Data are not just numbers. Some “dear questions” to Giorgia Lupi
At seven and a half in the evening, BASE Milano main room is overwhelmed by people. And it continues to arrive. Everyone is here to see a lecture about data vis... READ MORE...
Articles
Work it, feel it!
Kunsthalle Wien's contribution to the Vienna Biennale 2017 revolves around notions of work and body, now and in the future. The artists featured in Work it, feel it! take a critical approach towards this topic, one that is informed by examinations of disciplinary mechanisms shaping society.... READ MORE...
A2410 Festival: a cultural bivouac that is born at the top of North Grigna
A2410 is a cultural bivouac that is born at the top of North Grigna, the highest peak of the Grigne group. A2410 is promoted by CAI Milano Rifugio Luigi Brioschi, produced by the Cultural Association Mobeel and is directed by Francesco Bertelé.... READ MORE...
Disobedient innovation: alternative ways to the technological propaganda. Interview with Maria Roszkowska
Along with the opening of the last cycle of Non-compliant Futures Maria Roszkowska took part to the 13th edition of Mapping Festival in Geneva with the first solo show by Disnovation.org, the art collective initiated with Nicolas Maigret that is working at the boundaries between art, hacking and research.... READ MORE...
A passionate report from Sónar+D: where technology and art industries convert
This year’s Sónar+D seems to be better than ever. With an incredible line-up and a focus on experimental research, the festival is not only about music. Businesses and companies were actively participating in the events, creating virtual reality and A.I. experiences as well as immersive systems... READ MORE...
Radical Software. The Raindance Foundation, for Media Ecology and Video Art
The exhibition at the Karlsruhe ZKM Centre for Art and Media presents video works and installations from the Raindance Foundation, the american pioneering group of the '70s who harnessed emergent low cost communication technologies with the purpose of greater ecological uses of the media.... READ MORE...
Christian Boltanski: Anime. Di luogo in luogo
From June 26 to November 12, 2017 Christian Boltanski is the main focus of Anime. Di luogo in luogo, a special project for Bologna curated by Danilo Eccher, involving many urban venues in Bologna, all featuring the multi-faceted work of one the most important artists of our time... READ MORE...
Digimag Journal | Issue 76 | Call for Papers
After the wide success of the last Spring issue, we're happy to announce the Call for Papers for the new Digimag Journal for this Summer 2017. The issue number 76 is themed "Smart Machines for Enhanced Arts" and the deadline is settled to the next 01 September 2017. We are waiting for you...... READ MORE...
Digimag Journal 76 – Summer 2017. Smart Machines for Enhanced Arts
Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence are going much further the technology or science fields, impacting arts, product design, experimental fashion and creativity in general. We’re lead to explore the way these techniques can be used to enhance human performative gestures and creativity models. The International Call for Papers for the new Digimag Journal... READ MORE...
The material concretization of scientific principles
Some designers and artists have the purpose of translating scientific principles connected to the relationship between artificial and biological through 3D objects, that can be used as material “concretizations” which crystallize phenomena and knowledges. An example is represented by the customized jewels resulted from parametric generation started from the DNA.... READ MORE...
Transformations: the networked artworks by Garrett Lynch
The School of Arts and Creative Industries, London South Bank University presents a solo exhibition of networked artworks by artist Garrett Lynch (IRL) titled Transformations. The exhibition presents nine networked artworks conceived over a four-year period that explore a practice involving networks. Each artwork provides an example of transformation by a network.... READ MORE...
Meeting at the makerspace with living-textile inventor: Lining Yao
In the last years a new generation of researchers see objects and materials through a multiplicity of properties and features which open different ways to interact with them. They’ve realized that most of the matter is able to respond to energy sources. Lining Yao and her Tangible Media Group at MIT Media Lab have been growing Natto bacteria and exploring how they can be used as bio-actuators - making textile become “alive” reacting to a change of the environment.... READ MORE...
Hybrid Layers. The presence of the digital sphere and its effects on society
The exhibition "Hybrid Layers" focuses attention on a generation of artists who are engaging with the growing presence of the digital sphere and its effects on society. New perspectives on digital technologies, the Internet and social networks are shown, probing both virtual and physical manifestations of an artistic practice that is fundamentally influenced by the digital realm.... READ MORE...
Abstracted reality and the hidden world. A fragmented report from Resonate 2017
Amongst the usual slew of corporate-funded projects that many of the artists and designers presented at Belgrade's Resonate festival this year, it was good to see a strand of work revealing ideas addressing cultural engagement and the contemporary political landscape. With Nora O'Murcha at the helm of the arts programme, it was reassuring to see her once again bringing her art and design take to the festival, following her 2015 curating of the "New Black" exhibition .... READ MORE...
Open Call THE W:OW PROJECT | DEADLINE 1/09/2017
The W:OW Project is inviting artists from all over the world working in digital media, science and art to reflect present and future of our planet as the place where life as such, the amazing diversity of a magnificent nature and the human species had the chance to arise. Deadline 1/09/2017... READ MORE...
BMW Art Car reloaded: Cao Fei going digital
Following the contributions by Jeff Koons and John Baldessari, Cao Fei (b. 1978) is the youngest and first Chinese artist ever to create a BMW Art Car. By employing augmented and virtual reality, the internationally acclaimed Chinese multimedia artist addresses the future of mobility such as autonomous driving, airborne cars and digitalization... READ MORE...
The age of Electroacustics. Transforming Science and Sound
In his book "The age of Electroacustics", published by MIT Press, Roland Wittje traces the history of acoustics during the interwar period, leading an enquiry theoretically grounded in the physics and its transformation into the so called ‘technical acoustics’ or electroacoustic.... READ MORE...
#Unit2017 – Connecting Unicorns: gender and technology
Where are boundaries among disciplines, between arts and science, professional and DIY culture challenged? At #Unit2017 – Connecting Unicorns in which the Global LGBTI Tech & Science Conference hosted by Unicorns in Tech, took place last 6th of May. Report by Arianna Mainardi... READ MORE...