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Digital Art Works The challnges of conservation

The exhibition Digital Art Works. The Challenges of Conservation aims to shed light on the variety of questions that art institutions and artists themselves are faced with in trying to guarantee the continuity of these particularly fragile works of art. While the core of computer-based artworks lies in their digital code, the particular challenge in preserving digital artworks has much more to do with the hardware and software required for their production and presentation.... READ MORE...

Phillip Stearns: Subliminal Machines

Phillip Stearns creates at the intersection of art, philosophy, and science, drawing upon a variety of disciplines including installation, audio-video, circuit sculpture, writing, performance art and musical composition. Deconstruction, dissection, and reconfiguration are methods he commonly employs in the interrogation of materials ranging from electronic objects, biological systems, images, light, video, and sound. His process is that of reduction aimed at revealing hidden macrocosms of potential, new materials for expression, and new paths for inquiries into understanding the state of things.... READ MORE...

Claudia Hart When a rose is not a rose

bitforms gallery is pleased to announce a second solo exhibition with the Chicago-based artist Claudia Hart. When A Rose is Not a Rose, Hart's reflection on the ubiquitous Gertrude Stein poem from 1913, presents the artist's recent explorations on her own denial of death. The exhibition's muted wall text , "When this you see remember me", also quotes the title of W.G. Roger's biography on Stein, functioning as a cold reminder of mortality, a memento mori.... READ MORE...

Tacita Dean: FILM Tate Modern Unilever Series

Tate Modern has unveiled the twelfth commission in The Unilever Series by the artist Tacita Dean. Entitled FILM, the work is an eleven-minute silent 35mm looped film projected onto a monolith standing 13 metres tall at the end of a darkened Turbine Hall. It is the first work in The Unilever Series to be devoted to the moving image.... READ MORE...

Invideo Festival 2011

Scatta tra poco l'annuale appuntamento milanese con la videoarte e le nuove arti digitali: dal 17 al 20 novembre p.v. la XXI edizione di INVIDEO, Mostra Internazionale di video e cinema oltre, presenterà come ogni anno il meglio della produzione audiovisiva contemporanea.... READ MORE...

CynetArt Festival

The 15th edition of the CYNETART festival for computer-based art is very much characterised by the essence of the Festspielhaus Hellerau that opened 100 years ago. Between November 16th and 26th 2011 the building designed by Heinrich Tessenow especially for the proclaimed "Body Liberation" movement will be transformed into a space laboratory where cultural, artistic and academic as well as technological dimensions of contemporary and future body perception can be experienced. Visitors are invited to explore various experimental setups at the interface between naturalness and artificiality and thus to experience their corporeality in new and different ways.... READ MORE...

A show about Colab (and Related Activities)

Printed Matter, Inc. is pleased to announce the exhibition A Show about Colab (and Related Activities), which runs from October 15 through November 30, 2011. This overarching survey will present a wide range of materials and artworks from various Colab activities from the late 1970's through the mid 1980's, including screenings of film and video works, and cable broadcasts. The exhibition also features works and material from other related groups, collectives and projects.... READ MORE...

Kontraste Festival Imaginary Landscapes

The curatorial sextet responsible for programming the internationally renowned Amsterdam Sonic Acts Festival (http://www.sonicacts.com) will present cutting-edge sonic experiments, contemporary music and related art forms in thematic, historical and interdisciplinary contexts.The comprehensive festival programme explores a wide variety of fields and practices and offers unique encounters with extraordinary and unconventional concerts, performances, installations, lectures screenings and presentations.... READ MORE...

Mariko Mori & Thomas Goetz

The Adobe Museum of Digital Media (AMDM) has announced its 2011 fall exhibition schedule. On Nov. 9, 2011, AMDM will launch "Journey to Seven Light Bay", a new exhibition by Mariko Mori, curated by Tom Eccles. On Sept. 13, 2011, AMDM launched "InForm: Turning Data into Meaning", curated by Thomas Goetz, executive editor of Wired Magazine.... READ MORE...

MAXXInWeb: Enzo Cucchi

Prenderà il via sabato 17 settembre alle ore 21:00 il progetto MAXXIinWeb, a cura del MAXXI e di Telecom Italia: nove incontri con altrettanti "big" della creatività contemporanea che Telecom Italia rende disponibile gratuitamente al pubblico del web, in streaming live e on demand, sul sito www.telecomitalia.com.... READ MORE...

On Media: Focus Olanda Steim

OnMedia è un progetto pluriennale ideato da O' associazione non profit e Die Schachtel editore indipendente di musica contemporanea, sviluppato in collaborazione con il Consolato Generale dei Paesi Bassi di Milano e con il supporto e la partecipazione di Istituto Austriaco di Cultura di Milano, Centre Culturel Francais de Milan, Facoltà di Musicologia-Università di Pavia sede di Cremona, NABA, Milano, Associazione Sincronie, Milano.... READ MORE...

Brighton Digital Festival

Brighton's first month-long festival of digital culture, incorporating performances, exhibitions, conferences, workshops and meet-ups, takes place this September on the south coast. The Brighton Digital Festival brings together internationally renowned digital leaders and artists taking part in more than 30 events over 30 days.... READ MORE...

[DISK / CTM] The Icas Suite

The ICAS SUITE kicks off today at Monarch in Berlin with a program by the Todaysart Festival (Brussels & The Hague) featuring live and DJ-sets by three spearheads of Benelux electronic dance music: Conforce, Peter van Hoesen and 2562. At the same time Sperm Festival from Prague presents new Avant-pop from the Czech Republic, while Insomia! (Tromso) & Cynetart (Dresden) join forces to cook-up the Paloma with DJ-sets by Galina Hardgrove, Charlotte Bendiks, DJ JSN and Boska.... READ MORE...