Virtual Reality Archives • Digicult | Digital Art, Design and Culture

Machine and Mind, Rethinking Affect

We live in a world where technologies are increasingly blurring the boundaries of affect, between man and machine. As technology becomes more integrated into our lives, will we become more integrated into technology? Article by Claire Burke... 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...

A virtual ecosystem for creativity: new synthesis’ online project “Walkthroughs – A Further Look

Walkthroughs - A Further Look is synthesis’ response to the current challenging times. Now more than ever, synthesis thinks it is important to stay connected, creative and get inspired. Walkthroughs of VR artistic experiences is what synthesis has envisioned.... READ MORE...

Swiss Media Art: knowbotiq, Alan Bogana, Félicien Goguey

The exhibition Swiss Media Art: knowbotiq, Alan Bogana, Félicien Goguey can finally take place. HeK would like to invite you to an online vernissage on May 27th 2020.... READ MORE...

“Catharsis”, Jakob Kudsk Steensen’s new digital simulation

The Serpentine presented "Catharsis" by Danish artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen as part of a global public art project, "CONNECT, BTS", a series of major art projects open free to the public in five cities on four continents initiated by South Korean pop group BTS.... READ MORE...

Suzanne Treister: realities, knowledges and networks through psychedelic speculation

Utilising various media, including video, the internet, interactive technologies, photography, drawing, painting and watercolour, Suzanne Treister explores emerging technologies, alternative belief systems and potential human futures through a newly commissioned book and web-based augmented reality work.... READ MORE...

“Dancing in other space”: dematerialized body in cyber-dance

Espacio Byte, digital art museum, starts the 2020 program with a group exhibition dedicated to cyberdance. “Dancing in other space” gathers a variety of works that articulate the art of dance with the creative possibilities of digital languages.... READ MORE...

The beauty of a borderless world. Interview with teamLab

Innovation and team working: teamLab creates an art making use of technological tools, tending to make them disappear, highlighting the experience they’d like to propose to the public. Interview by Marco Aruga... READ MORE...

What is work in the globalized digital age? “Algotaylorism” replies

Algotaylorism brings together thirteen artists and collectives who all operate at the human-machine interface and have taken this interaction as a subject of research and as a production tool.... READ MORE...

Liisa Lounila in “Shadow Zone”, from artist’s travels to nature experiences

In her art, Finnish artist Liisa Lounila examines contemporary life through the experiences of ordinary and recording of time. The new solo exhibition Shadow Zone in Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma features videos, sound installations, assemblages, neon work and a VR piece.... READ MORE...

Cao Fei: the exhibition “Blueprints” and her new installation “The Eternal Wave”

At the centre of exhibition "Blueprints" will be a new Virtual Reality artwork "The Eternal Wave", produced in collaboration with Acute Art. Based on the exact scale and scanned models of the artist’s studio, Cao Fei seeks to re-explore and re-imagine the past, reflecting the changing nature of humanity.... READ MORE...

Do not get caught in the web – Interview with Geert Lovink

Geert Lovink is founder and director of "INC - Institute of Network Cultures", in Amsterdam, investigating the nature and the developments of the cultures in the web with meetings, publications and, obviously, online dialogues.... READ MORE...

Deep in the Forking Tanks

"Deep in the Forking Tanks", the new video that provides the title for this exhibition, has artist Heecheon Kim meeting with divers and venturing down deep into the water. For training, he used a flotation tank, also known as a “sensory deprivation tank,” that literally enables to cut off senses.... READ MORE...

“The Redaction Trilogy”: Kennedy Browne in Dublin

Hugh Lane Gallery presents "The Redaction Trilogy", the first solo museum exhibition in Ireland by the collaborative practice of Kennedy Browne (Gareth Kennedy and Sarah Browne). Their collaborative work poses timely and urgent questions around interactions between technology, ideology and politics in this context.... READ MORE...

Phantom Plane, Cyberpunk in the Year of the Future

Inspired by 2019 - the year that many iconic cyberpunk futures were set or scheduled to arrive (see Bladerunner, Akira, Running Man, The Island, and more…) - the exhibition "Phantom Plane, Cyberpunk in the Year of the Future" considers the hold that cyberpunk retains on our collective imagination.... READ MORE...

“Cadavre exquis”: contemporary art through alternative lenses

For its second and last exhibition of the year, Phi presents "Cadavre exquis", an experience that replaces the sheet of paper with the infinite space of virtual reality. Going beyond conventional canons, the exhibition invites viewers, through technology, to enter the creative world of each artist.... READ MORE...

Screen City Biennial 2019: Ecologies – lost, found and continued

A growing attention to environmental thinking mirrors a global acknowledgement and urgency of the need to rethink the human place in the biosphere and how we are connected to the world. The Screen City Biennial 2019 sets out to present, facilitate and examine art and artistic, that raise questions of how human action affects the ecologies with which it is implicated.... READ MORE...

perAspera 2019: virtuale è reale

Sorry, this entry is only available in Italian.... READ MORE...