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The “FRACTY” platform. The Project

Currently, a growing number of professionals in the creative industries perceives the net as the main tool to raise awareness of their work and start collaborative projects. Even though the online presence of artists, designers and professionals of contemporary culture can be considered a showcase to enter the business world and its commissions, this is a first step, which has still to be directed towards business models that lead to the contact between supply and offer.... READ MORE...

The Islands of Benoît Mandelbrot. Fractals, Chaos, and the Materiality of Thinking

Focusing primarily on the work of Benoît Mandelbrot (1924–2010), one of the most notable mathematicians of the twentieth century, this exhibition explores the role of images in scientific thinking. With their capacity to generate and shape knowledge, images are at the very core of scientific investigation: charts, graphs, notebooks, instrument readings, technological representations, even mental abstractions--all make up the essential stuff of which it is made.... READ MORE...

William Kentridge: I am not me, the horse is not mine. The Tank / Tate Modern

William Kentridge’s eight-channel video installation I am not me, the horse is not mine will be showcased in the UK for the first time in the Tanks at Tate Modern. Projected simultaneously across the walls of the Tank, each film is played on a continuous loop to create an immersive audio-visual environment, which resists the establishment of a single narrative. Each short film contributes layers to a story that references Russian modernism, from Soviet film of the 1920s and 1930s to the calamitous end of the Russian avant-garde.... READ MORE...

Paraphrasing Babel. Video art & soundscapes on language in public space

rom October 19 to November 18, 2012, Viewmaster Foundation presents the exhibition "Paraphrasing Babel", in the public space of Maastricht and Heerlen. An exhibition of 28 video projections, video installations and 7 soundscapes that cross the boundaries of language, (mis) communication, and speech confusion. To be seen and heard every evening from 18.00 to 23.00 hrs.... READ MORE...

Porspectives 12. International Festival of Digital Art

Prospectives ’12 International Festival of Digital Art is the third iteration of a media festival started by UNR Professor and media artist, Joseph DeLappe. It is a unique event in that it is focused entirely on pre-professional artists – highlighting an international selection of work by graduate and Phd students working with digital technologies for the creation of interdisciplinary artforms from visual, performing, music and dance.... READ MORE...

“In the Holocene”. Exhibition at MIT List Visual Art Center

"In the Holocene" explores art as a speculative science, how artists investigate principles more commonly associated with scientific or mathematical thought. The exhibition proposes that art is an investigative and experimental activity, addressing what is explained through traditional scientific means: time, matter, energy, topology, perception, consciousness, etc.... READ MORE...

NODE 13: Call for proposals. “The Rules”

NODE13 is a festival for digital arts and culture based in Frankfurt, Germany. It’s is a week long rush of A/V performances, exhibitions by artists of the digital and analog media scene from all the world, workshops and talks. Within the NODE13 exhibition and symposium we are seeking to investigate the implications of current technology on our culture and society.... READ MORE...

“UNNATURAL”. The Exhibition about manipulated nature

UNNATURAL presents scientific, romantic, conceptual, poetic, sensual and ecological conceptions of nature through primarily video and photography reflecting advances in technology in the twenty-first century. The works in the exhibition question conventional means and methods of representing the natural world and metaphorically embody both the paradoxical longing to fuse with nature and the threat embedded in such fusion.... READ MORE...