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The future around the corner: interview with Heather Dewey-Hagborg

Human beings have always needed to face their time and raised questions about the future, on the edge between the fascination and the fear for rapid and complex... READ MORE...

“Red Umbrella Struggles”: an exhibition on sex work industry

"Red Umbrella Struggles" is an international group exhibition that revolves around the controversial and multifaceted topic of sex work. The show takes its inspiration from two newly commissioned projects by Edith-Russ-Haus’s 2018 Media Art Grant holders, Petra Bauer and Daniel Jacoby.... READ MORE...

“Christian Marclay: Compositions”: a major solo show in Spain

A solo show devoted to Christian Marclay will be presented at MACBA in Barcelona. The exhibition will include a selection focusing on his sonic compositions, from graphic scores to video installations, and it will examine the relationship between sound and vision.... READ MORE...

Alla Fondazione Il Lazzaretto una nuova tappa del progetto artistico “When the Towel Drops”

Arriva alla Fondazione Il Lazzaretto (Milano) "When the Towel Drops", il progetto artistico in progress del collettivo Radha May, che esplora le rappresentazioni censurate della sessualità e del piacere femminile dagli anni Cinquanta a oggi, attraverso sequenze mai viste di film e documenti provenienti dall'archivio della Revisione Cinematografica.... READ MORE...

RE:HUMANISM Art Prize.1st Edition awarded artists on view

"RE:HUMANISM" will open on Tuesday, April 16th at 6:30 pm at AlbumArte, in Rome. The exhibition is the first edition of the award dedicated to the relationship between art and artificial intelligence and is promoted by Alan Advantage.... READ MORE...

Surrogate. An Ideal Love

The show "Surrogati. Un amore ideale", curated by Melissa Harris, from February 21 to July 22, 2019 in the Osservatorio Fondazione Prada in Milan, creates a direct dialogue between the photographic works of two artists, Jamie Diamond and Elena Dorfman. Both artists highlight the emotional ties between human beings and surrogates, dolls, substitutes.... READ MORE...

Tagging Aesthetics #1: Of Cats and Models. Interview with Jacopo Calonaci

Nicola Bozzi interviewed Jacopo Calonaci, an illustrator with a prankster's DNA. His Instagram account is a great example to discuss how starting an art project from scratch can muster up a following on what is probably the most competitive platform around.... READ MORE...

Digital Unpleasant Design: Uncomfortable Websites and Demanding Services

The way we navigate the internet is increasingly processed and shaped by algorithms. Selena Savic will look into the design of algorithms that we interact with on a day-to-day basis, from online purchases to social networks or surveillance systems.... READ MORE...

Vertiginous Data

MMCA Seoul presented Vertiginous Data, an acclaimed international exhibition of media art. Playing upon the myriad ways in which data is classified and systematized the participating artists share their sharp insights and vision of our rapidly changing society and culture.... READ MORE...

The Body Electric

In an age dominated by digital technology, the exhibition "The Body Electric" explores themes of the real and virtual, the organic and artificial, moving from the physical world to the screen and back again.... READ MORE...

Entangled Realities – Living with Artificial Intelligence

HeK presents Entangled Realities, an international group exhibition focusing on artificial intelligence (AI) and its effects on human lives and society. The exhibition turns its lens on AI as a new creative tool that opens up diverse and unexpected imagery, artifacts, and sound.... READ MORE...

ID. ART:TECH EXHIBITION – CYFEST/12: The International Media Art Festival

CYLAND MediaArtLab in collaboration with Center for the Studies of Russian Art CSAR presents the exhibition ID. ART:TECH. ART:TECH EXHIBITION is dedicated to the ID as a phenomenon with wide scatter of meanings – from the term in psychoanalysis (id) to the document that certifies one’s identity (ID)... READ MORE...

An Opera for Animals

The exhibition An Opera for Animals, at Para Site, Hong Kong, looks at different acts of staging that have been crucial to our imagination of modernity.... READ MORE...

Hito Steyerl’s Actual Reality at the Serpentine Galleries

Hito Steyerl’s new project for the Serpentine Galleries considers power and inequality in society, mapping unequal wealth distribution in the communities surrounding London's gallery.... READ MORE...

Deadly Affairs

Deadly Affairs addresses environmental injustice by bringing into view the excessive and expanding modes of extraction and production and by encouraging a more profound understanding of the economic disparities.... READ MORE...

Quayola: Asymmetric Archaeology – Gazing Machines

HOW Art Museum (Shangai) hosts a solo exhibition of the London-based Italian artist Quayola. Through the works in the exhibition, the past is revisited in relationship to the present and the future.... READ MORE...

Tagging Aesthetics #0: a cultural critique of categorization in the age of social media

Nicola Bozzi is interested in the double-edged nature of stereotypes and how categorization is a key part of the way we organize our online self.... READ MORE...

Perpetual Translation. Interview with Paul Destieu

Looking at the works of Paul Destieu, Filippo Lorenzin questions the Marseille-based artist about the evolution of media and their situation in our contemporary environment. His work studies the border between emergence and collapsing of a system.... READ MORE...