Art

Delete: The Virtue Of Oblivion. An Interview To Viktor Mayer-schonberger

In our digital era we have a large number of technologic devices at our disposal, that allow us to store informations about ourselves, and fulfills our greets ambition as human beings: a perfect, or rather quasi-perfect memory. This being consequentially followed by a deep turnover between the mechanisms of memory and oblivion: in analog media era, the action of forgetting is a natural biological process; to memorize, on the other hand, was more difficult and had certain costs. In contemporary digital society remembrance is a default operation, while forgetting has instead become a longer and more difficult process.... READ MORE...

Videostories And Videogames. Federico Solmi And His Douche Bag City

Game Over. If Federico Solmi's work was characterized by an ironic destruction of myths and (anti)heroes, and the violence of his narration faded into laughter, with his latest exhibit, From Uterus to Grave with no Happy Ending, and video installation Douche Bag City, his satire becomes more bitter and deals with a highly topical theme - as always-- and with a very personal style.... READ MORE...

digital life

DIGITAL LIFE, is a project dedicated to the digital future and to the cross-fertilization between technology, new media and contemporary artistic expressions. On the 3 March 2010, this project inaugurates La Pelanda, a new location in the newly refurbished ex-abattoirs in Testaccio for contemporary artistic and cultural productions. These premises have been renovated for the city by the Rome Municipality as part of the Zone attive Project.... READ MORE...

Artefact Festival for Art & Media

In On Gaps and Silent Documents international artists question the absence of documents and data in archives, data banks and memory. What is missing? Has it never been there or has it been removed? Does available information exist that is not looked at, read or used? Archives and data banks are primarily determined by these gaps and silent documents.... READ MORE...

The Wave Opus 1 transmediale.10

WAVE Berlin Panel Discussion. Fluctuations in the economy have become similar to global climate warnings : nobody knows exactly what will happen tomorrow, or whether the future will be bleak or bright. Uncertainty seems to become the only certain rule. Throughout the early 20th century, art was the forerunner of social, political and technological upheaval.... READ MORE...

Livecoding @ Anatomy Museum

The purpose of this event is to let people know about a new and exciting development in computer music research, livecoding. Several London-based researchers in this area will perform a short piece using livecoding techniques, thus helping the audience get a hang on this new and cross-disciplinary approach to music creation.... READ MORE...

transmediale.10 Futurity Now

The Book Sprint, an intensive and innovative methodology for the rapid development of books, is being hosted by transmediale, together with FLOSS Manuals in the run-up to the festival. Six people will be locked in a room in Berlin for 5 days to produce a book with the sole guiding meme being the title – Collaborative Futures. They will create the concept, write the book, and output it to print in 5 days. With Michael Mandiberg (New York), Mushon Zer-Aviv (New York), Mike Linksvayer (San Francisco), Marta Peirano (Berlin), Alan Toner (Berlin), and Adam Hyde (Berlin)... READ MORE...

Spazialismo

Bitforms gallery is pleased to announce Spazialismo, a group exhibition that examines Lucio Fontana's concepts in the 1940s and 50s about how we consider structures of space in the modern, yet natural, world. The exhibit is also intended to serve as a vehicle for contemporary review of Spatialist texts - such as "Manifesto Blanco" (1946), "Movinetto Spazialle"(1948), "Manifesto tecnico della Spazialismo" (1951) and the enthusiastic "Television Manifesto" (1952).... READ MORE...

Being in the world

The Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO) is proud to present Being in the World: Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, an exhibition curated by Berta Sichel on view from December 2, 2009 to March 07, 2010, coinciding with Art Basel Miami Beach (Dec. 2-6 2009).  ... READ MORE...

Pixxelpoint 2009

Kulturni Dom Nova Gorica (Slovenia) is proud to announce the 10th edition of the International New Media Art Festival Pixxelpoint, that will open at the Mestna galerija Nova Gorica on December 4, 2009, at 8.00 PM. The festival will take place from December 4 to December 11, 2009, and will have two venues: the Mestna Galerija Nova Gorica, every day from 9.00 AM to 7.00 PM; and the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Gorizia (Via Carducci 2, Gorizia), every day from 2.00 to 7.00 PM. ... READ MORE...

Art Tech Media International Conference

The conference will serve as a meeting point for art, creativity, and innovation. It will also raise institutional, entrerprise and social awareness, nationally and internationally, of the challenges and threats that new information and communication technologies bring for the construction of a Knowledge Society that will define the future of Spain and the whole world.  ... READ MORE...