Science

The Posthuman City: Climates. Habitats. Environments

Redazione DigicultOctober 30, 2019

Taking NTU CCA Singapore’s overarching research topic "Climates. Habitats. Environments." as point of departure, the exhibition "The Posthuman City" considers the possibilities of a caring and respectful co-existence between species and a conscious sharing of resources.... READ MORE...

The Extended Mind / Walk, Hands, Eyes (Edinburgh)

Redazione DigicultOctober 30, 2019

Talbot Rice Gallery and the University of Edinburgh are proud to present the exhibition "The Extended Mind" and Myriam Lefkowitz’s "Walk, Hands, Eyes (Edinburgh)", a unique city-wide performance event. Talbot Rice Gallery seeks to unlock the potential of universities to contribute to contemporary art, with both projects rooted in research called the History of Distributed Cognition (2014–18).... READ MORE...

Floraphilia. Revolution of Plants

Redazione DigicultOctober 28, 2019

The exhibition "Floraphilia. Revolution of Plants", curated by Aneta Rostkowska, frees the world of plants from the reactionary context of interior design magazines and eco-trends, revealing its emancipatory potential leading to social transformation.... READ MORE...

Discovering digital and creative cultures at KIKK Festival 2019

Redazione DigicultOctober 28, 2019

The Kikk Festival programme features a plethora of presentations with over 50 speakers from all over the world. In a Town city trail, the ninth edition includes impressive installations all over the city: it will showcase new technologies and celebrate all their facets, from art and design to architecture, 2.0 media, the world of science and even business.... READ MORE...

False Spaces

Redazione DigicultOctober 25, 2019

Tokyo Arts and Space (TOKAS) introduces media art from both Japan and Hong Kong via "False Spaces", an exhibition that investigates not only geographical, physical spaces, but the spaces that appear in our imaginations as well.... READ MORE...

Trees of Life. Stories for a damaged Planet

Redazione DigicultOctober 21, 2019

The Frankfurter Kunstverein, in cooperation with the Senckenberg Naturmuseum, will present "Trees of Life - Stories for a Damaged Planet", an interdisciplinary exhibition project that leads our gaze from a historically cultivated, anthropocentric worldview to a systemic understanding of humans as a part of the evolutionary process.... READ MORE...

Screen City Biennial 2019: Ecologies – lost, found and continued

Redazione DigicultOctober 11, 2019

A growing attention to environmental thinking mirrors a global acknowledgement and urgency of the need to rethink the human place in the biosphere and how we are connected to the world. The Screen City Biennial 2019 sets out to present, facilitate and examine art and artistic, that raise questions of how human action affects the ecologies with which it is implicated.... READ MORE...

Lawrence Lek’s “Farsight Freeport”: a journey into the year 2069

Redazione DigicultSeptember 20, 2019

With "Farsight Freeport", HeK (House of Electronic Arts Basel) presents the first solo exhibition in Switzerland of Lawrence Lek. With his immersive, virtual worlds and electronic soundtracks, the London-based artist has developed an independent and unique visual language.... READ MORE...

“Training Humans”: an exhibition by Kate Crawford and Trevor Paglen

Redazione DigicultSeptember 18, 2019

Fondazione Prada presents "Training Humans", a landmark exhibition conceived by Kate Crawford and Trevor Paglen. "Training Humans" is the first major photography exhibition devoted to training images: the collections of photos used to train artificial intelligence (Al) systems in how to "see" and categorize the world.... READ MORE...

Uncanny Values: a map of uncanny places, and how to get through them

Bianca CavutiSeptember 13, 2019

Uncanny Values: Artificial Intelligence & You is an exhibition presented by the Mak of Vienna as part of the Vienna Biennale for Change of this year, called Brave New Virtues. Shaping our digital world. Artists, designers and architects have tried to develop new ways of seeing, with which to imagine and model our future actively and positively.... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag – Issue 84, 3rd Quarter 2019Science

Cosmological Arrows. Journeys through inner and outer space

Redazione DigicultSeptember 10, 2019

The exhibition Cosmological Arrows gathers a group of contemporary artists who use science fiction and space to pose fundamental questions about humankind’s existence and how we treat the world we live in.... READ MORE...

Ryoji Ikeda. A Cosmic Journey from Infinitesimal to Astronomical

Redazione DigicultSeptember 9, 2019

Ryoji Ikeda's solo exhibition has officially opened on the ground floor of Taipei Fine Arts Museum. The selected artworks include large-scale sound sculptures, audiovisual installations, light boxes and two-dimensional works, which are newly conceived and exhibited for the very first time, forming an immersive space-time landscape that vaults from microscopic to macroscopic dimensions.... READ MORE...

Blind Sensorium. Il Paradosso dell’Antropocene

Redazione DigicultSeptember 6, 2019

Blind Sensorium. Il Paradosso dell’Antropocene is the culmination of ten years’ artistic inquiry by photographer and filmmaker Armin Linke and collaborators into the forces that change the face of the Earth.... READ MORE...

Designs for Different Futures

Redazione DigicultJuly 23, 2019

The role of designers in shaping how we think about the future is the subject of a major exhibition that will premiere at the Philadelphia Museum of Art this fall. Designs for Different Futures brings together some 80 works that address the challenges and opportunities that humans may encounter in the years, decades, and centuries ahead.... READ MORE...

The Coming World: Ecology as the New Politics 2030–2100

Redazione DigicultJuly 22, 2019

This Earth Day, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow is pleased to announce highlights from its upcoming show "The Coming World: Ecology as the New Politics 2030–2100", which marks the first major exhibition in Russia to explore the subjects of ecology and the environment.... READ MORE...

Alliance of Women in Media Arts and Sciences Conference 2020

Redazione DigicultJuly 19, 2019

The main goal of AWMAS conference is to provide a platform for the exchange of ideas and experiences emerging from the intersection of science and applied art. Emphasis is placed on the various aspects of the mutual benefits of the integration and interaction between science and media arts.... READ MORE...

Speculative Landscapes

Redazione DigicultJuly 12, 2019

This fall, The Art Gallery of New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) invites viewers into the imagined worlds of four UAE-based artists. "Speculative Landscapes" is a series of new installations through which each artist explores the very concept of environment (natural, artificial, virtual).... READ MORE...

“Empathic Systems”: three solo shows on the relationship between humans and technology

Redazione DigicultJune 26, 2019

The exhibition "Empathic Systems" revolves around the complex emotional relationship between humans and technology. Communication processes no longer only happen from human to human, but between humans and technology. Netzhammer, Jansen and Todo work at the intersection of engineering and computer science with psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience and ethics.... READ MORE...