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Hybrid spaces and audiovisual experience at Louvre

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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

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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...

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

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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...

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

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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 Exoticization and Commodification of the Black Body

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

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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

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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...

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

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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

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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...

SAVE HUMANITY

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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...

Rethinking Our Futures: Molior international symposium

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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...

The Warp presents the performance installation Unloomed #1

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From January 17 to February 14, Zone2Source and The Warp present a performance installation, Unloomed #1, with 1001 strings, laser light and sound, visible and audible around the Glass House. Park visitors can experience Unloomed #1 daily from the outside, the best time is around dusk.... READ MORE...

Diana Policarpo solo exhibition: “Nets of Hyphae”

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Diana Policarpo’s exhibition Nets of Hyphae, curated by Stefanie Hessler draws speculative connections between ergot fungi networks and women’s health. Her newly commissioned video works, animation, textiles and soundscape create parallels between the fungus cycle, reproductive justice and the expertise of midwives, healers and peasants in precarity and resistance.... READ MORE...

The Body, Sculpture, Technology: Museum Brandhorst’s Symposium

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Museum Brandhorst presents Future Bodies from a Recent Past—Sculpture, Technology, and the Body since the 1950s , a large-scale research and exhibition project investigating the impact made by technological developments and changing notions of the body on the medium of sculpture.... READ MORE...

“Softwalks”, first solo exhibition in Norway by Angelidakis

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Softwalks is the first institutional solo exhibition in Norway by Andreas Angelidakis. The artist, who is known for his work exploring the intersection between art, architecture and design, combined the physical and digital realms through usage of software and hardware in video and sculptural work.... READ MORE...

Biophilia: A handful of earth – 2020 ACC_R Residency Exhibition

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The experimental platform ACC_R Residency has been expanding fields: it has been inviting creators and researchers from Asia and other parts of the world to reflect on the challenges the humanity is facing and create contemporary discourse, of which Biophilia is the main theme. Three programs were run in close connection, organically supplementing each other.... READ MORE...

Fabio Perletta, l’artista-sciamano. La ritualità dell’arte.

In questo momento di forte perplessità intorno alla capacità di artisti e curatori di creare nuovi eventi che possano funzionare sulle piattaforme virtuali, coinvolgendo in modo attivo e diretto il pubblico, sono stata invitata a partecipare a …mai i propri … nell’ambito di BRUMA MMXX, una performance di Fabio Perletta – straordinario artista sonoro, curatore e docente di sound design – che è stata trasmessa in diretta streaming sulla piattaforma del progetto Aequusol. Articolo di Caterina Tomeo.... READ MORE...

Bio Art and Design in the exhibition “Evolutionaries”

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The group exhibition Evolutionaries, Bio Art & Design from the Sea to the Soul, on view at MU Hybrid Art House this winter combines the working material wielded by the present and past winners of the Bio Art & Design (BAD) Award. Most of these works are the fruit of collaborations between artists and scientists working in the Netherlands and they address an array... READ MORE...