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Superconversations: Machines that Matter

Redazione DigicultDecember 18, 2015

Superconversations: Machines that Matter brings together a range of thinkers and artists concerned with the intersection of technology and immanence, questioning the logic of vitalism while developing that of mechanism. The symposium builds upon several themes from e-flux’s Supercommunity / Superconversations and forms the final instalment of a planetary series of in-person and simulcast video conversations.... READ MORE...

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David Link’s Monster Resurrection: an archaeology of calculating machines

Redazione DigicultDecember 17, 2015

Monster Resurrection, a video installation by the artist and theorist David Link, portrays four British engineers and curators who practiced media archeology long before the humanities discovered this theme. The collection of interviews follows the team leaders of these four projects, their careers, the emergence of their interest in old apparatuses and the completion of the reconstruction project in detail.... READ MORE...

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Lesions in the Landscape by Shona Illingworth. A report from FACT Liverpool

Kirsten HawkinsDecember 17, 2015

How would it be if you could not form memories – Who are you really without the memories that make you who you are? Can we talk in terms of past, present and fu... READ MORE...

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Kota: digital excavations in African Art

Redazione DigicultDecember 15, 2015

Kota: Digital Excavations in African Art is an exhibition exploring how data and technology offer exciting possibilities for groups of artwork that lack deep provenance or contextual information. The exhibition features the groundbreaking research of Frederic Cloth, who has created a database of extant guardian figures and a series of algorithms.... READ MORE...

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The Foundation for Art and Creative Technology presents: Follow

Redazione DigicultDecember 14, 2015

Follow investigates how we understand image and identity as ever-changing concepts which can be bought, sold, mimicked, endorsed, deleted and validated through a single click—as well as exploring methods to survive, subvert and utilize social media.... READ MORE...

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Moon Kyungwon and the YCAM Promise Park project

Redazione DigicultDecember 14, 2015

Promise Park Project aims to explore the meaning of the park from its establishment and discuss future forms of public spaces with experts from various fields. At the same time, it can also be understood as a platform for various engineers and researchers to engage in research and discussion.... READ MORE...

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Simon Denny: Products for Organising

Redazione DigicultDecember 2, 2015

Simon Denny is an artist who works with sculptural installations that include print, graphics, moving images and texts. Products for Organising, is developed in response to the Serpentine Sackler Gallery and will feature new installations that revolve around contemporary radical management practices and the historical hacker organisational forms that may have inspired them.... READ MORE...

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NTAA 2016. Deadline 31st March 2016

Redazione DigicultDecember 1, 2015

Update’s mission is to expand the scope of contemporary artistic creations and traditional media with works using contemporary and new technologies in an original and intelligent way: treatment of sounds and light, use of new media, application of innovative evolutions in communications, telecommunications and broadcasting.... READ MORE...

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Art of the Airport Tower: Carolyn Russo and the photographic journey for Smithsonian

Redazione DigicultDecember 1, 2015

Art of the Airport Tower takes you on a photographic journey to airports in the United States and around the globe. Carolyn Russo explores the varied forms and functions of air traffic control towers throughout aviation history and interprets them as monumental abstractions, symbols of cultural expression, and testimonies of technological change.... READ MORE...

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ZKM Center for Art and Media presents: Exo-Evolution

Redazione DigicultNovember 26, 2015

The exhibition Exo-Evolution shows the interconnection between art and science and the artistic application of new technology. The exhibition shows us visions and solutions to problems of the 20th century offering insights into the future and a look back at the past of the artistic and technological exteriorization of human capabilities.... READ MORE...

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ACT Festival 2015

Redazione DigicultNovember 25, 2015

ACT Festival presents a world-class exhibition, symposium, performance and workshop program that creatively reconfigures and recontextualizes advanced technologies and lets us experience the digital anew. ACT Festival will examine methods of “new making”—in projects, practices, educational platforms, and creative ecosystems.... READ MORE...

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Signal Traffic: critical studies of media infrastructures. A review

Paolo MagauddaNovember 24, 2015

The aim of “Signal Traffic” is thus to enrich the study of digital media analysing them in terms of infrastructures and, therefore, considering media primarily as situated socio-technical systems that are designed and configured to support the distribution of audiovisual signal traffic.... READ MORE...

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The message of architecture’s phenomenological medium

Mabel PlascenciaNovember 20, 2015

When we talk about materials in architecture, the process of manufacturing reigns above it all in order to express whatever desire design withholds, almost without limits. The sincerity within the material’s rawness is now facing its faux-version when costs are at stake and time is of the essence, mostly for reaching the intended design.... READ MORE...

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Ryota Kuwakubo: the reality of shadows

Alessio ChiericoNovember 19, 2015

Ryota Kuwakubo is a Japanese artist who has been working between art and technology since the end of the '90s. His cross-disciplinary approach brought him to produce various kinds of works, which ranged from electronic devices to interactive installations.... READ MORE...

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The State of Things: a combined exhibition by Overtoon and Werktank

Redazione DigicultNovember 17, 2015

The exhibition The State of Things presents recents works by four artists, Mats Dekock, Stijn Demeulenaere, Elias Heuninck and Jeroen Uyttendaele, who were in residency at Overtoon and Werktank in 2014 and 2015. The exhibited works share a particular interest in fleeting moments, that manifest themselves in fractions of sound and light.... READ MORE...

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Rafael Lozano Hemmer: Pseudomatisms

Redazione DigicultNovember 10, 2015

Lozano-Hemmer expands on this notion by reminding us about the impossibility of true randomness in a mechanic universe where any pretension of autonomy in any program is only a simulation. In the words of the artist, a pseudomatism aims to make tangible the biases inherent in these simulations.... READ MORE...

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Earthrise: Pre-Ecological Visions in Italian Art 1967–73

Redazione DigicultNovember 10, 2015

With its new exhibition Earthrise, the PAV aims to extend its investigations into the genealogy of the relationship between artistic practices, social change and production of the environment, presenting a collection of pioneering research carried out in Italy in the crucial years around 1968.... READ MORE...

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Art, code and digital fabrication: an interview with the duo Varvara Guljajeva-Mar Canet

Jerneja RebernakNovember 5, 2015

Varvara Guljajeva and Mar Canet are contemporary artists who are innovating the gap between the physical and the digital world- spanning from the hacking and development process of a Brother machine, a project that combines technology and craft in displaying brain activity.... READ MORE...

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