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“Player of Beings”, the Relationship between Game and Human

From one-dimensional knob and button, two-dimensional mouse and joystick, to three-dimensional motion sensor, the evolution of these interactive devices reflects a persistent desire to shorten the gap between reality and the game world. Activating traditional culture through the lens of new technology, game carries us to break the boundary of time.... READ MORE...

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“Digital Cultures 2020: Imagined Futures”, an online festival of arts & technology

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The online festival will bring back former visions of the future, dismissed as intriguing yet far-fetched fantasies a decade or even a few months ago. The event, organised by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, offers a wealth of artistic programmes and debate, and aims to further understand and overcome the barriers of delivering a hybrid festival in today’s social and political climate. ... READ MORE...

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Fictive Appearance: all the inflections of an image

Mario Margani

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...

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Advanced technology, prophetic work and mysterious meanings of life. Interview with 404.zero

Caterina Tomeo

Taking as starting points their most irrepressible fascinations with death, the unknown and the cosmos, 404.zero craft thrilling, precise, painterly code-art that broaches big philosophical questions and provides mesmerizing though highly speculative answers. Interview by Caterina Tomeo... READ MORE...

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“Fictive Appearance”, Yotaro Niwa’s new installation

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Taking inspiration from Yuto Takamuro's book, the new spatial installation of Yotaro Niwa also leads the visitors back to experiencing the physical space. One medium used to construct the installation is the book contents itself.... READ MORE...

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Garage Digital: a platform and program for digital art and digital life

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Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow is pleased to announce the launch of Garage Digital, a new experimental program and online platform, anchored by a grant competition for artists who work with digital technology.... READ MORE...

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The Assembled Human

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With "The Assembled Human" the Museum Folkwang focuses on the manifold entanglements between human being and machine: the exhibition presents art as a mirror of industrialisation, technologisation and digitisation.... READ MORE...

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Digital mistakes and 3D lies. Interview with Karol Sudolski

Teresa Ruffino

Teresa Ruffino interviews Karol Sudolski, a young creative currently based in Milan. Together they talk about his introduction to the world of video before, and music after, both happened by accident and about the representation through a visual form of his thoughts in what he defines as the landscape of paranoia.... READ MORE...

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“Christian Marclay: Compositions”: a major solo show in Spain

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A solo show devoted to Christian Marclay will be presented at MACBA in Barcelona. The exhibition will include a selection focusing on his sonic compositions, from graphic scores to video installations, and it will examine the relationship between sound and vision.... READ MORE...

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Digital Unpleasant Design: Uncomfortable Websites and Demanding Services

Selena Savic

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...

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How would you touch an image? Interview with Lucy Hardcastle

Federica Fontana

Are we sure that we are still able to distinguish what is “real” from what is purely digital? Federica Fontana interviews Lucy Hardcastle, a 26 years old interdisciplinary designer and artist – but she prefers to think of herself more as a digital craftsman – who runs a studio in London specialized in creating original unique visual experiences by using CGI, digital rendering and glass blowing.... READ MORE...

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ARTFUTURA – Humanized Technology

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ArtFutura reaches its twenty-ninth edition in more than twenty cities including: Alicante, Buenos Aires, London, Madrid, México, Montevideo and Shanghai. The festival opens on November 22, with special activities in London (StourSpace), Madrid (EspacioFundaciónTelefónica) and Alicante (Museum of Contemporary Art).... READ MORE...

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Make Data Small Again. Intervista con Gianluca Monaco

Mario Margani

Partendo dal suo background in graphic design e comunicazione visiva, il lavoro di Gianluca Monaco si è sviluppato sempre più nella sfera del digitale, tra interaction design e front-end development. Nel 2018 l'artista ha partecipato alla mostra New Imaginaries for Crypto Design, metaphors and new images of the Deep Web al NeMe Arts Center di Limassol (Cipro). L’intervista è nata come scambio d’idee e considerazioni.... READ MORE...

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Metaheaven: EARTH

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This fall the Stedelijk Museum presents the first major museum survey of Metahaven and the premiere of their new film installation Eurasia (Questions on Happiness).... READ MORE...

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“Original Narratives”: The Art Gallery at SIGGRAPH 2018

Kathy Rae Huffman

Every summer, SIGGRAPH conference is held in a different city, to present the highest level of creative technology, and research on the latest techniques of interactive, animation, VR, gaming, and real-time graphics to a global network of practitioners/users, artists and scientists. Since 1981 an Art Gallery has been part of the official program. Kathy Rae Huffman tells us about this year exhibition in Vancouver.... READ MORE...

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“Biorhythmic drawing”: gathering data from the body

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Images of the internal body are generated by technologies from the interaction of sound waves, electrons or magnetic waves allow us to “see” into a living and consequently modifiable and fully controllable body. In Biorhythmic drawing, artist Daksha Patel explores the ways in which data captured from the human body is visualised, seen and perceived.... READ MORE...

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Intimate surveillance and extreme users for security design

Roxanne Leitão

Around 48% of domestic abuse victims reported that perpetrators were using technology to further stalk, harass and intimidate them. This article argues that security design, which is soon to be made exponentially more complex by the internet-of-things, could benefit from looking at so called extreme users across a broad spectrum of circumstances.... READ MORE...

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“Hometown”: a new film work by Metahaven premiered in Kiev

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On April 26 IZOLYATSIA premieres Hometown, a new film work by Dutch artists Metahaven presented in the form of an immersive installation. Filmed in Beirut and Kiev, it continues the series of “truth-futurist” films by Metahaven initiated with The Sprawl (Propaganda About Propaganda) and Information Skies.... READ MORE...

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