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Exploring the identities of Digital Processes in an Architectonic Context – part 1

What do algorithms and digital objects have to do with architecture? At what grounds is the digital affecting our surrounding and our approach to designing it? By examining the crucial concepts in their anthropomorphic form, Selena Savić will try to shed light on the action of computational, logical and technical algorithms when it comes to reconfiguring our relationship with built space.... READ MORE...

Kengo Kuma: “Time Flows, and So Should The Architect”. The new Time-Space-Existence video

Produced by PLANE—SITE, the video has been commissioned by the GAA Foundation and funded by the ECC in the run-up to the Time-Space-Existence exhibition during La Biennale di Venezia Architettura, this new short video features one of Japan’s most significant living architects Kengo Kuma, meditating on how a financial crash became an opportunity for learning.... READ MORE...

Tatiana Bilbao featured in new Time-Space-Existence video

Produced by PLANE—SITE and funded by the ECC, the new short video from the Time-Space-Existence series features Tatiana Bilbao, the acclaimed Mexican architect whose work is as varied as it is influential: from botanical gardens filled with art to neo-Brutalist social housing making spaces and places by people for people.... READ MORE...

Are we human? The Design of the Species: 2 seconds, 2 days, 2 years, 200 years, 200,000 years

Princeton University School of Architecture announces the opening of the exhibition Are we human? A galaxy of designers, architects, artists, theorists, filmmakers, historians, scientists, labs, centers, institutes, and NGOs responding to Are we human?, the polemical curatorial manifesto of Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley in a new kind of conversation about design.... READ MORE...

The Space In-Between: a video interview with Arata Isozaki

Arata Isozaki is a Japanese architect and pioneer of Metabolism, the avant-garde 1960s architectural movement that proposed fantastic urban landscapes synonymous to biological structures. In this short video, he discusses some of the ideas behind his work, and we catch a glimpse of his home in Karuizawa, Japan... READ MORE...

Media Partnership with Plane-Site: Time-Space-Existence series by GAA Foundation

Digicult is one of the international media partners of the Plane-Site platform, producing some video interviews for the Time-Space-Existence series by GAA Foundation, the fourth collateral exhibition in the context of La Biennale di Venezia Architettura next May 2018 featuring over 100 established and emerging architects... READ MORE...

Tomás Saraceno: Entangled Orbits

The Baltimore Museum of Art has commissioned a major new work by internationally acclaimed artist Tomás Saraceno for an exhibition that has transformed the visitor experience of the museum. Entangled Orbits brings together a group of highly complex and fascinating installations drawing inspiration from structures of the natural world.... READ MORE...

Digimag Journal | Issue 77 | Call for Papers

After the wide success of the last Summer issue, we're happy to announce the Call for Papers for the new Digimag Journal for this Winter 2017. The issue number 77 is themed "The Arts Ecosystem" and the deadline is settled to the next 16 December 2017. We are waiting for you...... READ MORE...

Digimag Journal 77 – Winter 2017. The Arts Ecosystem: deadline 16/12/2017

We cannot deny the vital role arts and creativity have to play within the energy and environmental field, especially in the current Anthropocene age, where the human impact on climate and nature is dominant and undisputed. What kind of artistic narratives are proven to be compelling and effective in raising ecological awareness? What is the challenge for arts and culture within this scenario? What are the main contributions to the media theories for the Anthropocene?... READ MORE...

Technological integuments. Design for interactive energetic surfaces

As a result of the need for radical change in the design of energy production sites, the city is required to become a "meaningful","intelligent" and autopoietic system. Thanks to the new technologies, architectural skin is today a bio-inspired and dynamic apparatus responding to this need with numerous functions.... READ MORE...

Public Interruptions. A new documentary on Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

PLANE-SITE launches Public Interruptions, a new short film that examining the significant contribution by renowed Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer reviewing many of the artist's greatest works placed in public space, including recent works.... READ MORE...

Philippe Parreno Synchronicity

The first exhibition by Philippe Parreno in China is hosted in the Rockbund Art Museum of Shanghai, curated by the director Larys Frogier. With a special dedication to Xavier Dourox, an inspiration for Parreno, the exhibition challenges the traditional notion of museum space and architecture.... READ MORE...

The ethical shape of sensitive machines. Philip Beesley and Industry 4.0

Philip Beesley's research focuses on the issues of reactive and interactive systems. His impressive sculptures and installations have movements modelled on the behaviour of natural elements and a poetically high-tech aspect that is not attributable to any machine we may have previously experienced.... READ MORE...

Joshua Frankel. I LIVE HERE

In partnership with Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and The Municipal Art Society of New York, Times Square Arts presents artist Joshua Frankel’s I LIVE HERE, Animation from “A Marvelous Order” on Times Square’s electronic billboards from 11:57 p.m. to midnight every night in May.... READ MORE...

Ivana Franke. Retreat into Darkenss. Towards a Phenomenology of the Unknown

“The peculiar property of the pure spirit is seeing, not knowing,” wrote the poet and physician Justinus Kerner. This statement is called into question by the Berlin-based artist Ivana Franke with her project Retreat into Darkness. Towards a Phenomenology of the Unknown. Do we only see what we know? What can dislocate us from our comfortable, predefined point of view and challenge our gaze on the world?... READ MORE...

British Science Festival & Brighton Digital Festival: Open Call | Deadline 24/04/2017

The British Science Festival and Brighton Digital Festival are looking to co-commission a new digital artwork that will be presented in a gallery space at the University of Brighton. The interest is for those works that explore and respond to themes of place: the shifting horizons of physical and virtual environments; the possibilities of technology to reimagine, reinvent and reinterpret space and place, and new opportunities to facilitate collaboration and connect people, place and things.... READ MORE...

IAMCR Urban Communication Research Grant | Deadline: 17/04/2017

Applications are now being received for the 2017 IAMCR Urban Communication Research Grant. The grant is worth €1,500 and supports communication and media research that advances understanding of the growing complexity of the urban environment. It gives priority to projects that feature innovative, inter-disciplinary, and creative approaches.... READ MORE...

Build Your World: Minecraft and Open Source Architecture

To design one’s world, whether in the physical or digital domain, is to to increase one’s sense of agency. For Minecraft, this is an opportunity for architects to address the crises in urban housing. A similar open-source, DIY, and collaborative ethos plays out in architecture projects fabrication systems for non-architects to design and build their own homes, by Teddy Cruz, Alejandro Aravena, and the WikiHouse Project.... READ MORE...