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

Animalesque. Art Across Species and Beings

William Forsythe’s Choreographic Objects

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

Digital Unpleasant Design: Uncomfortable Websites and Demanding Services

Tagging Aesthetics #0: a cultural critique of categorization in the age of social media

The dark mirror. Interview with Clément Lambelet.

Tagging Aesthetics #3: Materialising Accountability

Artist Simon Boas has been working on the themes of accountability, consent, and privacy for several years, sometimes touching upon stereotype and identity as well. His works make me think of the collective definition of identity, the fact that people get entangled in wider and looser labels.... READ MORE...

A data universe made of memories, AI and architecture. Interview with Refik Anadol

Digging into his extensive research on memory and his site-specific public art projects, Yonca Keremoglu talks with Refik Anadol about his projects around both public and private spheres.... READ MORE...

More Eskimo than Artist. Intervista con Theo Jansen

Alcune considerazioni sull'esposizione "Dream Beasts" di Theo Jansen, a partire da una breve intervista all’artista. In mostra le sue sculture cinetiche zoomorfe, destinate alle enormi e scenografiche spiagge dei Paesi Bassi.... READ MORE...

Tagging Aesthetics #2: Presence and Participation. Interview with Marguerite Kalhor

Marguerite Kalhor, through the selfie, the beauty tutorial, the food review and, more recently, video game reviews, uses established social media tropes to explore the performative dimension of online experience, often driven by anxiety and expectations. Interview by Nicola Bozzi.... READ MORE...

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

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

Tagging Aesthetics #1: Of Cats and Models. Interview with Jacopo Calonaci

Nicola Bozzi interviewed Jacopo Calonaci, an illustrator with a prankster's DNA. His Instagram account is a great example to discuss how starting an art project from scratch can muster up a following on what is probably the most competitive platform around.... READ MORE...

Books

The dark mirror. Interview with Clément Lambelet.

Never more than today human beings live in symbiosis with technologies that he created himself. Today as in the past, technologies are accurate mirrors of their societies, of human desires, fears and needs. Bianca Cavuti discusses these topics with Clément Lambelet, who handles issues about the relationship between society and technology, control ideologies and Artificial Intelligence.... READ MORE...

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

Future Gaming: creative interventions in Video Game Culture

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.

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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.

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Latest Post

The Biennal of Moving Image “The Sound of Screens Imploding” at OGR in Turin

On the occasion of the Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement 2018, the Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève started a new partnership with OGR - Officine Grandi Riparazioni, Turin. The show "The Sound of Screens Imploding" explores the status of the moving image and its exhibition format,... READ MORE...

“Empathic Systems”: three solo shows on the relationship between humans and technology

The exhibition "Empathic Systems" revolves around the complex emotional relationship between humans and technology. Communication processes no longer only happen from human to human, but between humans and technology. Netzhammer, Jansen and Todo work at the intersection of engineering and computer science with psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience and ethics.... READ MORE...

Eco-Visionaries: art for a planet in a state of emergency

Initiated in 2018 as a joint project appearing across four institutions Eco-Visionaries has a new presentation at Matadero Madrid, with an expanded selection of projects and artworks that highlight the future of interspecies relationships. Eco-Visionaries is a manifesto-exhibition focusing on the impacts of rapidly changing ecological conditions.... READ MORE...

Julian Charrière: All We Ever Wanted Was Everything and Everywhere

MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art of Bologna is pleased to present All We Ever Wanted Was Everything and Everywhere, the first personal exhibition in Italy of Julian Charrière, whose work bridges the realms of environmental science and cultural history.... READ MORE...

The Cured

Radiator Gallery is thrilled to announce The Cured, a group show featuring five artists whose works delineate the coherent relationship between social politics and the ethics of biological studies situated in a postmodern context, in the hope of raising the questions on the dynamic and ambiguous nature of being human.... READ MORE...

Heather Dewey-Hagborg: At the Temperature of My Body

Fridman Gallery is honored to present At the Temperature of My Body, multidisciplinary artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg’s second solo exhibition: a meditation on intimacy and obsession in an emerging world of biotechnological rituals, the exhibition features three new bodies of work that correspond to three stages of love.... READ MORE...

Tagging Aesthetics #3: Materialising Accountability

Uriel Orlow and Jumana Manna

Tabakalera is pleased to present its two summer shows dedicated to two artists who are showing their work individually in Spain for the first time: Uriel Orlow and Jumana Manna. These projects embrace a vision of the moving image in contemporary art considering the audiovisual as a means of artistic and cinematographic expression.... READ MORE...

Hysterical Mining

The exhibition Hysterical Mining gathers positions that use, appropriate and play with feminist methodologies to reinvent the relations between technology and gender; to hack, to appropriate or invent new rituals, new narratives, new figurations, and new relationships with non-human technological entities.... READ MORE...

Animalesque. Art Across Species and Beings

The exhibition Animalesque brings together an outstanding selection of artworks which invite the museum visitor to rethink the human position in the world, its relationship to all other forms of life and to the various complex ecologies that bond beings together.... READ MORE...

Cao Fei: HX

The Centre Pompidou is delighted to announce HX, a solo exhibition by Chinese artist Cao Fei. This presentation marks the international debut of Cao Fei’s long term research project Hong Xia, and will also be the first ever solo exhibition of any Chinese artist at the Centre Pompidou, an important achievement for both the artist and the institution which is about to launch its Shanghai flagship in November this year.... READ MORE...

William Forsythe’s Choreographic Objects

SESC Pompeia (São Paulo) is currently hosting the exhibition "William Forsythe: Choreographic Objects". Passing visitors and SESC users can get to know the plurisensorial, choreographic and multimedia production of North American dancer, choreographer and visual artist William Forsythe.... READ MORE...

Artistic Intelligence

The Kunstverein Hannover exhibition Artistic Intelligence is exploring the extent to which artists avail artificial intelligence in their artistic practice.... READ MORE...

From the real to the digital and return. 12CYFEST addresses digital identity in its fickle essence

ID is a broad, multifaced concept art has addressed since the very beginning of times. The ID. ART:TECH EXHIBITION intends to delve into all the different shades and meanings it has acquired in our digital present by juxtaposing new media art and technology with contemporary portrait paintings.... READ MORE...

Migrating Textile: the senses in jeopardy

"Migrating Textile" is the second major interdisciplinary and international exhibition initiated by the Save the Loom foundation. It shows how the fabrics of people gather new meaning on account of their environment and how important the influence of their migration is on their artistic practice.... READ MORE...