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The shapes of electricity: “Current Age. The (in)visible networks”

A network of cables – like veins in a human body – entangle our entire planet. They transport a commodity of unparalleled importance to human civilization: electricity. Studio Plastique investigates this seemingly indispensable source of energy in Z33.... READ MORE...

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Noche Electronica MADATAC: AV concerts by Mogard and Lech

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On May 7th in Madrid, there is going to be the most advanced and contemporary A / V electronic concerts that under the motto of MADATAC Night will take place on Friday, May 7 at the Sala Columnas del Círculo de Fine arts. The eleventh edition of the MADATAC Festival, which had to be postponed in April 2020 due to restriction measures caused by the global health alert, will take place in and from Madrid from November... READ MORE...

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Lieu.City lancia la “Call for VR Projects”

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The exhibition “House of Meme” blends natural and artificial

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Kunsthaus Bregenz will be presenting Pamela Rosenkranz’s first solo exhibition in Austria. The exhibition dissolves any separation between the natural and artificial. It becomes an animated “habitat” for a robotic creature that is controlled by our devices and which connects everything. Works of art as meandering objects recall rivers and serpentine forms alike.... READ MORE...

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“Rhizomatiks_multiplex”: new virtual and phisical propositions

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Since their inception in 2006, the Tokyo-based collective Rhizomatiks have been pursuing new possibilities at the intersection of technology and artistic expression. The name of the group is taken from Gilles Deleuze’s concept of the rhizome: as the name suggests, their artistic activities embody a rhizome-like multiplicity that spans “media art,”... READ MORE...

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Ars Electronica is offering a new Home Delivery SERVICE

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Ars Electronica is offering a new service that any institution can benefit from, whether it's an elementary school or a technical college, a regional SME or an international corporation, a local public authority or an interest group, an art museum, a science center or a university.... READ MORE...

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UN/MUTE-10002, the online world emerged from the pandemic

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UN/MUTE is an online residency that provides artists an opportunity for a critical exchange and collaboration while simultaneously connecting resources from the global cultural epicenter of New York City. This project, co-organized by Undercurrent and the European Union National Institutes for Culture’s New York Cluster, will go live on unmute.nyc... READ MORE...

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New video project “Traumatized Body and Transformed Self”

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Art Sonje Center proudly presents Chen Chieh-jen’s solo exhibition Traumatized Body and Transformed Self, opening from March 11 to May 2, 2021. Chen Chieh-jen employed extra-institutional underground exhibitions and guerrilla-style art actions to challenge Taiwan's dominant political mechanisms during a period marked by the Cold War, anti-communist propaganda... READ MORE...

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Light Source commissions: art as a source of illumination

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Throughout the past 12 months of pandemic disruption, Buxton Contemporary commissioned an array of leading Australian artists to develop a series of new projects, under the title of Light Source commissions. The Light Source commissions series emerged from a challenging period of personal and social limitations and constraint.... READ MORE...

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VR/AR: State of the Art, a research repository on Digicult

Eleonora Stacchiotti

From this week on, Digicult will host VR/AR: State of the Art, a research repository curated by Eleonora Stacchiotti. In partnership with the University of Utrecht, this project is part of Eleonora’s research internship at Digicult. The project wants to investigate the current uses and perception of Augmented and Virtual Reality in the art world.... READ MORE...

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“Voice of Void”, the project by Ho Tzu Nyen incorporating VR

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A new project by Ho Tzu Nyen, an acclaimed artist from Singapore World premiere: “Kyoto School” themed moving image installation incorporating VR. This is an exhibition to announce the new work by Ho Tzu Nyen, who is an internationally well-known Singaporean artist. The new work introduced at this exhibition is themed on the “Kyoto School,” an informal network... READ MORE...

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Multimedia artist Antoni Muntadas in “The Empty City”

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The projects by Antoni Muntadas (Barcelona, 1942) include multimedia installations, photographs, publications, performances and urban interventions, and they represent one of the most important contributions to international conceptual art practices. In The Empty City, Bilbao and its current urban plan, as well as its historical context, are the point of departure... READ MORE...

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#ArtonInstagram

Lucrezia Di Canio

Comparing the idea of owning an artwork to one of posting it is unrealistic, but the reason why we do both and the consequence of both actions to some extent can be more similar than we think. On an artistic level, one also commodifies and consumes the artwork in both scenarios. Just as art objects sold at auctions become commodities because they are treated as goods... READ MORE...

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Be-coming Tree: Global Live Art Event. Open Call for Artists

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This open call is addressing artists interested in joining in the realization of a collective Be-coming Tree performance, occurring via Zoom. Audience tickets include a donation to plant a rainforest tree via TreeSisters organization. This is a live event creating a network of artists simultaneously communing with their local trees and woodlands across the globe... READ MORE...

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Humanity and Nature in “Solar Mountains & Broken Hearts”

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Magasin III Jaffa, is pleased to announce Solar Mountains & Broken Hearts, a solo exhibition by artist Maya Attoun. Maya Attoun's new exhibiton at Magasin III Jaffa is one installation composed of three new bodies of work. Solar Plexus consists of four sculptural objects rising to the height of five meters, an animation work in the name of CRY... READ MORE...

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OTHER SKIES: An Exoplanetary Festival

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On 20th March 2021, Multiverse Concert Series, CLOT Magazine, and SciArt Initiative present a new collaborative project, OTHER SKIES: An Exoplanetary Festival, a one-day online event exploring humanity’s relationship with the planets beyond our own solar system. At the heart of this event is the exhibition space: an immersive online environment specially created... READ MORE...

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“Artist Worlds: Primal Tourism”, an event by Serpentine

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Join artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen and friends in this experimental live multiplayer virtual event focused on the interrelationship between ecology, sustainability and advancing technologies. Hosted in a unique and newly built VR gaming environment; a virtual island modelled on Bora Bora in French Polynesia, that was initially developed for Jakob’s work Primal Tourism... READ MORE...

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Pirelli HangarBicocca presents “Digital Mourning”

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Pirelli HangarBicocca presents Digital Mourning, the first major solo exhibition devoted to Neïl Beloufa in an Italian institution. One of the leading voices of the generation of artists born in the 1980s, Beloufa’s research focuses on contemporary society and on how it is represented and mediated by digital interaction, often exposing the control mechanisms that... READ MORE...

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