News Archives • Digicult | Digital Art, Design and Culture

Screen City Biennial 2019: Ecologies – lost, found and continued

A growing attention to environmental thinking mirrors a global acknowledgement and urgency of the need to rethink the human place in the biosphere and how we are connected to the world. The Screen City Biennial 2019 sets out to present, facilitate and examine art and artistic, that raise questions of how human action affects the ecologies with which it is implicated.... READ MORE...

Invisibility: torna l’universo sonico di Ombre Lunghe

Bologna ospita la quarta edizione di Ombre Lunghe dal 17 al 19 ottobre. Tema di questa edizione è l’invisibilità, archetipo mitico che percorre alla stessa velocità il tempo e lo spazio umani.... READ MORE...

Desire: A Revision from the 20th Century to the Digital Age

IMMA presents one of its most ambitious and compelling exhibitions exploring desire in our everyday lives. In particular, "Desire: A Revision from the 20th Century to the Digital Age" considers desire’s relationship to structures of power, individualism and emerging collective actions.... READ MORE...

Asta Gröting: “Where do you see yourself in 20 years”?

In her exhibition, Asta Gröting combines earlier works with new sculptures and videos focusing on the physical and psychological deconstruction of the human body. Whether based on family members, friends or historical figures, Gröting’s work across media seeks to cast abstract qualities such as thought, intimacy, conflict and subjectivity.... READ MORE...

Ricardo Carioba: “Non Linear Spatial Normalizations”

FuturDome is introducing, for the first time in Europe, the oeuvre and the artistic course of Ricardo Carioba. In his first monographic exhibition "Non Linear Spatial Normalizations", the context becomes the work, not to extend the art space or to pierce the city through, but to find a time and place with the arriving people, where meaning could begin.... READ MORE...

“Matthew Barney: Redoubt”

UCCA presents "Matthew Barney: Redoubt", a major new body of work realized between 2016 and 2019 that marks the artist’s first solo exhibition in China. The exhibition includes the titular two-hour film, five monumental sculptures, more than fifty engravings and electroplated copper plates, and an artist-conceived catalogue... READ MORE...

“Up in Arms”

"Up in Arms" has its focus on the downsides of the industry. Through artworks, the project affords a more detailed insight into the arms trade and its often overlooked ramifications.... READ MORE...

“Transcorporealities”: part of “HERE AND NOW” at Museum Ludwig

The exhibition "Transcorporealities" takes as its starting point the concept of the permeability of bodies. This idea of “transcorporeality” can also be applied to the museum: in continuous metabolic processes, various social, biological, technological, economic and political systems intersect. Against this backdrop, the exhibition activates an area in the museum that is freely accessible and opens toward the urban space with its transparent façades and glass doors on two sides: the foyer.... READ MORE...

Carsten Nicolai’s “Parallax Symmetry”

With roughly 40 multimedia works, the exhibition "Parallax Symmetry" an overview of the oeuvre of the artist and musician Carsten Nicolai. Using electronic sound and light, Nicolai creates minimalist installations, sound performances, and visualizations of physical phenomena that reflect systems and structures of the media world.... READ MORE...

More-than-humans

Curated by Stefanie Hessler, "More-than-humans" brings together outstanding works by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Tomás Saraceno from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21) collection: they consider that which cannot be explained by the rational anthropoid mind.... READ MORE...

Lawrence Lek’s “Farsight Freeport”: a journey into the year 2069

With "Farsight Freeport", HeK (House of Electronic Arts Basel) presents the first solo exhibition in Switzerland of Lawrence Lek. With his immersive, virtual worlds and electronic soundtracks, the London-based artist has developed an independent and unique visual language.... READ MORE...

“Respektive Peter Weibel”: first overview of the work of the new media art icon

The exhibition respektive Peter Weibel marks the 75th birthday of Peter Weibel and presents for the first time an overview of this internationally renowned media and concept artist’s work to date.... READ MORE...

“Training Humans”: an exhibition by Kate Crawford and Trevor Paglen

Fondazione Prada presents "Training Humans", a landmark exhibition conceived by Kate Crawford and Trevor Paglen. "Training Humans" is the first major photography exhibition devoted to training images: the collections of photos used to train artificial intelligence (Al) systems in how to "see" and categorize the world.... READ MORE...

Cosmological Arrows. Journeys through inner and outer space

The exhibition Cosmological Arrows gathers a group of contemporary artists who use science fiction and space to pose fundamental questions about humankind’s existence and how we treat the world we live in.... READ MORE...

Ryoji Ikeda. A Cosmic Journey from Infinitesimal to Astronomical

Ryoji Ikeda's solo exhibition has officially opened on the ground floor of Taipei Fine Arts Museum. The selected artworks include large-scale sound sculptures, audiovisual installations, light boxes and two-dimensional works, which are newly conceived and exhibited for the very first time, forming an immersive space-time landscape that vaults from microscopic to macroscopic dimensions.... READ MORE...

Blind Sensorium. Il Paradosso dell’Antropocene

Blind Sensorium. Il Paradosso dell’Antropocene is the culmination of ten years’ artistic inquiry by photographer and filmmaker Armin Linke and collaborators into the forces that change the face of the Earth.... READ MORE...

Sounds, Codes, Images: Acoustic Experimentation in the Visual Arts

The exhibition Sounds, Codes, Images: Acoustic Experimentation in the Visual Arts is a cross-section of the history of the representation of sound and acoustic experimentation from the avant-garde to the present day. By means of historical and contemporary works, the exhibition sets out to show how sound acquires colour and shape.... READ MORE...

Interview to Massimo Randone – Head Curator at Swiss Original – Handmade Creative Project

This summer 2019 will be remembered for the great run to the competition entails the production of a work of art/expression that represents and gives shape to t... READ MORE...