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“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...

Future of Classroom: On Bringing Light and Information into Buildings (or Doing Away With Buildings Altogether)

Since at least a decade we have access to technologies that enable us to remotely perform the majority of tasks related to learning. Do we still need physical space for learning?... READ MORE...

Uncanny Values: a map of uncanny places, and how to get through them

Uncanny Values: Artificial Intelligence & You is an exhibition presented by the Mak of Vienna as part of the Vienna Biennale for Change of this year, called Brave New Virtues. Shaping our digital world. Artists, designers and architects have tried to develop new ways of seeing, with which to imagine and model our future actively and positively.... READ MORE...

perAspera 2019: virtuale è reale

Sorry, this entry is only available in Italian.... 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...

Holly Herndon, Proto: the sound of Spawn

Released in May 2019, Proto is the last album of Holly Herndon, one of the most curious performer and experimental composer. This album is the third part of a project that involves electronics, the body and its sounds, the society, and ultimately machine learning, used to interpret the society and show it, online and offline.... 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...

Designs for Different Futures

The role of designers in shaping how we think about the future is the subject of a major exhibition that will premiere at the Philadelphia Museum of Art this fall. Designs for Different Futures brings together some 80 works that address the challenges and opportunities that humans may encounter in the years, decades, and centuries ahead.... READ MORE...

Sónar + D 2019: il festival urbano della musica del futuro

Giunto splendidamente al suo 26° compleanno, il Sónar festival di Barcellona ha confermato la sua vocazione culturale, sociale e politica. Il plus del Sónar è la capacità di intercettare non solo le eccezionalità, ma soprattutto la ricerca e la sperimentazione, ospitando djset, concert, live performancele, audiovisual performance e installazioni multimodali, con particolare attenzione alle ultime tendenze generazionali legate ai nuovi linguaggi. il report di Caterina Tomeo.... READ MORE...