Education

Open Call – Piet Zwart Institute Media Design & Communication | DEADLINE 15/05/2017

The Piet Zwart Insitute Master Media Design & Communication is a research orientated master programme, with a strong emphasis on the connection between practice and theory. The course focus on practice-led research through project-based work will equip you to create a distinctive voice as an artist/designer in the contemporary media landscape. Choose between two study paths: Lens-based Media or Experimental Publishing. Application Deadline for EU students only: 15/05/2017... READ MORE...

MatchPoint: the artistic research as a collaborative practice in the contemporary city

L'oggetto di indagine è costituito da un organismo sociale che, con la sua presenza nei quartieri popolari della città di Napoli, fa tutela attiva del suo patrimonio culturale materiale e immateriale, sia rivitalizzando e manutenendo intere aree cittadine dalla conformazione pre-moderna, sia partecipando alla definizione dell'effetto città (confronto, scambio, contaminazione).... READ MORE...

Media and Emotions: The New Frontiers of Affect in Digital Culture – Deadline 30/03/2017

Open Cultural Studies, the new peer-reviewed journal by De Gruyter Open, calls for papers investigating the issue of affect faced to current increasing digitalism. Emotional interactions, feelings and affective experiences with the new media, technologies of emotions, the commodification and governance of feelings and much more. Send your abstract until 30/03/2017.... READ MORE...

Media Art and Art Market: an interview with Christa Sommerer

The 10th of October 2016 at the Lentos Museum in Linz took place the Media Art and Art Market symposium. This event aimed to discuss the current situation of the art market segment which focuses on the Media Art. The organization of the symposium has been led by Christa Sommerer, artist and pioneer of Interactive Art togheter with Laurent Mignonneau. Christa Sommerer is active in the in the art market with several galleries worldwide, she gained a special expertise in this sector.... READ MORE...

Media Art Histories/Re:Trace 2017 – Call for Papers | Deadline: 26/03/2017

The 7th International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology titled RE:TRACE focuses on an evaluation of the status of the meta-discipline MediaArtHistories today, more than a decade after the first conference founded the field now recognized worldwide as a significant historical inquiry at the intersection of art, science, and technology... READ MORE...

Rogue Archives by Abigail De Kosnik, MIT Press

One of the most recent releases by MIT Press, “Rogue Archives”, just came out last October. The author, Abigail De Kosnik, is currently Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley with a joint appointment in the Berkeley center for New Media Center of theater, dance and performances studies.... READ MORE...

Data Aesthetics – The Interactive Art 

Today, data and information flow and fill every space, both physical and virtual. How do we handle this? How can we visualise the big data and make it more concrete process? The exhibition Date Aesthetics -The Interactive Arts will seek to answer these questions through the intervention of artists and activists careful about this kind of issue... READ MORE...

Alternative Art School Fair (AASF)

Is it possible an alternative school of art? A school that allows greater freedom of expression and able to evolve with the times? These will be some of the topics discussed at the "Alternative Art School" fair organized by Pioneer Works (New York), where the alternative schools will open to the public and will examine their role.... READ MORE...

Space Brain Laboratory

Space brain Laboratory born in 2009 thanks to Ann Veronica Janssens and Nathalie Ergino, is a project that brings together the thoughts and experiences of artists and researchers in the humanities and physical sciences, covering progress in neurosciences and astrophysics along with current practices in hypnosis and shamanism.... READ MORE...