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“Forensic Justice”: counter-narratives to dominant interpretations

The independent and interdisciplinary research agency Forensic Architecture presents in Utrecht the exhibition Forensic Justice, featuring a number of tactical forensic reclamations of social and ecological justice. Articulating evidence-based counter-narratives to dominant interpretations of investigated events, the installations mobilize what it refers to as “public truth.”... READ MORE...

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“Radiophonic Spaces”: a walk-in radio archive

Redazione Digicult

In the walk-in radio archive Radiophonic Spaces, more than 200 works of German and international radio art spanning 100 years can be heard and explored. These works of radio art compiled by Nathalie Singer from the Bauhaus-University Weimar, can be publicly heard in the condensed form of thirteen narratives.... READ MORE...

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“Only Human” showcases the work of the artists in-residency at Nokia Bell Labs

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Three former NEW INC members collaborated with Nokia Bell Labs researchers to produce new artistic projects inspired or enabled by Bell Labs technologies. The three projects are focused on themes of human-computer collaboration, intersubjectivity, surveillance and power dynamics and our symbiotic relationship with technology. The partnership represents a leading collaboration fusing art and technology to change humanity.... READ MORE...

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Reshaping the experience of Art: digitization and 3D archives

Pierre Chaumont

Following the destruction of world heritage sites and artworks in Mosul, in February 2015, a global movement sparked to digitize and preserve important works and monuments. This process is transforming our experience of Art, as every scanned object is now accessible regardless of location or ownership, revealing the 3D archive as a fascinating double-edged sword.... READ MORE...

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Blending aesthetic form and technical function. Interview with Michael Takeo Magruder

Alfredo Cramerotti

Michael Takeo Magruder is a visual artist and researcher who works with new media and makes work in and around the Internet. His practice explores concepts ranging from media criticism and aesthetic journalism to digital formalism and computational aesthetics, deploying Information Age technologies and systems to examine our networked, media-rich world.... READ MORE...

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Making/Breaking the Binary: Women, Art & Technology (1968-85)

Redazione Digicult

A project curated by Kelsey Halliday Johnson involves different places in Philadelphia presenting the work of women artists who in the period between 1968 and 1985 explored the parameters of new technologies through video, copy machines, computer graphics and musical instruments, reaffirming their role as seminal figures in the history of technology.... READ MORE...

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Media Art and Art Market: an interview with Gerfried Stocker

Alessio Chierico

As director of Ars Electronica Gerfried Stocker has a fundamental role in the promotion and creation of recognition of Media Art. The sociological aspect that determines this cultural field is recognised in this interview, which express hope about a fruitful dialogue between Media Art and contemporary art... READ MORE...

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Radical Software. The Raindance Foundation, for Media Ecology and Video Art

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The exhibition at the Karlsruhe ZKM Centre for Art and Media presents video works and installations from the Raindance Foundation, the american pioneering group of the '70s who harnessed emergent low cost communication technologies with the purpose of greater ecological uses of the media.... READ MORE...

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Open Set Lab: Memories of the Future programme. An exploration into 1.000.000 hours of media heritage

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Open Set is pleased to announce Open Set Lab, a new research programme on the intersection between design, film, art and the humanities. The Lab comprises lectures, interactive real-time sessions and group critiques led by notable Dutch and international figures in design, art and research.... READ MORE...

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Rogue Archives by Abigail De Kosnik, MIT Press

Silvia Bertolotti

One of the most recent releases by MIT Press, “Rogue Archives”, just came out last October. The author, Abigail De Kosnik, is currently Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley with a joint appointment in the Berkeley center for New Media Center of theater, dance and performances studies.... READ MORE...

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Announcing Rhizome’s Net Art Anthology

Redazione Digicult

Last October 27, Rhizome presented Net Art Anthology. An online exhibition that, for the duration of two years, will tell the story of net art, from the eighties to the present day. Organized by the artistic director of Rhizome, Michael Connor, the event is dedicated to those artworks known, but often inaccessible, creating an innovative network.... READ MORE...

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LIMA: preserving, distributing and researching of media art

Redazione Digicult

LIMA and the artist Jonas Lund are proud to present For Preview Only, a 24-hour piece based on the LIMA collection. The For Preview Only files of 2336 works and 463,8 hours of art have been appropriated by the artist and brought together in a 24-hour (online) piece.... READ MORE...

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Erkki Kurenniemi: the archival fever in creative practice

Lorenza Pignatti

Erkki Kurenniemi is a pioneer of multimedia art, a techno-utopian and enthusiastic scientist, passionate about the changes thanks to cybernetics and A.I. Kurenniemi is now beginning to receiving long-overdue international recognition thanks to the publication of the book “Writing and Unwriting (Media) Art History: Erkki Kurenniemi in 2048”... READ MORE...

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Futuros Possiveis / Possible Futures

Redazione Digicult

This bilingual book (English-Portuguese) discusses strategies and methodologies for the preservation of digital collections and scanning processes, including studies on new forms of organization and communication..... READ MORE...

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Cut to Swipe: a selection of recent acquisitions by MoMA

Redazione Digicult

Cut to Swipe highlights a selection of recent acquisitions by MoMA's Department of Media and Performance Art. The works included trace the shift from analog to digital technologies.... READ MORE...

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European Society of Authors: the new project Secession

Redazione Digicult

Since January 2014, the European Society of Authors (Paris / Berlin) and Mittel-Europa (art space for a migrant Europe: Bruxelles / Berlin) have been working on a new program called Secession, an itinerant, curatorial, project with literary, philosophical, and artistic dimensions.... READ MORE...

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Economies of the Commons 3: Sustainable Futures for Digital Archives

Redazione Digicult

Economies of the Commons (eCommons) believe that technology brings fundamental change to the way cultural heritage institutes work and the expectations their audiences have of them. Institutes are no longer the exclusive ‘holders and curators of culture’ while their audiences have become accustomed to their active roles as co-producers of culture––they want to create, curate and co-produce cultural artefacts.... READ MORE...

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