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Zombies can vote too: Sentience in memesis

The image of the digital zombie, that being absorbed by its phone who barely functions in public and is almost always rescued by another bystander has become a contemporary caricature of technology, and yet most of us do not remember the last three things we’ve reacted to. Article by Pierre Chaumont.... READ MORE...

The Political Possibility of Sound. Interview with Salomé Voegelin

What are the political potentials of listening? How does sound define the crossing of the territories of contemporaneity, of the differences in race, gender, social belonging? Salomé Voegelin continues her analysis on listening practices in her new book. Interview by Leandro Pisano... READ MORE...

The beauty of a borderless world. Interview with teamLab

Innovation and team working: teamLab creates an art making use of technological tools, tending to make them disappear, highlighting the experience they’d like to propose to the public. Interview by Marco Aruga... READ MORE...

The machine of the spirit. Interview with Ennio Bertrand

Ennio Bertrand found in technologies his “colours”, discovering how they could move in unison with his thoughts, and form the basis for his works. Interview by Marco Aruga... READ MORE...

Algorithmic Imagery: Interview with Mike Tyka

Mike Tyka is an artist and researcher with a PhD in Biophysics. In conversation with Teresa Ruffino he explains how, in his sculptural works, he expresses the arbitrary representation of molecules and how he started working with algorithms as an artistic tool describing his experience and vision for the future of this technology.... READ MORE...

D3US EX M4CH1NA. Art and Artificial Intelligence: unusual and unexplored futures on display at LABoral

The wide use of this type of technology does not always correspond to an in-depth knowledge of their mechanisms, their functioning, their deepest implications, making them a real deus ex machina, which is the significant title of the current exhibition at LABoral. Report by Bianca Cavuti... READ MORE...

La nuova Sonosfera, un teatro unico al mondo per l’ascolto tridimensionale di ecosistemi e di musica

Il 6 gennaio 2020 è stato inaugurato il primo teatro eco-acustico d’Italia, presso Palazzo Mosca sede dei Musei Civici a Pesaro, Città Creativa Unesco della Musica.... READ MORE...

Fondazione Mondo Digitale presents the Fashion Digital Night as part of the Rome Fashion Week in Altaroma

The Fashion Digital Night has ended: forty projects in the field of wearable technologies were created by young stylists, designers, developers and makers from all over the world. Report by Giada Totaro... READ MORE...

Radha May: When the archives disclose the ways of seeing

Until February 2 2020, ICA Milan hosts When the Towel Drops Vol. 1 | Italy, the video installation by Radha May (Elisa Giardina Papa, Bathsheba Okwenje and Nup... READ MORE...

Advanced technology, prophetic work and mysterious meanings of life. Interview with 404.zero

Taking as starting points their most irrepressible fascinations with death, the unknown and the cosmos, 404.zero craft thrilling, precise, painterly code-art that broaches big philosophical questions and provides mesmerizing though highly speculative answers. Interview by Caterina Tomeo... READ MORE...

Do not get caught in the web – Interview with Geert Lovink

Geert Lovink is founder and director of "INC - Institute of Network Cultures", in Amsterdam, investigating the nature and the developments of the cultures in the web with meetings, publications and, obviously, online dialogues.... READ MORE...

“Line in the sand”, intervista a Daniele Spanò

"Chaos & cosmos" è il titolo dal carattere universale della tredicesima edizione del CYFEST, che anche quest’anno come di consueto parte da New York. Tra le numerose proposte artistiche la curatrice internazionale Isabella Indolfi, presenta la videoinstallazione di Daniele Spanò, "Line in the sand". Intervista di Caterina Tomeo... READ MORE...

Il Manifesto del Futurismo Rurale. Nuove geografie per territori al margine.

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“Sublimi Anatomie”. Gli abiti multimodali e transfemministi di Jeanne Vicerial

Partendo dalle orme del maestro Chalayan, Jeanne Vicerial ha fondato l’innovativo studio di ricerca Clinique Vestimentaire, all’interno del quale idea e sviluppa nuovi principi di creazione tessile, coniugati alla ricerca tecnologica sperimentale avanzata (Robotica). Report di Caterina Tomeo.... READ MORE...

Giving images new lives. Interview with Kensuke Koike

What can be the role of abandoned photographs, which after a certain time cease to have their original intention? Teresa Ruffino interviews Kensuke Koike, a visual artist that, with a calibrated manipulation, transforms in an alchemic way the matter he comes across to create something new. ... READ MORE...

Adversarial Feelings. Interview with Lorem

How does the algorithm interpret our irrational demeanors? Is it able to simulate our emotions and to learn the characteristics that are typical of human personality? Lorem with the project Adversarial Feelings analyses the interaction between human and machine with different expressive media: musical, textual and audiovisual. Interview by Teresa Ruffino.... READ MORE...

La vibrazione primaria delle piante. Plants Dub: un progetto di musica vegetale

Ricerche scientifiche recenti dimostrano ampiamente che le piante emettono suoni e frequenze non percepibili dall’orecchio umano. Plants Dub ha pensato di lavorare sull’intelligenza comunicativa delle piante e hanno scoperto che, spesso, essa si svolge per via di uno scambio di segnali elettrochimici, trasformati dal duo in suono.... READ MORE...

Are we ready for a new revolution? Some reflections after Signal 2019

Comprehensively the theme of this 2019 edition of Signal, which took place from 10th to 13th of October, was the revolution: the 30th anniversary of the Czech Velvet Revolution, but also that of the present and the future, linked to the climate, social and technological changes of our time. Report and interview of Federica Fontana.... READ MORE...