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Smoking Mirror: Mirror Images in Art and Medicine

Redazione DigicultNovember 27, 2015

The exhibition presents unique reflective objects as well as coordinated light and sound effects to create a space designed to elicit a state of altered consciousness similar to a hypnotic trance, exploring the connection between mental activity and the cognitive awareness of one’s own body in space... READ MORE...

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ZKM Center for Art and Media presents: Exo-Evolution

Redazione DigicultNovember 26, 2015

The exhibition Exo-Evolution shows the interconnection between art and science and the artistic application of new technology. The exhibition shows us visions and solutions to problems of the 20th century offering insights into the future and a look back at the past of the artistic and technological exteriorization of human capabilities.... READ MORE...

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Christine Sun Kim: Rustle Tustle

Redazione DigicultNovember 26, 2015

In Rustle Tustle, Christine Sun Kim, who was born deaf, invites viewers to expand their understanding of what sound is and can be, undermining the all-prevailing sound etiquette set by hearing culture.... READ MORE...

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Brandalism: Denouncing hypocrisy of the COP21 Paris climate talks

Redazione DigicultNovember 26, 2015

The Brandalism project has worked with Parisians to insert unauthorized artworks across the city that aim to highlight the links between advertising, consumerism, fossil fuel dependency and climate change.... READ MORE...

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ACT Festival 2015

Redazione DigicultNovember 25, 2015

ACT Festival presents a world-class exhibition, symposium, performance and workshop program that creatively reconfigures and recontextualizes advanced technologies and lets us experience the digital anew. ACT Festival will examine methods of “new making”—in projects, practices, educational platforms, and creative ecosystems.... READ MORE...

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SPRINT: salone di editoria indipendente e d’artista

Redazione DigicultNovember 24, 2015

SPRINT è una rassegna internazionale dedicata all’editoria indipendente e d’artista, ideata da O’ associazione non profit, a cura dell’artista Dafne Boggeri. Giunto alla sua terza edizione, il progetto coinvolge una selezione di realtà e autori tra le più interessanti nel panorama internazionale dell’editoria indipendente e d’artista... READ MORE...

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Signal Traffic: critical studies of media infrastructures. A review

Paolo MagauddaNovember 24, 2015

The aim of “Signal Traffic” is thus to enrich the study of digital media analysing them in terms of infrastructures and, therefore, considering media primarily as situated socio-technical systems that are designed and configured to support the distribution of audiovisual signal traffic.... READ MORE...

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The message of architecture’s phenomenological medium

Mabel PlascenciaNovember 20, 2015

When we talk about materials in architecture, the process of manufacturing reigns above it all in order to express whatever desire design withholds, almost without limits. The sincerity within the material’s rawness is now facing its faux-version when costs are at stake and time is of the essence, mostly for reaching the intended design.... READ MORE...

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Ryota Kuwakubo: the reality of shadows

Alessio ChiericoNovember 19, 2015

Ryota Kuwakubo is a Japanese artist who has been working between art and technology since the end of the '90s. His cross-disciplinary approach brought him to produce various kinds of works, which ranged from electronic devices to interactive installations.... READ MORE...

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An Individual look at the art of Vija Celmins and Julia Haller

Redazione DigicultNovember 18, 2015

Celmins’s art maintains a delicate balance between abstraction and depiction, between surface and proportion, between the suggestion of movement and stillness. Julia Haller engages with the conventions and history of painting, trying to leave it behind or to negate it in her own work.... READ MORE...

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Mobile Audio Fest: an event conceived and organized by Locus Sonus

Redazione DigicultNovember 17, 2015

Mobile Audio Fest is a 4 day event exploring the relationships between mobility and (new) forms of listening and sound-making. Conceived as a series of “rendezvous” in Aix-en-Provence and Marseille, Mobile Audio Fest presents 15 projects by international artists in which mobility plays a central part... READ MORE...

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The State of Things: a combined exhibition by Overtoon and Werktank

Redazione DigicultNovember 17, 2015

The exhibition The State of Things presents recents works by four artists, Mats Dekock, Stijn Demeulenaere, Elias Heuninck and Jeroen Uyttendaele, who were in residency at Overtoon and Werktank in 2014 and 2015. The exhibited works share a particular interest in fleeting moments, that manifest themselves in fractions of sound and light.... READ MORE...

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Changing Circumstances: looking at the future of the planet

Redazione DigicultNovember 16, 2015

The focus for the 2016 Biennial, FotoFest’s 16th International Biennial of Photography and Mixed Media Art, is mankind’s relationship with our changing planet. The Biennial’s theme will examine these dynamisms and work to offer creative solutions, presented through the Biennial exhibitions and programs by contributing artists and thinkers.... READ MORE...

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Right Here, Right Now: a contemporary art exhibition

Redazione DigicultNovember 16, 2015

Right Here, Right Now brings together 16 international artists who use and explore digital technologies. Together they address how technology affects our lives - be that through surveillance, artificial intelligence, voyeurism or online dating.... READ MORE...

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Autonomous Times, the exhibition at Arebyte. An Interview with Nelmarie du Preez

Kirsten HawkinsNovember 12, 2015

South African-born artist Nelmarie du Preez has taken on an unusual approach to sculpture, art, film and “making”. She has blurred the boundaries between art and technology to striking effect in her current exhibition, Autonomous Times, curated by Nimrod Vardi.... READ MORE...

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DIGITAL EXHIBIT. IUAV master in multimedia and Interactive Devices for Cultural Heritage

Redazione DigicultNovember 11, 2015

All’Università Iuav di Venezia parte il Master Universitario di I livello in: "DIGITAL EXHIBIT. Dispositivi multimediali e interattivi per i beni culturali". Il Master intende formare figure in grado di controllare saperi e tecnologie legate al patrimonio artistico, architettonico e urbano... READ MORE...

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Materia Prima: experiments on digital art & science, LABoral Gijon

Redazione DigicultNovember 11, 2015

Materia Prima it is an experiment on its own, an attempt to create access, to cut some trails into the wide spread territory of the overlapping areas of art and science. But most of all it aims for a new level of involvement and participation of the visitors.... READ MORE...

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Earthrise: Pre-Ecological Visions in Italian Art 1967–73

Redazione DigicultNovember 10, 2015

With its new exhibition Earthrise, the PAV aims to extend its investigations into the genealogy of the relationship between artistic practices, social change and production of the environment, presenting a collection of pioneering research carried out in Italy in the crucial years around 1968.... READ MORE...

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