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

“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...

“We=Link: Ten Easy Pieces”: network native works exploring mobile technologies

The project is presented online by Chronus Art Center, in collaboration with a network of other hosting institutions: an open call to the international media art community to initiate a special online exhibition as a response to the current uncertainty and a time of anxiety.... READ MORE...

90’s net art pioneer Olia Lialina in the exhibition “Best Effort Network”

Spanning more than 25 years, Olia Lialina’s work has made her an important voice in new media art and theory: her works address the systematic nature of the Internet through manifestations of intimacy between hardware, software and human mediation.... READ MORE...

Alliance of Women in Media Arts and Sciences Conference 2020

The main goal of AWMAS conference is to provide a platform for the exchange of ideas and experiences emerging from the intersection of science and applied art. Emphasis is placed on the various aspects of the mutual benefits of the integration and interaction between science and media arts.... 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...

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...

Pröspect: A Bot* that reassembles images from the McCord Museum’s Photography Collection

Pröspect, is another step in Isabelle Gagné’s work as a geologist-artist of digital images, as she questions our relation to online historical archives. As various institutions – museums, libraries, etc. – are increasingly making their archives available online to make them more accessible, the “general” catalogue of online images is constantly growing.... READ MORE...

“Hardcore Digital Detox”: the first work in M+’s new digital commissions

M+ presents Hardcore Digital Detox, a work by Shanghai- and New York–based artist Miao Ying, commissioned expressly for the M+ Stories online platform. It explores the restricted Chinese internet—popularly known as the "Chinternet"—and is a "strategic lifestyle advice tool" with the seemingly illogical premise of offering an online retreat from the digital world.... READ MORE...

“Between and Beyond”: a survey of Dieter Jung’s body of work

With the exhibition Dieter Jung. Between and Beyond, the ZKM honors the extensive work of the Berlin-based artist Dieter Jung, who has been closely associated with the ZKM since its foundation. In addition to holograms, holographic mobiles and holographic light spaces, the exhibition includes the artist's paintings, drawings and prints.... READ MORE...

Guido Segni – Fino alla Fine

Venerdì 1 febbraio alle ore 19.30, nell'ambito di ART CITY Segnala 2019 in occasione di Arte Fiera, Adiacenze inaugura la mostra di Guido Segni “Fino alla fine” a cura di Alessandra Ioalè e Marco Mancuso.... READ MORE...

The Art Happens Here: Net Art’s Archival Poetics

Rhizome presents The Art Happens Here: Net Art’s Archival Poetics, curated by Michael Connor, Artistic Director, Rhizome, with Aria Dean, Assistant Curator, and on view from January 22 to May 26, 2019, in the New Museum’s Lobby Gallery.... READ MORE...

snap+share: transmitting photographs from mail art to social networks

Technology has escalated—and accelerated—the creation, distribution and consumption of photographic imagery, and as a result, millions of images are now sent across the Internet each day. On view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) snap+share: transmitting photographs from mail art to social networks will explore the outward gesture of sharing pictures, instead of the more traditional, inward act of taking photographs, throughout the history of the medium.... READ MORE...

Computer Grrrls

Computer Grrrls deals with the complex link between women and technology from the first human computers to the current revival of technofeminist movements. An illustrated timeline with over 200 entries covers these developments from the 18th century to the present. Invited are artists, hackers, makers and researchers who are working on how to think differently about technology: by questioning the gender bias in big data and Artificial Intelligence, promoting an open and diversified Internet, and designing utopian technologies.... READ MORE...

All I Know Is What’s On The Internet

All I Know Is What’s On The Internet is a new exhibition from The Photographers’ Gallery that presents the work of 11 contemporary artists and groups seeking to map, visualise and question the cultural dynamics of 21st Century image culture.... READ MORE...

transmediale: new Artistic Director – deadline: 06/01/19

The transmediale Artistic Director’s central responsibility is the formulation of festival's artistic vision and its implementation on a content and structural level. The position requires the ability to critically examine topics at the intersection of art, technology, science, society.... READ MORE...

Extra States: Nations in Liquidation

Extra States exhibition works to operate as a mirror of present manifestations of the state, tracing the disintegration of the modern nation-state, now a liquid, fluid and opaque concept asking what comes beyond and beside the state in a globalised contemporaneity.... READ MORE...

The punctum as glitch in contemporary art: the art of Rosa Menkman

In our ever increasing technological world, glitches and crashes that are a result of error have become a part of our culture. It is an event that can provide a sense of curiosity; similar to the Roland Barthes idea of the punctum. In this article Claire Burke will look at how this idea can be applied today within contemporary culture and in the work by artist Rosa Menkman... READ MORE...

Jon Rafman. Il viaggiatore mentale

FONDAZIONE MODENA ARTI VISIVE è lieta di presentare Il viaggiatore mentale, prima ampia personale di Jon Rafman in un'istituzione Italiana dedicata all’arte contemporanea. La mostra, curata da Diana Baldon e presentata da Fondazione Fotografia Modena insieme alla Galleria Civica di Modena,... READ MORE...