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Sensing the invisible. Interview with Afroditi Psarra

Through her fascinating and dystopic garments Afroditi Psarra has been contributing to push further body augmentation research blending folk tradition, pop culture, hand-made electronic and coding to create art, and conveying also social, biological, and environmental issues. Latest developments of her work include Cosmic Bitcasting, a tunic that enables the human body to perceive cosmic radiation and to upload all the outputs on a computer.... READ MORE...

SIMPOSIO: Human conversations. Five monthly appointments by NONE Collective

Simposio è un programma di incontri, performance e installazioni che indaga il rapporto tra uomo e macchina nella società contemporanea. Simposio è a cura di NONE collective e si svolge a partire da Gennaio 2018 fino a Giugno 2018, con un incontro al mese e con ospiti di varia estrazione e provenienza.... READ MORE...

The 14th Athens Digital Arts Festival – Deadline: 31/12/2017

The 14th Athens Digital Arts Festival exploring the unknown future of the upcoming Technological Apocalypse through art, science and technology, invites you to submit your proposals for its next edition, under the theme “SINGULARITY NOW”. The applications deadline is extended until 31 December 2017... READ MORE...

Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology – Shinji Murakami

Shinji Murakami’s second solo show at Catinca Tabacaru Gallery explores the digital pixel in relation to light, advancements in technology, and Augmented Reality. examining the pixel as part of a whole in the analog formats of painting and sculpture, and exploring the multidisciplinary use of LED lighting.... READ MORE...

Curating the HyperPavilion. Interview with Philippe Riss-Schmidt

Part of the 57th Venice Biennale, HyperPavilion presented a variety of site-specific projects, in which artists questioned both the consequences after the arrival of the digital, and the ongoing merging process between physical and virtual worlds. After the closing Donata Marletta reached the curator Philippe Riss-Schmidt to talk about this experience.... READ MORE...

hyle. Dialoghi transdisciplinari sul design

Al Riot Studio di Napoli una mostra curata da Francesco Dell'Aglio, Enza Migliore e Chiara Scarpitti presenta una dimensione inconsueta del design italiano, in cui arte, design, poesia e artigianato dialogano tra loro intrecciandosi in una serie di progetti e visioni che propongono ciascuno un diverso modo di sentire la città.... READ MORE...

Futureproof: a new exhibition focusing on futureproofing

A new exhibition at Haverford College‘s Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery focusing on futureproofing, presents works from contemporary artists with real-world images and archives from governmental and corporate scenario planners to explore how we have imagined and continue to imagine different futures.... READ MORE...

Nonhuman Networks

A current exhibition in Berlin takes into account recent philosophical approaches which emphasises nonhuman perspectives through object-oriented ontology. Through works by artists Saša Spačal, Mirjan Švagelj, Anil Podgornik and Heather Barnett it introduces an aesthetics of new forms of communication between human and nonhuman actors.... READ MORE...

Are we human? The Design of the Species: 2 seconds, 2 days, 2 years, 200 years, 200,000 years

Princeton University School of Architecture announces the opening of the exhibition Are we human? A galaxy of designers, architects, artists, theorists, filmmakers, historians, scientists, labs, centers, institutes, and NGOs responding to Are we human?, the polemical curatorial manifesto of Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley in a new kind of conversation about design.... READ MORE...

After the End of the World

After the End of the World is an exhibition about the Earth of 2017 irreversibly transformed into the Anthropocene planet after two centuries of human impact on natural systems in which artists, philosophers, novelists, sea creatures, playwrights, plants, architects, objects, speculative designers and scientists have worked together to imagine situations, to tell stories and to devise strategies for survival and peaceful cohabitation in the world to come.... READ MORE...

Tomás Saraceno: Entangled Orbits

The Baltimore Museum of Art has commissioned a major new work by internationally acclaimed artist Tomás Saraceno for an exhibition that has transformed the visitor experience of the museum. Entangled Orbits brings together a group of highly complex and fascinating installations drawing inspiration from structures of the natural world.... READ MORE...

Faith Holland Speculative Fetish

Our use of personal devices is inherently intimate: relations we establish with them also engender care. Transfer presents Speculative Fetish, the gallery’s second solo exhibition from Faith Holland addressing the way that technology functions as a metaphor for the body, both in the language we use and in the ways we behave.... READ MORE...

Technological integuments. Design for interactive energetic surfaces

As a result of the need for radical change in the design of energy production sites, the city is required to become a "meaningful","intelligent" and autopoietic system. Thanks to the new technologies, architectural skin is today a bio-inspired and dynamic apparatus responding to this need with numerous functions.... READ MORE...

Digicult è presente alla Bologna Design Week: panel sulle Art Industries

Digicult è presente alla Bologna Design Week 2017 con un panel condotto da Marco Mancuso, incentrato sulle sue ricerche sulle Art Industries nel rapporto tra Media Art, ricerca e produzione industriale. Titolo della tavola rotonda: Art Industries: Il confine tecnologico tra arte, design, moda e cultura contemporanea... READ MORE...

The Dreamy Reality. Interview with Dominic Wilcox

Dominic Wilcox is the epitome of the unclassifiable persona; he is an artist, an inventor, a designer, a speaker, and a man who reinvents the normal into something that not necessarily has an actual purpose. His works span from the most odd machines to more practical devices.... READ MORE...

FAD – Digital Art Biennial 2018 “Hybrid Languages” | Deadline 17/09/2017

For its new edition revolved around the theme of Hybrid Languages, FAD, Digital Art Biennial in Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte, invites artists and critics from all over the world to submit hybrid works where the digital and the analog, the natural and the artificial, the real and the virtual cross and create immersive experiences for the visitors. Deadline: 17/09/2017... READ MORE...

The ethical shape of sensitive machines. Philip Beesley and Industry 4.0

Philip Beesley's research focuses on the issues of reactive and interactive systems. His impressive sculptures and installations have movements modelled on the behaviour of natural elements and a poetically high-tech aspect that is not attributable to any machine we may have previously experienced.... READ MORE...

reflecting HOLONS: mechanical soap bubbles at LYNfabrikken, Aarhus

On August 11 LYNfabrikken’s art space BOX in Aarhus presents the famous Dutch design duo Martens & Visser. The two designers are installing their remarkable mechanical soap bubbles in the small exhibition space in the city centre... READ MORE...