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Ideas in the making: Haus der Kulturen der Welt

Redazione DigicultFebruary 1, 2016

Ideas in the making: HKW focuses its work on long-term research across artistic, scientific and academic borders. It aims to produce new perspectives on war and violence, and on how the relationship between humanity and technology is changing and what new time regimes evolve from this.... READ MORE...

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Electronic Superhighway (2016-1966)

Redazione DigicultFebruary 1, 2016

A major exhibition bringing together over 100 works to show the impact of computer and Internet technologies on artists from the mid-1960s to the present day. The exhibition features new and rarely seen multimedia works, together with film, painting, sculpture, photography and drawing.... READ MORE...

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“Faccia a faccia” con il design: i volti più famosi

Redazione DigicultJanuary 28, 2016

Arredare perfettamente un immobile è questione di stile e funzionalità, bilanciate in modo da valorizzare entrambe le componenti. Solo i più grandi artisti del design sanno creare l'equilibrio perfetto di creatività, gusto e versatilità che trasformano un mobile o una decorazione in una vera e propria opera d'arte, sia questa minimalista o ardita.... READ MORE...

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Zina Saro-Wiwa: From Nollywood to the Niger Delta

Redazione DigicultJanuary 27, 2016

Saro-Wiwa’s films began as explorations of both performance and story-telling inspired by the aesthetics and heightened dramatic narrative of Nollywood films. The artist uses constructed drama to expose the raw vulnerability involved in demonstrating love, enactments of belief and expressions of sorrow.... READ MORE...

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n + n Corsino: Surf and Surfaces

Redazione DigicultJanuary 26, 2016

The exhibition Surf and Surfaces presents a total of 7 choreographic navigations from n + n Corsino’s oeuvre, each an elaborate construction of real and virtual images and figures, from sounds, languages, words to letters.... READ MORE...

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Slow, Simple, Sweet by Alain Biltereyst

Redazione DigicultJanuary 25, 2016

Slow, Simple, Sweet is the first solo exhibition by Belgian artist Alain Biltereyst in Italy. Biltereyst continues to explore shapes and colours through his plywood paintings series. Although his small paintings tend to be abstract, the artist always starts from an existing (urban) reality.... READ MORE...

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Neoliberal Lulz: combining art and corporate strategies

Redazione DigicultJanuary 25, 2016

With each downturn and recession, it has become ever more apparent that a handful of investment banks and corporations hold immense power over our everyday lives. Neoliberal Lulz brings together work by five artists who interrogate this relationship and respond by adopting corporate strategies to their own ends.... READ MORE...

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Caecilia Tripp: Going Space

Redazione DigicultJanuary 22, 2016

Tripp has always taken an interest in the question of construction, fluidity, and getting beyond identities, Caecilia Tripp’s solo exhibition brings together an emblematic collection of earlier works that the artist has produced since 2004, as well as a number of new pieces that can be seen for the first time.... READ MORE...

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Deepweb: Kinetic Audiovisual Installation

Redazione DigicultJanuary 21, 2016

Deep Web is a monumental immersive audiovisual installation created by light artist Christopher Bauder and composer and musician Robert Henke. Sublimating the spectacular industrial architecture of Kraftwerk Berlin, Deep Web plunges the audience into a ballet of iridescent kinetic light and surround sound.... READ MORE...

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List Projects: Ann Hirsch

Redazione DigicultJanuary 21, 2016

Ann Hirsch is part of a young generation of artists using the Internet and social media as platforms to investigate representations of gender and sexuality in popular culture. List Projects: Ann Hirsch features three bodies of work the artist’s self-described “greatest hits”.... READ MORE...

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Carlo Zanni’s ViBo: Koh-i-N∞r

Redazione DigicultJanuary 20, 2016

ViBo is one of the alternative models of distribution of the video art, towards those present on the market, elaborated by an Italian artist Carlo Zanni. He aims at democratisation of the digital art distribution methods, conflicting with the category of uniqueness desired on the market.... READ MORE...

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The enhanced listening experience. Resonate by Naakte Ontwerpers

Martina RaponiJanuary 20, 2016

On a quiet morning in The Hague, I had the pleasure of meeting Tommy de Bruijn and Sam Van ‘t Oever, also known as De Naakte Ontwerpers. Tommy and Sam are two young designers who developed a device able of creating an experience which allows to listen not only through the ears, but also through the flesh.... READ MORE...

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Transmediale/conversationpiece 2016

Redazione DigicultJanuary 19, 2016

Following the program announcement from last month, we are pleased to announce further participants from the realms of art, culture, and media, who will gather for transmediale/conversationpiece, to take place at Haus der Kulturen der Welt from 3-7 February 2016.... READ MORE...

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NOME presents Quayola’s solo show Iconographies in Berlin

Redazione DigicultJanuary 18, 2016

Quayola’s Iconographies are part of an ongoing project that analyzes Renaissance and Baroque paintings through computational methods. Quayola transforms religious and mythological scenes into complex abstract formations, creating alternative versions of the old masterpieces by removing the paintings from their historical narratives.... READ MORE...

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Manfred Mohr: Artificiata II

Redazione DigicultJanuary 14, 2016

For his second exhibition at Carroll / Fletcher, digital art pioneer Manfred Mohr presents a series of new pieces mapping his formal investigations of theoretical space in generative screen-based works, drawings, and inkjet paintings.... READ MORE...

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Streaming Egos: the Goethe-Institut launches a project tackling “digital identities”

Redazione DigicultJanuary 14, 2016

The European project ‘Streaming Egos’, based on an idea by the Goethe-Instituts of south-west Europe and in cooperation with the Slow Media Institut and the NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, explores the risks, limits and advantages of having a digital identity which is often too far from real life... READ MORE...

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LOOP Barcelona 2016: “[video] art & cinema. Faraway, So Close!”

Redazione DigicultJanuary 14, 2016

LOOP 2016 will draw attention to the hybrid zone between cinema and artists’ films and videos. Many artists experiment with the thin line between cinema and the moving image, which are seeking to expand their practice in the creation of pieces for the exhibition space.... READ MORE...

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Kohei Nawa. A Japanese artist beyond cultural stereotypes

Donata MarlettaJanuary 13, 2016

Born in the ancient city of Kyoto (Japan) in 1975, Kohei Nawa studied at the Kyoto City University of Art, and in 1998 moved to London. The symbolic art of Buddhism and Japanese Shintoism are additional Nawa’s influential inspirations that characterise several of his idiosyncratic works.... READ MORE...

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