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The Black Chamber

Redazione DigicultMarch 16, 2016

Black Chamber is a selection of some of the most significant works by a generation of artists and activists who devise both technological and social tactics to peek into contemporary phenomena of surveillance, paranoia, and the ambiguity of massive voyeurism and actual systems of corporate or state control over citizens.... READ MORE...

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Big, Open & Beautiful #9. Hack the Body

Redazione DigicultMarch 14, 2016

What is the relationship between us and the technology? Between our body and our intimacy and new technological information? At the Big, Open & Beautiful: Hack the Body presents on March 23 in Amsterdam, academics and artists will discuss the significant impact of technology in our lives, in our bodies.... READ MORE...

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Becoming illegible. Jaime del Val: how to disrupt Control Society

Vanessa MichielonMarch 11, 2016

Jaime del Val is a Spanish interdisciplinary artist and researcher. His art is a open dialogue between interactive dance, electro-acoustics, video, and urban interventions associated with a strong social activism. In 2013 he initiated Metabody, a multi-layered project involving artists and academics from 16 European countries... READ MORE...

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Fourth Trondheim biennale: Meta.Morf 2016

Redazione DigicultMarch 8, 2016

The fourth Trondheim biennale - Meta.Morf 2016 - will showcase artists, writers and scientists that in various ways take a closer look at man as interstellar traveller, and how we at the beginning of this millennium are about to redefine our relationship with the stars and, consequently, ourselves.... READ MORE...

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Nervous Systems. The big exhibition by Tactical Technology Collective

Redazione DigicultMarch 7, 2016

Nervous Systems is an exhibition that questions this systemic closure and the pervasive nervousness that haunts today’s systems, data-driven rationalities and ideologies. What does “privacy” mean when it becomes possible to identify someone just as easily from “anonymous” data as from a fingerprint or identity card? What remains of the world when it is being interpreted for us by machines?... READ MORE...

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Hacking Habitat. Art of control

Redazione DigicultMarch 2, 2016

Hacking Habitat. Art of control is an international exhibition on the cutting edge of art, technology and social change. 86 internationally acclaimed artists present new and existing work in the former prison at Utrecht Wolvenplein, Netherlands. It presents a highly topical and urgent theme: how we are controlled by high-tech systems and how to restore the relationship between humans and machines.... READ MORE...

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Dresses, natural elements and weather in the age of high-tech fashion

Maddalena MomettiFebruary 25, 2016

The dress was historically born as a defence of the body from the elements and, at the same time, in response to natural human instinct for aesthetics. In contemporary fashion, thanks to the evolution of art, technology and science, the relationship with weather's elements is much more complex.... 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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Sonic Acts Academy

Redazione DigicultFebruary 18, 2016

Sonic Acts Academy is a new platform that aims to grow, expand, sustain and disseminate stimulating discourse about artistic research. The academy invites artists and theorists to expand on their research through workshops, masterclasses, lectures, concerts, film screenings and work presentations... READ MORE...

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Culturegraphy: understanding the world through networks

Redazione DigicultFebruary 16, 2016

Culturegraphy investigates cultural information exchange over time also known as ‘memes’. These networks can provide new insights into the rich interconnections of cultural development. The graphics represent complex relationships of movie references by combining macro views summarizing 100 years of movie influences.... READ MORE...

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FACTLab and the Object Liberation Front present: Ob_ject and Ob_serve

Redazione DigicultFebruary 9, 2016

The exhibition Ob_ject and Ob_serve will explore different languages for revealing the desires, memories and inner conversations of objects and non-humans, in an attempt to understand how machines and technology shape their own worlds, and in turn, ours.... READ MORE...

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Streaming Egos: the online platform and the final exhibition

Redazione DigicultFebruary 5, 2016

Digicult has completed the curatorial work with a bunch of critical texts commissioned for the online platform and artworks commissioned for the final exhibition at NRW Forum in Dusseldorf... READ MORE...

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Erkki Kurenniemi: the archival fever in creative practice

Lorenza PignattiFebruary 4, 2016

Erkki Kurenniemi is a pioneer of multimedia art, a techno-utopian and enthusiastic scientist, passionate about the changes thanks to cybernetics and A.I. Kurenniemi is now beginning to receiving long-overdue international recognition thanks to the publication of the book “Writing and Unwriting (Media) Art History: Erkki Kurenniemi in 2048”... READ MORE...

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n + n Corsino: Surf and Surfaces

Redazione DigicultJanuary 26, 2016

The exhibition Surf and Surfaces presents a total of 7 choreographic navigations from n + n Corsino’s oeuvre, each an elaborate construction of real and virtual images and figures, from sounds, languages, words to letters.... READ MORE...

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Neoliberal Lulz: combining art and corporate strategies

Redazione DigicultJanuary 25, 2016

With each downturn and recession, it has become ever more apparent that a handful of investment banks and corporations hold immense power over our everyday lives. Neoliberal Lulz brings together work by five artists who interrogate this relationship and respond by adopting corporate strategies to their own ends.... READ MORE...

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Carlo Zanni’s ViBo: Koh-i-N∞r

Redazione DigicultJanuary 20, 2016

ViBo is one of the alternative models of distribution of the video art, towards those present on the market, elaborated by an Italian artist Carlo Zanni. He aims at democratisation of the digital art distribution methods, conflicting with the category of uniqueness desired on the market.... READ MORE...

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Manfred Mohr: Artificiata II

Redazione DigicultJanuary 14, 2016

For his second exhibition at Carroll / Fletcher, digital art pioneer Manfred Mohr presents a series of new pieces mapping his formal investigations of theoretical space in generative screen-based works, drawings, and inkjet paintings.... READ MORE...

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Adaf 2016. Deadline: 25th January 2016

Redazione DigicultDecember 22, 2015

ADAF 2016 explores the different aspects of Pop culture in the digital era, focusing on five strands: Digital Aesthetics, Digital Technologies, Digital Economies, Digital Identities , DIgital Music.... READ MORE...

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