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.

Edge of Now – Three Rooms Project

Steffani Jemison and Samson Young: Decoders-Recorders

The Measure of All Things: On the (In)Human

Bergen Assembly 2019: the life beyond the binary oppositions

Competition: Swiss Original – Handmade Creative Project

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

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

Tagging Aesthetics #4: (Machine) Learning Stereotypes. Interview with Max Dovey

Nicola Bozzi interviewed Max Dovey: working with stereotypes, tags, and algorithms in live settings, the UK-based artist has tried to define the “hipster” stereotype algorithmically, find out what makes a person male or female in a computer's eyes, and highlight the human labour necessary for machine learning. I spoke to him about a few of his artworks.... READ MORE...

Tagging Aesthetics #3: Materialising Accountability. Interview with Simon Boas

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...

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.

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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

Holly Herndon, Proto: the sound of Spawn

Released in May 2019, Proto is the last album of Holly Herndon, one of the most curious performer and experimental composer. This album is the third part of a project that involves electronics, the body and its sounds, the society, and ultimately machine learning, used to interpret the society and show it, online and offline.... READ MORE...

Interview to Massimo Randone – Head Curator at Swiss Original – Handmade Creative Project

This summer 2019 will be remembered for the great run to the competition entails the production of a work of art/expression that represents and gives shape to t... READ MORE...

Designs for Different Futures

The role of designers in shaping how we think about the future is the subject of a major exhibition that will premiere at the Philadelphia Museum of Art this fall. Designs for Different Futures brings together some 80 works that address the challenges and opportunities that humans may encounter in the years, decades, and centuries ahead.... READ MORE...

The Coming World: Ecology as the New Politics 2030–2100

This Earth Day, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow is pleased to announce highlights from its upcoming show "The Coming World: Ecology as the New Politics 2030–2100", which marks the first major exhibition in Russia to explore the subjects of ecology and the environment.... READ MORE...

“REAL WORK”: Liz Magic Laser and Candice Breitz at FACT

New exhibition REAL WORK opens at FACT on 12 July 2019, including artworks by Liz Magic Laser and Candice Breitz. Continuing FACT’s year-long exploration into issues of identity and representation, the exhibition highlights the often-unheard voices of real people working in precarious situations across the globe.... 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...

Tagging Aesthetics #4: (Machine) Learning Stereotypes. Interview with Max Dovey

Connected. Peter Kogler with…

Since the 1980s, Peter Kogler has worked as a media artist between computer graphics, film, collage and architecture. Within the context of the digital influences on our everyday life today, his systematic consideration of the technological and reproducible image and the powerful influence of the media make him a natural successor, interpreter and ideal interlocutor of the generation of visionaries.... READ MORE...

Speculative Landscapes

This fall, The Art Gallery of New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) invites viewers into the imagined worlds of four UAE-based artists. "Speculative Landscapes" is a series of new installations through which each artist explores the very concept of environment (natural, artificial, virtual).... READ MORE...

Edge of Now – Three Rooms Project

The exhibition Edge of Now – Three Rooms is a joined project by Nam June Paik Art Center of South Korea, the Chronus Art Center in Shanghai, and the ZKM | Karlsruhe to foster cultural exchange between China, South Korea, and Germany in the area of media art. The exhibition presents works by Chinese artist Yang Jian, South Korean artist Kim Heecheon, and German artist Verena Friedrich.... READ MORE...

Steffani Jemison and Samson Young: Decoders-Recorders

De Appel, in its first collaboration with and at Looiersgracht 60, is delighted to announce Decoders-Recorders—a double solo exhibition by New York based Steffani Jemison and Hong Kong based Samson Young. Each artist investigates distinct forms of notation, gesture, and alternative languages to articulate suppressed social histories and contemporary predicaments.... READ MORE...

The Measure of All Things: On the (In)Human

Artists at the exhibition "The Measure of All Things: On the (In)Human", curated by Hans Carlsson and Åsa Nacking, claim that these words are to be taken to refer to how human beings use themselves as benchmarks for understanding the world, and that this makes truth a relative concept that may differ between individuals.... READ MORE...

Bergen Assembly 2019: the life beyond the binary oppositions

Bergen Assembly 2019, titled Actually, the Dead Are Not Dead, encompasses an exhibition and a series of events taking place at various venues in Bergen. The project proposes communicating with the spectres of the past and the future and taking responsibility for those who are no longer, or not yet, here.... READ MORE...

Mario Savini: Arte transgenica. La vità è il medium

Competition: Swiss Original – Handmade Creative Project

The competition entails the production of a work of art/expression that represents and gives shape to the interpretative territory defined: SWISS ORIGINAL – HANDMADE CREATIVE PROJECT. EMMENTALER AOP For centuries, the Swiss tradition of Emmenta... READ MORE...

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...