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mur.at and Collective Intelligence Association (CIA) – Open Call for Artist Residency & Worklab

Redazione DigicultAugust 7, 2025

mur.at and the Collective Intelligence Association (CIA) are looking for a number of artists or collectives to participate in a 5-day artistic residency and worklab in Graz, Austria. Throughout the year, mur.at has been collecting intelligence from artists, collectives, and passersby in Graz and beyond.... READ MORE...

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pneumOS, di Oriana Persico: il “respiro dei dati” diventa arte a Expo Osaka

Redazione DigicultAugust 7, 2025

Un organo cibernetico che trasforma i dati sulla qualità dell’aria in comportamenti espressivi, generando una “Grammatica del respiro” fatta di movimento e suono: pneumOS è l’opera d’arte interattiva e datapoietica di Oriana Persico, scelta per il Padiglione Italia all’Expo 2025 Osaka, in dialogo con l’Atlante Farnese e i capolavori di Leonardo, Caravaggio e Tintoretto.... READ MORE...

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Symposium #2: a meeting around art, technology and society

Redazione DigicultMarch 1, 2018

Marco Mancuso is invited as special guest on 14 February 2018 in Rome at "Simposio #2: a meeting on art, technology and society", within the series of meetings curated by media design studio NONE Collective. Together with Quayola, Emanuele Braga (Macao) and Matteo Cremonesi (Iocose)... READ MORE...

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Afro-Tech and the Future of Re-Invention

Redazione DigicultFebruary 8, 2018

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...

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Eloquent Pixels. Interview with Games for the Many

Filippo LorenzinDecember 8, 2017

Games for the Many is a British nine Labour-supporting game designers, developers, activists, musicians team designing video game to support Labour Party political agenda. During 2017 UK General Elections they produced CorbynRun, a game to make young people get close to politics that has been a huge hit.... READ MORE...

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MusicMakers Hacklab Call – CMT 2018, Berlin | Deadline 30/11/2017

Redazione DigicultOctober 17, 2017

For this year's Hacklab, CTM Festival for Adveturous Music and Art (Berlin) invites coders and technologists but also people from across artistic and research backgrounds, from musicians to poets to psychologists, to submit music project ideas on the potential and worries about the growing role of AI and Machine Learning in arts and music. Apply until 30/11/2017... READ MORE...

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Blowing the Whistle, Questioning Evidence – Web Residencies 2017 by Solitude & ZKM DEADLINE 10/03/2017

Redazione DigicultFebruary 15, 2017

What's the role of art in the framework of whistleblowing and leaking? Which kind of tactics and strategies for resistance can we imagine within the technologic paradigm and beyond it? "Blowing the Whistle, Questioning Evidence", the CALL. No.1 for Web Residencies 2017 by Akademie Schloss Solitude & ZKM - Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe, curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli, explores the potentialities of technologies for social and political change. Artists, hackers, computer scientists, activists and critical thinkers are invited to send their proposals. Application period: 27/02 - 10/03/2017... READ MORE...

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Digicult is media partner of #UNIT Conference, Unicorns in Tech in Berlin

Redazione DigicultDecember 15, 2016

Digicult is media partner of the International LGBT Tech Summit in Berlin. #UNIT is a unique conference: very laid-back, positive atmosphere, networking possibilities, inspiring talks, music, encounters, performances and installations.... READ MORE...

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!Mediengruppe Bitnik. Random Darknet Shopper

Redazione DigicultFebruary 23, 2016

!Mediengruppe Bitnik live and work in Zurich/London. They are contemporary artists working on and with the Internet. Their practice expands from the digital to affect physical spaces, often intentionally applying loss of control to challenge established structures and mechanisms.... READ MORE...

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Libre Graphics Meeting 2015: beyond the first decade

Redazione DigicultApril 10, 2015

Since its first edition, Libre Graphics Meeting has been bringing together software developers, artists,  designers, users and other contributors to Free/Libre and Open Source  graphics software. For its tenth edition, LGM heads  to Toronto for four days of talks, workshops, hack sessions and meetings.  ... READ MORE...

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Computational Culture/Issue 2. A journal of software studies

Redazione DigicultOctober 11, 2012

The Sonic Body: Interview with Marco Donnarumma

Silvia BertolottiJune 14, 2012

Marco Donnarumma is a new media artist and performer of international renown, born in Italy but now based in Edinburgh. His works have been presented bo... READ MORE...

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Ethical Economy. The New Redistribution Of Value

Zoe RomanoJuly 5, 2011

Ethical consumerism, fair trade, socially responsible investments and corporate social responsibility are all phenomena on the rise. At the same time there are also virtual and local currencies and peer-2-peer rating systems that make the creation and redistribution of value in globalized social communities that share a set of common values, more real.... READ MORE...

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Pixelache Helsinki 2011

Redazione DigicultMarch 25, 2011

The 10th edition of Pixelache Helsinki will take place mostly on Suomenlinna island, located right outside central Helsinki. The focus this year will be on workshops, exhibitions, seminars and various informal events.... READ MORE...

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Pixelache Helsinki 2011

Redazione DigicultMarch 3, 2011

Si terrà per lo più nell'isola di Suomenlinna, ubicata a largo di Helsinki, la decima edizione del Pixelache Helsinki. Il festival quest'anno sarà incentrato su una serie di workshop, mostre, seminari e vari eventi informali.... READ MORE...

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Dyndy.net: The Future Of Money. For A New Democratic Economy

Zoe RomanoFebruary 2, 2011

Last fall in Amsterdam took place the second Economies of the Commons Economies of the Commons - Paying the cost of making things free - conference. In the panels they discussed the political economy of open content and its consequences for the cultural sector and analyzed critically the economies taking place in the digital commons..... READ MORE...

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Funware Exhibition Playing with softwares

Redazione DigicultNovember 27, 2010

Making and using software can be experimental, humorous and aesthetically rich. Alongside today's rather dull omnipresence of databases and content management systems, elements of fun have actually informed and guided the development of software from its beginnings... READ MORE...

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Beyond Signal Reclining Nude

Redazione DigicultSeptember 27, 2010

Oltre che con i disegni, Jenny Pickett mette in discussione il genere del nudo con un approccio interdisciplinare. Ritratti e disegni vengono sviluppati attraverso il suono e l'immagine. Forme astratte che diventano tessuti da arredamento. Reclining Nude è una serie di sculture sonore tappezzate che si riferiscono al corpo decostruito attraverso l'oggettivazione e/o la disumanizzazione ottenute con svariati mezzi Il corpo viene ricostruito attraverso disegni sonori spaziali o si rimaterializza sottoforma di vibrazioni avvertite dallo spettatore quando entra in contatto con alcune opere... READ MORE...

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