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Trevor Paglen and Jacob Appelbaum: Autonomy Cube

Redazione DigicultNovember 3, 2015

The Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art presents the Autonomy Cube by Trevor Paglen and Jacob Appelbaum. For the first time the Cube’s Tor relay serves as an exit-node by joining into the network of volunteer-run servers providing anonymous Internet access around the world, way beyond the boundaries of the gallery space.... READ MORE...

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Reflections. The digital revolution exposed at Opera Gallery, London

Redazione DigicultOctober 30, 2015

The artists and works in this exhibition offer a sample of some of the ways in which this ‘new media’ is being used, and range from relatively straight forward digital photography to, for example, computer generated moving images. They embrace the medium as a tool and, like paint or clay traditionally, use it to shape their visions of reality.... READ MORE...

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Data Bodies

Redazione DigicultOctober 28, 2015

: For two days, leading New Media artists from all over the world, from South Africa to Brighton to Belgium are gathering in Watermans' Riverside Art Centre to deliver an explosive programme of digital performances, dance, workshops, installations, and interactive events. The New Media Arts programme at Watermans is one of the most experimental and far-reaching in the field. On 14th and 15th November 2015 the West London venue is hosting its third annual Digital Performance Weekender, and this year’s theme is Data Bodies - privacy in a big data world.... READ MORE...

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Preservation and access to born-digital culture

Redazione DigicultOctober 21, 2015

In the continuation of their collaborative program on Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age, which started beginning of 2015, iMAL and Packed organise the first international symposium in Brussels on the issues of preservation of born-digital art and culture and their public access.... READ MORE...

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Boolean Expressions: Contemporary art and mathematical data

Redazione DigicultOctober 12, 2015

The exhibition Boolean Expressions explores the ways in which artists use mathematical ideas and systems in their work. From hand-drawn notations to the binary codes and complex algorithms that shape digital experiences, the exhibition considers the impact of big and small data on contemporary life... READ MORE...

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Currents Submission Guidelines. Deadline: 15th November 2015

Redazione DigicultOctober 8, 2015

CURRENTS: Santa Fe International New Media Festival is an annual, citywide event. The Festival brings together the work of established, unrecognized and emerging New Media artists, for events showcasing interactive and fine art video installations, multimedia performances, animation and much more...... READ MORE...

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“Globale” exhibition at ZKM: global control and censorship

Redazione DigicultOctober 6, 2015

This exhibition at ZKM | Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, is based on the collaboration with a network of scientists, journalists, activists, and artists. The exhibition’s aim is to expand public debate about the ever-present surveillance and censorship methods... READ MORE...

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TRANSMIT. New Educational Platform for Digital Culture, Art and Technology

Redazione DigicultSeptember 30, 2015

SIGNAL Festival is the most visited cultural event in the Czech Republic. It focuses on innovative art/tech projects in public space. Now it expands its program to integrate an educational platform called TRANSMIT. Speakers and tutors from 15 countries worldwide will come together to talk, debate and lead workshops... READ MORE...

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L’ingegneria delle invenzioni!

Redazione DigicultSeptember 26, 2015

Nell’immaginario collettivo l’inventore è un mezzo nerd solitamente rinchiuso in una cantina circondato di macchinari rumorosi che generano nuove forme di energia piuttosto che prodotti avveniristici sullo stile di quanto faceva il professore pazzo di Ritorno al futuro.... READ MORE...

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Daan Roosegaarde: the Smog Free Project

Redazione DigicultSeptember 17, 2015

The last September 4th 2015 Daan Roosegaarde launched his Smog Free Project in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The Smog Free Project creates clean urban skies and creates Smog Free Rings. Roosegaarde: “I believe we should do more, not less.We are happy to launch the Smog Free Tower to show a clean future”.... READ MORE...

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Digital Materials. A new “biologically digital” materiality

Enza MiglioreSeptember 2, 2015

Moving away from the idea that the reality is losing its physicality in favour of a computer virtualization, we can say that the process of digitalization is almost making clear and understandable some theories of the modern physics.... READ MORE...

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NOME presents James Bridle ’s first solo show in Germany

Redazione DigicultJuly 14, 2015

With The Glomar Response NOME presents James Bridle’s first solo show in Germany. The "Glomar Response" was formulated in 1975 by the U.S. Government, and refers to the prerogative of power to “neither confirm nor deny” the existence of information.... READ MORE...

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E.A.T. Experiments in Art and Technology

Redazione DigicultJuly 13, 2015

The first comprehensive retrospective of the activities of Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.), a unique association of engineers and artists who made history in the 1960s and 1970s. A groundbreaking initiative that would realize works of art in unprecedented collaborative ventures.... READ MORE...

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FACT: the first arts organisation in the UK to accept Bitcoin donations

Redazione DigicultJuly 8, 2015

FACT in Liverpool is the first arts venue in the UK to start accepting Bitcoin donations. The option to use Bitcoins for donations has been introduced to coincide with FACT’s pilot project FACTLab, which is a pioneering workshop space where visitors of all ages are invited to explore the possibilities of creative technology... READ MORE...

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Eppur si muove – Art et technique, un espace partagé

Redazione DigicultJuly 6, 2015

The exhibition Eppur si muove (And yet it turns) focuses on the many links that exist between the fields of the visual arts and technology, as well as the decisive influence that the history of the sciences and technology has exercised on contemporary artists.... READ MORE...

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Networks. Edited by Lars Bang Larsen

Redazione DigicultJune 18, 2015

In the 1960s began a cultural shift from the modernist grid and its determination of projection and representation to the fluid structures and circuits of the network, presenting art with new possibilities.... READ MORE...

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Dysfunction and Decentralization in New Media Art

Redazione DigicultJune 16, 2015

Dysfunction and Decentralization. When using digital technologies, many types of dysfunction can occur, ranging from hardware malfunctions to software errors to human ineptitude.... READ MORE...

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Softimage

Redazione DigicultJune 11, 2015

With today’s digital technology, the image is no longer a stable representation of the world, but a programmable view of a database that is updated in real time. Softimage by Hoelzl and Marie.... READ MORE...

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