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Werkleitz Festival opened successfully

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As part of the Werkleitz Festival move to ..., the international conference and discourse programme on digitalism new world dis/order will pose the critical question: In what kind of a future world do we want to live? The event features over 20 lectures, conversations and performances, radio documentaries and podcasts and can be viewed via livestream and visited on site in Halle (Saale). ... READ MORE...

“Seminarium”, a tech-poetic hothouse by Jesper Just

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With the total installation Seminarium, acclaimed Danish artist Jesper Just transforms Gammel Holtegaard into a tech-poetic hothouse for the bodies of plants and humans alike. Biology and technology fuse, virtually merging into a single organism living and breathing before our very eyes.... READ MORE...

Spatial Affairs: the impact of information technology on visual arts

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Simulazioni generate a computer, realtà virtuali, piattaforme digitali in rete (dal cyperspazio al metaverso) non sono più dei luoghi fittizi che si trovano nella letteratura di fantascienza. Il loro significato e ruolo è quasi sullo stesso piano degli spazi reali.... READ MORE...

The frontiers of contemporary robotics and bionics at Mudec

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From May 1st to August 1st 2021, Mudec - Museo delle Culture in Milan presents the exhibition ROBOT. The human project. From the first mechanical devices of ancient Greece to the new frontiers of Artificial Intelligence, man has always been attracted to the idea of creating an artificial fellow creature. The exhibition retraces the relationship between human beings and their doubles, revealing to the public the results achieved so far, the extraordinary technological developments and the frontiers of contemporary robotics and bionics.... READ MORE...

European ARTificial Intelligence Lab

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The SETI Institute in Mountain View, CA and the Ars Electronica Futurelab in Linz, Austria are announcing that Interspecifics (INT), an independent artistic research studio founded in Mexico City, are the winners of the AI Lab residency, SETI x AI. Interspecifics’ (INT) project is called Codex Virtualis. With Codex Virtualis, Interspecifics... READ MORE...

Germ Gem: Lucie Ketelsen speaks about bacterial iridescence

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Bacterial iridescence is an elusive, extra-ordinary phenomenon with something vital to show us in these precarious times. A unique natural occurrence in which self organization within bacterial colonies results in the creation of living photonic crystals, bacterial iridescence relies on a coming together, an organised signal arising out of the noise of disarray, visible as the bending of light. This phenomenon demonstrates that a microscopic, reductive view alone cannot account for what a bigger picture and a change of perspective affords us. Seeking to span diverse perspectives, scales and media by working directly with bacterial iridescence, this research project asks — how can we design with biological life?... READ MORE...

Che idea abbiamo della Natura? Alleanze tra scienza e scienze umane

L’artista Luca Matti che correda questo testo con le sue opere conferma che occuparsi di natura non significa banalmente ricercare una “naturalità” dell'uomo (che è creatura integralmente biologica), quanto ricercare quella dimensione “concreta” del suo scegliere, decidere, volere.... READ MORE...

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The shapes of electricity: “Current Age. The (in)visible networks”

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A network of cables – like veins in a human body – entangle our entire planet. They transport a commodity of unparalleled importance to human civilization: electricity. Studio Plastique investigates this seemingly indispensable source of energy in Z33.... READ MORE...

VR/AR: State of the Art, a research repository on Digicult

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From this week on, Digicult will host VR/AR: State of the Art, a research repository curated by Eleonora Stacchiotti. In partnership with the University of Utrecht, this project is part of Eleonora’s research internship at Digicult. The project wants to investigate the current uses and perception of Augmented and Virtual Reality in the art world.... READ MORE...

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“Voice of Void”, the project by Ho Tzu Nyen incorporating VR

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A new project by Ho Tzu Nyen, an acclaimed artist from Singapore World premiere: “Kyoto School” themed moving image installation incorporating VR. This is an exhibition to announce the new work by Ho Tzu Nyen, who is an internationally well-known Singaporean artist. The new work introduced at this exhibition is themed on the “Kyoto School,” an informal network... READ MORE...

OTHER SKIES: An Exoplanetary Festival

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On 20th March 2021, Multiverse Concert Series, CLOT Magazine, and SciArt Initiative present a new collaborative project, OTHER SKIES: An Exoplanetary Festival, a one-day online event exploring humanity’s relationship with the planets beyond our own solar system. At the heart of this event is the exhibition space: an immersive online environment specially created... READ MORE...

Biophilia: A handful of earth – 2020 ACC_R Residency Exhibition

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The experimental platform ACC_R Residency has been expanding fields: it has been inviting creators and researchers from Asia and other parts of the world to reflect on the challenges the humanity is facing and create contemporary discourse, of which Biophilia is the main theme. Three programs were run in close connection, organically supplementing each other.... READ MORE...

Bio Art and Design in the exhibition “Evolutionaries”

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The group exhibition Evolutionaries, Bio Art & Design from the Sea to the Soul, on view at MU Hybrid Art House this winter combines the working material wielded by the present and past winners of the Bio Art & Design (BAD) Award. Most of these works are the fruit of collaborations between artists and scientists working in the Netherlands and they address an array... READ MORE...

“Player of Beings”, the Relationship between Game and Human

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From one-dimensional knob and button, two-dimensional mouse and joystick, to three-dimensional motion sensor, the evolution of these interactive devices reflects a persistent desire to shorten the gap between reality and the game world. Activating traditional culture through the lens of new technology, game carries us to break the boundary of time.... READ MORE...

“Shaping the Invisible World”: Knowledge and Digital Photography

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The exhibition Shaping the Invisible World examines, through cartography, the representational forms of the map as a tool between knowledge and technology. The works of the artists on view negotiate the meaning of the map as a gauge of our digital, technological and global society.... READ MORE...

Regionale 21: Expanded Video Works

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HeK’s 2020 Regionale exhibition, «Regionale 21 – Expanded Video Works», focuses on the artistic use of moving images with a selection of videos, films and animations. The presented works share a formal and experimental creativity in their use of motion graphics software and video equipment.... READ MORE...

Brainstorming and AI for a visionary future

On Saturday 21st of November 2020, from the Sala Fucine OGR in Turin, in live in streaming on Zoom and Youtube, 2500 under 35s met in a digital event lasting 10 hours in the form of a collective brainstorming around to the topic “Which Borders in the New World?”. The objective of the Visionary Days project-event, now in its fourth edition, is to concretize the ideas... READ MORE...

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Taipei Biennial 2020

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The 12th edition of Taipei Biennial will open to the public from November 21, 2020 and run through March 14, 2021. The biennial, co-curated by French philosopher Bruno Latour and French independent curator Martin Guinard, together with Taiwanese independent curator Eva Lin, proposes a fictional “planetarium” within the museum, wherein the invited artists, activists and scientists will explore the tensions between the gravitational pull of different “planets.... READ MORE...