition How much of this is fiction. focuses on politically inspired media art that uses deception in all its forms. The desire is to address one of today’s most urgent political issues: the radical shift in the boundary between fiction and reality in public discourse, in a world increasingly governed by "post-truth" politics... READ MORE...

The 2nd Cultural Innovation Prize | Climate Change. Deadline 31/01/2017

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The 2nd Cultural Innovation Prize is open to innovative cultural projects that raise awareness about climate change, empowering and involving society actively in the global commitment to environmental responsibility. Is designed so that the winning proposal can be featured in the framework of the exhibition «After the End of the World» in October 2017.... READ MORE...

The 3D Additivist Cookbook. Edited by Morehshin Allahyari & Daniel Rourke

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The 3D Additivist Cookbook, devised and edited by Morehshin Allahyari & Daniel Rourke, is a free compendium of imaginative, provocative works from over 100 world-leading artists, activists and theorists. The 3D Additivist Cookbook contains 3D .obj and .stl files, critical and fictional texts, templates, recipes, (im)practical designs and methodologies for living in this most contradictory of times.... READ MORE...

A major retrospective of Ai Weiwei at Palazzo Strozzi

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At Palazzo Strozzi is presented the first major retrospective dedicated to Ai Weiwei, one of the world’s most celebrated and influential contemporary artists. The exhibition, curated by Arturo Galansino, hosts past and present works by this artist known worldwide for his provocative practice, for his political activism and its mixture of genres.... READ MORE...

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Beyond Ignorance. Interview with Tatiana Bazzichelli and Daniela Silvestrin

Filippo Lorenzin

Among the predictions made by George Orwell in 1984, the dynamics ruling the relationship between people and state forces are something you can’t help but keep ... READ MORE...

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All About You: Janez Janša, Janez Janša and Janez Janša

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All About You is a project inspired by the All About U Debit MasterCard: a personalized debit card which allows customers to carry around their own memories. The artists have magnified and multiplied the image of their ID card, requiring a new one every week, thus creating a relational performance that investigates the concept of citizenship.... READ MORE...

John Gerrard: Power. Play

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From June 9 to August 7, the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) presents John Gerrard: Power.Play. The artist that during his career has explored the use of post-cinematic and the surveillance phenomenon, inventing virtual worlds infected with the real, by operating with the new tech systems in isolated locations.... READ MORE...

Accademia Carrara di Bergamo: talk with Loretta Borrelli, Aspirina

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The last guest among the 2016 cycle of lectures at "Art Publishing" class - next 23 May 2016 is Loretta Borrelli from Aspirina La Rivista project, online magazine of humorous comics published by Libreria delle Donne.... READ MORE...

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Reset Modernity!

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At the ZKM (Center for Art and Media) in Karlsruhe is present, from April, the collective exhibition Reset Modernity! That drives the visitors to experience the resetting modernity for redirect the confused signals suggested from our age, by taking alternative routes in which our choices become primary.... READ MORE...

Breaking news

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Through very different languages Alterazioni Video, Filippo Minelli and Carlo Zanni burst in real and / or constructed scenarios imagining a turning point, the arrival of an external event, something probably envisioned, but never fully understood, to change both the perception of the landscape as a political result both the relationship with the information and what it alters or keeps silent.... READ MORE...

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As Rights Go By. On the erosion and denial of rights

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At freiraum Q21 INTERNATIONAL in Wien is present As Rights-Go By On the Erosion and Denial of Rights, an exhibition that explore the impact of globalization and mass surveillance on civil and human rights. The artists through video, installations and the new technologies analyze this contemporary scenario, that has changed our life.... READ MORE...

#unit: Connecting Unicorns. World’s First Queer Tech Festival

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Here comes the second edition of the world’s ﬁrst queer tech festival and it is once again going to take place in Berlin at Postbahnhof Club. The #unit festival is one of the largest queer tech events in the world and it is a platform for queer and straight techies as well as people who love technology to connect.... READ MORE...

How to design objects that don’t exist yet. Design, IoT and Bruce Sterling

Roberto Pizzato

I met Bruce Sterling after I sent him a private message via Twitter after I had known he was hitting The Netherlands for a keynote speech at Impakt Festival in Utrecht. He replied within a few hours. A couple of days later, I was on a train with a camera and a bottle of good Barolo (for him).... READ MORE...

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The Promise of Total Automation

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In this era where machines and the technological instruments are invading our life and human relationships. The artists involved in The Promise of Total Automation are trying to identify those elements of automation that stimulate the dreams and utopias, and so are be able to create a new imaginary in which the technology is not excluded.... READ MORE...

Open Call: Paraflows.XI exhibition. Deadline 31/03

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What influence do migrant scenarios have on the construction of identities? What about pen names and fictional characters? paraflows .XI will be looking into the components of identity and trying to find variables to put these components together in different ways.... READ MORE...

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