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Architecture: Between Weather and Electromagnetic Radiation – part 2

Selena Savic
How do building properties affect the propagation of radio waves? How has this been addressed in building design? How could we bring the thinking about connectivity in space closer to architects? In line with Reyner Banham's criticism of the division of the buildings creation process into two intellectually separate parts, this article focuses specifically on the way buildings filter the propagation of wireless communication signals. arguing for a holistic approach.... READ MORE...
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Lorna Mills: The great code

Redazione Digicult
TRANSFER presents the gallery's third solo exhibition with Lorna Mills animated gifs, a suitable analogy for the heterodox and nonlinear manner we now consume information, that could be a new model for the Western tradition of thought. The exhibition will include a closing screening event coinciding with TRANSFER's 5-Year Anniversary.... READ MORE...
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Afro-Tech and the Future of Re-Invention

Redazione Digicult
Starting from a research trip undertaken by Inke Arns through various African countries in 2014, a new exhibition at The Hartware MedienKunstVerein puts Afrofuturism in dialogue with alternative technological solutions and imaginations. The speculative narratives unfolding in the artworks on display are confronted with actual inventions from maker scenes.... READ MORE...
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Darren Almond: The light between us

Redazione Digicult
In the context of Progetto XXI 2018 edition at MADRE in Naples there is an ongoing solo exhibition by Darren Almond. Promoted by Fondazione Donnaregina per le arti contemporanee, in collaboration with Polo museale della Campania and Incontri Internazionali d'Arte, the exhibition brings together works from different chapters of Almond's research, suspended between digital and analogue language.... READ MORE...
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Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today

Redazione Digicult
Organized by Eva Respini, Barbara Lee and Jeffrey De Blois, and featuring 60 artists, the first major thematic group exhibition in the United States to examine the radical impact of internet culture on visual art is opening today at ICA. The exhibition comprises over 70 works across a variety of mediums, including painting, performance, photography, video, web-based projects, and virtual reality.... READ MORE...
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Architecture: Between Weather and Electromagnetic Radiation – part 1

Selena Savic
How do building properties affect the propagation of radio waves? How has this been addressed in building design? How could we bring the thinking about connectivity in space closer to architects? In line with Reyner Banham's criticism of the division of the buildings creation process into two intellectually separate parts, this article focuses specifically on the way buildings filter the propagation of wireless communication signals. arguing for a holistic approach.... READ MORE...
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Human-data interaction in the age of Industry 4.0 – part 2

Maddalena Mometti
In exploring the influence that the 4.0 Industry technologies have in redefining the relationship between man and machine, a key issue to be analysed is constituted by the relationship between the individual and data. The main tool that is used to reason around the data is visualization. Through his visual research, Kim Albrecht transforms data and numbers into images to understand the world, using visual and graphical elements to create knowledge.... READ MORE...
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“Future Love”: desire and kinship in hypernature

Redazione Digicult
The new exhibition at HeK Basel offers critical, unconventional and imaginative views on our impending life while commenting on the impact of new technologies and social media on our affective relationships and sexuality. Moving from a postdigital background, the international artists participating in this exhibition tackle these questions through a variety of media, from biotechnologies to virtual reality.... READ MORE...
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Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz: “Improvisation télépathique”

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Centre culturel suisse presents, for the first time in Europe, Improvisation télépathique (Telepathic Improvisation), installation and film by Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz that, with reference to current violent social conditions, explores the ways in which others (including other objects) might become part of our striving for alternative political and sexual imaginations.... READ MORE...
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Round table on Art, Science and Ecology in the Anthropocene era

Redazione Digicult
The environmental crisis, which has become an urgent and crucial issue in our contemporary world, is having a noticeable impact on cultural and visual art production. On this round table Andreco will present his most recent artwork, “Climate Art Project”. Marco Mancuso will present the new issue of the Digimag Journal together with Claudio Musso, Fabiola Naldi and Andrea Lerda.... READ MORE...
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Lisa Reihana – Cinemania

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Campbelltown Arts Centre presents Cinemania, Lisa Reihana's first survey, showcasing three decades of video and photographic works and her most ambitious work to date, in Pursuit of Venus [infected], 2015-17, following its premiere at the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017. This exhibition traces Reihana's preoccupation with identity and costume, life and death, and the creation of compelling "otherworlds".... READ MORE...
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“La Camera Insabbiata” by Laurie Anderson and Hsin-Chien Huang

Redazione Digicult
The edition on view at TFAM is the first time La Camera Insabbiata is shown after awarded Best VR Experience at the 74th Venice International Film Festival. This is a virtual reality work, collaborated by Laurie Anderson and new media artist Hsin-Chien Huang, that offers a virtual thinking space that surpasses thoughts, deconstructs words and overturns dreams for the audience.... READ MORE...
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