Art

The antiAtlas of Borders. Control systems at sea, land, air and virtual borders

Bypassing cartography, the antiAtlas of 21st century borders (http://antiatlas.net/) programme presents a new approach to the transformation and experience of land, sea, air and virtual borders. It is co-produced by IMéRA - the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Research of Aix-Marseille University the Higher School of Art of Aix-en-Provence, PACTE (Grenoble University), Isabelle Arvers (curator) and La compagnie (Marseille).... READ MORE...

ST InnovationCUP: experimenting new artistic and cultural productive processes

ST InnovationCUP è uno dei processi di incubazione e ricerca nel rapporto arte, cultura e innovazione più interessanti presenti oggi sul territorio nazionale. Anche se forse, sarebbe più corretto dire che ciò che ha intercettato il mio interesse è che si tratti di uno dei pochissimi progetti (non si offenda nessuno) che lavorano in modo efficace e fattivo sul concetto di Open Research e su dinamiche di produzione culturale moderne e competenti.... READ MORE...

Mark Amerika launches digital artworks on Sedition platform

Sedition, the pioneering platform where the world’s most celebrated contemporary artists offer their work as digital limited editions, presents the first trading platform to resell and buy contemporary art in digital format. From Monday 9th September, art collectors will be able to resell editions of purchased artworks that have sold out, and pursue other artworks for their digital collection.... READ MORE...

AN EDUCATION – Ettore Favini and Hektor Mamet: Nella terra di mezzo

Nella terra di mezzo, the fourth appointment of AN EDUCATION - a series of exhibitions of artists’ videos and workshops conceivd for students and anyone interested in contemporary art - opens on September 21st 2013 at Villa e Collezione Panza, Varese, the property owned by FAI - Fondo Ambiente Italiano. The video Nella terra di mezzo, by the artists Ettore Favini and Hektor Mamet, will be shown in the project room of the Villa until October 24th.... READ MORE...

Midnight Moment goes global: Times Square Arts and Streaming Museum

Midnight Moment, the largest coordinated effort in history by the sign operators in Times Square to display synchronized, cutting-edge creative content on electronic billboards and newspaper kiosks throughout Times Square every night, is going global. For the first time, digital screens in Europe, Antarctica, Australia, Africa, South America, and Asia will feature special content that was created for the Midnight Moment, a program of the Times Square Advertising Coalition and Times Square Arts. To make this possible, Times Square Arts, the public art program for the Times Square Alliance, has partnered with Streaming Museum.... READ MORE...

“Introduzione ai media digitali”. Watching at the technology-society connection

Short History of Nearly Everything is the title of a popular science book published some time ago. But may also be the subtitle of Adam Arvidsson and Alessandro Delfanti Introduzione ai Media Digitali, a short history (150 pages) of nearly everything that an internet user or university student needs to know about the political, economic and social implications of new digital media.... READ MORE...

Glam! The Performance of Style

A visually excessive means of expression, the early 1970s aesthetics of Glam had a style-defining impact that went far beyond the art scene. After its major exhibition projects Summer of Love (2005) and Op Art (2007), which focused on cross-genre developments in the art and culture of the 1960s, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt now highlights another, very dynamic era of art history with the show Glam! The Performance of Style, on display from June 14 until September 22, 2013.... READ MORE...

Stanza: The Emergent City. From Complexity to The City of Bits

The Emergent City. From Complexity to The City of Bits captures the changes over time in the environment (city) and represents the changing life and complexity of space as an emergent artwork. The installation goes beyond simple single user interaction to monitor and survey in real time the whole city and entirely represent the complexities of the real time city as a shifting morphing and complex system.... READ MORE...