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The Algorithmic “unconscious” – Part 2

Eugenia Fratzeskou
This two-part essay offers an investigation of the 'depths' of the algorithmic workings of digital visualisation systems. The focal point of this study is digital 'memory', as explored in relation to the Algebras of Logic, the notions of process paradigm, pre-representational grids and emergence. In this way, the algorithmic unconscious' of digital visualisation technology - i.e. the inherent paradoxes and unknowns, the uncontrollable data flaws, the hidden inconsistencies, the exchanges and the potentialities of the system - is unveiled. New possibilities and ways of creating more than mere visual phenomena emerge... READ MORE...
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Arte Bio-diversa. Il Pav Di Torino, Tra Ecologia E Transgenesi

Laura Capuozzo
Artisti e biologi lavorano fianco a fianco per tentare di dare una risposta concreta a problemi come l'impatto dei cambiamenti climatici sull'ecosistema, la salvaguardia della bio-diversitˆ, la clonazione di esseri viventi. Temi che l'arte prende in carico, non pi rappresentandoli, ma proponendo soluzioni. Se la sopravvivenza dell'ecosistema globale  una prioritˆ non solo etica, l'artista, analizzando il nostro rapporto con la biosfera, vuole ricordarci l'intima connessione con essa e la necessitˆ della sua tutela. Ne discutiamo con Piero Gilardi, direttore dell'Art Program del PAV di Torino.... READ MORE...
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Phillip Stearns: Subliminal Machines

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Phillip Stearns creates at the intersection of art, philosophy, and science, drawing upon a variety of disciplines including installation, audio-video, circuit sculpture, writing, performance art and musical composition. Deconstruction, dissection, and reconfiguration are methods he commonly employs in the interrogation of materials ranging from electronic objects, biological systems, images, light, video, and sound. His process is that of reduction aimed at revealing hidden macrocosms of potential, new materials for expression, and new paths for inquiries into understanding the state of things.... READ MORE...
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A.i. And Landform Studies. The Rediscovery Of The Ontological Need

Simone Broglia
The philosophical twentieth century was characterized by an explosion of science and scientific nature which highlighted an idea of progress and progression of the human thought and evolution as something which does not need further questions. The idea that functionality and applicability of a theory can be applied to praxis, which executes and finalizes such theory, comes full circle... READ MORE...
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Tangible Feelings

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A symposium on EEG (and biofeedback) for the Arts. With the emergence of affordable EEG devices and other biofeedback sensors for the health and game industry, we see more and more artists inspired by these promising technologies in which they imagine the possibility of measuring one's emotions.... READ MORE...
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Koen Vanmechelen. Chickens, Chicks & Experimental Subjects

Silvia Casini
During the international arts exhibition LIV, International Art Exhibition in Venice, the Belgian artist Koen Vanmechelen will install a laboratory at the Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti, Palazzo Loredan, one of Venice most renowned buildings. It is a new stage of the artist's research on fertilization of arts and science, a project that Vanmechelen has been pursuing since the beginning of his career using all sorts of materials and techniques' sculpture, video, photography, multimodal installations, drawing.... READ MORE...
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Me, Myself And Twenty-three. Science And Narcissism 2.0

Nicola Bozzi
The first time I heard of 23andMe I was reading an article on 'Internazionale', few years ago. Founded by Anne Wojcicki, the company provides a series of data and statistics about individuals' genome to everyone who is keen enough to send his/her own spit to be examined. For those who might not know, Wojcicki is Sergei Brin's wife, one of Google's chiefs and one of the main investors of the project.... READ MORE...
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Art & Science A new art movement

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Science is changing our world and our lives at an ever increasing rate. But today artists are bringing science out of the laboratory. Once art and science seemed diametrically opposite; but these days some of the most innovative artists are fusing art and science to create a brand new art movement inspired by science. Striving to visualise the invisible and what it must mean to be human in the future, they create images and objects of stunning beauty, redefining the notion of aesthetic and of what is meant by art.... READ MORE...
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Biorhythm: Music And The Body

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Science Gallery is presenting Biorhythm: The Music and the Body as the first exhibition to ever appeared at the New York based World Science Festival last beginning of June and is now hosted at the Eyebeam Art + Technology Center in Chelsea The exhibition is made possible thanks to the support of Imagine Ireland, of Cordover Family Foundation and University of Dublin Fund.... READ MORE...
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Biorhytham: Music And The Body

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Science Gallery is presenting Biorhythm: The Music and the Body as the first exhibition to ever appeared at the New York based World Science Festival last beginning of June and is now hosted at the Eyebeam Art + Technology Center in Chelsea The exhibition is made possible thanks to the support of Imagine Ireland, of Cordover Family Foundation and University of Dublin Fund.... READ MORE...
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