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From May 1st to August 1st 2021, Mudec - Museo delle Culture in Milan presents the exhibition ROBOT. The human project. From the first mechanical devices of ancient Greece to the new frontiers of Artificial Intelligence, man has always been attracted to the idea of creating an artificial fellow creature. The exhibition retraces the relationship between human beings and their doubles, revealing to the public the results achieved so far, the extraordinary technological developments and the frontiers of contemporary robotics and bionics.... READ MORE...

European ARTificial Intelligence Lab

The SETI Institute in Mountain View, CA and the Ars Electronica Futurelab in Linz, Austria are announcing that Interspecifics (INT), an independent artistic research studio founded in Mexico City, are the winners of the AI Lab residency, SETI x AI. Interspecifics’ (INT) project is called Codex Virtualis. With Codex Virtualis, Interspecifics... READ MORE...

VR/AR: State of the Art, a research repository on Digicult

Eleonora Stacchiotti

From this week on, Digicult will host VR/AR: State of the Art, a research repository curated by Eleonora Stacchiotti. In partnership with the University of Utrecht, this project is part of Eleonora’s research internship at Digicult. The project wants to investigate the current uses and perception of Augmented and Virtual Reality in the art world.... READ MORE...

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Business, art, and technology – Better Factory Open Call

Better Factory unlocks equity-free funding opportunities and premium services for collaborative experiments to bring the European Manufacturing Industry to the forefront of the digital transformation. Better Factory invites European Manufacturing SMEs, Artists, and Technology suppliers to engage in a set of one-year collaborative experiments to redesign ... READ MORE...

Prix Ars Electronica 2021: now open for submissions

Since 1987, the Prix Ars Electronica has been an interdisciplinary platform for anyone who uses a computer as a universal design medium in their artistic work at the interface of art, technology and society. The competition comprises several categories that attract thousands of submissions from all over the world.... READ MORE...

Brainstorming and AI for a visionary future

Giada Totaro

On Saturday 21st of November 2020, from the Sala Fucine OGR in Turin, in live in streaming on Zoom and Youtube, 2500 under 35s met in a digital event lasting 10 hours in the form of a collective brainstorming around to the topic “Which Borders in the New World?”. The objective of the Visionary Days project-event, now in its fourth edition, is to concretize the ideas... READ MORE...

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“Feelings”, new models of interaction

Synthesis gallery presents FEELINGS, a digital exhibition of works by five artists. Curated by Jeffrey Grunthaner and George Vitale, the exhibition will go live on Mozilla Hubs November 19, 2020 and run through February 21, 2021. Scheduled events and walkthroughs will also take place during the course of the exhibition.... READ MORE...

Para Site hosts two new exhibitions about AI

Para Site is proud to present two new exhibitions dedicated to AI and virtual world: Glitch in the Matrix, a solo exhibition by Hong Kong-based artist Luke Ching Chin Wai, featuring newly commissioned works and re-enactments and adaptations of Ching’s earlier works, and Confidential Records: Overwrite, a solo exhibition by Hong Kong-based artist Vvzela Kook.... READ MORE...

The future, despite everything: Hito Steyerl at Düsseldorf’s K21

Bianca Cavuti

The cornerstone of the exhibition is SocialSim, a new multimedia installation developed especially for the occasion, which explores the potential of digital technologies, simulations and AI, in relation to social upheavals, artistic creativity and pandemic conditions too. The artwork includes a focus on collective hysteria and social network, examined in the social simulation Dancing Mania.... READ MORE...

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Hito Steyerl in “I Will Survive”

The exhibition Hito Steyerl. I Will Survive at K21 is the new multimedia installation with which Steyerl (b. 1966) critically explores the potentials of digitality, simulation, and artificial intelligence with regard to artistic creativity, modes of museum presentation, social upheavals, and pandemic conditions.... READ MORE...

RE:HUMANISM ART PRIZE 2

The call is open from Tuesday, October 27th, and is addressed to professional artists of all ages and nationalities that will be able to participate for free throughout the submission of their projects by 12 pm of January 12th, 2021. Winners will be announced by January 31th, 2021, on www.re-humanism.com... READ MORE...

Summa Technologiae (The Lem Seminars). Call for applications

Summa Technologiae — titled after a collection of philosophical essays by Stanisłav Lem — is a project that begins as a pedagogical investigation consisting of four online seminars, taking place in November and December of 2020. The seminars will be focused on producing “outcomes” that will be made available on the Summa Technologiae project platform.... READ MORE...

“Reality Errors”, the pace of technological advancement

Nam June Paik Art Center presents Reality Errors from September 24, 2020 to January 31, 2021. Through the works of contemporary artists, the exhibition speculates on the near future where the pace of technological advancement would outstrip human comprehension, seeking ways to coexist with diverse alterities such as machines.... READ MORE...

“Capture”, Facial Recognition and Artificial Intelligence

Paolo Cirio created a database with 4000 faces of French police officers to crowdsource their identification with Facial Recognition technology and through the ... READ MORE...

OPEN CALL SETI x AI: European ARTificial Intelligence Lab offers residency

The European ARTificial Intelligence Lab is now offering artists who are working with artificial intelligence or experimenting with its applications the chance to complete a residency at the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute in Mountain View, California, and the Ars Electronica Futurelab in Linz.... READ MORE...

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“Immaterial/Re-material”, the evolution of computing art

UCCA Center for Contemporary Art presents Immaterial/Re-material: A Brief History of Computing Art, a wide-ranging overview of the evolution of computing art from the 1960s to the present, exploring topics that span from machine-learning aesthetics to digital objecthood and technological discontent.... READ MORE...