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Sonic Acts Academy

Redazione DigicultFebruary 18, 2016

Sonic Acts Academy is a new platform that aims to grow, expand, sustain and disseminate stimulating discourse about artistic research. The academy invites artists and theorists to expand on their research through workshops, masterclasses, lectures, concerts, film screenings and work presentations... READ MORE...

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Self-Made Media. Matteo Marangoni and instrument inventors initiative

Martina RaponiFebruary 17, 2016

My first contact with Matteo Marangoni, and with the collective he is part of, iii, occurred on the occasion of the Reading Room, a series of group readings supported by iii. In this series of events contemporary researchers, cultural theorists, philosophers, and artists are invited to share texts with the audience... READ MORE...

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SHAPE platform announces 2016 list of artists

Redazione DigicultFebruary 17, 2016

A 3-year initiative co-funded by the Creative Europe program of the European Union, the SHAPE project reunites 16 European non-profit organizations active within the ICAS create a platform that aims to support, promote, and exchange innovative and aspiring emergent musicians and interdisciplinary artists with an interest in sound.... READ MORE...

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Culturegraphy: understanding the world through networks

Redazione DigicultFebruary 16, 2016

Culturegraphy investigates cultural information exchange over time also known as ‘memes’. These networks can provide new insights into the rich interconnections of cultural development. The graphics represent complex relationships of movie references by combining macro views summarizing 100 years of movie influences.... READ MORE...

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Aether & Einstein: Christine Ödlund at Magasin III

Redazione DigicultFebruary 15, 2016

The exhibition transforms Magasin III into a laboratory of sorts where, among other things, the artist examines the communication between humans and plants. As a visitor to this magical world, one is offered the opportunity to discover and explore the interplay between the senses.... READ MORE...

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AL and AL: Incidents of Travel in the Multiverse

Redazione DigicultFebruary 15, 2016

Inspired by this revolutionary concept, the artists have undertaken three multiverse journeys across space and time, travelling from the atomic scale reality of DNA into the mind of thinking machines in the future who believe Alan Turing is their creator, through to the point of no return at the edge of a black hole.... READ MORE...

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Videonale in Lagos: Changing City – Shifting Spaces

Redazione DigicultFebruary 12, 2016

With the topic Changing City – Shifting Spaces, Videonale in Lagos explores the dynamics of urban space in a video art workshop for artists based in Nigeria, led by the internationally acclaimed Anglo-Ethiopian video artist Theo Eshetu.... READ MORE...

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Staging Film: the relation of image and space in video art

Redazione DigicultFebruary 11, 2016

The exhibition is constructed along two main curatorial axes. The first highlights the literal act of staging through which each of the featured artists conceives and presents their video(s) within a distinct physical space. The second, a metaphorical one, emphasizes the process by which the artists present their subjects within the films themselves.... READ MORE...

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Be feral, open and yourself: interview with Alterazioni Video

Filippo LorenzinFebruary 10, 2016

Alterazioni Video is an Italian collective founded in 2004. Alterazioni Video works have been exhibited in museums and istitutions all around the world. The milanese audience will have the opportunity to see all Turbo Films in a special retrospective at Spazio Oberdan from 18th February to 4th March... READ MORE...

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GesammttkkunnsttMeshuggahh Laandtttt: Charlemagne Palestine

Redazione DigicultFebruary 10, 2016

Palestine’s works form a highly personal universe of rituals, intoxication, and shamanism. Relational Stalinism – The Musical is an ambitious assemblage of new performances created by artist Michael Portnoy enacted and developed with a troupe of dancers, actors, singers, and improvisers.... READ MORE...

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Disorder and the Disinformation Society

Redazione DigicultFebruary 9, 2016

This book is the first general social analysis that seriously considers the daily experience of information disruption and software failure within contemporary Western society. Through an investigation of informationalism, it describes the social processes producing informational disorder... READ MORE...

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Mass Effect. Art and the Internet in the Twenty-First Century

Redazione DigicultFebruary 9, 2016

Since the turn of the millennium, the Internet has evolved from what was merely a new medium to a true mass medium. Mass Effect provides an essential guide to understanding the dynamic and ongoing relationship between art and new technologies.... READ MORE...

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Silicon Valley. I signori del silicio, Evgeny Morozov

Redazione DigicultFebruary 9, 2016

For several years, companies in Silicon Valley promise prosperity, equality and a new society in which everything will be shareable and accessible. Surpassing the old logic of the market. But is this really so?... READ MORE...

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FACTLab and the Object Liberation Front present: Ob_ject and Ob_serve

Redazione DigicultFebruary 9, 2016

The exhibition Ob_ject and Ob_serve will explore different languages for revealing the desires, memories and inner conversations of objects and non-humans, in an attempt to understand how machines and technology shape their own worlds, and in turn, ours.... READ MORE...

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Digicult selected as SHAPE platform’s official media partner

Redazione DigicultFebruary 8, 2016

Digicult was selected as media partner of The Creative Europe-supported SHAPE platform for innovative music and audiovisual art: 16 festivals and initiatives with more than 48 artists... READ MORE...

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Mattia Casalegno at Bedlam Lorenz Assembly: What it Takes to be a Body

Redazione DigicultFebruary 8, 2016

Casalegno’s large scale installation reflects on the idea of beauty and the fallacy of the presumed superiority of man and its machines over nature. This site-specific project comprises two previous installations, and a new series of twelve laser engravings on mirrored acrylics and Teflon, inspired by the narratives of the two pieces.... READ MORE...

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Wolfgang Tillmans: On the Verge of Visibility

Redazione DigicultFebruary 8, 2016

The exhibition will be site specific, in its response to the particular architectural context of its presentation in the museum and through the inclusion of new photographic material. It will also allude to ideas of the ‘universal’ through the everywhere-ness of sky and water.... READ MORE...

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Critical Texts: Ego Update exhibition & Alterazioni Video’s Turbofilm catalogues

Redazione DigicultFebruary 7, 2016

Digicult critical texts are published within 2 important exhibition catalogues: Ego Updated collective at NRW Forum in Dusseldorf and Alterazioni Video's Turbofilm at Spazio Oberdan in Milan... READ MORE...

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