L’artista Luca Matti che correda questo testo con le sue opere conferma che occuparsi di natura non significa banalmente ricercare una “naturalità” dell'uomo (che è creatura integralmente biologica), quanto ricercare quella dimensione “concreta” del suo scegliere, decidere, volere.... READ MORE...
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...
Comparing the idea of owning an artwork to one of posting it is unrealistic, but the reason why we do both and the consequence of both actions to some extent can be more similar than we think. On an artistic level, one also commodifies and consumes the artwork in both scenarios. Just as art objects sold at auctions become commodities because they are treated as goods... READ MORE...
From being sold as a commodity to being used to sell commodities, the exploitation of the Black body has been the backbone of the creation of Western civilisation. Although this exploitation is painfully obvious to recognize in some instances – i.e. the Transatlantic slave trade – in other instances it is less obvious and well masked under the pretext... READ MORE...
"Memestetica, il settembre eterno dell’arte" written by Valentina Tanni and published on July 2020 by NERO Editions, succeeds in a quite tricky operation, that is to combine in a single physical and theoretical space a series of phenomena and subcultures that have been inadequately and partiality recounted for years.... READ MORE...
A lot has happened in 2020. In the pandemic world of covid19, the small HER research center, started by artists / hacktivists / researchers Salvatore Iaconesi and Oriana Persico, is changing its skin to become HER: She Loves Data: a new type of organization that interprets data as existential phenomena and uses art and design to reposition the results of research and innovation in the middle of society.... READ MORE...
Starting from an installation view shot, the visual dialogue between Yotaro Niwa and Yuto Takamuro unfold in an unexpected way that led to the new publication Fictive Appearance, and a new installation at einBuch.Haus in Berlin, where the publication has been launched in January 2020, during the Vorpsiel program of the Transmediale.... READ MORE...
XL was and will be the new format of Centrale Fies, originally conceived for the 40th anniversary of Drodesera and the 20th of Fies. Today it finds a new correlation in the analysis of an "oversize" that breaks the summer one shot , weaving together all the annual events of Centrale Fies.... READ MORE...
In the next five years, the artificial womb will become a medical reality. Ectogenesis, outside-the-womb gestation, is increasingly viable for human embryos. Will it lead to a feminist utopia, or is it the newest manifestation of an age-old male fantasy? This question has occupied the minds of feminists, science-fiction writers, artists and scientists for decades. Article by Patricia de Vries... READ MORE...
With the idea of starting a reflection on the use of public space - which is now increasingly regulated, limited and reduced - since 2014 Paolo Patelli and Giuditta Vendrame, through the project "Friction Atlas" collect, classify and make visible all the laws, rules and devices that regulate the way people move, meet, and gather in public space. Article by Fabiola Fiocco... READ MORE...
We live in a world where technologies are increasingly blurring the boundaries of affect, between man and machine. As technology becomes more integrated into our lives, will we become more integrated into technology? Article by Claire Burke... READ MORE...
The image of the digital zombie, that being absorbed by its phone who barely functions in public and is almost always rescued by another bystander has become a contemporary caricature of technology, and yet most of us do not remember the last three things we’ve reacted to. Article by Pierre Chaumont.... READ MORE...
Since at least a decade we have access to technologies that enable us to remotely perform the majority of tasks related to learning. Do we still need physical space for learning?... READ MORE...
Pierre Chaumont examines Memes, visual jokes that are made of an image of pop culture on which is added a humoristic text, and "Memesis", the process of a community creating itself through the spreading of its culture.... READ MORE...
The way we navigate the internet is increasingly processed and shaped by algorithms. Selena Savic will look into the design of algorithms that we interact with on a day-to-day basis, from online purchases to social networks or surveillance systems.... READ MORE...
Nicola Bozzi is interested in the double-edged nature of stereotypes and how categorization is a key part of the way we organize our online self.... READ MORE...
