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Ars Electronica Festival 2021: A New Digital Deal

Ars Electronica 2021 will take place from September 8-12. For the second time since 1979, it will be a hybrid event that includes exhibitions, concerts, talks, conferences, workshops and guided tours in Linz and 100 other locations around the globe.... READ MORE...

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“Cardi Gallery in Real-time 3D streaming”

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Made in collaboration with the Milanese start-up WIDE VR, and thanks to the most advanced technologies that can reproduce artworks and three-dimensional digital... READ MORE...

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Heart Harmonics, the connection between instruments and human heart

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Fridman Gallery is honored to present a solo exhibition of the late free jazz percussionist and visual artist Milford Graves. Heart Harmonics: sound, energy, and natural healing phenomena brings together three bodies of work comprising the most recent (and last) artistic output of his research.... READ MORE...

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Spatial Affairs: the impact of information technology on visual arts

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Simulazioni generate a computer, realtà virtuali, piattaforme digitali in rete (dal cyperspazio al metaverso) non sono più dei luoghi fittizi che si trovano nella letteratura di fantascienza. Il loro significato e ruolo è quasi sullo stesso piano degli spazi reali.... READ MORE...

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The frontiers of contemporary robotics and bionics at Mudec

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From May 1st to August 1st 2021, Mudec - Museo delle Culture in Milan presents the exhibition ROBOT. The human project. From the first mechanical devices of ancient Greece to the new frontiers of Artificial Intelligence, man has always been attracted to the idea of creating an artificial fellow creature. The exhibition retraces the relationship between human beings and their doubles, revealing to the public the results achieved so far, the extraordinary technological developments and the frontiers of contemporary robotics and bionics.... READ MORE...

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European ARTificial Intelligence Lab

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The SETI Institute in Mountain View, CA and the Ars Electronica Futurelab in Linz, Austria are announcing that Interspecifics (INT), an independent artistic research studio founded in Mexico City, are the winners of the AI Lab residency, SETI x AI. Interspecifics’ (INT) project is called Codex Virtualis. With Codex Virtualis, Interspecifics... READ MORE...

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Germ Gem: Lucie Ketelsen speaks about bacterial iridescence

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Bacterial iridescence is an elusive, extra-ordinary phenomenon with something vital to show us in these precarious times. A unique natural occurrence in which self organization within bacterial colonies results in the creation of living photonic crystals, bacterial iridescence relies on a coming together, an organised signal arising out of the noise of disarray, visible as the bending of light. This phenomenon demonstrates that a microscopic, reductive view alone cannot account for what a bigger picture and a change of perspective affords us. Seeking to span diverse perspectives, scales and media by working directly with bacterial iridescence, this research project asks — how can we design with biological life?... READ MORE...

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“BarabásiLab. Hidden Patterns”, network and data visualization

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From May 1, 2021 to January 16, 2021 the ZKM | Karlsruhe presents the exhibition BarabásiLab. Hidden Patterns, which introduces the work of the Hungarian physicist and network scientist Albert-László Barabási and his research laboratory, BarabásiLab, at Northeastern University in Boston, USA. The focus of the exhibition is the development of network visualization over the past 25 years. BarabásiLab. Hidden Patterns is in collaboration with the Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary, where it is on show until June 20, 2021.... READ MORE...

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The shapes of electricity: “Current Age. The (in)visible networks”

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A network of cables – like veins in a human body – entangle our entire planet. They transport a commodity of unparalleled importance to human civilization: electricity. Studio Plastique investigates this seemingly indispensable source of energy in Z33.... READ MORE...

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Noche Electronica MADATAC: AV concerts by Mogard and Lech

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On May 7th in Madrid, there is going to be the most advanced and contemporary A / V electronic concerts that under the motto of MADATAC Night will take place on Friday, May 7 at the Sala Columnas del Círculo de Fine arts. The eleventh edition of the MADATAC Festival, which had to be postponed in April 2020 due to restriction measures caused by the global health alert, will take place in and from Madrid from November... READ MORE...

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The exhibition “House of Meme” blends natural and artificial

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Kunsthaus Bregenz will be presenting Pamela Rosenkranz’s first solo exhibition in Austria. The exhibition dissolves any separation between the natural and artificial. It becomes an animated “habitat” for a robotic creature that is controlled by our devices and which connects everything. Works of art as meandering objects recall rivers and serpentine forms alike.... READ MORE...

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“Rhizomatiks_multiplex”: new virtual and phisical propositions

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Since their inception in 2006, the Tokyo-based collective Rhizomatiks have been pursuing new possibilities at the intersection of technology and artistic expression. The name of the group is taken from Gilles Deleuze’s concept of the rhizome: as the name suggests, their artistic activities embody a rhizome-like multiplicity that spans “media art,”... READ MORE...

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Ars Electronica is offering a new Home Delivery SERVICE

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Ars Electronica is offering a new service that any institution can benefit from, whether it's an elementary school or a technical college, a regional SME or an international corporation, a local public authority or an interest group, an art museum, a science center or a university.... READ MORE...

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UN/MUTE-10002, the online world emerged from the pandemic

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UN/MUTE is an online residency that provides artists an opportunity for a critical exchange and collaboration while simultaneously connecting resources from the global cultural epicenter of New York City. This project, co-organized by Undercurrent and the European Union National Institutes for Culture’s New York Cluster, will go live on unmute.nyc... READ MORE...

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New video project “Traumatized Body and Transformed Self”

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Art Sonje Center proudly presents Chen Chieh-jen’s solo exhibition Traumatized Body and Transformed Self, opening from March 11 to May 2, 2021. Chen Chieh-jen employed extra-institutional underground exhibitions and guerrilla-style art actions to challenge Taiwan's dominant political mechanisms during a period marked by the Cold War, anti-communist propaganda... READ MORE...

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Light Source commissions: art as a source of illumination

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Throughout the past 12 months of pandemic disruption, Buxton Contemporary commissioned an array of leading Australian artists to develop a series of new projects, under the title of Light Source commissions. The Light Source commissions series emerged from a challenging period of personal and social limitations and constraint.... READ MORE...

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“Voice of Void”, the project by Ho Tzu Nyen incorporating VR

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A new project by Ho Tzu Nyen, an acclaimed artist from Singapore World premiere: “Kyoto School” themed moving image installation incorporating VR. This is an exhibition to announce the new work by Ho Tzu Nyen, who is an internationally well-known Singaporean artist. The new work introduced at this exhibition is themed on the “Kyoto School,” an informal network... READ MORE...

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Multimedia artist Antoni Muntadas in “The Empty City”

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The projects by Antoni Muntadas (Barcelona, 1942) include multimedia installations, photographs, publications, performances and urban interventions, and they represent one of the most important contributions to international conceptual art practices. In The Empty City, Bilbao and its current urban plan, as well as its historical context, are the point of departure... READ MORE...

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