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Atmospheric Heritage: Experimental Preservation Approaches between Art and Science

The 2023 Fitch Preservation Colloquium “Atmospheric Heritage: Experimental Preservation Approaches between Art and Science” is organized by Jorge Otero-Pailos, Professor and Director of the Historic Preservation Program at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP). The event will be moderated by Andrés Jaque, Dean of Columbia GSAPP; Carol Becker, Professor of the Arts and Dean Emerita, Columbia University School of the Arts; and Erica Avrami, the James Marston Fitch Assistant Professor of Historic Preservation at Columbia GSAPP... READ MORE...

Carl Stone – Sampling and recreating

Carl Stone has been feeding on all the musical “spore” in his atmosphere, was that from USA or from the beloved Far East, and all others that, being persistent in his memory, have activated the creative process. He made use of always better means to “cultivate” a body of works, and collaborations, in which he synthesized his electronic explorations, developing and earning an absolutely original space in contemporary music.... READ MORE...

Launch of SAM Contemporaries at Singapore Art Museum

SAM Contemporaries continues the museum’s commitment to supporting artists’ practices and charting significant developments in contemporary art. Fuelled by collective research, this series is conceived as a platform for artistic and curatorial experimentation, informed by conversations, exchanges and collaborations between curators and artists. Emerging from these collective dialogues are presentations of works and processes that puts forth current trajectories in artistic and curatorial thinking.... READ MORE...

Explorer in the “Ocean of Sound”. Interview with David Toop

There are people that respect music, any kind of music, and its central role in our culture, and music becomes the center of their speculative interest. David Toop is one of them, but his analysis is really helping us to re-consider the “second art”, to expand its limits, to search in almost every aspect of our sensitive lives a “hidden harmony”, a resonance for a sort of sonic awakening.... READ MORE...

Vienna Architecture Summer School (VAS²) – call for applications

Vienna Architecture Summer School (VAS²) ha lo scopo di fornire uno spazio di apprendimento aperto e un’infrastruttura prototipica per lo scambio e la negoziazione di conoscenze architettoniche, andando oltre le istituzioni dominanti e i discorsi mainstream. VAS² invita i partecipanti, locali e internazionali, a confrontarsi con giovani architetti ed esperti affermati che lavorano a Vienna e altrove.... READ MORE...

Il 30° compleanno di Sónar Barcellona

Il 30° compleanno di Sónar Barcellona – che si è tenuto dal 15 al 17 giugno 2023 presso la Fiera Montjuïc e la Fira Gran Via – ha superato di gran lunga le aspettative del pubblico e della critica internazionali, confermando la grande risonanza culturale, ma soprattutto la capacità di rimanere in cima alla classifica dei migliori festival dedicati allo sperimentalismo nel campo della musica, della creatività e della tecnologia. Una line up spaziale che ha ospitato più di cento artisti intergenerazionali, provenienti da tutto il mondo, trasportando il pubblico verso universi altri, attraverso una proposta di ricerche sonore e artistiche, originali, innovative e tecnologicamente avanzate. Una tre giorni intensa e ricca di dj set, live show ed installazioni di altissimo livello, incentrate sulla attuale e futura interrelazione tra arte, scienza e cultura digitale.... READ MORE...

Iannis Xenakis: Sonic Odysseys

Tra le principali influenze nello sviluppo della musica elettronica e informatica, così come di quella industriale, Xenakis è stato un pioniere nell’uso di modelli matematici nella musica, come l’applicazione della teoria dei giochi e delle probabilità, e il suo lavoro poliedrico e visionario ha aperto nuove strade per la musica del XXI secolo.... READ MORE...

Ulrike Rosenbach: today is tomorrow

Ulrike Rosenbach’s early performances, in which she experiments with video’s technical capabilities of direct recording, storage and playback of videos, sometimes attaching cameras to her body, received wide international acclaim. Through her participation in landmark exhibitions such as documenta 6 (1977) and documenta 8 (1987), Rosenbach became the most renowned German performance and video artist of her time.... READ MORE...

RE:HUMANISM III edition SPARKS AND FRICTIONS

Dramaturgy created by artificial neural networks, bizarre sea creatures, virtual biomes, new ways of imagining space exploration and the possibility of falling in love with an artificial intelligence: it is the near future according to the gaze of twelve artists from India, from China, the United Kingdom, the United States, Slovenia and Spain, as well as a large group of Italian artists.... READ MORE...

ARTIVISM: The Art of Subverting Power

Il programma presenta tecniche e metodi per creare giustizia sociale e politica grazie all’uso delle tecnologie digitali per la consapevolezza sociale e la critica politica. I relatori invitati spaziano da artisti, attivisti politici e sviluppatori a difensori dei diritti umani e narratori della verità. ... READ MORE...