Fabbing Archives • Digicult | Digital Art, Design and Culture

Migrating Textile: the senses in jeopardy

"Migrating Textile" is the second major interdisciplinary and international exhibition initiated by the Save the Loom foundation. It shows how the fabrics of people gather new meaning on account of their environment and how important the influence of their migration is on their artistic practice.... READ MORE...

“Anura”: Ornamental and transdermal patches printed in 3D

DIY and digital manufacturing are playing a fundamental role in experimentation and technological advancement also in the fields of health and personal care and will be among the sectors with the highest potential in the coming years for improving living conditions. The Anura project is an example of a 3D printing application in the healthcare field, born from the vision of possible futures.... READ MORE...

Afro-Tech and the Future of Re-Invention

Starting from a research trip undertaken by Inke Arns through various African countries in 2014, a new exhibition at The Hartware MedienKunstVerein puts Afrofuturism in dialogue with alternative technological solutions and imaginations. The speculative narratives unfolding in the artworks on display are confronted with actual inventions from maker scenes.... READ MORE...

Meeting at the makerspace with fashion tech designer Anouk Wipprecht

Her work as a fashion tech designer brings Anouk Wipprecht all over the world, to create installations and products mixing the futuristic aesthetics of digital fabrication design, with the most innovative components of wearable tech. Through the use of robotics and open hardware, finally fashion starts talking to us... READ MORE...

Sensing the invisible. Interview with Afroditi Psarra

Through her fascinating and dystopic garments Afroditi Psarra has been contributing to push further body augmentation research blending folk tradition, pop culture, hand-made electronic and coding to create art, and conveying also social, biological, and environmental issues. Latest developments of her work include Cosmic Bitcasting, a tunic that enables the human body to perceive cosmic radiation and to upload all the outputs on a computer.... READ MORE...

hyle. Dialoghi transdisciplinari sul design

Al Riot Studio di Napoli una mostra curata da Francesco Dell'Aglio, Enza Migliore e Chiara Scarpitti presenta una dimensione inconsueta del design italiano, in cui arte, design, poesia e artigianato dialogano tra loro intrecciandosi in una serie di progetti e visioni che propongono ciascuno un diverso modo di sentire la città.... READ MORE...

Instrumentarium. Interview with Jean-François Laporte

The composer Jean-François Laporte assembles simple objects to transform them into real musical instruments, sometimes controlled by electronic devices. With their strong installation presence these artifacts are linked not only to the musical world but also to the performing arts and theatre, in a perfect balance on the line that connects the concepts of object, artifact and instrument.... READ MORE...

Art Printing. Seminar for Carrara Academy of Fine Art in Bergamo

"Art Printing. Craft proceedings between traditional tecniques and new technologies" is a seminar conceived and realized for Carrara Academy of Fine Arts in Bergamo, with the partecipation of A14 press company and Fablab Bergamo. Curated by Marco Mancuso together with Cinzia Benigni, next 15-22-29 November.... READ MORE...

Not a single Bone. Nora Al-Badri, Nikolai Nelles at NOME gallery

NOME gallery presents Nora Al-Badri’s and Nikolai Nelles’ first solo exhibition. The artists show their most recent projects addressing the production and commodification of global heritage and cultural goods and questioning the hierarchy of knowledge and the role of Western science and institutions.... READ MORE...

The Dreamy Reality. Interview with Dominic Wilcox

Dominic Wilcox is the epitome of the unclassifiable persona; he is an artist, an inventor, a designer, a speaker, and a man who reinvents the normal into something that not necessarily has an actual purpose. His works span from the most odd machines to more practical devices.... READ MORE...

reflecting HOLONS: mechanical soap bubbles at LYNfabrikken, Aarhus

On August 11 LYNfabrikken’s art space BOX in Aarhus presents the famous Dutch design duo Martens & Visser. The two designers are installing their remarkable mechanical soap bubbles in the small exhibition space in the city centre... READ MORE...

“What The Body Knows”: Mattia Casalegno meets Antonio Canova

In Mattia Casalegno’s most recent project, “What the Body Knows”, he reinterprets the work of Italian Neoclassic artist Antonio Canova. The exhibition in Bassano del Grappa, Italy runs through June 25th and features an immersive audiovisual installation and a series of new sculptures.... READ MORE...

The New Observatory: measuring, predicting and sensing the world today through data

The New Observatory transforms FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) galleries in Liverpool into an observatory for the 21st century. In collaborati... READ MORE...

Center for Art Science & Technology (CAST) presents: Being Material

Taking place at MIT on April 21 to 22, 2017, BEING MATERIAL will draw leading artists, scientists, engineers, and scholars from around the world to explore the future of programmable materials, 3D/4D printing, synthetic biology, and wearable technologies.... READ MORE...

On the Far Side of the Marchlands

A “marchland” is a medieval term for a borderland beyond direct state control, governed by changing laws and rules. The exhibition On the Far Side of the Marchlands explores the potential of radically new topographies through border regions (marchlands) created by the artists, composed from inextricably linked realms of experience, culture, and materiality.... READ MORE...

Awesome Shield: empowering the next generation of creators with code

Awesome Shield is a start up born in Berlin in 2014, to teach kids to code based on the Arduino platform; also they build hardware prototypes and designing a functional online-learning platform. Awesome Shield has already been put into action in Europe and last and this year they took part in the Maker Faire Rome... READ MORE...

Computational fashion and 4D print. The glamorous side of fabbing and synthetic biology

Dissemination of tools for rapid prototyping through 3D printing and evolution of software for digital modeling to parametric methods excited great interest inside the world of fashion. Designers created many experiments at different levels of scale: from fabrics with three-dimensional textures to dresses and accessories modeled directly in three dimensions around the body of the wearer.... READ MORE...

TOMORROWS Urban Fictions for Possible Futures | Call for projects. Deadline 2/12/2016

Open call for research projects on the themes of smart cities, urban futures, infrastructures, new technologies and environment. With a special focus on the Mediterranean. Artists, architects and designers can apply until 2/12/2016.... READ MORE...