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

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...

From online avatars to different dynamics of everyday routine: the exhibition “Máscaras”

Originally scheduled for March, the exhibition "Máscaras (Masks)" — the Galeria Municipal do Porto’s first exhibition of 2020 — opened on June 2. Considering the current context, the exhibition has even greater relevance and urgency, given the new meanings that masks have now acquired.... READ MORE...

The connection between nature and humanity: the exhibition “The Politics of Nature”

Freely inspired by Bruno Latour’s book of the same name, this show, curated by Massimiliano Scuderi, is an attempt to relate together the interests of five international artists who have dealt with the theme of a possible harmonious relationship between humanity and nature, between a utopian vision and a project proposal.... READ MORE...

In “Anthropocene On Hold”, 20 artists address the impact of a global pandemic on arts ecosystems and earth’s resilience and sustainability

On the occasion of the Anthropocene On Hold exhibition, has invited 20 international visual artists to address the gravity of a global pandemic and its impact on art engagement and production as well as earth’s resilience and sustainability.... READ MORE...

Friction Atlas. A radical topography of public space

With the idea of starting a reflection on the use of public space - which is now increasingly regulated, limited and reduced - since 2014 Paolo Patelli and Giuditta Vendrame, through the project "Friction Atlas" collect, classify and make visible all the laws, rules and devices that regulate the way people move, meet, and gather in public space. Article by Fabiola Fiocco... READ MORE...

Also artwork changes: the exhibition “Conservator C’s Day”

“For conservator C, a workday begins with getting in the same room with a damaged work. Resembling a science lab at first glance, C’s workspace is where science... READ MORE...

The exhibition “Tomás Saraceno. Aria” (re)opens to the public

Saraceno creates immersive works and participatory experiences that suggest a new way of living in our world by making connections to non‐human phenomena such as dust particles and plants. The exhibition at Palazzo Strozzi will stay open until 1 November 2020, with all the measures to contain the COVID-19 epidemic.... READ MORE...

“Moon Gallery Garden”, artworks and prototypes designed to be sent to the Moon

In collaboration with Moon Gallery, Zone2Source is presenting the Moon Gallery Garden exhibition. Moon Gallery is an international platform for art, science and technology in collaboration with international space agencies. Moon Gallery intends to bring a 10 x 10 cm plate with 100 artefacts on a lunar lander to the moon as early as 2022.... READ MORE...

“Nam June Paik TV Wave”: when TV, broadcasts and telecommunication become art

Nam June Paik Art Center unveils a new exhibition titled Nam June Paik TV Wave from May 12, 2020 to March 7, 2021.... READ MORE...

International Call for digital art projects – Biennale Nemo edition 2021

This call for projects is organised in two sessions and is centred around the theme of the next edition of the Nemo Biennial, that will take place from October 2021 to January 2022: “BEYOND REALITY? Revealing the invisible through art, science and technology.”... READ MORE...

“Silver”, Rachel MacFarlane’s new site-specific animated painting

Originally intended as a response to the dioramic features of Super Dutchess, MacFarlane created the site-specific painting, "Sliver", through her established practice of meticulously observing multi-faceted maquettes.... READ MORE...

“Come Behind Me, So Good!”, new computer animation music video

In this video for Kazu Makino, a combination of photogrammetry, which Rhizomatiks has cultivated in various past projects, and cutting-edge software and hardware are used to collect abundant data to realize seamless mixed reality work on a large scale.... READ MORE...