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Blind Faith: Between the Visceral and the Cognitive in Contemporary Art

This exhibition at Haus der Kunst in Munich brings together 28 international artists who view the body as their material in the most literal sense. In the search of reality and truth in the world, sensual perception as well as alternative psychological states are investigated adopting a wide range of media and with a view to their potential for expanding consciousness.... READ MORE...

BecomeBecome Nomadic Residencies for Artists and Researchers | Deadline: 21/04/2018

Becomebecome invites artists, curators, and researchers, to apply for its 4th nomadic residency and exhibition program taking place in the island of Sardinia in collaboration with IVYnode, Stazione dell'Arte - Museum of Contemporary Art, the Monastery of Santa Rosa, and the Municipalities of Nurri and Ulassai. ​ This full-immersive journey investigates practical approaches to the theme 'A Call to Origins'. During this 9-day residency in the heart of Sardinia, we will have a unique opportunity to transform, make, and exhibit our work in the Monastery of Nurri and the surrounding area. Becomebecomers will also participate at the Symposium on transdisciplinary education organized in collaboration with Stazione dell'Arte - Museum of Contemporary Art. ... READ MORE...

The repeated image: the variation of the identical in contemporary image world

In the last years, memes have undergone an evolution that brought them into parts of society that they hadn’t reached before. This coexistence between different types of images, that was made possible by the web, has created new questions in the arena of contemporary art as well. How will this relationship develop in the future?... READ MORE...

LIVE WORKS Vol. 6

È uscita la sesta edizione del bando internazionale interamente dedicato alla performance art, indetto, promosso e sostenuto da Centrale Fies a cura di Barbara Boninsegna, Simone Frangi, Daniel Blanga Gubbay.... READ MORE...

Discwoman @ Macao

Incoraggiato dal successo della sua prima manifestazione pubblica, tenutasi il 24 Febbraio con la premiere italiana del documentario di Yony Leyser Queercore e le performance di Violence e Kilbourne, il queer-lab di Macao ha scelto di riproporsi il 30 Marzo invitando per la prima volta in Italia Discwoman.... READ MORE...

Reimmaginare il nostro universo dopo Einstein: la mostra Gravity al MAXXI di Roma

Fino al 29 aprile al MAXXI di Roma è in corso Gravity, una mostra curata da Luigia Lonardelli, Vincenzo Napolano e Andrea Zanini e dedicata alla teoria della relatività generale di Albert Einstein, che esplora la fisica moderna e il rapporto di interdipendenza tra arte e scienza che è alla base della ricerca contemporanea, al limite tra passato e presente, materiale e immateriale.... READ MORE...

On Tino Sehgal: May a new ground flourish again?

Curated by Luca Cerizza, a new performance by Tino Sehgal is ongoing at the OGR in Turin, returning to Italy ten years after his last solo show. Dalia Maini recounts a work that stages a complex choreography of fifty performers, a tangle of apparently human bodies and stories focusing on immateriality and physicality, and on communication as a visceral need.... READ MORE...

New Imaginaries for Crypto Design

Many of us use the Deep Web on a regular basis. How can we begin to understand the structures that facilitate all of these every-day actions? What visual interpretations shine a light on the deep waters to reveal a more nuanced metaphor than that of an iceberg? Curated by Patricia de Vries an exhibition in Cyprus NeMe Arts Centre dives into lesser-known parts of the web.... READ MORE...

Meta.Morf 2018. A Beautiful Accident

One big question is: can the whole of evolution be seen as an exponential growth of intelligence? Or should we look at it as a process full of small and bigger accidents that strongly contributed to the rise of human beings, which in this case could be seen as a "Beautiful Accident"? This exhibition confronts us with the pressing topics of a nearby era where algorithms will become part of our lifes.... READ MORE...

SIMPOSIO #3: Human Conversation. Five monthly appointments until May 2018

The appointments of Simposio keep going, NONE collective organizes the third date: a meeting, performance and installation program that investigates the man-machine relation within the contemporary society. It was conceived to trigger a network, a public debate and a reflection on the digital contemporaneity and its implications on a perceptive, cognitive, social, and economic level.... READ MORE...

Ian Cheng populates Serpentine Gallery with artificial life

The Serpentine Gallery is hosting first solo UK exhibition of artist Ian Cheng where visitors will have their first encounter with a sentient artwork. Cheng's work explores mutation, the history of human consciousness and our capacity to relate to change. Drawing on principles of video game design, and cognitive science, he develops live simulations and virtual ecosystems that self-evolve without authorial intent.... READ MORE...

Australian Antarctic Arts Fellowship | Deadline:: 28/03/2018

The Australian Antarctic Arts Fellowship, made possible by the Australian Antarctic Division in association with the Australian Network for Art & Technology, enables people from the creative community to experience Antarctica and the sub-Antarctic, and Australia’s activities in these locations, so that they may communicate this unique experience and understanding to others.... READ MORE...

Across & Beyond: Post-digital Practices, Concepts, and Institutions

This collection of essays has been conceived and developed by Transmediale festival in Berlin in occasion of its 30th anniversary, and gathers contributions and essays by international theorists and media artists to provide the audience with a critical approach to the so called "post-digital landscape" also representing a further theoretical exploration of themes reflected in the last festival edition.... READ MORE...

Critical Interfaces Cultures. Broken hearts, purple hearts, beating hearts

We can understand interfaces by how they make us feel, how they modify the way we think we own a place, how they give us a module on identity, and even how we seduce others through them. A new column, better yet new palimpsest, that will guide you through interviews, dialogues and short papers exploring surfaces, gestures, authors, and digital visions.... READ MORE...