Il Manifesto del Futurismo Rurale. Nuove geografie per territori al margine.
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Are we ready for a new revolution? Some reflections after Signal 2019
Comprehensively the theme of this 2019 edition of Signal, which took place from 10th to 13th of October, was the revolution: the 30th anniversary of the Czech Velvet Revolution, but also that of the present and the future, linked to the climate, social and technological changes of our time. Report and interview of Federica Fontana.... READ MORE...
“Objects and Sounds”. Le immagini come tentativo di rappresentare i suoni stessi
Nel cuore del quartiere San Lorenzo di Roma, si trova il Pastificio Cerere che costituisce un importante spazio di sperimentazione per la capitale. Negli anni Settanta il Pastifico Cerere è stato trasformato da spazio industriale – fabbrica di farina e di pane che riforniva la capitale – a luogo deputato all’arte con un unico obiettivo: condividere l’ideologia del fare e dell’operare come terreno culturale nel quale discutere e incontrarsi ogni giorno. Report di Caterina Tomeo... READ MORE...
The municipality of Fermo presents the FermHAmente Science Festival
The "Science and Image" edition of the FermHAmente Science Festival represents the opportunity to enjoy cultural heritage in an unusual way, with a view to mutual enhancement of scientific excellence and historical-artistic heritage. Organized by Labilia, it has scientific direction Andrea Capozucca. International partner of the festival and among the world leaders of the STEAM movement is Experice Workshop, founded by Kristóf Fenyvesi. Interview of Giada Totaro... READ MORE...
Tagging Aesthetics #6: Memetic Representation. Interview with ANON
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...
Digital mistakes and 3D lies. Interview with Karol Sudolski
Teresa Ruffino interviews Karol Sudolski, a young creative currently based in Milan. Together they talk about his introduction to the world of video before, and music after, both happened by accident and about the representation through a visual form of his thoughts in what he defines as the landscape of paranoia.... READ MORE...
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...
Celebrating the roots of automated music. Interview with Volkmar Klien
Marco Aruga interviewed Volkmar Klien, sound artist and curator of Artificial Intelligence x Music Festival 2019. Celebrating the roots of “automated” music, the AIxMusic Festival got inspiration also from antique and baroque music, with a program spanning from Monteverdi to contemporary sounds.... READ MORE...
Adversarial Feelings. Interview with Lorem
How does the algorithm interpret our irrational demeanors? Is it able to simulate our emotions and to learn the
characteristics that are typical of human personality? Lorem with the project Adversarial Feelings analyses the
interaction between human and machine with different
expressive media: musical, textual and audiovisual. Interview
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Tagging Aesthetics #5: Feminist Politics of (Geo)Location. Interview with Helena Suárez Val
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...
Future of Classroom: On Bringing Light and Information into Buildings (or Doing Away With Buildings Altogether)
Since at least a decade we have access to technologies that enable us to remotely perform the majority of tasks related to learning. Do we still need physical space for learning?... READ MORE...
Uncanny Values: a map of uncanny places, and how to get through them
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...
Ma secondo lei, questa è arte?
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Holly Herndon, Proto: the sound of Spawn
Released in May 2019, Proto is the last album of Holly Herndon, one of the most curious performer and experimental composer. This album is the third part of a project that involves electronics, the body and its sounds, the society, and ultimately machine learning, used to interpret the society and show it, online and offline.... READ MORE...
Tagging Aesthetics #4: (Machine) Learning Stereotypes. Interview with Max Dovey
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...
Mario Savini: Arte transgenica. La vità è il medium
A cosa ci riferiamo quando parliamo di arte transgenica? In questo panorama spinoso, che più di tutti lega a doppio filo arte e scienza, filosofia e biotecnologie, questioni giuridiche e tabù ancestrali cerca di fare ordine il libro di Mario Savini “Arte transgenica: la vita è il medium”, edito nel 2018 da Pisa University Press.... READ MORE...
Tagging Aesthetics #3: Materialising Accountability. Interview with Simon Boas
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...
Tecnologie wearables, ingestibles, skins e protesi
“In my works there’s a sort of exploration of the beauty of nature, albeit on a clearly primitive level if compared to nature itself. It’s about associations an... READ MORE...