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Biophilia: A handful of earth – 2020 ACC_R Residency Exhibition

The experimental platform ACC_R Residency has been expanding fields: it has been inviting creators and researchers from Asia and other parts of the world to reflect on the challenges the humanity is facing and create contemporary discourse, of which Biophilia is the main theme. Three programs were run in close connection, organically supplementing each other.... READ MORE...

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Fabio Perletta, l’artista-sciamano. La ritualità dell’arte.

Caterina Tomeo

In questo momento di forte perplessità intorno alla capacità di artisti e curatori di creare nuovi eventi che possano funzionare sulle piattaforme virtuali, coinvolgendo in modo attivo e diretto il pubblico, sono stata invitata a partecipare a …mai i propri … nell’ambito di BRUMA MMXX, una performance di Fabio Perletta – straordinario artista sonoro, curatore e docente di sound design – che è stata trasmessa in diretta streaming sulla piattaforma del progetto Aequusol. Articolo di Caterina Tomeo.... READ MORE...

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Bio Art and Design in the exhibition “Evolutionaries”

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The group exhibition Evolutionaries, Bio Art & Design from the Sea to the Soul, on view at MU Hybrid Art House this winter combines the working material wielded by the present and past winners of the Bio Art & Design (BAD) Award. Most of these works are the fruit of collaborations between artists and scientists working in the Netherlands and they address an array... READ MORE...

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“Player of Beings”, the Relationship between Game and Human

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From one-dimensional knob and button, two-dimensional mouse and joystick, to three-dimensional motion sensor, the evolution of these interactive devices reflects a persistent desire to shorten the gap between reality and the game world. Activating traditional culture through the lens of new technology, game carries us to break the boundary of time.... READ MORE...

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“Computable–Incomputable”, the ZKM in the Digital Art Hall

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The collection at ZKM | Karlsruhe focuses on media art: an artform defined by the medium with which it is created, distributed, and received. "Computable – Incomputable" showcases software-based digital artworks in a computer-generated environment.... READ MORE...

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“Shaping the Invisible World”: Knowledge and Digital Photography

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The exhibition Shaping the Invisible World examines, through cartography, the representational forms of the map as a tool between knowledge and technology. The works of the artists on view negotiate the meaning of the map as a gauge of our digital, technological and global society.... READ MORE...

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Sara Tirelli and the VR Pavilion at 2020 Resilienze festival

Marco Mancuso

Hera Immersive Area is a space within Resilienze 2020 festival dedicated to new technologies in relation to art and scientific research and aimed at exploring environmental issues through innovation. This interview focuses on the VR Pavilion, both because of the long-lasting acquaintance and the deep esteem towards Sara Tirelli and her artistic and research path that has been going on for a very long time in Italy and internationally.... READ MORE...

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Katja Aufleger in the exhibition “Gone”

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The first solo exhibition in Switzerland by Katja Aufleger, on view until March 14, 2021 at the Museum Tinguely, brings together works from the past decade: breakable sculptures, hazardous chemicals and video works, with which the artist criticises institutions and questions power structures and systems.... READ MORE...

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HeK Net Works: IOCOSE, Moving Tasks Forward

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Founded in 2006 by four artists (Matteo Cremonesi, Filippo Cuttica, Davide Prati, Paolo Ruffino), IOCOSE investigate how the narratives surrounding the future of society and technology leave traces on the present. Moving Tasks Forward, available from 10.11 to 8.12.2020, is a script that can solve the long list of tasks that flood our daily to do lists.... READ MORE...

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Regionale 21: Expanded Video Works

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HeK’s 2020 Regionale exhibition, «Regionale 21 – Expanded Video Works», focuses on the artistic use of moving images with a selection of videos, films and animations. The presented works share a formal and experimental creativity in their use of motion graphics software and video equipment.... READ MORE...

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XL | Chapter II – IN BETWEEN – Mara Oscar Cassiani, Bondone

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XL | Chapter II Fourth event of INBTWN - In Between programme Curated by Claudia D’Alonzo Mara Oscar Cassiani Bondone(2020) Website, performance, talk 19 ... READ MORE...

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Brainstorming and Artificial Intelligence for a visionary future.

Giada Totaro

On Saturday 21st of November 2020, from the Sala Fucine OGR in Turin, in live in streaming on Zoom and Youtube, 2500 under 35s met in a digital event lasting 10 hours in the form of a collective brainstorming around to the topic “Which Borders in the New World?”. The objective of the Visionary Days project-event, now in its fourth edition, is to concretize the ideas... READ MORE...

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Taipei Biennial 2020

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The 12th edition of Taipei Biennial will open to the public from November 21, 2020 and run through March 14, 2021. The biennial, co-curated by French philosopher Bruno Latour and French independent curator Martin Guinard, together with Taiwanese independent curator Eva Lin, proposes a fictional “planetarium” within the museum, wherein the invited artists, activists and scientists will explore the tensions between the gravitational pull of different “planets.... READ MORE...

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“Feelings”, new models of interaction

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Synthesis gallery presents FEELINGS, a digital exhibition of works by five artists. Curated by Jeffrey Grunthaner and George Vitale, the exhibition will go live on Mozilla Hubs November 19, 2020 and run through February 21, 2021. Scheduled events and walkthroughs will also take place during the course of the exhibition.... READ MORE...

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Para Site hosts two new exhibitions about AI

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Para Site is proud to present two new exhibitions dedicated to AI and virtual world: Glitch in the Matrix, a solo exhibition by Hong Kong-based artist Luke Ching Chin Wai, featuring newly commissioned works and re-enactments and adaptations of Ching’s earlier works, and Confidential Records: Overwrite, a solo exhibition by Hong Kong-based artist Vvzela Kook.... READ MORE...

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The future, despite everything: Hito Steyerl at Düsseldorf’s K21

Bianca Cavuti

The cornerstone of the exhibition is SocialSim, a new multimedia installation developed especially for the occasion, which explores the potential of digital technologies, simulations and AI, in relation to social upheavals, artistic creativity and pandemic conditions too. The artwork includes a focus on collective hysteria and social network, examined in the social simulation Dancing Mania.... READ MORE...

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“CHRONIQUES” Biennale of Digital Imagination. 2020 Edition

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Taiwan was named the CHRONIQUES Biennale guest of honor with C-LAB serving as curator. VR FILM LAB, located in Kaohsiung have also been invited. With the theme of Eternity, together with 12 outstanding new media artists, a team representative of Taiwan’s technology-based arts has been formed to present Taiwan’s rich culture and abundant technical know-how through exhibitions and performances.... READ MORE...

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Hito Steyerl in “I Will Survive”

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The exhibition Hito Steyerl. I Will Survive at K21 is the new multimedia installation with which Steyerl (b. 1966) critically explores the potentials of digitality, simulation, and artificial intelligence with regard to artistic creativity, modes of museum presentation, social upheavals, and pandemic conditions.... READ MORE...

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