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Grow It Yourself

Redazione DigicultJune 23, 2015

Grow It Yourself, the second collective exhibition curated by Marco Scotini, brings together a series of experiments in which agricultural production traces a constituent relationship between artistic practise and social ability.... READ MORE...

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The New Creativity: Man and Machines

Redazione DigicultJune 22, 2015

From the first house R.M. Schindler to contemporary architects, The New Creativity: Man and Machines examines creative practices in relation to the social and technical complexes that support and constrain them.... READ MORE...

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Justin Hibbs: Alias_Re_Covered

Redazione DigicultJune 19, 2015

Carroll / Fletcher is pleased to announce an exhibition of new works by British artist Justin Hibbs. Alias_Re_Covered will showcase Hibbs’s first sound piece – produced with musician Ben Lancaster – and mark the artist’s debut at the gallery.... READ MORE...

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Networks. Edited by Lars Bang Larsen

Redazione DigicultJune 18, 2015

In the 1960s began a cultural shift from the modernist grid and its determination of projection and representation to the fluid structures and circuits of the network, presenting art with new possibilities.... READ MORE...

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A stream of junk: interview with Sašo Sedlaček

Filippo LorenzinJune 18, 2015

Sašo Sedlaček, Slovenian artist interested in obsolescence long before it became one of the hottest topics of the discussions of these years, presented his first solo exhibition in Italy about these and other issues. Curated by Domenico Quaranta and opened since May 16 in the spaces of Ultra (Udine)... READ MORE...

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Dysfunction and Decentralization in New Media Art

Redazione DigicultJune 16, 2015

Dysfunction and Decentralization. When using digital technologies, many types of dysfunction can occur, ranging from hardware malfunctions to software errors to human ineptitude.... READ MORE...

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Casa Jasmina: Torino’s Open-Source Connected Apartment

Redazione DigicultJune 16, 2015

The last June 6, 2015, the doors opened in Casa Jasmina, a unique example of a connected apartment with open-source ideals, promoted by Arduino and curated by M... READ MORE...

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Phantom of Civilization

Redazione DigicultJune 15, 2015

The exhibition Phantom of Civilization presents the work of three artists from Taiwan: Fujui Wang, Chi-Tsung Wu, Goang-Ming Yuan. Using different media such as installations, sound and video, they create landscapes that reflect different aspects of contemporary civilization... READ MORE...

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A journey into our future. Interview with Zoë Hough

Kirsten HawkinsJune 12, 2015

The Microbial Verdict has just closed at London’s Arebyte and curated by Nimrod Vardi. In this installation, Zoë Hough has simulated a hypothetical reality whereby the fictitious government institution The Department of Self and Sanity obliges citizens, to ingest a tablet containing a brain activity-tracking protein... READ MORE...

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Terraforma 2015. Experimental and sustainable music festival

Redazione DigicultJune 11, 2015

Terraforma is an international experimental music festival with a particular focus on sustainability. It will take place in the woods of Villa Arconati outside Milan, Italy, on the 12th 13th 14th of June 2015. Three intense days of live performances, workshops and talks with artists and musicians surrounded by nature... READ MORE...

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Softimage

Redazione DigicultJune 11, 2015

With today’s digital technology, the image is no longer a stable representation of the world, but a programmable view of a database that is updated in real time. Softimage by Hoelzl and Marie.... READ MORE...

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The emojification of reality: interview with Carla Gannis

Filippo LorenzinJune 10, 2015

Online communication, chatting, colorful and disturbing interfaces are critically used by Gannis becoming the starting material for her artistic research. She is one of the most prolific American artists of digital art and in recent months her name has been one of the hottest in the market.... READ MORE...

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Double Eye Poke

Redazione DigicultJune 9, 2015

The Kamel Mennour gallery in Paris launches Double Eye Poke, a new exhibition dedicated to four major US artists: Lynda Benglis (born 1941), Dan Flavin (1933–96), Sol LeWitt (1928–2007), and Bruce Nauman (born 1941). The exhibition is curated by Béatrice Gross... READ MORE...

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Un-Scene III. The collective exhibition at WIELS

Redazione DigicultJune 8, 2015

Un-Scene III is a group exhibition of 13 emerging artists in or from Belgium. It presents a slice of a scene, a scan of a particular moment, and reveals the position of WIELS as an international institution firmly rooted in the Belgian landscape.... READ MORE...

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New curatorial commission: Streaming Egos, Goethe Institut

Redazione DigicultJune 4, 2015

Digicult was commissioned by Goethe Institut to curate the Italian Pavillion for the Streaming Egos project. Marco Mancuso and Filippo Lorenzin are the official curators... READ MORE...

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Have you protested, yet?

Redazione DigicultMay 29, 2015

We live in a state of mental distress, but what opportunities do artists, hacktivists and political groups have in order to lead the way out of the state of anxiety? Ahead of the Protest Workshop at FACT on 18 June, Joanna Straczowski considers the siutation... READ MORE...

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Surveillance Awareness Bureau

Redazione DigicultMay 29, 2015

The Surveillance Awareness Bureau (SAB) intends to create a space of critical engagement that grants visibility to systems that by nature should remain invisible to individuals and at the same time provoke a highly charged debate on privacy, liberty, control and abuse... READ MORE...

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Momentum 8: Tunnel Vision

Redazione DigicultMay 28, 2015

Since its inception in Norway in 1998, Momentum has presented outstanding Nordic and international artists. The biennial is the oldest and most established biennial for contemporary art in the Nordic region. Momentum 8 explores tunnel vision... READ MORE...

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