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Merike Estna e Maria Metsalu: Soft Scrub, Hard Body, Liquid Presence
A current exhibition at Art in General combines works and performances by Merike Estna and Maria Metsalu that - focusing in particular on the feminine perspective - explore the contemporary body in its new surroundings, between over-consumption of virtual space, stress of competition and a fractured understanding of the self.... READ MORE...
Claudia Hart: The Flower Matrix
The Flower Matrix from Claudia Hart represents a new kind of liminal space, a mixed-reality architecture embellished by decorative elements embracing an aesthetic of the fake in which technology has replaced nature. The work is presented at Wallplay’s VR “speakeasy” in the basement of Gallery 151 as part of the TRANSFER VR Commission.... READ MORE...
Florian Hecker. Hallucination, Perspective, Synthesis
German artist Florian Hecker works with synthetic sounds, performances, and installations dealing with issues surrounding compositional developments in post-war modernity and late-19th-century psychophysics. For his new show, he has transformed Kunsthalle Wien's exhibition space into a stage for sound events that exceed linguistic description and categorization.... READ MORE...
Beautiful new worlds: virtual realities in contemporary art
Virtual space images are already influencing different areas of our world and will continue to shape our future: Beautiful New Worlds addresses recent developments in image technology presenting 13 artists who address the relationship between virtual and physical spaces with a particular focus on the socio-political potential of virtual technologies.... READ MORE...
1948 Unbound. Unleashing the technical present
At Haus Der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, From November 30th to December 2nd a series of lectures, performative elements, gatherings and installations, all differing in duration, visibility, and interaction will investigate the year 1948 as the saddle point in forming the planetary re-arrangement process that now goes by the name “technosphere.”... READ MORE...
Martina Feipel & Jean Bechameil: Theatre of Disorder
Martine Feipel and Jean Bechameil present Theatre of Disorder, a new body of work, at the Casino Luxembourg. The artist duo, based in Bruxelles, has since 2008 developed works that reflects on how the instruments familiar to us evolve towards a new form of interaction with humans; a choreography in which man and machine coexist.... READ MORE...
Nonhuman Networks
A current exhibition in Berlin takes into account recent philosophical approaches which emphasises nonhuman perspectives through object-oriented ontology. Through works by artists Saša Spačal, Mirjan Švagelj, Anil Podgornik and Heather Barnett it introduces an aesthetics of new forms of communication between human and nonhuman actors.... READ MORE...
Sosolimited unveils Colorspace, the new interactive sculpture
This unique artwork—commissioned by Boston Properties and located in the lobby of 200 Clarendon in Boston, Mass—uses custom software and LEDs to let tenants of the building change the color of their lobby simply with a text message.... READ MORE...
Digitalife focuses on the future and investigates the relationship between art and science
The eighth edition of Digitalife, designed by Monique Veaute for Romaeuropa Festival and directed by Fabrizio Grifasi, has landed at Palazzo delle Esposizioni with a complex articulation of audiovisual architectures and multimedia installations curated by Richard Castelli.... READ MORE...
The Glass Room
Ongoing in London a pop-up exhibition which - through artworks, speculative projects, interactive videos, animations and activist projects, puts big data on display to make them more tanglible and less abstract, helping the public to make informed choices about their digital self. The show is curated by Tactical Technology Collective and presented by Mozilla.... READ MORE...
After the End of the World
After the End of the World is an exhibition about the Earth of 2017 irreversibly transformed into the Anthropocene planet after two centuries of human impact on natural systems in which artists, philosophers, novelists, sea creatures, playwrights, plants, architects, objects, speculative designers and scientists have worked together to imagine situations, to tell stories and to devise strategies for survival and peaceful cohabitation in the world to come.... READ MORE...
Perception is Reality. On the Construction of Reality and Virtual Worlds
What challenges arise for our brain when technically produced virtual worlds increasingly play a role in our lives? Which parameters do pictures need to fulfill in order for people to accept them as real? A thematic group exhibition at Frankfurter Kunstverein is trying to give an answer by juxtapositioning a range of analog and digital artworks.... READ MORE...
Heimo Zobernig: chess painting
Heimo Zobernig’s practice is framed by the impact Modernism has had on the trajectory of art history. A new exhibition spans the MIT List Visual Art Center’s main galleries by using their architecture as a stage and allowing a viewer to confront the constructed experience of visiting an art exhibition.... READ MORE...
CC LAB. Virtual Reality
While VR technology has inspired game developers for years, artists and storytellers have only just begun to explore the possibilities that it offers. The new exhibition at Copenhagen CC introduces a range of Danish and international artists who experiment with VR in order to push boundaries and open up new spaces for art to inhabit.... READ MORE...
Tomás Saraceno: Entangled Orbits
The Baltimore Museum of Art has commissioned a major new work by internationally acclaimed artist Tomás Saraceno for an exhibition that has transformed the visitor experience of the museum. Entangled Orbits brings together a group of highly complex and fascinating installations drawing inspiration from structures of the natural world.... READ MORE...
Faith Holland Speculative Fetish
Our use of personal devices is inherently intimate: relations we establish with them also engender care. Transfer presents Speculative Fetish, the gallery’s second solo exhibition from Faith Holland addressing the way that technology functions as a metaphor for the body, both in the language we use and in the ways we behave.... READ MORE...
Digital Weekender brings together VR, Immersive Theatre & a musical odyssey
This year’s Digital Weekender at Watermans brings together the best digital artists, and the most exciting works to give you a chance to try out immersive theatre, virtual and augmented reality and here see fabulously out-there music that will stretch your experience beyond the everyday life.... READ MORE...