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Displace 2.0: Mediation of Sensations. A conversation with Chris Salter

Silvia Bertolotti
Chris Salter is a media and performance artist, based in Montreal and Berlin. Performance and performativity, as well as interaction with other disciplinary fields or arts are the main aspects and features of his work. Not only from the artistic point of view but also in terms of research. Salter is indeed involved in scientific research projects and publications (we would like to mention here his book published by MIT Press in 2010 Entangled: Technology and the Transformation of Performance)... READ MORE...
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Backyard Brains: Neuroscience for Fun

Ludovico Ristori
The term Crowdscience (that is, the science of people) has recently become a very popular term. It means that people (a nineteenth-century term that perhaps should be replaced with the term "citizens"), by actively taking part in research, can enable discoveries, that would otherwise not be possible with traditional media – for the mental, computational and economic resources they require. It also assumes that first-person participation in scientific projects is one of the few ways to not be relegated on the sidelines of democracy in a society permeated at all levels by scientific and technological knowledge.... READ MORE...
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Joe Banks: Rorschach Audio. EVP, Psychoacoustics and Auditory Illusions

Elena Biserna
The so-called Rorschach ink-blot test is a psychodiagnostic method for the analysis of personality named after its inventor: Swiss psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach (1884-1922). During the test, the patient is asked to interpret a series of ten cards with symmetrical colored blots. According to advocates of this diagnostic method, different subjective responses to these ambiguous images – if appropriately registered and analyzed – would reveal the personality profile of the examined subject, as well as any psychiatric diseases or though disorder.... READ MORE...
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Dialogues on “Bioart” #1. A conversation with Jens Hauser

Daniela Silvestrin
In the series Dialogues on “Bioart”, I will speak about these and other issues with curators, artists, cultural workers and other professionals who deal with "Bioart" in different ways and have been working in this field for a number of years. Through these interviews, I not only want to present them and their work, but also to shed light on their various viewpoints on, and relevant experiences with, the issues being addressed in the so-called "Bioart", in order to bring all this into line with the larger context of the analysis of what "Bioart" as well as the connected issues and questions, actually are... READ MORE...
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The Islands of Benoît Mandelbrot. Fractals, Chaos, and the Materiality of Thinking

Redazione Digicult
Focusing primarily on the work of Benoît Mandelbrot (1924–2010), one of the most notable mathematicians of the twentieth century, this exhibition explores the role of images in scientific thinking. With their capacity to generate and shape knowledge, images are at the very core of scientific investigation: charts, graphs, notebooks, instrument readings, technological representations, even mental abstractions--all make up the essential stuff of which it is made.... READ MORE...
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“In the Holocene”. Exhibition at MIT List Visual Art Center

Redazione Digicult
"In the Holocene" explores art as a speculative science, how artists investigate principles more commonly associated with scientific or mathematical thought. The exhibition proposes that art is an investigative and experimental activity, addressing what is explained through traditional scientific means: time, matter, energy, topology, perception, consciousness, etc.... READ MORE...
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“UNNATURAL”. The Exhibition about manipulated nature

Redazione Digicult
UNNATURAL presents scientific, romantic, conceptual, poetic, sensual and ecological conceptions of nature through primarily video and photography reflecting advances in technology in the twenty-first century. The works in the exhibition question conventional means and methods of representing the natural world and metaphorically embody both the paradoxical longing to fuse with nature and the threat embedded in such fusion.... READ MORE...
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Yunchul Kim. “Carved Air” Exhibition at Ernst Schering Foundation

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In his exhibition CARVED AIR, the Berlin-based Korean artist Yunchul Kim presents a series of electrochemical drawings as well as his latest fluid-kinetic sculptures, coupled to a cosmic ray detector. Conceived specifically for the Project Space of the Ernst Schering Foundation, the works were created in cooperation with “Fluid Skies,” a working group consisting of Kim, the art historian Lucía Ayala and the astrophysicist Jaime Forero (http://www.fluid-skies.net). Curated by Lucía Ayala, the exhibition is the first outcome of this collaboration.... READ MORE...
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