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Bio Art and Design in the exhibition “Evolutionaries”

The group exhibition Evolutionaries, Bio Art & Design from the Sea to the Soul, on view at MU Hybrid Art House this winter combines the working material wielded by the present and past winners of the Bio Art & Design (BAD) Award. Most of these works are the fruit of collaborations between artists and scientists working in the Netherlands and they address an array... READ MORE...

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Call for Proposals: the Alex Adriaansens Residency 2021

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The Alex Adriaansens Residency provides a Dutch or international artist or designer the possibility to conduct a research project focusing on the material basis and aesthetics of our digital culture. The recipient will work in partnership with V2_ over the span of one year. The deadline is 1 February 2021.... READ MORE...

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Call for Papers: HyMEx, Hybrid Museum Experience Symposium

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Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art organizes on May 6-7, 2021 the HyMEx // Hybrid Museum Experience Symposium, a two-day symposium to bring together leading researchers, scholars in digital and experimental museology, as well as researchers to exchange views on challenging situations and latest innovations in the field of hybrid museum experiences, with a focus on... READ MORE...

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Katja Aufleger in the exhibition “Gone”

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The first solo exhibition in Switzerland by Katja Aufleger, on view until March 14, 2021 at the Museum Tinguely, brings together works from the past decade: breakable sculptures, hazardous chemicals and video works, with which the artist criticises institutions and questions power structures and systems.... READ MORE...

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“FUTURE PRESENT”: the impact of technology on design

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Michigan State University’s Science Gallery Detroit is pleased to announce its third annual exhibition, FUTURE PRESENT: Design in a Time of Urgency, which will run through Dec. 11 at Bedrock’s 1001 Woodward Building in downtown Detroit. This year’s exhibition theme will explore humanity’s nuanced relationship to various forms of design and the impact it has on the future.... READ MORE...

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“The Unknown Mine Zone”, the exhibition at the new Transnatural gallery

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Transnatural opens its new exhibition space, featuring The Unknown Mine Zone exhibition and the launch of the new label collection, situated in the vibrant Amsterdam West quarter.... READ MORE...

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“Digital Cultures 2020: Imagined Futures”, an online festival of arts & technology

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The online festival will bring back former visions of the future, dismissed as intriguing yet far-fetched fantasies a decade or even a few months ago. The event, organised by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, offers a wealth of artistic programmes and debate, and aims to further understand and overcome the barriers of delivering a hybrid festival in today’s social and political climate. ... READ MORE...

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OPEN CALL: Premio Termoli 62nd edition. Architecture and Design Section

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The MACTE Foundation is pleased to announce the Open Call for the 62nd edition of the Premio Termoli-Architecture and Design Section, applications can be sent until November 26, 2020. The purpose of the contest of the 62nd Premio Termoli–Architecture and Design Section is to design an urban bus stop shelter, meant for the city of Termoli.... READ MORE...

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“Keep Yourself Clean”, the first solo exhibition by VOLNA

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The exhibition "Keep yourself clean" spaces and installations were created using video game development tools (Unreal Engine) that simulate real-time scenes and lighting effects. Exhibition visitors are invited to immerse themselves in the surroundings of each installation and can move freely in the room and choose any observation point.... READ MORE...

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The Speculative Design of Immaculate Motherhood

Patricia de Vries

In the next five years, the artificial womb will become a medical reality. Ectogenesis, outside-the-womb gestation, is increasingly viable for human embryos. Will it lead to a feminist utopia, or is it the newest manifestation of an age-old male fantasy? This question has occupied the minds of feminists, science-fiction writers, artists and scientists for decades. Article by Patricia de Vries... READ MORE...

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“Shifting Proximities” will be the Nxt Museum’s first exhibition

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Through a three-fold programme, comprising exhibitions, performances and learning and research, Nxt Museum will fuse art and technology to seek, show and question "what is next".... READ MORE...

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The impact of technology on the fashion industry. The exhibition “Making FASHION Sense”

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The exhibition "Making FASHION Sense" showcases the radical transformation of fashion through technology, used as a transformative tool for artists, designers, as well as for the wearers of clothing, generating a reinvention of fashion systems.... READ MORE...

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Fondazione Mondo Digitale presents the Fashion Digital Night as part of the Rome Fashion Week in Altaroma

Giada Totaro

The Fashion Digital Night has ended: forty projects in the field of wearable technologies were created by young stylists, designers, developers and makers from all over the world. Report by Giada Totaro... READ MORE...

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“Sublimi Anatomie”. Gli abiti multimodali e transfemministi di Jeanne Vicerial

Caterina Tomeo

Partendo dalle orme del maestro Chalayan, Jeanne Vicerial ha fondato l’innovativo studio di ricerca Clinique Vestimentaire, all’interno del quale idea e sviluppa nuovi principi di creazione tessile, coniugati alla ricerca tecnologica sperimentale avanzata (Robotica). Report di Caterina Tomeo.... READ MORE...

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Mario Savini: Arte transgenica. La vità è il medium

Federica Fontana

A cosa ci riferiamo quando parliamo di arte transgenica? In questo panorama spinoso, che più di tutti lega a doppio filo arte e scienza, filosofia e biotecnologie, questioni giuridiche e tabù ancestrali cerca di fare ordine il libro di Mario Savini “Arte transgenica: la vita è il medium”, edito nel 2018 da Pisa University Press.... READ MORE...

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The future around the corner: interview with Heather Dewey-Hagborg

Bianca Cavuti

Human beings have always needed to face their time and raised questions about the future, on the edge between the fascination and the fear for rapid and complex... READ MORE...

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Digital Unpleasant Design: Uncomfortable Websites and Demanding Services

Selena Savic

The way we navigate the internet is increasingly processed and shaped by algorithms. Selena Savic will look into the design of algorithms that we interact with on a day-to-day basis, from online purchases to social networks or surveillance systems.... READ MORE...

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Speaking Power to (Post) Truth

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Jane Lombard Gallery presents the group exhibition Speaking Truth to (Post) Power, curated by Sara Raza (formerly the Guggenheim UBS MAP Curator of the Solomon. R Guggenheim Museum, New York). The exhibition brings together a constellation of six contemporary artists who unite to create a series of patterns that explore the deep historical associations inherent within human consciousness and truth.... READ MORE...

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