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“Cadavre exquis”: contemporary art through alternative lenses

Redazione DigicultNovember 6, 2019

For its second and last exhibition of the year, Phi presents "Cadavre exquis", an experience that replaces the sheet of paper with the infinite space of virtual reality. Going beyond conventional canons, the exhibition invites viewers, through technology, to enter the creative world of each artist.... READ MORE...

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Tagging Aesthetics #6: Memetic Representation. Interview with ANON

Nicola BozziOctober 23, 2019

The #AltWoke project was born from the efforts of a heterogenous collective called ANON that comprises theorists, activists, artists, and sex workers alike. The manifesto combines a taste for complex philosophical issues (around economic systems, automation, and AI) with a strong emphasis on the power of pop culture, especially African-American. Interview of Nicola Bozzi... READ MORE...

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“The Unknown Ideal”: a survey of Zach Blas practice

Redazione DigicultOctober 21, 2019

"The Unknown Ideal" is the first solo exhibition in Germany by London-based artist, filmmaker, and writer Zach Blas. His expansive practice includes an emphasis on the relationship between digital technologies and the cultures and politics that animate them.... READ MORE...

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Putting the culture in Digital Culture: Interview with Jeroen van Loon

Filippo LorenzinOctober 14, 2019

Filippo Lorenzin interviewed Jeroen Van Loon: the Dutch artist looks at new and older developments in digital culture to point out the interstices between the most debated themes in the so-called disruptive digital art.... READ MORE...

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Tagging Aesthetics #5: Feminist Politics of (Geo)Location. Interview with Helena Suárez Val

Nicola BozziSeptember 30, 2019

Nicola Bozzi interviews feminist activist and academic Helena Suárez Val about geo-tagging, the assignment of global positioning system (GPS) coordinates as metadata to a piece of content produced online. Helena's research stems from her own mapping of feminicides in her native Uruguay, an endeavour rooted in her background as both an activist and a programmer.... READ MORE...

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“REAL WORK”: Liz Magic Laser and Candice Breitz at FACT

Redazione DigicultJuly 19, 2019

New exhibition REAL WORK opens at FACT on 12 July 2019, including artworks by Liz Magic Laser and Candice Breitz. Continuing FACT’s year-long exploration into issues of identity and representation, the exhibition highlights the often-unheard voices of real people working in precarious situations across the globe.... READ MORE...

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Tagging Aesthetics #4: (Machine) Learning Stereotypes. Interview with Max Dovey

Nicola BozziJuly 17, 2019

Nicola Bozzi interviewed Max Dovey: working with stereotypes, tags, and algorithms in live settings, the UK-based artist has tried to define the “hipster” stereotype algorithmically, find out what makes a person male or female in a computer's eyes, and highlight the human labour necessary for machine learning. I spoke to him about a few of his artworks.... READ MORE...

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Edge of Now – Three Rooms Project

Redazione DigicultJuly 11, 2019

The exhibition Edge of Now – Three Rooms is a joined project by Nam June Paik Art Center of South Korea, the Chronus Art Center in Shanghai, and the ZKM | Karlsruhe to foster cultural exchange between China, South Korea, and Germany in the area of media art. The exhibition presents works by Chinese artist Yang Jian, South Korean artist Kim Heecheon, and German artist Verena Friedrich.... READ MORE...

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Tagging Aesthetics #3: Materialising Accountability. Interview with Simon Boas

Redazione DigicultJune 10, 2019

Artist Simon Boas has been working on the themes of accountability, consent, and privacy for several years, sometimes touching upon stereotype and identity as well. His works make me think of the collective definition of identity, the fact that people get entangled in wider and looser labels.... READ MORE...

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Artistic Intelligence

Redazione DigicultMay 29, 2019

The Kunstverein Hannover exhibition Artistic Intelligence is exploring the extent to which artists avail artificial intelligence in their artistic practice.... READ MORE...

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Tagging Aesthetics #2: Presence and Participation. Interview with Marguerite Kalhor

Nicola BozziMay 13, 2019

Marguerite Kalhor, through the selfie, the beauty tutorial, the food review and, more recently, video game reviews, uses established social media tropes to explore the performative dimension of online experience, often driven by anxiety and expectations. Interview by Nicola Bozzi.... READ MORE...

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Memesis: community and self-definition in the age of memes

Pierre ChaumontMay 6, 2019

Pierre Chaumont examines Memes, visual jokes that are made of an image of pop culture on which is added a humoristic text, and "Memesis", the process of a community creating itself through the spreading of its culture.... READ MORE...

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Tagging Aesthetics #1: Of Cats and Models. Interview with Jacopo Calonaci

Nicola BozziApril 11, 2019

Nicola Bozzi interviewed Jacopo Calonaci, an illustrator with a prankster's DNA. His Instagram account is a great example to discuss how starting an art project from scratch can muster up a following on what is probably the most competitive platform around.... READ MORE...

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Digital Unpleasant Design: Uncomfortable Websites and Demanding Services

Selena SavicApril 8, 2019

The way we navigate the internet is increasingly processed and shaped by algorithms. Selena Savic will look into the design of algorithms that we interact with on a day-to-day basis, from online purchases to social networks or surveillance systems.... READ MORE...

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Hito Steyerl’s Actual Reality at the Serpentine Galleries

Redazione DigicultApril 1, 2019

Hito Steyerl’s new project for the Serpentine Galleries considers power and inequality in society, mapping unequal wealth distribution in the communities surrounding London's gallery.... READ MORE...

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Tagging Aesthetics #0: a cultural critique of categorization in the age of social media

Nicola BozziMarch 27, 2019

Nicola Bozzi is interested in the double-edged nature of stereotypes and how categorization is a key part of the way we organize our online self.... READ MORE...

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“Synthetic Folklore”: Janek Simon’s first retrospective in Poland

Redazione DigicultMarch 1, 2019

The exhibition Synthetic Folklore by Janek Simon maps and decodes fifteen years of the artist’s work, organizing his various and almost too many, as he claims himself, preoccupations: from political geography, through artificial intelligence, financial speculations, DIY strategies, to post-colonial theory.... READ MORE...

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Producing Futures: An Exhibition on Post-Cyber-Feminisms

Redazione DigicultFebruary 25, 2019

In the group show Producing Futures—An Exhibition on Post-Cyber-Feminisms, the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst surveys the causes championed by feminists in the post-internet era. Our virtual and real lives are almost inextricably interwoven today. Yet contrary to the heady proclamations of the cyber-feminists of the 1990s, cyberspace has not evolved into a realm of unclouded liberation and self-empowerment.... READ MORE...

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