Interviews Archives • Digicult | Digital Art, Design and Culture

“Where are the women?”. Interview with Kathy Rae Huffman and Valie Djordjevic

FACES is a mailing list for women artists and professionals working in the field of media and technology. Founded in 1997 with an aim to give space and visibility to women-digital workers, it has become a fundamental network that for 20 years now has been allowing women to connect, network, share and discuss in a space designed for them. This is what two of the founders, Kathy Rae Huffman and Valie Djordjevic, told us.... READ MORE...

“J3RR1”: empathy with the machine. Interview with NONE collective

NONE collective – the Rome-based artistic group that moves on the border between art, design and technological research – in conversation with Marco Mancuso tell us about their new work J3RR1. Programmed Torture: a computer programmed to carry out a constant stress test using technology to reflect on the daily condition of human beings in a non-anthropocentric vision.... READ MORE...

Art, epoxy plastic and bacteria. Interview with Klari Reis

Klari Reis is best known for her Petri Dish series, a multicolour set of circular blobs created using a blend of media and ground-breaking techniques. The core of Kla-ris’s approach is the transformation and pigmentation of a UV-resistant plastic, the epoxy polymer, into unique and cutting edge artworks.... READ MORE...

Innovation is inclusive. A conversation with Corey Timpson

Corey Timpson, guest for Meet the Media Guru at Triennale Design Museum in Milan the 16th of May 2018, gave an intense lecture on keywords such as cultural innovation and inclusive design. We asked Timpson what is the meaning of cultural innovation, what does being inclusive means for an institution, even a very small one, and what is “the storytelling responsibility”.... READ MORE...

“Architecture is still a fight”: Odile Decq in new Time Space Existence video

Odile Decq is known for the use of colour in her built works, expressing an integration of art and life. In this new video from the Time Space Existence series, she places her practice into the context of the revolutionary spirit of the Sixties and, while waiting for the critical acclaim awarded to male designers, she advocates for boldness and personality from emerging architects.... READ MORE...

“Architecture Is The Most Political Of All Art Forms”: Joseph Kosuth in new Time Space Existence video

Known for his playful use of language, Joseph Kosuth has always been interested in what lies outside of the frame of a work — often spilling out into rooms and buildings. In this new Time-Space-Existence video, he discusses his relationship with architecture and the responsibility of the artist to work against the market.... READ MORE...

Following Ore Streams: an exploration of e-waste system. Interview with Formafantasma

Ore Streams is the latest project of Studio Formafantasma: a research of over two years focused on above ground mining, e-waste, and digital debris that took the shape of an installation composed of office furniture entirely made of recycled electronics.Here's what the duo told us about the findings of this work and its future developments.... READ MORE...

“Find a space to encounter and collaborate”: Toshiko Mori in new Time-Space-Existence video

Acclaimed architect Toshiko Mori has built a career on technical research, experimental design, and pedagogical practice. In this new short video from the Time-Space-Existence series, she discusses the importance of drawing as a visual mode of communication and how to engage the past in architectural dialogue.... READ MORE...

Lawrence Weiner in new Time-Space-Existence video

Produced by PLANE—SITE and funded by the ECC, the new short video from the Time-Space-Existence series features Lawrence Weiner one of the foremost conceptual artists of the 1960s discussing the relationship between people and material objects, language as a gesture, and making art accessible to the public.... READ MORE...

Rave your algorithm. Interview with Renick Bell

Renick Bell is a computer musician, programmer, and teacher best-known for weaving electronic music using live code created by a generative music system he built himself to avoid frustration by the restrictive programmes available to process electronic music. He has performed in many countries and he is considered as a pioneer of the Algorave alternative music scene. Andrea Mi caught up with him ahead of the recent talk Datacracy, shared by Phase collective at Lottozero.... READ MORE...

On memory, precarity and visual methods to undermine distance. Interview with Yara Haskiel – part 2

Following some considerations on one of her two most recent long video works, Tsakalos Blues, video artist Hara Haskiel and our author Mario Margani continue their conversation dwelling on the artist's latest work: I don't write diaries I & II. In this second part they deal with technical question as the relationship between the image and the observer, audience involvement and precarity.... READ MORE...

Daniel Libeskind tower to be unveiled during Venice Architecture Biennial

Produced by PLANE—SITE In anticipation of his new project in preparation for the ECC’s Time-Space-Existence exhibition in Venice, the latest Time-Space-Existence video features the seminal architect Daniel Libeskind. A new architectural sculpture will be located near to the Giardini. Reminiscent of ancient forms, the project explores the connections between climate, time, space and existence through architectural thinking.... READ MORE...

On memory and visual methods to undermine distance. Interview with Yara Haskiel – part 1

In this first part of the conversation between video artist Yara Haskiel and our author Mario Margani, they focus particularly on one of her two more recent long videos Tsakalos Blues tracing back her studies, the very beginning of her career, and Haskiel's family past and present history that is strictly related to it.... READ MORE...

“More Than 50 Percent Of My Work Is Unbuilt”: Moshe Safdie in new Time-Space-Existence video

Produced by PLANE—SITE and funded by the ECC, the new short video from the Time-Space-Existence series features Moshe Safdie, one of the world’s most influential modernists, apprentice to Louis Kahn, winner of the prestigious AIA Gold Medal, and known for his environmentally-ambitious projects and for his iconic, cellular and prefabricated units for living, Habitat 67.... READ MORE...

Where the laws of nature blurs: an interview with Ryoichi Kurokawa

With his latest work ad/ab Atom, Ryoichi Kurokawa is keeping challenging human senses spectrum by means of cutting-edge visual technologies and computer-generated structures. After his residency at INL he accepted to answer our questions and we have found ourselves talking about the infinitely small, the magic of nature and the delicate balance between art and technology.... READ MORE...

Machine Art In The Twentieth Century: interview with Andreas Broeckmann

Starting from the assumption that machine art is not an artistic genre or category, but rather a “discursive formation”, in “Machine Art in the Twentieth Century” Andreas Broeckmann examines artworks from the twentieth and early twenty-first century in the light of new technologies developments, leading to a deeper investigation about the complex and articulate human-machine engagement.... READ MORE...

“Architects Can Control Only Certain Things”: the video interview with Fumihiko Maki

Produced by PLANE-SITE, the video has been commissioned by the GAA Foundation and funded by the ECC in the run-up to the Time-Space-Existence exhibition during La Biennale di Venezia Architettura, this new short video features Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki, who has spent a lifetime unafraid to embrace new technologies while insisting on their humanity.... READ MORE...

Human-data interaction in the age of Industry 4.0 – part 2

In exploring the influence that the 4.0 Industry technologies have in redefining the relationship between man and machine, a key issue to be analysed is constituted by the relationship between the individual and data. The main tool that is used to reason around the data is visualization. Through his visual research, Kim Albrecht transforms data and numbers into images to understand the world, using visual and graphical elements to create knowledge.... READ MORE...