Articles

Terra0, the augmented self-owned forest

Terra0 is a project that has just been discussed at Transmediale, Berlin, during the panel Becoming Earth: Engineering Symbiotic Futures. The project, at his first steps of development, aims at the creation of the first self-owned augmented forest, by using the blockchain technology and the smart contracts.... READ MORE...

Athens Photo Festival 2017 Call for Works | Deadline 10/04/2017

The leading international festival of photography and related media in Southeastern Europe celebrates its 30 years anniversary! Exploring critical issues relevant to our times and the ongoing shifts in dialogue with the past, this broad framework, attempts to create an intellectual space, where the role of photography in contemporary society can be raised and discussed. The exhibition programme will be comprised of a series of solo and group exhibitions, as well as a range of events, including portfolio reviews, screenings, talks and discussions, workshops, community and participatory projects, and satellite exhibitions in various locations in the city. Submit your proposal until 10/04/2017... READ MORE...

Media Art and Art Market: an interview with Annette Doms

With a background in art history, archaeology and psychology, Annette Doms is a specialist in Digital Art history and market. Her activity as curator and art historian, successively took on several directions: the constitution of an agency for art market solutions (ICAA) and the UNPAINTED art fair. This has been the first art fair specialised in Media Art, of which Annette Doms is co-founder and art director... READ MORE...

Machine Learning by Ethem Alpaydin, MIT Press, 2016

“Machine Learning” has been released in November 2016 and written by Ethem Alpaydin. The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers concise, accessible overviews of compelling topics. Written by leading thinkers, the volumes provide expert syntheses of subjects ranging from the cultural and historical to the scientific and technical, “synthesising specialised subject matter for non-specialists”.... READ MORE...

Jeroen Van Loon: the future is almost all temporary

With a degree in digital media design and a relatively short career which began no later than 2010, Jeroen Van Loon has shortly become one of the most interesting media artist internationally. His research is able to surprisingly and ironically integrate a critical approach to the use of technological tools - in particular the Internet, with a solid theoretical and conceptual framework. Such an approach results in the production of objects and installations that enter the exhibition space with disarming immediacy.

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BIOESTETICA Open Call for Artistic Residencies | Deadline 03/04/2017

The Zaragoza City of Knowledge Foundation offers a total of 3 on-site residencies lasting for a maximum of two months that will take place between the months of May, June and July 2017 at Etopia, Centre for Art and Technology, of Zaragoza (Spain). Co-financed by the EU Creative Europe programme and coordinated by Ars Electronica, the project seeks to promote and exchange creative experiences that bring together both art and science. Artists and creators are invited to submit proposals that reflect on the concept of post-nature from the thematic perspectives of Identity, New Ecologies and Living/Dead Natures. DEADLINE 03/04/2017... READ MORE...

STARTS PRIZE 2017 OPEN CALL – DEADLINE 13/03/2017

Science, Technology and Arts (=STARTS) form a nexus with an extraordinarily high potential for creative innovation. As a catalyst force that can inspire and trigger innovative processes, artistic pratice can effectively contribute to the development of new products and new economic, social and business models. For this purpose, on behalf of the European Commission, Ars Electronica, BOZAR and De Waag are launching two prizes (each with €20,000 prize money) to select the most pioneering projects in the field of creativity and innovation at the crossings of science and technology with the arts. EXTENDED DEADLINE: 13/03/2017... READ MORE...

Platform: Evan Roth

The cluster of screens presented at the Armory Show is the most ambitious presentation of Roth's latest body of Internet-based works, Landscapes (2014-ongoing), to date: an exploration into the physicality of the Internet is used as a gateway to enter nature and better understand the cultural shifts brought about by the increasingly frequent demands of technology.... READ MORE...

Evidentiary Realism

“Evidentiary Realism” features artists engaged in investigative, forensic, and documentary art. The exhibition aims to articulate a particular form of realism in art that portrays and reveals evidence from complex social systems. The truth-seeking artworks featured explore the notion of evidence and its modes of representation.... READ MORE...

Christina McPhee, the Political-Aesthetics of Nature

Christina McPhee with different media, spanning from video and digital technologies, to drawing, painting, and photography. Her works are stunning, intricate and abstract figures in which the artist combines both digital and traditional techniques in order to give a visual representation of her ideas, experiences, and her strong engagement with nature and its processes of creation and destruction.... READ MORE...

Homeostasis Lab Open Call for Artists @ The Wrong New Digital Art Biennale | DEADLINE 31/01/2018

DIGICULT CALLS & JOBS goo.gl/YyX10V Homeostasis Lab Open Call for Artists 2017/18 - First pavilion to open doors to artist participation in the 3rd edition of The Wrong - New Digital Art Biennale. All works must be "internet-friendly", and belong to any digital art modality (computer art scene, Augmented Reality, Fractal Art, Evolutionary Art, Digital Poetry... check the complete list on the website). OPEN DEADLINE: you can submit as many works as you please, until the event closes on 31/01/2018... READ MORE...

LIQUID CITIES NYC 2017 Call for Artists | Deadline 09/03/2017

Providing representations of a hyper-fast changing world, contemporary architecture is no longer conceived as a container of human life but as extensions of the body that produce changes in human behaviour. LIQUID CITIES NYC 2017 - the International Video Art Limousine Festival by Itsliquid Group, curated by Luca Curci - focuses on the hybridization between identities and urban environment. Artists, photographers, video makers and filmmakers are invited to submit their works until 09/03/2017... READ MORE...

Aldo Tambellini: Black Matters

“Black Matters” is the first full solo exhibition of Italian-American artist, Aldo Tambellini, who is one of the pioneers of intermedia art and experimental avant-garde of the 1960s and 1970s. The exhibition “Black Matters” takes a journey through Tambellini’s most prolific, highly charged and diversified period (1960–1980). The exhibition explores his, paintings, and multimedia practice... READ MORE...