Contemporary Art Archives • Digicult | Digital Art, Design and Culture

“Shapeshifters. The age of changes is upon us. Again. Always.”

The exhibition Shapeshifters explores the possibility of using art to help us try to make sense of what lies ahead. What conceptions do we have of the future, and how can we relate to the changes that are in store for us?... READ MORE...

The Political Possibility of Sound. Interview with Salomé Voegelin

What are the political potentials of listening? How does sound define the crossing of the territories of contemporaneity, of the differences in race, gender, social belonging? Salomé Voegelin continues her analysis on listening practices in her new book. Interview by Leandro Pisano... 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...

“Xenogenesis” a science fiction of the present

What confrontations, complexities, critiques and conundra emerge when art adopts the perspective of the alien? The implications of this anthropic inversion proliferate throughout Xenogenesis, the first major solo exhibition of The Otolith Group in Australia, which brings together a cross-section of influential artworks from 2013 to 2018.... 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...

Graham Fink’s solo exhibition: images within a random or ambiguous visual pattern

VVA VirginiaVisualArts, a platform for contemporary art in Central London, will exhibit new monotype and relief works by multimedia artist Graham Fink. In Transition marks a new direction for the artist – who is working for the first time with monotype printing in order to further explore the concepts of pareidolia within the context of creative and dream processes.... READ MORE...

The supermarket of images: the age of globalized iconomies

We live in a world that is increasingly saturated with images. Their number is growing so exponentially—each day more than three billion images are shared on s... READ MORE...

ADA”, a new post-industrial creature

OMM – Odunpazarı Modern Museum in Eskişehir, Turkey is hosting ADA by Karina Smigla-Bobinski, an interactive kinetic sculpture named after Ada Lovelace, one of the world’s first computer programmers.... READ MORE...

Agnieszka Polska: Love Bite, original poetic texts and digitally manipulated imagery

Agnieszka Polska: Love Bite is organized by the Frye Art Museum and curated by Amanda Donnan, C Love Bite presents the US debut of two deeply affecting audiovisual essays that address the urgent global issue of climate change and the specter of mass extinction.hief Curator.... READ MORE...

La nuova Sonosfera, un teatro unico al mondo per l’ascolto tridimensionale di ecosistemi e di musica

Il 6 gennaio 2020 è stato inaugurato il primo teatro eco-acustico d’Italia, presso Palazzo Mosca sede dei Musei Civici a Pesaro, Città Creativa Unesco della Musica.... READ MORE...

Fanfare, the first solo exhibition in the UK by Nevin Aladağ

Hayward Gallery’s HENI Project Space presents Fanfare, the first solo exhibition in the UK by Nevin Aladağ (b. 1972, Van, Turkey). The exhibition brings together videos and sculptures that use sound, rhythm and music to address the differences and tensions between cultures.... READ MORE...

Trisha Baga’s solo exhibition “the eye, the eye and the ear”

"the eye, the eye and the ear" is the first institutional show of Trisha Baga in Italy. She grapples with such themes as gender identity, relations between the real and the digital world as well as the impact of technology, and combines different languages and various media including 3D technology, drawing from television and film imagery along with more personal recordings.... READ MORE...

And Say the Animal Responded?

What would animals say to us if we listened to them? What might we learn about the state of our shared planet? On 19 March, FACT launches its year of The Living Planet with the opening of a major new art exhibition, And Say the Animal Responded?... READ MORE...

Ed Atkins: Live White Slime

Centering around the video installationSafe Conduct (2016),Live White Slime at the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, is a resigned kind of expiation inside of a Sisyphean loop, that rendered in real and imagined security protocol animations, gratuitously soundtracked by the familiar mechanical wank of Ravel’s Bolero. ... READ MORE...

Cao Fei: the exhibition “Blueprints” and her new installation “The Eternal Wave”

At the centre of exhibition "Blueprints" will be a new Virtual Reality artwork "The Eternal Wave", produced in collaboration with Acute Art. Based on the exact scale and scanned models of the artist’s studio, Cao Fei seeks to re-explore and re-imagine the past, reflecting the changing nature of humanity.... READ MORE...

When the human meets the nonhuman: the exhibition “Weather Report: Forecasting Future”

The exhibition Weather Report: Forecasting Future in Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma is themed around the complex and varied relations between the human and nonhuman in an age when climate change and mass extinction are threatening the future of life on Earth.... READ MORE...

“Unhomed”: how destabilise the notion of identity

The exhibition Unhomed also engages with how our bodily experiences inform and transform the city, our physical and mental presence adding new layers of understanding.... READ MORE...