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The Forces behind the Forms. Geology, Matter, Process in Contemporary Art

Redazione DigicultMarch 24, 2016

Nature as a phenomenon to investigate the social and spiritual dimensions. This is the key feature of the exhibition The Forces behind the Forms, present until July in Krefeld (Germany). A dialogue between geology and contemporary arts that explore the new space and modes of composition, and as well induce the human being to think about himself.... READ MORE...

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Bill Vorn. Immersed in a world of robots, metaphors, and paradoxes

Donata MarlettaMarch 15, 2016

Bill Vorn is a Canadian artist and academic based in Montréal. He has worked on performance, interactive installations, experimental soundtracks, soundtrack scores, and sound editing, creating components for film, video, and various other artistic projects. His works have been shown at major international media art festivals and events... READ MORE...

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Big, Open & Beautiful #9. Hack the Body

Redazione DigicultMarch 14, 2016

What is the relationship between us and the technology? Between our body and our intimacy and new technological information? At the Big, Open & Beautiful: Hack the Body presents on March 23 in Amsterdam, academics and artists will discuss the significant impact of technology in our lives, in our bodies.... READ MORE...

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Fourth Trondheim biennale: Meta.Morf 2016

Redazione DigicultMarch 8, 2016

The fourth Trondheim biennale - Meta.Morf 2016 - will showcase artists, writers and scientists that in various ways take a closer look at man as interstellar traveller, and how we at the beginning of this millennium are about to redefine our relationship with the stars and, consequently, ourselves.... 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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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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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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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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Everything is Connected to Everyone: An Interview with Artist Simona Koch

Filippo LorenzinFebruary 3, 2016

Men and nature, men are nature, man or nature: these are just some of the most recurrent questions at the center of German artist Simona Koch’s research. She has developed several works and side projects that deal not just with the aforementioned themes, but also with politics, history of humankind and psychology.... READ MORE...

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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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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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Redefine: Multiple Perspectives and Possibilities in Network Era

Redazione DigicultJanuary 13, 2016

The exhibition aims to explore the possibility of constructing our knowledge of the world through diverse, shifting conceptual perspectives, maintaining clarity and shaping individuality within a constantly shifting reality.... READ MORE...

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Superconversations: Machines that Matter

Redazione DigicultDecember 18, 2015

Superconversations: Machines that Matter brings together a range of thinkers and artists concerned with the intersection of technology and immanence, questioning the logic of vitalism while developing that of mechanism. The symposium builds upon several themes from e-flux’s Supercommunity / Superconversations and forms the final instalment of a planetary series of in-person and simulcast video conversations.... READ MORE...

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David Link’s Monster Resurrection: an archaeology of calculating machines

Redazione DigicultDecember 17, 2015

Monster Resurrection, a video installation by the artist and theorist David Link, portrays four British engineers and curators who practiced media archeology long before the humanities discovered this theme. The collection of interviews follows the team leaders of these four projects, their careers, the emergence of their interest in old apparatuses and the completion of the reconstruction project in detail.... READ MORE...

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Lesions in the Landscape by Shona Illingworth. A report from FACT Liverpool

Kirsten HawkinsDecember 17, 2015

How would it be if you could not form memories – Who are you really without the memories that make you who you are? Can we talk in terms of past, present and fu... READ MORE...

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