Science Archives • Digicult | Digital Art, Design and Culture

Innovation in and for Europe: STARTS 2020 prize winners

Science, Technology and arts (STARTS for short) limn a nexus at which insightful observers have identified extraordinarily high potential for innovation. And innovation is precisely what’s called for if we’re to master the social, ecological and economic challenges that Europe will be facing in the near future. In this STARTS Prize initiative, the European Commission’s focus is on projects and people that can make meaningful contributions to this effort.... READ MORE...

The exhibition “Tomás Saraceno. Aria” (re)opens to the public

Saraceno creates immersive works and participatory experiences that suggest a new way of living in our world by making connections to non‐human phenomena such as dust particles and plants. The exhibition at Palazzo Strozzi will stay open until 1 November 2020, with all the measures to contain the COVID-19 epidemic.... READ MORE...

“The Botanical Mind Online”, a new online project about the significance of the plant kingdom to human life

Humanity’s place in the natural order is under scrutiny as never before, held in a precarious balance between visible and invisible forces: from the microscopic threat of a virus to the monumental power of climate change. Camden Art Centre has launched this online programme of new artist commissions, podcasts, films, texts, images and audio, expanding on and enriching the ideas and issues informing the show.... READ MORE...

“Critical Zones”: a multidimensional communication about the critical state of the Earth

The exhibition Critical Zones about the critical state of the Earth now coincides with the coronavirus pandemic, evincing core questions of the ecological crisi... READ MORE...

“Catharsis”, Jakob Kudsk Steensen’s new digital simulation

The Serpentine presented "Catharsis" by Danish artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen as part of a global public art project, "CONNECT, BTS", a series of major art projects open free to the public in five cities on four continents initiated by South Korean pop group BTS.... READ MORE...

Suzanne Treister: realities, knowledges and networks through psychedelic speculation

Utilising various media, including video, the internet, interactive technologies, photography, drawing, painting and watercolour, Suzanne Treister explores emerging technologies, alternative belief systems and potential human futures through a newly commissioned book and web-based augmented reality work.... READ MORE...

Discussing “The Question of Intelligence” with Curator Christiane Paul

The exhibition "The Question of Intelligence: AI and The Future of Humanity", which should have run from the 7th of February to the 8th of April at the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons/The New School in New York, engaged with the relationships that humans sustain with machines and vice versa and brought insights on artificial intelligence's bias and potential in unlocking new opportunities. Report and interview by Marie Chatel... READ MORE...

Modeling Communication with Slime Mould. Artistic Residency with Sarah Grant

As part of a short residency at the Institute for Experimental Design and Media Cultures, within the "Thinking Toys for Commoning" research project, artist and critical engineer Sarah Grant explored communication across the slime mould body with an interest in network topology and resource sharing. Article by Selena Savic... READ MORE...

The beauty of a borderless world. Interview with teamLab

Innovation and team working: teamLab creates an art making use of technological tools, tending to make them disappear, highlighting the experience they’d like to propose to the public. Interview by Marco Aruga... READ MORE...

“Real Feeling”, the connection between technology and emotions

Emotions could be described as the core of human experience. The international group exhibition REAL FEELINGS explores the rapidly changing relationship between technology and emotions.... READ MORE...

Jenna Sutela’s exhibition “NO NO NSE NSE”: the limits of human-created language

Jenna Sutela’s exhibition NO NO NSE NSE at Kunsthall Trondheim is the artist’s first major institutional solo show. The exhibition explores artificial intelligence and in particular the relation between randomness and control in organic and inorganic systems.... READ MORE...

What is work in the globalized digital age? “Algotaylorism” replies

Algotaylorism brings together thirteen artists and collectives who all operate at the human-machine interface and have taken this interaction as a subject of research and as a production tool.... READ MORE...

The machine of the spirit. Interview with Ennio Bertrand

Ennio Bertrand found in technologies his “colours”, discovering how they could move in unison with his thoughts, and form the basis for his works. Interview by Marco Aruga... READ MORE...

“Bodydrift – Anatomies of the Future”, an interactive exhibition

What does the future of the human body look like? In the exhibition Bodydrift – Anatomies of the Future, artists and designers explore the moral and technological boundaries of the body. Humans are improved, protected, made more attractive.... READ MORE...

Algorithmic Imagery: Interview with Mike Tyka

Mike Tyka is an artist and researcher with a PhD in Biophysics. In conversation with Teresa Ruffino he explains how, in his sculptural works, he expresses the arbitrary representation of molecules and how he started working with algorithms as an artistic tool describing his experience and vision for the future of this technology.... READ MORE...

“Upgrade in Progress”, domestic electrical appliances and life-size surrogate bodies

Fondazione Modena Arti Visive is delighted to present "Upgrade in Progress", the first solo exhibition by Geumhyung Jeong to be shown in an Italian contemporary art institution. Her works deploy a range of prosthetic devices, mechanical and tech hardware tools, cosmetics, medical dummies and spare body parts.... READ MORE...

“The Habitat of Time”: our perception of life, societies and physical world

Announcing a new group exhibition curated by Julie Louise Bacon exploring the role of time as a medium in shaping human and morethan-human worlds, presented in the context of her current residency as associate curator at Arts Catalyst.... READ MORE...

D3US EX M4CH1NA. Art and Artificial Intelligence: unusual and unexplored futures on display at LABoral

The wide use of this type of technology does not always correspond to an in-depth knowledge of their mechanisms, their functioning, their deepest implications, making them a real deus ex machina, which is the significant title of the current exhibition at LABoral. Report by Bianca Cavuti... READ MORE...