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Tangible Feelings

A symposium on EEG (and biofeedback) for the Arts. With the emergence of affordable EEG devices and other biofeedback sensors for the health and game industry, we see more and more artists inspired by these promising technologies in which they imagine the possibility of measuring one's emotions.... READ MORE...

The Global Contemporary Art Worlds After 1989

Artists, and above all the institutions of art, are faced with the questions as to the extent to which the concept "global" can and must be thought-and how this reflects back on its own methods of working. By means of artistic approaches and documentary materials, the exhibition "The Global Contemporary. Art Worlds After 1989" examines the way in which globalization, both with its pervasive mechanisms of the market and its utopias of networking and generosity, impacts upon the various spheres of artistic production and reception.... READ MORE...

Manfred Mohr: 1964-2011 Réflexions sur une esthétique programmée

It was May 11, 1971 when the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris opened the influential exhibition "Computer Graphics - Une Esthétique Programmée". A solo exhibition by Manfred Mohr, it featured the first display in a museum of works entirely calculated and drawn by a digital (rather than analog) computer. Revolutionary for its time, these drawings were more than mere curiosities – they signaled a new era of image creation, setting in motion a trajectory of modernism and information aesthetics.... READ MORE...

Alpha-Ville 2011

Taking place from 22nd to the 25th of September, the third edition of Alpha-ville Festival will spread across several venues in London, running alongside the London Design Festival and the Digital Design Weekend at V&A , and including venues such as Whitechapel Gallery, Rich Mix, Netil House, The Vortex, XOYO and Space Studios.... READ MORE...

Stefano Cagol: Concilio

Mart – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto and Fondazione Galleria Civica-Center of Research on Contemporaneity of Trento as promoting institutions are proud to announce Stefano Cagol's participation at 54th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia with the solo show CONCILIO at San Gallo Church.... READ MORE...

Todaysart 2011 Leap into the Void

The Hague / Brussels - The International ambitions and collaborations of the TodaysArt Festival have resulted in the first Belgian edition of the festival. TodaysArt.BE will take over the EuroStation / Zuid Station - one of the city's emblematic sites - from 29 September to 1 October, precisely one week after TodaysArt.NL in The Hague. TodaysArt uses and transforms the city's infrastructure and creates temporary spaces to produce events in exciting settings, such as main squares, public buildings, museums, concert halls, clubs and theatres.... READ MORE...

AND: residency program

AND (Abandon Normal Devices) is excited to launch it's regional artists' residency programme, HOW TO BE A RESIDENT?The residency programme includes opportunities for artists to develop new work in partnership with a variety of organisations including the Forestry Commission, British Waterways and DaDa. Investigating the model of a contemporary arts residency, they will take place in remote locations, online and on water.... READ MORE...

Public 2.0: The Era of information openess

In recent years significant changes in the technological, social and media landscapes have redrawn relationships between cultural producers of all stripes and the people previously called readers, audiences and users. In parallel with this, unprecedented amounts of information have entered the public domain as a result of both top-down policy pressures and 'bottom-up' social activism. This process in turn has given birth to new cultural movements, opportunities for creativity, forms of information visualisation, and modes of content production.... READ MORE...

Black Sound White Cube

The exhibition Black Sound White Cube will present works by ten international artists that refer to the musical traditions of the Afro-Atlantic diaspora. Black Sound White Cube thus seeks to trigger discussions off the beaten track of the hegemonic fields of avant-garde and pop. Black Sound White Cube is based on the eponymous book by German artist Ina Wudtke and Belgian philosopher Dieter Lesage published in 2010. The central proposition of the book is that the white cube not only looks white but also sounds white.... READ MORE...

Collect the WWWorld

Collect the WWWorld. The Artist as Archivist in the Internet Age sets out to demonstrate how the Internet generation is implementing and developing a practice started in the Sixties by Conceptual Art, and further developed in subsequent decades in the forms of Appropriation Art and postproduction: the practice of exploring, collecting, archiving, manipulating and reusing huge amounts of visual material produced by popular culture and advertising. Collect the WWWorld is an attempt to show how art responds to the information society.... READ MORE...

Connect Art between media and reality

An exhibition with media art from the Swiss support programme Sitemapping / Bundesamt für Kultur (BAK) 2003–2011. Smart technologies, everywhere available and tailored to our needs, determine our daily lives. We gossip, have affairs, send and receive our information electronically. Even support for revolutions is stoked up virtually. Mobile phone, Email, WLAN, Apps, YouTube, Facebook or Twitter define not only our communication behaviour, but even our very existence. The world has become more transparent, we are always any time anywhere, at least we think we are.... READ MORE...

Hacking The City Book publication

The project "Hacking the City" took place on the occasion of the "European Capital of Culture RUHR.2010" Twenty museums collaborated in a multifaceted common series of exhibitions called "Mapping the Region". Museum Folkwang contributed with an experimental project which went far away from traditional museum activities. More than thirteen projects in public space, a "Base-Station" in the museum and a homepage (www.hackingthecity.org) were realized.... READ MORE...