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Tagging Aesthetics #5: Feminist Politics of (Geo)Location. Interview with Helena Suárez Val  

Nicola Bozzi
Nicola Bozzi interviews feminist activist and academic Helena Suárez Val about geo-tagging, the assignment of global positioning system (GPS) coordinates as metadata to a piece of content produced online. Helena's research stems from her own mapping of feminicides in her native Uruguay, an endeavour rooted in her background as both an activist and a programmer.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag – Issue 84, 3rd Quarter 2019Web

Tagging Aesthetics #4: (Machine) Learning Stereotypes. Interview with Max Dovey

Nicola Bozzi
Nicola Bozzi interviewed Max Dovey: working with stereotypes, tags, and algorithms in live settings, the UK-based artist has tried to define the “hipster” stereotype algorithmically, find out what makes a person male or female in a computer's eyes, and highlight the human labour necessary for machine learning. I spoke to him about a few of his artworks.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag – Issue 83, 2nd Quarter 2019Web

Simposio

Redazione Digicult
From July 4th to 7th NONE collective organizes the second edition of Simposio, that will take place among the mountains at the ENI Village of Borca di Cadore (BL). The aim is to create a real community by stimulating perception, critical faculty and deep thought to try to create new models for understanding the contemporary world and to formulate new worlds.... READ MORE...
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Vertiginous Data

Redazione Digicult
MMCA Seoul presented Vertiginous Data, an acclaimed international exhibition of media art. Playing upon the myriad ways in which data is classified and systematized the participating artists share their sharp insights and vision of our rapidly changing society and culture.... READ MORE...
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Anatomy of an AI system

Simone Broglia
Simone Broglia introduces the project Anatomy of an AI, a study which consists of two parts: a big map 2x5 meters, exposed at the Victoria-Albert Museum in London into the artificial intelligence area, and an essay available online and in free download. As the title states, the study aims to analyze in depth artificial intelligence, breaking it down and highlighting the link that exists with the real world, that of matter, production, work, exploitation.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag – Issue 81, 3rd Quarter 2018Web

The Numerical Self: a step inside Flora Miranda future fashion

Antonia Seierl
Self-optimisation and self-tracking have been around for quite a while; as Deborah Lupton noticed, the “Quantified Self Movement” is not only as a practice of self-improvement, but also an extension of memory in computerised form. Flora Miranda translates data and the whole idea of an immaterial body into 3D printed garments, offering a step inside the future through fashion and addressing the idea of becoming eternal online.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDesignDigimag – Issue 81, 3rd Quarter 2018

Ryoichi Kurokawa. al-jabr (algebra)

Redazione Digicult
al-jabr (algebra) è la prima mostra personale in un'istituzione Italiana dell’artista giapponese Ryoichi Kurokawa, che inaugura venerdì 14 settembre 2018 alla Galleria Civica di Modena. A cura di NODE – festival internazionale di musica elettronica e live media che si svolgerà a Modena dal 14 al 17 novembre 2018... READ MORE...
ArtNews

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

Silvia Bertolotti
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...
Books

Otherly Space / Knowledge

Redazione Digicult
In this present world, every type of knowledge is being converted into data, establishing an "Otherly Space" in the face of a technological platform that seeks unification, that runs parallel to the physical world. An upcoming exhibition at Asia Culture Center includes a variety of projects all tackling questions of space and knowledge-creation, visualization, and social data.... READ MORE...
DesignNews

Human-data interaction in the age of Industry 4.0 – part 2

Maddalena Mometti
In exploring the influence that the 4.0 Industry technologies have in redefining the relationship between man and machine, a key issue to be analysed is constituted by the relationship between the individual and data. The main tool that is used to reason around the data is visualization. Through his visual research, Kim Albrecht transforms data and numbers into images to understand the world, using visual and graphical elements to create knowledge.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDesign

Human-data interaction in the age of Industry 4.0 – part 1

Maddalena Mometti
In exploring the influence that the 4.0 Industry technologies have in redefining the relationship between man and machine, a key issue to be analysed is constituted by the relationship between the individual and data. The main tool that is used to reason around the data is visualization. Through his visual research, Kim Albrecht transforms data and numbers into images to understand the world, using visual and graphical elements to create knowledge.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDesign

Blending aesthetic form and technical function. Interview with Michael Takeo Magruder

Alfredo Cramerotti
Michael Takeo Magruder is a visual artist and researcher who works with new media and makes work in and around the Internet. His practice explores concepts ranging from media criticism and aesthetic journalism to digital formalism and computational aesthetics, deploying Information Age technologies and systems to examine our networked, media-rich world.... READ MORE...
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The Glass Room

Redazione Digicult
Ongoing in London a pop-up exhibition which - through artworks, speculative projects, interactive videos, animations and activist projects, puts big data on display to make them more tanglible and less abstract, helping the public to make informed choices about their digital self. The show is curated by Tactical Technology Collective and presented by Mozilla.... READ MORE...
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The material concretization of scientific principles

Carla Langella
Some designers and artists have the purpose of translating scientific principles connected to the relationship between artificial and biological through 3D objects, that can be used as material “concretizations” which crystallize phenomena and knowledges. An example is represented by the customized jewels resulted from parametric generation started from the DNA.... READ MORE...
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