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hyle. Dialoghi transdisciplinari sul design

Al Riot Studio di Napoli una mostra curata da Francesco Dell'Aglio, Enza Migliore e Chiara Scarpitti presenta una dimensione inconsueta del design italiano, in cui arte, design, poesia e artigianato dialogano tra loro intrecciandosi in una serie di progetti e visioni che propongono ciascuno un diverso modo di sentire la città.... READ MORE...

Instrumentarium. Interview with Jean-François Laporte

The composer Jean-François Laporte assembles simple objects to transform them into real musical instruments, sometimes controlled by electronic devices. With their strong installation presence these artifacts are linked not only to the musical world but also to the performing arts and theatre, in a perfect balance on the line that connects the concepts of object, artifact and instrument.... READ MORE...

When smart homes become smart prisons

The continued development of the Internet of Things (IoT) with little to no standards nor regulation, in the US and Europe, opens the door not only to concerns regarding corporate data exploitation and state surveillance but also to surveillance, coercion, and control within intimate relationships.... READ MORE...

Digitalife focuses on the future and investigates the relationship between art and science

The eighth edition of Digitalife, designed by Monique Veaute for Romaeuropa Festival and directed by Fabrizio Grifasi, has landed at Palazzo delle Esposizioni with a complex articulation of audiovisual architectures and multimedia installations curated by Richard Castelli.... READ MORE...

The world is a pattern. Interview with Nicolas Sassoon

GIFs have been accepted and adopted by new users who rely on animated pictures thanks to their planned pervasiveness in their digital communication habits. The practice of Nicolas Sassoon, a French artist who makes art with GIFs since 2011, suggests creative strategies to exploit the features of this format in order to make works that couldn't be made with any other medium.... READ MORE...

Technological integuments. Design for interactive energetic surfaces

As a result of the need for radical change in the design of energy production sites, the city is required to become a "meaningful","intelligent" and autopoietic system. Thanks to the new technologies, architectural skin is today a bio-inspired and dynamic apparatus responding to this need with numerous functions.... READ MORE...

The Dreamy Reality. Interview with Dominic Wilcox

Dominic Wilcox is the epitome of the unclassifiable persona; he is an artist, an inventor, a designer, a speaker, and a man who reinvents the normal into something that not necessarily has an actual purpose. His works span from the most odd machines to more practical devices.... READ MORE...

Score as a thinking tool. Interview with Samson Young

The work of Samson Young takes the form of different media, connecting music to visuality through video and drawing. Following a particular interest in composition, this interview permits an insight into scores as structuring and organizing tools of experience attempting to understand the contemporary social constrains and possibilities.... READ MORE...

The ethical shape of sensitive machines. Philip Beesley and Industry 4.0

Philip Beesley's research focuses on the issues of reactive and interactive systems. His impressive sculptures and installations have movements modelled on the behaviour of natural elements and a poetically high-tech aspect that is not attributable to any machine we may have previously experienced.... READ MORE...

Media Art and Art Market: an interview with Gerfried Stocker

As director of Ars Electronica Gerfried Stocker has a fundamental role in the promotion and creation of recognition of Media Art. The sociological aspect that determines this cultural field is recognised in this interview, which express hope about a fruitful dialogue between Media Art and contemporary art... READ MORE...

Data are not just numbers. Some “dear questions” to Giorgia Lupi

At seven and a half in the evening, BASE Milano main room is overwhelmed by people. And it continues to arrive. Everyone is here to see a lecture about data vis... READ MORE...

Disobedient innovation: alternative ways to the technological propaganda. Interview with Maria Roszkowska

Along with the opening of the last cycle of Non-compliant Futures Maria Roszkowska took part to the 13th edition of Mapping Festival in Geneva with the first solo show by Disnovation.org, the art collective initiated with Nicolas Maigret that is working at the boundaries between art, hacking and research.... READ MORE...

A passionate report from Sónar+D: where technology and art industries convert

This year’s Sónar+D seems to be better than ever. With an incredible line-up and a focus on experimental research, the festival is not only about music. Businesses and companies were actively participating in the events, creating virtual reality and A.I. experiences as well as immersive systems... READ MORE...

The material concretization of scientific principles

Some designers and artists have the purpose of translating scientific principles connected to the relationship between artificial and biological through 3D objects, that can be used as material “concretizations” which crystallize phenomena and knowledges. An example is represented by the customized jewels resulted from parametric generation started from the DNA.... READ MORE...

Meeting at the makerspace with living-textile inventor: Lining Yao

In the last years a new generation of researchers see objects and materials through a multiplicity of properties and features which open different ways to interact with them. They’ve realized that most of the matter is able to respond to energy sources. Lining Yao and her Tangible Media Group at MIT Media Lab have been growing Natto bacteria and exploring how they can be used as bio-actuators - making textile become “alive” reacting to a change of the environment.... READ MORE...

Abstracted reality and the hidden world. A fragmented report from Resonate 2017

Amongst the usual slew of corporate-funded projects that many of the artists and designers presented at Belgrade's Resonate festival this year, it was good to see a strand of work revealing ideas addressing cultural engagement and the contemporary political landscape. With Nora O'Murcha at the helm of the arts programme, it was reassuring to see her once again bringing her art and design take to the festival, following her 2015 curating of the "New Black" exhibition .... READ MORE...

#Unit2017 – Connecting Unicorns: gender and technology

Where are boundaries among disciplines, between arts and science, professional and DIY culture challenged? At #Unit2017 – Connecting Unicorns in which the Global LGBTI Tech & Science Conference hosted by Unicorns in Tech, took place last 6th of May. Report by Arianna Mainardi... READ MORE...

“What The Body Knows”: Mattia Casalegno meets Antonio Canova

In Mattia Casalegno’s most recent project, “What the Body Knows”, he reinterprets the work of Italian Neoclassic artist Antonio Canova. The exhibition in Bassano del Grappa, Italy runs through June 25th and features an immersive audiovisual installation and a series of new sculptures.... READ MORE...