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

“Real-Time Constraints”: a critical reflection on media consume

arebyte Gallery are pleased to announce Real-Time Constraints, a group exhibition featuring works by artists working within the realms of artificial intelligence, algorithms, machine learning, big data, and interventions in web-based platforms.... READ MORE...

Thought is my main medium. Interview with Emilio Vavarella

Emilio Vavarella is an artist of Italian origin who intersects interdisciplinary artistic practice and theoretical research, with particular reference to the hidden mechanisms that underlie the relationship between human beings and technological power. Interview by Giada Totaro.... READ MORE...

ADAF online, 16th Athens Digital Arts Festival

The 16th international festival for digital arts of Greece, Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF), the pioneer longest living institution dedicated to digital cul... READ MORE...

An opportunity to (re)listen carefully to the world: A conversation with Chris Watson

According to Chris Watson, one of the foremost sound recordists of wildlife and of the most remote areas on Earth, lockdown has changed our sound perception and has become an extraordinary opportunity to listen to the home environment of urban areas and interact again with the surrounding nature. Interview by Caterina Tomeo.... READ MORE...

New Initiatives for Art and New Technologies: FAE: AxAT and Creative AI Lab were born

The Serpentine is pleased to announce the release of the first issue of Future Art Ecosystems on Art and Advanced Technologies (FAE: AxAT) produced in collaboration with Rival Strategy, and the establishment of the Creative AI Lab in partnership with King’s College.... READ MORE...

“Making Kin”, the connections between ecosystems and human influence

The acute impact of climate change and the related drastic predictions on environmental issues are not just on the current agenda of policy makers and economist... READ MORE...

Anicka Yi in “The Flavor Genome”

For its new exhibition, the Espace Louis Vuitton München invites you to uncover an emblematic work by Korean-American artist Anicka Yi, The Flavor Genome (2016). This 3D projection is displayed in conjunction with a work by American artist Trisha Donnelly.... READ MORE...

Image Wars: The Power of Images

With the exhibition project "Image Wars: The Power of Images", the Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien, is presenting video art works that take up the mechanisms between the contemporary reception of images and the culture of memory.... READ MORE...

Pedro Reyes in “Return to Sender”

For his works, Pedro Reyes (b. 1972 in Mexico City) uses architecture, sculpture, video, performance, and participation to promote collective and individual pow... READ MORE...

Shirley Tse in “Stakes and Holders”

M+, at the West Kowloon Cultural District, and Hong Kong Arts Development Council (HKADC) present Shirley Tse: Stakes and Holders, an exhibition that renews and responds to Shirley Tse: Stakeholders, Hong Kong in Venice, Hong Kong’s presence at the 58th Venice Biennale. ... READ MORE...

OPEN CALL Astronomy x AI: European ARTificial Intelligence Lab offers residency

The European ARTificial Intelligence Lab is now offering artists who are working with artificial intelligence or experimenting with its applications the chance to complete a residency at the Leiden Observatory and the Ars Electronica Futurelab.... READ MORE...

All the winners of Prix Ars Electronica 2020

2020 marks a turning point in the 33-year history of the Prix Ars Electronica: for the first time since 1987, the international jury meetings were purely virtual; a movement of anonymous citizens received a Golden Nica for the first time in honor of its innovations and creative digital activism.... READ MORE...

Donato Sansone – I dream, so I make video

His “short trips”, his videos, bring us in a parallel reality, a third one, in the same time the realm of reality and the one of the resting consciousness. Our guide between these two worlds is Donato Sansone, the smiling host on the threshold of the door of his dreams. Interview by Marco Aruga.... READ MORE...

Towards Togetherness. Interview with Tabita Rezaire.

Tabita Rezaire is an artist, healer, health-tech-politics practitioner and kemetic and kundalini yoga teacher, based in Cayenne, French Guyana. Anna Gorchakovskaya has recently had a chance to talk to Tabita about her cross-dimensional practices, about togetherness, healing and a genuine sense of connectedness, about her vision of life, art and digital technologies in connection with the current historical moment.... READ MORE...

“La Condition Humain”: Call for Proposals for the Exhibition

"La Condition Humaine" will present the works of international artists who are dealing with the art, society and technology. The project will also gather thinkers who critically reflect current human condition in the age of technological supremacy.... READ MORE...

Call for Contributions: Ecomusicology Sounding Board’s section

Deeply interdisciplinary, the field of ecomusicology is a branch of study exploring the various and complex nexus between people, nature and sounds. E... READ MORE...

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...

Rachel Rose’s first large-scale exhibition in Paris: a wide range of filmic techniques

Rachel Rose’s exhibition at Lafayette Anticipations – Fondation d'entreprise Galeries Lafayette, takes us on a labyrinthine journey that explores what it is that makes us human and the means we seek to alter, enhance, and escape that condition in an era of major unrest.... READ MORE...