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The Handbook of Visual Culture

Silvia Bertolotti
The Handbook of Visual Culture is now available in paperback format, edited by Bloomsbury Publishing. It includes several contributions by scholars and professionals challenging the vitality and complexity of visual culture research with a cross-disciplinary approach and a special interest in cyber and digital culture.... READ MORE...
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hyle. Dialoghi transdisciplinari sul design

Carla Langella
Al Riot Studio di Napoli una mostra curata da Francesco Dell'Aglio, Enza Migliore e Chiara Scarpitti presenta una dimensione inconsueta del design italiano, in cui arte, design, poesia e artigianato dialogano tra loro intrecciandosi in una serie di progetti e visioni che propongono ciascuno un diverso modo di sentire la città.... READ MORE...
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salt 13: Katie Paterson

Redazione Digicult
Katie Paterson's works involve close collaboration with biochemists, engineers and astrophysicists, and explore space and time, often using technology to combine ordinary with cosmic. Some of these are on display at salt 13, the UMFA exhibition series dedicated to contemporary art.... READ MORE...
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Remedial Works

Redazione Digicult
Currently on view at Perth Insititute of Contemporary Art a group exhibition presenting six Australian and international artists whose works explore the specific materials of contemporary global societies, and how they can affect human bodies and the environment, by asking what role can art making perform towards remediation and healing.... READ MORE...
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Florian Hecker. Hallucination, Perspective, Synthesis

Redazione Digicult
German artist Florian Hecker works with synthetic sounds, performances, and installations dealing with issues surrounding compositional developments in post-war modernity and late-19th-century psychophysics. For his new show, he has transformed Kunsthalle Wien's exhibition space into a stage for sound events that exceed linguistic description and categorization.... READ MORE...
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Instrumentarium. Interview with Jean-François Laporte

Giulia DeVal
The composer Jean-François Laporte assembles simple objects to transform them into real musical instruments, sometimes controlled by electronic devices. With their strong installation presence these artifacts are linked not only to the musical world but also to the performing arts and theatre, in a perfect balance on the line that connects the concepts of object, artifact and instrument.... READ MORE...
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1948 Unbound. Unleashing the technical present

Redazione Digicult
At Haus Der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, From November 30th to December 2nd a series of lectures, performative elements, gatherings and installations, all differing in duration, visibility, and interaction will investigate the year 1948 as the saddle point in forming the planetary re-arrangement process that now goes by the name “technosphere.”... READ MORE...
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Bill Fontana: Shadow Soundings

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Bill Fontana realized a new immersive sound and video installation expecially for MAAT’s Oval Gallery in Lisbon. Shadow soundings was created from the sounds and vibrations of the 25th of April Bridge and the Tagus River amplifying them until they acquire a musical quality.... READ MORE...
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Digicult at 8208 Lightining Design Festival 2017

Redazione Digicult
Next Saturday 18 November 2017 Federica Fontana will be special guest at 8208 Lighting Design Festival, at Accademia di Belle Arti Aldo Galli - IED Como to talk about Digicult, the philosophy behind the project, its networking strategies from 2005, its open and free culture production activities within interdisciplinary fields of international contemporary Media Art.... READ MORE...
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When smart homes become smart prisons

Roxanne Leitão
The continued development of the Internet of Things (IoT) with little to no standards nor regulation, in the US and Europe, opens the door not only to concerns regarding corporate data exploitation and state surveillance but also to surveillance, coercion, and control within intimate relationships.... READ MORE...
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Nonhuman Networks

Redazione Digicult
A current exhibition in Berlin takes into account recent philosophical approaches which emphasises nonhuman perspectives through object-oriented ontology. Through works by artists Saša Spačal, Mirjan Švagelj, Anil Podgornik and Heather Barnett it introduces an aesthetics of new forms of communication between human and nonhuman actors.... READ MORE...
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Alfredo Jaar: A Logo for America

Redazione Digicult
Reproduced widely around the world, Alfredo Jaar’s iconic public intervention A Logo for America has become one of the artists best known works. Programa de Arte Contemporáneo en Torre Colpatria de Bogotá and Babel Media Art just announced its first presentation in Colombia, designed for one of the tallest buildings and an icon in Bogotá.... READ MORE...
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