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The shapes of electricity: “Current Age. The (in)visible networks”

A network of cables – like veins in a human body – entangle our entire planet. They transport a commodity of unparalleled importance to human civilization: electricity. Studio Plastique investigates this seemingly indispensable source of energy in Z33.... READ MORE...

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The exhibition “House of Meme” blends natural and artificial

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Kunsthaus Bregenz will be presenting Pamela Rosenkranz’s first solo exhibition in Austria. The exhibition dissolves any separation between the natural and artificial. It becomes an animated “habitat” for a robotic creature that is controlled by our devices and which connects everything. Works of art as meandering objects recall rivers and serpentine forms alike.... READ MORE...

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UN/MUTE-10002, the online world emerged from the pandemic

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UN/MUTE is an online residency that provides artists an opportunity for a critical exchange and collaboration while simultaneously connecting resources from the global cultural epicenter of New York City. This project, co-organized by Undercurrent and the European Union National Institutes for Culture’s New York Cluster, will go live on unmute.nyc... READ MORE...

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New video project “Traumatized Body and Transformed Self”

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Art Sonje Center proudly presents Chen Chieh-jen’s solo exhibition Traumatized Body and Transformed Self, opening from March 11 to May 2, 2021. Chen Chieh-jen employed extra-institutional underground exhibitions and guerrilla-style art actions to challenge Taiwan's dominant political mechanisms during a period marked by the Cold War, anti-communist propaganda... READ MORE...

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Light Source commissions: art as a source of illumination

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Throughout the past 12 months of pandemic disruption, Buxton Contemporary commissioned an array of leading Australian artists to develop a series of new projects, under the title of Light Source commissions. The Light Source commissions series emerged from a challenging period of personal and social limitations and constraint.... READ MORE...

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“Voice of Void”, the project by Ho Tzu Nyen incorporating VR

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A new project by Ho Tzu Nyen, an acclaimed artist from Singapore World premiere: “Kyoto School” themed moving image installation incorporating VR. This is an exhibition to announce the new work by Ho Tzu Nyen, who is an internationally well-known Singaporean artist. The new work introduced at this exhibition is themed on the “Kyoto School,” an informal network... READ MORE...

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#ArtonInstagram

Lucrezia Di Canio

Comparing the idea of owning an artwork to one of posting it is unrealistic, but the reason why we do both and the consequence of both actions to some extent can be more similar than we think. On an artistic level, one also commodifies and consumes the artwork in both scenarios. Just as art objects sold at auctions become commodities because they are treated as goods... READ MORE...

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Be-coming Tree: Global Live Art Event. Open Call for Artists

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This open call is addressing artists interested in joining in the realization of a collective Be-coming Tree performance, occurring via Zoom. Audience tickets include a donation to plant a rainforest tree via TreeSisters organization. This is a live event creating a network of artists simultaneously communing with their local trees and woodlands across the globe... READ MORE...

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Humanity and Nature in “Solar Mountains & Broken Hearts”

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Magasin III Jaffa, is pleased to announce Solar Mountains & Broken Hearts, a solo exhibition by artist Maya Attoun. Maya Attoun's new exhibiton at Magasin III Jaffa is one installation composed of three new bodies of work. Solar Plexus consists of four sculptural objects rising to the height of five meters, an animation work in the name of CRY... READ MORE...

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Pirelli HangarBicocca presents “Digital Mourning”

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Pirelli HangarBicocca presents Digital Mourning, the first major solo exhibition devoted to Neïl Beloufa in an Italian institution. One of the leading voices of the generation of artists born in the 1980s, Beloufa’s research focuses on contemporary society and on how it is represented and mediated by digital interaction, often exposing the control mechanisms that... READ MORE...

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Hybrid spaces and audiovisual experience at Louvre

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A major event dedicated to new cinema and contemporary art, the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin will take place from February 23 to 28, 2021, live online from the Louvre auditorium. This new edition will have a hybrid form, to rethink the notions of shared cultural space and time, with events and programmes filmed and broadcast live on the event’s website,... READ MORE...

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Media Art Fund & Media Art Fellows – Call for projects

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Two new funding programs of the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) will support cooperative media art & digital culture projects of institutions and independent initiatives in NRW. The Call for Projects is addressed to all institutions and initiatives, alliances and collectives, places and spaces of media art & digital... READ MORE...

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Bioart challenge: tra frontiere della biologia e immaginario dell’arte

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Il MUSE – Museo delle Scienze di Trento cerca creativi, artisti visivi e designer per avviare una collaborazione su un percorso di ricerca artistica nel campo della BioArt. Il bando, che si inserisce nell’ambito del progetto europeo ACDC (Artificial Cells with Distributed Cores to Decipher Protein Function), scade il 15 marzo 2021.... READ MORE...

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Full Spectrum Curatorship Programme 2021 from IMPAKT

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IMPAKT invites emerging and aspiring curators with a specific interest in media art and its relationship to technology and society to apply for the Full Spectrum Curatorship Programme. Applications are open until March 1, 2021. Full Spectrum Curatorship is a programme from IMPAKT that aims to bridge the gap between theoretical knowledge and the practical and... READ MORE...

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The exhibition “not in, of, along, or relating to a line”

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The NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) Art Gallery, has opened its first virtual exhibition, titled not in, of, along, or relating to a line. Co-curated by Chief Curator at NYU Abu Dhabi and NYUAD faculty member and artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg, the exhibition invites a new perspective on virtual and screen-based contemporary art, of particular relevance during COVID-19.... READ MORE...

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“A stranger’s soul is a deep well”: the mystery of the other

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Fridman Gallery presents A stranger’s soul is a deep well, a multidisciplinary exhibition highlighting the work of nine contemporary artists. The works on view reflect the artists’ respective interior lives, hidden from the outside gaze and detached from judgements and trends.... READ MORE...

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Glitch Art, the first glitch video art group exhibition in Iran

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A group video art exhibition titled Glitch Art: Pixel Language, curated by Mohammad-Ali Famori and Sadeq Majlesi, has opened on December 25 at Bavan Gallery in Tehran, Iran and will continue for eleven weeks until March 12. In this exhibition, 27 glitch artists from all around the globe, create works to identify the value of pixels, so they can force our minds to to reread the pixel language.... READ MORE...

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The Body, Sculpture, Technology: Museum Brandhorst’s Symposium

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Museum Brandhorst presents Future Bodies from a Recent Past—Sculpture, Technology, and the Body since the 1950s , a large-scale research and exhibition project investigating the impact made by technological developments and changing notions of the body on the medium of sculpture.... READ MORE...

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