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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...

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

Pierre Chaumont examines Memes, visual jokes that are made of an image of pop culture on which is added a humoristic text, and "Memesis", the process of a community creating itself through the spreading of its culture.... 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 for rapid and complex... READ MORE...

Surrogate. An Ideal Love

The show "Surrogati. Un amore ideale", curated by Melissa Harris, from February 21 to July 22, 2019 in the Osservatorio Fondazione Prada in Milan, creates a direct dialogue between the photographic works of two artists, Jamie Diamond and Elena Dorfman. Both artists highlight the emotional ties between human beings and surrogates, dolls, substitutes.... 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...

Digital Unpleasant Design: Uncomfortable Websites and Demanding Services

The way we navigate the internet is increasingly processed and shaped by algorithms. Selena Savic will look into the design of algorithms that we interact with on a day-to-day basis, from online purchases to social networks or surveillance systems.... READ MORE...

Perpetual Translation. Interview with Paul Destieu

Looking at the works of Paul Destieu, Filippo Lorenzin questions the Marseille-based artist about the evolution of media and their situation in our contemporary environment. His work studies the border between emergence and collapsing of a system.... READ MORE...

Sonic Acts 2019: discovering the controversy of the hereafter between the past and future

The 25th Anniversary of the Sonic Acts happened across Amsterdam. The combination of art, science and research becomes the ground to speculate on new ways to live and face the fast progress of contemporary society.... READ MORE...

Frieze Art Fair LA 2019 explored how to unite the art world with Hollywood

The Paramount Movie Studio in Hollywood was the location for the inaugural edition of the Frieze Los Angeles Art Fair. This sold-out event is considered a very successful venture by artworld standards.... READ MORE...

Islands, ghosts and utopias. An interview with Elise Florenty & Marcel Türkowsky

In this interview Mario Margani discusses with Elise Florenty and Marcel Türkowsky the issues of multiple representation of a land taking their recent exhibition as a point of departure, and focusing on their interest for unconventional modes of narrations, and on their nomadic ways to develop film projects.... READ MORE...

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

Teresa Ruffino intervista Simone Arcagni in merito alla sua ultima pubblicazione "L'occhio della macchina", un testo che analizza come si è formata la costruzione dello sguardo contemporaneo concentrandosi in particolare sui cambiamenti introdotti dalla rivoluzione digitale.... READ MORE...

Female empowerment goes through bacteria. An interview with Giulia Tomasello

Federica Fontana interviews the young Italian interaction designer Giulia Tomasello, winner of the 2018 Ars Electronica STARTS Prize for Artistic Exploration with the project Future Flora, a kit to treat vaginal infections which made use of home-grown bacteria.... READ MORE...

A reflection about the image. Interview with Domenico de Chirico

Reflection is a series of discussions with curators, philosophers, artists and cultural workers about the image in its broadest sense. For this edition Pierre Chaumont met Domenico de Chirico, independent curator for his newest exhibition Body at L'inconnue Gallery in Montréal. ... READ MORE...

The Convening. Leonardo’s 50th birthday party: “Come Together”

Kathy Rae Huffman tells us about her participation at The Convening, on of the celebrations for Leonardo's 50th birthday at the Fort Mason campus of the San Francisco Art Institute. Leonardo, the international publishing initiative dedicated to art, technology and science has celebrated this anniversary 35 times since 2017, when it launched the first birthday party at ISEA in Caldea, Colombia.... READ MORE...

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

Nowadays, says Silvio Lorusso, everything seems to work as a startup - not just companies and institutions but first of all the individuals. Silvio recently published Entreprecariat - Siamo tutti imprenditori. Nessuno è al sicuro ("We are all entrepreneurs. Nobody is safe”) with Krisis Publishing, a book that explores the many ways corporate logics shape our behaviour.... READ MORE...