Articles

A New Dark Age For Dutch Culture

The letter Meer dan kwaliteit' (More than Quality') by the State Secretary for Culture, Halbe Zijlstra (VVD, People's Party for Freedom and Democracy) arrived in the electronic mailboxes of Dutch art and cultural institutes on Friday, 10 June 2011. It stated that €200 million would be brutally slashed from the arts and culture budget, starting as early as 1 January 2013... READ MORE...

City Portraits. Teatro A Corte: Interview With Berlin

We interviewed Berlin before their participation to Teatro a Corte 2011. Berlin is a Belgium-based collective, built around Bart Baele and Yves Degryse. It started in 2003, when the group from Anversa was formed together with the actress Caroline Rochlitz, with the aim to develop a project dedicated to cities or regions able to tell stories of important and universal identities and humanities.... READ MORE...

Connect Art between media and reality

An exhibition with media art from the Swiss support programme Sitemapping / Bundesamt für Kultur (BAK) 2003–2011. Smart technologies, everywhere available and tailored to our needs, determine our daily lives. We gossip, have affairs, send and receive our information electronically. Even support for revolutions is stoked up virtually. Mobile phone, Email, WLAN, Apps, YouTube, Facebook or Twitter define not only our communication behaviour, but even our very existence. The world has become more transparent, we are always any time anywhere, at least we think we are.... READ MORE...

Certain Pleasure. Zhang Peili And Electronic Media

Zhang Peili is an enigmatic figure: while he is widely respected in China as a pioneering video artist and a progenitor of the use of electronic media in the wake of the 85 New Wave movement of the mid-1980s, his international reputation relies primarily on a small number of survey exhibitions motivated by multicultural agendas and staged amidst work of vastly divergent practical initiatives.... READ MORE...

The Image Of Sound. Yuri Ancarani’s Stomach

Yuri Ancarani (Ravenna, 1972) likes to define himself a visual artist/film maker. He developed his research by starting studying his territory, the land where he was born: the Riviera Romagnola. As for his music video Vicino al Cuore (2003), work that he claims to love the most, or Kras (Bora, 2011) or Carrara caves (Il Capo, 2010), he always succeeds to catch the invisible aspect that transmits to the public the meaning of those places.... READ MORE...

Festival SESC Videobrasil

The particularities of contemporary artistic production from the geopolitical South of the world inspire the Southern Panoramas Seminar, the main activity in the Educational Curatorial Program developed for the 17th International Contemporary Art Festival SESC_Videobrasil.... READ MORE...

Flussi 2011

Terza edizione per «Flussi», festival internazionale di arti digitali. Come tutti gli anni, sarà la terrazza del Teatro «Carlo Gesualdo» di Avellino il palcoscenico per i live set di artisti di spessore internazionale... READ MORE...

Share Prize 2011

Piemonte Share is announcing a new edition of the Share Prize, the international competition designed to discover, promote and support art in the digital age. Entries for the Share Prize can be submitted from 25th June to 20th August 2011, by completing the entry form on the website.... READ MORE...

Art & Science A new art movement

Science is changing our world and our lives at an ever increasing rate. But today artists are bringing science out of the laboratory. Once art and science seemed diametrically opposite; but these days some of the most innovative artists are fusing art and science to create a brand new art movement inspired by science. Striving to visualise the invisible and what it must mean to be human in the future, they create images and objects of stunning beauty, redefining the notion of aesthetic and of what is meant by art.... READ MORE...

Biorhythm: Music And The Body

Science Gallery is presenting Biorhythm: The Music and the Body as the first exhibition to ever appeared at the New York based World Science Festival last beginning of June and is now hosted at the Eyebeam Art + Technology Center in Chelsea The exhibition is made possible thanks to the support of Imagine Ireland, of Cordover Family Foundation and University of Dublin Fund.... READ MORE...

Translife: Media Art China

Following the groundbreaking international new media art exhibition "Synthetic Times", a 2008 Beijing Olympics Cultural Project, the National Art Museum of China presents "TransLife", the next installment of the "Media Art China" series, now instituted as a triennial, slated to open on July 26, 2011, in Beijing.... READ MORE...

Biorhytham: Music And The Body

Science Gallery is presenting Biorhythm: The Music and the Body as the first exhibition to ever appeared at the New York based World Science Festival last beginning of June and is now hosted at the Eyebeam Art + Technology Center in Chelsea The exhibition is made possible thanks to the support of Imagine Ireland, of Cordover Family Foundation and University of Dublin Fund.... READ MORE...

Tuned City: Tallin

Hear Tallinn with new ears! Buildings and architecture are usually described in visual terms. But it is often our sense of hearing which assists us in experiencing and navigating through the spaces of urban cities. There is no sound without space and no space without a sound.... READ MORE...