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Eva & Franco Mattes “What Has Been Seen”: a reflection on our networked condition

Redazione DigicultDecember 11, 2019

With humour and irreverence, Eva & Franco Mattes dissect, test, and redefine the boundaries of art and the Internet. Since the mid-1990s, the artistic duo has probed and engaged with the way contemporary societies have shaped the networked world and, perhaps more importantly, how it has shaped us.... READ MORE...

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Raised By Google

Redazione DigicultNovember 20, 2019

arebyte Gallery have announced "Raised By Google", a new body of work by Bristol based artist Sarah Selby. Sarah was the final selected artist for hotel generation 2019, arebyte Gallery’s annual young artist development programme.... READ MORE...

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“The Redaction Trilogy”: Kennedy Browne in Dublin

Redazione DigicultNovember 13, 2019

Hugh Lane Gallery presents "The Redaction Trilogy", the first solo museum exhibition in Ireland by the collaborative practice of Kennedy Browne (Gareth Kennedy and Sarah Browne). Their collaborative work poses timely and urgent questions around interactions between technology, ideology and politics in this context.... READ MORE...

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Mind the Deep: Artificial Intelligence and Artistic Creation

Redazione DigicultNovember 11, 2019

The exhibition "Mind the Deep: Artificial Intelligence and Artistic Creation" features 28 artworks by 22 artists and artist groups, together with demonstrations from AI conferences, to investigate how artificial intelligence has entered different levels and stages of artistic creation: concept development, logical construction, specific tools, and effects.... READ MORE...

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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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