Filippo Lorenzin

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

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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Perpetual Translation. Interview with Paul Destieu

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Looking at the works of Paul Destieu, Filippo Lorenzin questions the Marseille-based artist about the evolution of media and their situation in our contemporary environment. His work studies the border between emergence and collapsing of a system.... READ MORE...

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We are all entrepreneurs. Nobody is safe. Interview with Silvio Lorusso

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Nowadays, says Silvio Lorusso, everything seems to work as a startup - not just companies and institutions but first of all the individuals. Silvio recently published Entreprecariat - Siamo tutti imprenditori. Nessuno è al sicuro ("We are all entrepreneurs. Nobody is safe”) with Krisis Publishing, a book that explores the many ways corporate logics shape our behaviour.... READ MORE...

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Mediated cages. Interview with Zach Blas

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Zach Blas in conversation with Filippo Lorenzin talks about the influence of politics and social norms on the development and production of technology, queerness political meaning and its technological applications, deconstruction of identity, bodily abstractions and his actual activity as a teacher at Goldsmiths University.... READ MORE...

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Crude Golden Age. A comment about “The Green and Pleasant Land” by Max Colson

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The post-Brexit phase brought many UK-based artists to question the concept of national pride and shared narrative identities; how do political parties use stereotypes about their own country in order to gain power and followers? On display at Arebyte gallery in London, a new work by Max Colson addresses this issue.... READ MORE...

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Eloquent Pixels. Interview with Games for the Many

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Games for the Many is a British nine Labour-supporting game designers, developers, activists, musicians team designing video game to support Labour Party political agenda. During 2017 UK General Elections they produced CorbynRun, a game to make young people get close to politics that has been a huge hit.... READ MORE...

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The world is a pattern. Interview with Nicolas Sassoon

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GIFs have been accepted and adopted by new users who rely on animated pictures thanks to their planned pervasiveness in their digital communication habits. The practice of Nicolas Sassoon, a French artist who makes art with GIFs since 2011, suggests creative strategies to exploit the features of this format in order to make works that couldn't be made with any other medium.... READ MORE...

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The medium is the medium. Interview with Metahaven

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Metahaven is a research-focused design studio founded by Amsterdam-based Vinca Kruk and Daniel van der Velden. Some the most notorious examples of this mission is their collaboration with WikiLeaks, for which they made scarves and T-shirts to modify their visual presence, the re-branding of the self-proclaimed Principality of Sealand.... READ MORE...

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To conceal and to reveal: an interview with Ruben Pater

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Ruben Pater is a designer and researcher. He finished the master programme of the Sandberg institute in 2012, and as Untold Stories he works on self-initiated and collaborative projects between journalism and graphic design. His work has received several international awards and is featured in exhibitions around the world.... READ MORE...

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The relaxing area of Art Basel Miami. The Soothing Center at Satellite Art Show

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The Soothing Center, made its debut at Satellite Art Show in Miami the last weekend. Curated by Jesse Firestone, is an artist-made pop up spa aimed at actively combating the disruptive influences of contemporary electronic media-driven stimuli. It’s supposed to be a relaxing area for the stressed visitors of the nearby Art Basel Miami Beach... READ MORE...

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Choreographing Gestures: Interview with Rosana Antoli’

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The new project by Rosana Antolì, Virtual Choreography, was exposed at the Arebyte in London. It is an online platform that functions as an open database of movements, gestures of a world map that allows the public to view and upload numerous movements recorded and created by themselves... READ MORE...

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Beyond Ignorance. Interview with Tatiana Bazzichelli and Daniela Silvestrin

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Among the predictions made by George Orwell in 1984, the dynamics ruling the relationship between people and state forces are something you can’t help but keep ... READ MORE...

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Mediating Beach. A comment on “Networking the Unseen” exhibition

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The exhibition Networking the Unseen presented this summer at the Furtherfield in London and curated by Gretta Louw, was focused on the intersection of indigenous cultures and the digital practices in contemporary art. Creating a connection between the ancestral and marginalised cultures with the art-making in contemporary society... READ MORE...

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Invisibility and surprise. Eva and Franco Mattes at Carroll / Fletcher

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"Abuse Standards Violations" is the exhibition by Eva and Franco Mattes at Carroll & Fletcher gallery in London, that invites us to reflect on what it means to participate in a critical reflection, before you even ask us to participate in the action that flows from it. We joined in the meeting which took place with the same artists at the The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) on 19th July 2016... READ MORE...

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Infra-red Wuthering Heights: Interview with Evan Roth

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The new project by U.S. artist Evan Roth, Internet Landscapes (2016), a series of videos which can be watched only online. Focused on the experiences he had when travelled around Sweden searching for the physicality of internet, the project is part of the Masters&Servers open call programme... READ MORE...

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Be feral, open and yourself: interview with Alterazioni Video

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Alterazioni Video is an Italian collective founded in 2004. Alterazioni Video works have been exhibited in museums and istitutions all around the world. The milanese audience will have the opportunity to see all Turbo Films in a special retrospective at Spazio Oberdan from 18th February to 4th March... READ MORE...

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Everything is Connected to Everyone: An Interview with Artist Simona Koch

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Men and nature, men are nature, man or nature: these are just some of the most recurrent questions at the center of German artist Simona Koch’s research. She has developed several works and side projects that deal not just with the aforementioned themes, but also with politics, history of humankind and psychology.... READ MORE...

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Blending and disrupting the realities: interview with Joseph DeLappe

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Although changing over time, thanks to increasingly efficient technology, the digital world and the real world have come together to contextually coexist, often creating problems. Looking at the many works by American artist Joseph Delappe you can somehow trace the evolution of this dynamic.... READ MORE...

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