Bianca Cavuti, Author at Digicult | Digital Art, Design and Culture

The future, despite everything: “Hito Steyerl. I Will Survive” at Düsseldorf’s K21

The cornerstone of the exhibition is SocialSim, a new multimedia installation developed especially for the occasion, which explores the potential of digital technologies, simulations and AI, in relation to social upheavals, artistic creativity and pandemic conditions too. The artwork includes a focus on collective hysteria and social network, examined in the social simulation Dancing Mania.... READ MORE...

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D3US EX M4CH1NA. Art and Artificial Intelligence: unusual and unexplored futures on display at LABoral

Bianca Cavuti

The wide use of this type of technology does not always correspond to an in-depth knowledge of their mechanisms, their functioning, their deepest implications, making them a real deus ex machina, which is the significant title of the current exhibition at LABoral. Report by Bianca Cavuti... READ MORE...

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

Bianca Cavuti

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...

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The future around the corner: interview with Heather Dewey-Hagborg

Bianca Cavuti

Human beings have always needed to face their time and raised questions about the future, on the edge between the fascination and the fear for rapid and complex... READ MORE...

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The dark mirror. Interview with Clément Lambelet.

Bianca Cavuti

Never more than today human beings live in symbiosis with technologies that he created himself. Today as in the past, technologies are accurate mirrors of their societies, of human desires, fears and needs. Bianca Cavuti discusses these topics with Clément Lambelet, who handles issues about the relationship between society and technology, control ideologies and Artificial Intelligence.... READ MORE...

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“Seen”: there’s really “nothing to see”?

Bianca Cavuti

Quoting Fred Richtin we could say that “we’ve entered the surveillance era, and surveillance era came into us”. The exhibition Seen, shown until the 1st of July at Wei- Ling Contemporary gallery of Kuala Lumpur focuses on this issue, identifying contemporary surveillance as an undetectable grey zone, trying to elaborate strategies of resistance.... READ MORE...

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“A Beautiful Accident”: some guidelines for a contemporary interpretation of dreams

Bianca Cavuti

What does it mean to think at the future and about the future in the most technologically advanced age ever? A Beautiful Accident, presented in the 5th Trondheim Biennale Meta.Morf, is an attempt to find some answers to these questions through the artworks of eight international artists, privileged and fundamental observers of our crucial historical moment.... READ MORE...

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