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Connected. Peter Kogler with…

Since the 1980s, Peter Kogler has worked as a media artist between computer graphics, film, collage and architecture. Within the context of the digital influences on our everyday life today, his systematic consideration of the technological and reproducible image and the powerful influence of the media make him a natural successor, interpreter and ideal interlocutor of the generation of visionaries.... READ MORE...

Edge of Now – Three Rooms Project

The exhibition Edge of Now – Three Rooms is a joined project by Nam June Paik Art Center of South Korea, the Chronus Art Center in Shanghai, and the ZKM | Karlsruhe to foster cultural exchange between China, South Korea, and Germany in the area of media art. The exhibition presents works by Chinese artist Yang Jian, South Korean artist Kim Heecheon, and German artist Verena Friedrich.... READ MORE...

Competition: Swiss Original – Handmade Creative Project

The competition entails the production of a work of art/expression that represents and gives shape to the interpretative territory defined: SWISS ORIGINAL – HAN... READ MORE...

The Biennal of Moving Image “The Sound of Screens Imploding” at OGR in Turin

On the occasion of the Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement 2018, the Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève started a new partnership with OGR - Officine Grandi Riparazioni, Turin. The show "The Sound of Screens Imploding" explores the status of the moving image and its exhibition format,... READ MORE...

Uriel Orlow and Jumana Manna

Tabakalera is pleased to present its two summer shows dedicated to two artists who are showing their work individually in Spain for the first time: Uriel Orlow and Jumana Manna. These projects embrace a vision of the moving image in contemporary art considering the audiovisual as a means of artistic and cinematographic expression.... READ MORE...

Hysterical Mining

The exhibition Hysterical Mining gathers positions that use, appropriate and play with feminist methodologies to reinvent the relations between technology and gender; to hack, to appropriate or invent new rituals, new narratives, new figurations, and new relationships with non-human technological entities.... READ MORE...

From the real to the digital and return. 12CYFEST addresses digital identity in its fickle essence

ID is a broad, multifaced concept art has addressed since the very beginning of times. The ID. ART:TECH EXHIBITION intends to delve into all the different shades and meanings it has acquired in our digital present by juxtaposing new media art and technology with contemporary portrait paintings.... READ MORE...

Memesis: community and self-definition in the age of memes

Pierre Chaumont examines Memes, visual jokes that are made of an image of pop culture on which is added a humoristic text, and "Memesis", the process of a community creating itself through the spreading of its culture.... READ MORE...

“Red Umbrella Struggles”: an exhibition on sex work industry

"Red Umbrella Struggles" is an international group exhibition that revolves around the controversial and multifaceted topic of sex work. The show takes its inspiration from two newly commissioned projects by Edith-Russ-Haus’s 2018 Media Art Grant holders, Petra Bauer and Daniel Jacoby.... READ MORE...

Alla Fondazione Il Lazzaretto una nuova tappa del progetto artistico “When the Towel Drops”

Arriva alla Fondazione Il Lazzaretto (Milano) "When the Towel Drops", il progetto artistico in progress del collettivo Radha May, che esplora le rappresentazioni censurate della sessualità e del piacere femminile dagli anni Cinquanta a oggi, attraverso sequenze mai viste di film e documenti provenienti dall'archivio della Revisione Cinematografica.... READ MORE...

Surrogate. An Ideal Love

The show "Surrogati. Un amore ideale", curated by Melissa Harris, from February 21 to July 22, 2019 in the Osservatorio Fondazione Prada in Milan, creates a direct dialogue between the photographic works of two artists, Jamie Diamond and Elena Dorfman. Both artists highlight the emotional ties between human beings and surrogates, dolls, substitutes.... READ MORE...

ID. ART:TECH EXHIBITION – CYFEST/12: The International Media Art Festival

CYLAND MediaArtLab in collaboration with Center for the Studies of Russian Art CSAR presents the exhibition ID. ART:TECH. ART:TECH EXHIBITION is dedicated to the ID as a phenomenon with wide scatter of meanings – from the term in psychoanalysis (id) to the document that certifies one’s identity (ID)... READ MORE...

An Opera for Animals

The exhibition An Opera for Animals, at Para Site, Hong Kong, looks at different acts of staging that have been crucial to our imagination of modernity.... READ MORE...

Tagging Aesthetics #0: a cultural critique of categorization in the age of social media

Nicola Bozzi is interested in the double-edged nature of stereotypes and how categorization is a key part of the way we organize our online self.... READ MORE...

Frieze Art Fair LA 2019 explored how to unite the art world with Hollywood

The Paramount Movie Studio in Hollywood was the location for the inaugural edition of the Frieze Los Angeles Art Fair. This sold-out event is considered a very successful venture by artworld standards.... READ MORE...

Anton Vidokle “This is Cosmos”

Death is a mistake. Instead, propounded the Russian philosopher Nikolai Fedorov (1829–1903), mankind should aim for eternal and interplanetary life. As artist Anton Vidokle sums up Fedorov’s position in his Immortality For All: a film trilogy on Russian Cosmism: “Because true social equality means immortality for all […] we must resurrect our ancestors.”... READ MORE...

In The Age of Post-Drought: The Aquatic State

The program In The Age of Post-Drought is dedicated to the global water-related challenges. Due to climate change and the rapid world population growth, water scarcity is grown to be one of the biggest threats facing life on earth in the 21stcentury. Transnatural organises a series of exhibitions that aim to address these pressing issues in Amsterdam, at the Dutch Design Week and Grand Hornu (CID) in Belgium.... READ MORE...

Ravi Agarwal: Ecologies of Loss

PAV Parco Arte Vivente presents Ecologies of Loss, the first Italian solo exhibition of the Indian artist Ravi Agarwal. Curated by Marco Scotini, this exhibition continues the investigation into the relationship between artistic practices and ecological thought in the Asian context, begun with the solo exhibition of the Chinese artist Zheng Bo.... READ MORE...