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Ten years of Interaktionslabor. An interview with Johannes Birringer
Johannes Birringer is a German-born performance and media choreographer and artistic director of AlienNation Co., a Houston-based multimedia ensemble that has collaborated on numerous site-specific and cross-cultural performance and installation projects since 1993.... READ MORE...
Data as Culture / Open Data Institute
In 2012 The Open Data Institute published a call for artists to submit data-driven artworks. Today the new open call for curators to apply for funds to conceive and produce the next exhibition in the Data as Culture programme... READ MORE...
The antiAtlas of Borders. Control systems at sea, land, air and virtual borders
Bypassing cartography, the antiAtlas of 21st century borders (http://antiatlas.net/) programme presents a new approach to the transformation and experience of land, sea, air and virtual borders. It is co-produced by IMéRA - the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Research of Aix-Marseille University the Higher School of Art of Aix-en-Provence, PACTE (Grenoble University), Isabelle Arvers (curator) and La compagnie (Marseille).... READ MORE...
ST InnovationCUP: experimenting new artistic and cultural productive processes
ST InnovationCUP è uno dei processi di incubazione e ricerca nel rapporto arte, cultura e innovazione più interessanti presenti oggi sul territorio nazionale. Anche se forse, sarebbe più corretto dire che ciò che ha intercettato il mio interesse è che si tratti di uno dei pochissimi progetti (non si offenda nessuno) che lavorano in modo efficace e fattivo sul concetto di Open Research e su dinamiche di produzione culturale moderne e competenti.... READ MORE...
Challenging perception. “SIN”, the first solo exhibition of Mario de Vega
The visitors of “SIN”, Mario de Vega’s first solo exhibition (1979, Mexico City) which opened on June 20th at the Laboratorio Arte Alameda in Mexico City, were requested to first read a sheet with pieces of information on the installations in that exhibition, in order to then sign a declaration of having read and understood the text, of not having recently undergone a surgery operation, as well as of not suffering health problems or upset such as high blood pressure, heart problems, general hypersensitivity, panic attacks, or epilepsy.... READ MORE...
Moments in Hardware History: the birth of DullTech?
As the final official Dutch participant of the OCAT residency program in Shenzhen, Constant Dullaart has left a significant mark on the world of internet art in China. Last interviewed on this website just a year ago, this conversation checks in with Dullaart again with a very specific focus on his relationship with China and, in particular, its internet.... READ MORE...
Art is relationality: an interview with Marinella Senatore
Labor was a central theme at the art division of Ipercorpo, a festival organized in Forlì in May 2013 by Città di Ebla and Iagostudio eventi e comunicazione. The three nights of the festival featured a roundtable dedicated to the Forlì collection Verzocchi and more specifically to the topic of collecting organized by curator Davide Ferri. This initiative was combined with the presentation of three artworks that interpreted labor from three different perspectives: video Nui Simu by Marinella Senatore; Il Capo by Yuri Ancarani (see his previous interview for Digicult[1]) and the performance Dove si racconta di profondi sospiri e lunghi pensieri (“place for deep sighs and long thoughts”) by Stefania Galegati Shines.... READ MORE...
Mark Amerika launches digital artworks on Sedition platform
Sedition, the pioneering platform where the world’s most celebrated contemporary artists offer their work as digital limited editions, presents the first trading platform to resell and buy contemporary art in digital format. From Monday 9th September, art collectors will be able to resell editions of purchased artworks that have sold out, and pursue other artworks for their digital collection.... READ MORE...
Opening of the FabLab SUPSI and Beginning of the 2nd edition of Maind program
The new space for the Master of Advanced Studies in Interaction Design and FabLab SUPSI Lugano will be inaugurated on Monday 16 September, from 15.00 to 18.00. You are invited to participate to this event that celebrates the beginning of new and exciting academic year.... READ MORE...
Trying to find beauty in complexity. The Internet-Data of Dries Depoorter
Dries Depoorter is a young Belgian media artist who focuses his work on programming languages and digital media. As declared, he “tries to find the beauty in complexity” when performing his artistic research. He is just graduted his media-art study program at KASK, School of Arts Ghent... READ MORE...
xCoAx 2014: Computation, Communication, Aesthetics and X
xCoAx is a forum for the exchange of ideas and the discovery of new and valuable synergies. An event exploring the frontiers of digital arts with the participation of computer scientists, media practitioners and theoreticians... READ MORE...
AN EDUCATION – Ettore Favini and Hektor Mamet: Nella terra di mezzo
Nella terra di mezzo, the fourth appointment of AN EDUCATION - a series of exhibitions of artists’ videos and workshops conceivd for students and anyone interested in contemporary art - opens on September 21st 2013 at Villa e Collezione Panza, Varese, the property owned by FAI - Fondo Ambiente Italiano. The video Nella terra di mezzo, by the artists Ettore Favini and Hektor Mamet, will be shown in the project room of the Villa until October 24th.... READ MORE...
Organic Forms and Digital Visions. An interview with Sougwen Chung
An afternoon in Geneva, during the last edition of Mapping Festival (http://www.mappingfestival.com/2013/) I had the opportunity to meet and interview Sougwen Chung, a multidisciplinary artist that during the festival was presenting her new installation Chiaroscuro at the Bâtiment d'art Contemporain (BAC).... READ MORE...
Midnight Moment goes global: Times Square Arts and Streaming Museum
Midnight Moment, the largest coordinated effort in history by the sign operators in Times Square to display synchronized, cutting-edge creative content on electronic billboards and newspaper kiosks throughout Times Square every night, is going global. For the first time, digital screens in Europe, Antarctica, Australia, Africa, South America, and Asia will feature special content that was created for the Midnight Moment, a program of the Times Square Advertising Coalition and Times Square Arts. To make this possible, Times Square Arts, the public art program for the Times Square Alliance, has partnered with Streaming Museum.... READ MORE...
Biohackers. The Politics of Open Science. Hackers aiming at the conquest of the world of science
What do hackers have to do with BioLabs dealing with DNA mapping and testing new modifications of human life? Biohackers is a book written by Alessandro Delfanti, a scholar who studies the relationships between science and society. He tells us not only that the hacker culture has many things in common with the world of science, but also, in a more fascinating way, that the current transformations of life sciences are and will be even more characterized by a mash-up or remix (by adopting the author's own words) between the traditional scientific culture, the hacker ethics and the open access culture.... READ MORE...
“Introduzione ai media digitali”. Watching at the technology-society connection
Short History of Nearly Everything is the title of a popular science book published some time ago. But may also be the subtitle of Adam Arvidsson and Alessandro Delfanti Introduzione ai Media Digitali, a short history (150 pages) of nearly everything that an internet user or university student needs to know about the political, economic and social implications of new digital media.... READ MORE...
Cinema in the time of workflow. The digital revolution and film criticism’s Ancien Régime
In 2007, when I started my collaboration with Digicult and writing for Digimag, I discussed with its editor, Marco Mancuso, about what could be the areas of intersection between digital art and cinema. At the time I was still rather fresh from a university degree course in film studies that was largely, if not entirely, based on textbooks using a terminology that was light-years far from actual, hands-on film-making. Six years later cinema was fully digitalized, but the language of film criticism has remained virtually unchanged.... READ MORE...