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KUB Billboards 2016

Redazione DigicultMarch 7, 2016

Starting in 2016, KUB Billboards constitute a new, independent line of programming to enhance the visibility of a younger generation of artists, positioning them right at the center of Bregenz’ public eye. The KUB Billboards concentrate in particular on those artists who have been growing up in the midst of recent epochal turning points... READ MORE...

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Ryoichi Kurokawa: Unfold

Redazione DigicultMarch 3, 2016

A unique and sensory exhibition from acclaimed Japanese artist Ryoichi Kurokawa, transporting audiences into space through beautifully visual and sonic environments to showcase the birth of stars. This groundbreaking, cross-disciplinary exhibition will be Japanese artist Ryoichi Kurokowa’s first UK solo show and will bring together the fields of art and science.... READ MORE...

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Hacking Habitat. Art of control

Redazione DigicultMarch 2, 2016

Hacking Habitat. Art of control is an international exhibition on the cutting edge of art, technology and social change. 86 internationally acclaimed artists present new and existing work in the former prison at Utrecht Wolvenplein, Netherlands. It presents a highly topical and urgent theme: how we are controlled by high-tech systems and how to restore the relationship between humans and machines.... READ MORE...

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Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige: I Must First Apologize…

Redazione DigicultMarch 2, 2016

I Must First Apologize… is the culmination of a major project by Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, an exhibit featuring an extensive body of work in film, sculpture, photography, and installation looking at the history of online spam and scamming. The artists have collected and archived more than 4,000 scams, a certain kind of spam email since 1999.... READ MORE...

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Right Here Right Now: combining and collaborating in a digital landscape

Kirsten HawkinsMarch 1, 2016

Right Here Right Now has been the first exhibition of its kind to be held at The Lowry, acting as a digital showcase led by curator Lucy Dusgate and her team. The installations and works on display combine visual arts with other fields, such as video, coding, electronics and sound engineering.... READ MORE...

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Sublime. The tremors of the world

Redazione DigicultFebruary 26, 2016

Gathering over a hundred artists, architects, and filmmakers worldwide, Sublime. The tremors of the world offers a dialogue between ancient and contemporary works. It explores the ambivalent and persisting attraction for the “Nature too far” (Victor Hugo) and catastrophes.... READ MORE...

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Dresses, natural elements and weather in the age of high-tech fashion

Maddalena MomettiFebruary 25, 2016

The dress was historically born as a defence of the body from the elements and, at the same time, in response to natural human instinct for aesthetics. In contemporary fashion, thanks to the evolution of art, technology and science, the relationship with weather's elements is much more complex.... READ MORE...

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Ragnar Kjartansson

Redazione DigicultFebruary 24, 2016

The Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (MAC) is pleased and proud to welcome Ragnar Kjartansson and the unique world he conveys through ironic humour and a philosophical melancholy. This internationally acclaimed Icelandic artist combines music, theatre, performance, visual arts and film in works filled with romantic suffering that unfold over time.... READ MORE...

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!Mediengruppe Bitnik. Random Darknet Shopper

Redazione DigicultFebruary 23, 2016

!Mediengruppe Bitnik live and work in Zurich/London. They are contemporary artists working on and with the Internet. Their practice expands from the digital to affect physical spaces, often intentionally applying loss of control to challenge established structures and mechanisms.... READ MORE...

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Tempo Reale presenta: TRK. SOUND CLUB

Redazione DigicultFebruary 22, 2016

Dall'urgenza di portare – con modalità nuove e originali - le ultime tendenze della musica di ricerca, nasce TRK. SOUND CLUB, il nuovo progetto di Tempo Reale in collaborazione con la Galleria Poggiali e Forconi completamente dedicato alla scena sperimentale internazionale.... READ MORE...

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Sonic Acts Academy

Redazione DigicultFebruary 18, 2016

Sonic Acts Academy is a new platform that aims to grow, expand, sustain and disseminate stimulating discourse about artistic research. The academy invites artists and theorists to expand on their research through workshops, masterclasses, lectures, concerts, film screenings and work presentations... READ MORE...

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Self-Made Media. Matteo Marangoni and instrument inventors initiative

Martina RaponiFebruary 17, 2016

My first contact with Matteo Marangoni, and with the collective he is part of, iii, occurred on the occasion of the Reading Room, a series of group readings supported by iii. In this series of events contemporary researchers, cultural theorists, philosophers, and artists are invited to share texts with the audience... READ MORE...

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SHAPE platform announces 2016 list of artists

Redazione DigicultFebruary 17, 2016

A 3-year initiative co-funded by the Creative Europe program of the European Union, the SHAPE project reunites 16 European non-profit organizations active within the ICAS create a platform that aims to support, promote, and exchange innovative and aspiring emergent musicians and interdisciplinary artists with an interest in sound.... READ MORE...

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Culturegraphy: understanding the world through networks

Redazione DigicultFebruary 16, 2016

Culturegraphy investigates cultural information exchange over time also known as ‘memes’. These networks can provide new insights into the rich interconnections of cultural development. The graphics represent complex relationships of movie references by combining macro views summarizing 100 years of movie influences.... READ MORE...

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Aether & Einstein: Christine Ödlund at Magasin III

Redazione DigicultFebruary 15, 2016

The exhibition transforms Magasin III into a laboratory of sorts where, among other things, the artist examines the communication between humans and plants. As a visitor to this magical world, one is offered the opportunity to discover and explore the interplay between the senses.... READ MORE...

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AL and AL: Incidents of Travel in the Multiverse

Redazione DigicultFebruary 15, 2016

Inspired by this revolutionary concept, the artists have undertaken three multiverse journeys across space and time, travelling from the atomic scale reality of DNA into the mind of thinking machines in the future who believe Alan Turing is their creator, through to the point of no return at the edge of a black hole.... READ MORE...

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Videonale in Lagos: Changing City – Shifting Spaces

Redazione DigicultFebruary 12, 2016

With the topic Changing City – Shifting Spaces, Videonale in Lagos explores the dynamics of urban space in a video art workshop for artists based in Nigeria, led by the internationally acclaimed Anglo-Ethiopian video artist Theo Eshetu.... READ MORE...

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Staging Film: the relation of image and space in video art

Redazione DigicultFebruary 11, 2016

The exhibition is constructed along two main curatorial axes. The first highlights the literal act of staging through which each of the featured artists conceives and presents their video(s) within a distinct physical space. The second, a metaphorical one, emphasizes the process by which the artists present their subjects within the films themselves.... READ MORE...

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