DIGICULT | Digital Art, Design and Culture

Established in 2005 Digicult is one of the main international platforms investigating the impact of technologies and sciences on art, design and contemporary culture.

“Xenogenesis” a science fiction of the present

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

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

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

“Bodydrift – Anatomies of the Future”, an interactive exhibition

“Upgrade in Progress”, domestic electrical appliances and life-size surrogate bodies

Future of Classroom: On Bringing Light and Information into Buildings (or Doing Away With Buildings Altogether)

Mario Savini: Arte transgenica. La vità è il medium

Memesis: community and self-definition in the age of memes

Digital Unpleasant Design: Uncomfortable Websites and Demanding Services

The Political Possibility of Sound. Interview with Salomé Voegelin

What are the political potentials of listening? How does sound define the crossing of the territories of contemporaneity, of the differences in race, gender, social belonging? Salomé Voegelin continues her analysis on listening practices in her new book. Interview by Leandro Pisano... 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...

The machine of the spirit. Interview with Ennio Bertrand

Ennio Bertrand found in technologies his “colours”, discovering how they could move in unison with his thoughts, and form the basis for his works. Interview by Marco Aruga... READ MORE...

Algorithmic Imagery: Interview with Mike Tyka

Mike Tyka is an artist and researcher with a PhD in Biophysics. In conversation with Teresa Ruffino he explains how, in his sculptural works, he expresses the arbitrary representation of molecules and how he started working with algorithms as an artistic tool describing his experience and vision for the future of this technology.... READ MORE...

New visions: The first edition of Triennial for Photography and New Media

The inaugural Triennial for Photography and New Media brings together recent work of 31 international artists. Several works are exhibited for the first time and the Triennial is the first major international presentation of its kind in Norway. The first edition of the Triennale is titled New Visions.... READ MORE...

Advanced technology, prophetic work and mysterious meanings of life. Interview with 404.zero

Taking as starting points their most irrepressible fascinations with death, the unknown and the cosmos, 404.zero craft thrilling, precise, painterly code-art that broaches big philosophical questions and provides mesmerizing though highly speculative answers. Interview by Caterina Tomeo... READ MORE...

Books

Mario Savini: Arte transgenica. La vità è il medium

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...

The dark mirror. Interview with Clément Lambelet.

Simone Arcagni: l’Occhio della Macchina

We are all entrepreneurs. Nobody is safe. Interview with Silvio Lorusso

Digital Stretch Marks: Bodies, Genders and Technologies

Digital Demagogue. Authoritarian Capitalism in the Age of Trump and Twitter

Calls

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...

AWMAT 2019: Impact! Call for Papers

SIGGRAPH Digital Arts: Call for Application | Deadline: 15/09/2018

Open Call: Field_Notes – EOS | Deadline: 10/06/2018

The New Networked Normal: Open call for work | Deadline: 31/05/2018

Open call for Playbour – Work, Pleasure, Survival | Deadline: 22/04/2018

Reports

Digicult Agency curates exhibitions, events, workshops, educational activities, publications, lectures and meetings, giving consultancy on communication strategies and digital publishing tools.

Digicult Agency

Education

Seminario “Arte e Futuro”. RUFA Roman University of Fine Arts, Roma

Curatorial

CLICK CLACK. Kinetic installations by Virgilio Villoresi

Curatorial

Seminario “La Stampa per l’Arte”: Procedimenti artigianali tra tecniche tradizionali e nuove tecnologie

Digimag Journal is an interdisciplinary publication seeking high-standard articles and reviews that focus on the impact of the last technological and scientific developments on art, design and contemporary society.

Digimag Journal

Digimag 76 / Summer 2017

Digimag 75 / Spring 2017

Digimag 74 / Winter 2013

Digicult Editions is a publishing initiative whose goal is to be active in the publication of the Digimag Journal and critical and theoretical books. Digicult Edition uses all the tools of a contemporary digital publishing.

Digicult Editions

Latest Post

“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...

Heroarky’s new tracks to fight self-isolation

"Amid fear and panic spreading, we are also discovering how fast we can actually respond to a global threat if we are willing to do so."... READ MORE...

“Shapeshifters. The age of changes is upon us. Again. Always.”

The exhibition Shapeshifters explores the possibility of using art to help us try to make sense of what lies ahead. What conceptions do we have of the future, and how can we relate to the changes that are in store for us?... READ MORE...

Zombies can vote too: Sentience in memesis

The image of the digital zombie, that being absorbed by its phone who barely functions in public and is almost always rescued by another bystander has become a contemporary caricature of technology, and yet most of us do not remember the last three things we’ve reacted to. Article by Pierre Chaumont.... 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 Political Possibility of Sound. Interview with Salomé Voegelin

The beauty of a borderless world. Interview with teamLab

“Real Feeling”, the connection between technology and emotions

Emotions could be described as the core of human experience. The international group exhibition REAL FEELINGS explores the rapidly changing relationship between technology and emotions.... READ MORE...

Jenna Sutela’s exhibition “NO NO NSE NSE”: the limits of human-created language

Jenna Sutela’s exhibition NO NO NSE NSE at Kunsthall Trondheim is the artist’s first major institutional solo show. The exhibition explores artificial intelligence and in particular the relation between randomness and control in organic and inorganic systems.... READ MORE...

“Xenogenesis” a science fiction of the present

What confrontations, complexities, critiques and conundra emerge when art adopts the perspective of the alien? The implications of this anthropic inversion proliferate throughout Xenogenesis, the first major solo exhibition of The Otolith Group in Australia, which brings together a cross-section of influential artworks from 2013 to 2018.... 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...

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...

The machine of the spirit. Interview with Ennio Bertrand

Ennio Bertrand found in technologies his “colours”, discovering how they could move in unison with his thoughts, and form the basis for his works. Interview by Marco Aruga... 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...

“Bodydrift – Anatomies of the Future”, an interactive exhibition

What does the future of the human body look like? In the exhibition Bodydrift – Anatomies of the Future, artists and designers explore the moral and technological boundaries of the body. Humans are improved, protected, made more attractive.... READ MORE...

Algorithmic Imagery: Interview with Mike Tyka

“Upgrade in Progress”, domestic electrical appliances and life-size surrogate bodies

Fondazione Modena Arti Visive is delighted to present "Upgrade in Progress", the first solo exhibition by Geumhyung Jeong to be shown in an Italian contemporary art institution. Her works deploy a range of prosthetic devices, mechanical and tech hardware tools, cosmetics, medical dummies and spare body parts.... READ MORE...

Mark Garry’s multidimensional approach: the exhibition “Songs and the Soil”

The exhibition is comprised of a series of installations and individual works under the combined title "Songs and the Soil" and it engages with the related subjects of landscape and music/sound, looking at each element from historical, social and cultural perspectives.... READ MORE...