Interviews Archives • Digicult | Digital Art, Design and Culture

Thought is my main medium. Interview with Emilio Vavarella

Emilio Vavarella is an artist of Italian origin who intersects interdisciplinary artistic practice and theoretical research, with particular reference to the hidden mechanisms that underlie the relationship between human beings and technological power. Interview by Giada Totaro.... READ MORE...

An opportunity to (re)listen carefully to the world: A conversation with Chris Watson

According to Chris Watson, one of the foremost sound recordists of wildlife and of the most remote areas on Earth, lockdown has changed our sound perception and has become an extraordinary opportunity to listen to the home environment of urban areas and interact again with the surrounding nature. Interview by Caterina Tomeo.... READ MORE...

Donato Sansone – I dream, so I make video

His “short trips”, his videos, bring us in a parallel reality, a third one, in the same time the realm of reality and the one of the resting consciousness. Our guide between these two worlds is Donato Sansone, the smiling host on the threshold of the door of his dreams. Interview by Marco Aruga.... READ MORE...

Towards Togetherness. Interview with Tabita Rezaire.

Tabita Rezaire is an artist, healer, health-tech-politics practitioner and kemetic and kundalini yoga teacher, based in Cayenne, French Guyana. Anna Gorchakovskaya has recently had a chance to talk to Tabita about her cross-dimensional practices, about togetherness, healing and a genuine sense of connectedness, about her vision of life, art and digital technologies in connection with the current historical moment.... READ MORE...

Discussing “The Question of Intelligence” with Curator Christiane Paul

The exhibition "The Question of Intelligence: AI and The Future of Humanity", which should have run from the 7th of February to the 8th of April at the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons/The New School in New York, engaged with the relationships that humans sustain with machines and vice versa and brought insights on artificial intelligence's bias and potential in unlocking new opportunities. Report and interview by Marie Chatel... READ MORE...

Francesca Marconi: i confini e le comunità come arte

Francesca Marconi ha approfondito con noi il metodo dei suoi progetti e alcuni temi trasversali della sua ricerca, che si muove tra partecipazione, arte e attivazione di comunità. Intervista di Silvia Scaravaggi... READ MORE...

Broadcasting alienation: interview with Laura Yuile

ASSET ARREST is a podcast series set around the viewing of different luxury properties led by artist Laura Yuile, who poses as a potential buyer. In her work, she explores notions of the domestic and the urban through the intimate (or public) matters of living together, and the effects of globalization and technological development upon living space itself. Interview by Fabiola Fiocco.... READ MORE...

The Political Possibility of Sound. Interview with Salomé Voegelin

What are the political potentials of listening? How does sound define the crossing of the territories of contemporaneity, of the differences in race, gender, social belonging? Salomé Voegelin continues her analysis on listening practices in her new book. Interview by Leandro Pisano... READ MORE...

The beauty of a borderless world. Interview with teamLab

Innovation and team working: teamLab creates an art making use of technological tools, tending to make them disappear, highlighting the experience they’d like to propose to the public. Interview by Marco Aruga... READ MORE...

The machine of the spirit. Interview with Ennio Bertrand

Ennio Bertrand found in technologies his “colours”, discovering how they could move in unison with his thoughts, and form the basis for his works. Interview by Marco Aruga... READ MORE...

Algorithmic Imagery: Interview with Mike Tyka

Mike Tyka is an artist and researcher with a PhD in Biophysics. In conversation with Teresa Ruffino he explains how, in his sculptural works, he expresses the arbitrary representation of molecules and how he started working with algorithms as an artistic tool describing his experience and vision for the future of this technology.... READ MORE...

New visions: The first edition of Triennial for Photography and New Media

The inaugural Triennial for Photography and New Media brings together recent work of 31 international artists. Several works are exhibited for the first time and the Triennial is the first major international presentation of its kind in Norway. The first edition of the Triennale is titled New Visions.... READ MORE...

Advanced technology, prophetic work and mysterious meanings of life. Interview with 404.zero

Taking as starting points their most irrepressible fascinations with death, the unknown and the cosmos, 404.zero craft thrilling, precise, painterly code-art that broaches big philosophical questions and provides mesmerizing though highly speculative answers. Interview by Caterina Tomeo... READ MORE...

Do not get caught in the web – Interview with Geert Lovink

Geert Lovink is founder and director of "INC - Institute of Network Cultures", in Amsterdam, investigating the nature and the developments of the cultures in the web with meetings, publications and, obviously, online dialogues.... READ MORE...

“Line in the sand”, intervista a Daniele Spanò

"Chaos & cosmos" è il titolo dal carattere universale della tredicesima edizione del CYFEST, che anche quest’anno come di consueto parte da New York. Tra le numerose proposte artistiche la curatrice internazionale Isabella Indolfi, presenta la videoinstallazione di Daniele Spanò, "Line in the sand". Intervista di Caterina Tomeo... READ MORE...

Il Manifesto del Futurismo Rurale. Nuove geografie per territori al margine.

Sorry, this entry is only available in Italian.... READ MORE...

Giving images new lives. Interview with Kensuke Koike

What can be the role of abandoned photographs, which after a certain time cease to have their original intention? Teresa Ruffino interviews Kensuke Koike, a visual artist that, with a calibrated manipulation, transforms in an alchemic way the matter he comes across to create something new. ... READ MORE...

La vibrazione primaria delle piante. Plants Dub: un progetto di musica vegetale

Ricerche scientifiche recenti dimostrano ampiamente che le piante emettono suoni e frequenze non percepibili dall’orecchio umano. Plants Dub ha pensato di lavorare sull’intelligenza comunicativa delle piante e hanno scoperto che, spesso, essa si svolge per via di uno scambio di segnali elettrochimici, trasformati dal duo in suono.... READ MORE...