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Software for Less: the effects of software on contemporary society

Software for Less, will take visitors on a journey through a pseudo tech exposition. Each work is presented as a product that could have come out of an alternative Silicon Valley, interrogating and reimagining how software is created, operated, and old.... READ MORE...

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The exhibition “House of Meme” blends natural and artificial

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Kunsthaus Bregenz will be presenting Pamela Rosenkranz’s first solo exhibition in Austria. The exhibition dissolves any separation between the natural and artificial. It becomes an animated “habitat” for a robotic creature that is controlled by our devices and which connects everything. Works of art as meandering objects recall rivers and serpentine forms alike.... READ MORE...

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Ars Electronica is offering a new Home Delivery SERVICE

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Ars Electronica is offering a new service that any institution can benefit from, whether it's an elementary school or a technical college, a regional SME or an international corporation, a local public authority or an interest group, an art museum, a science center or a university.... READ MORE...

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Full Spectrum Curatorship Programme 2021 from IMPAKT

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IMPAKT invites emerging and aspiring curators with a specific interest in media art and its relationship to technology and society to apply for the Full Spectrum Curatorship Programme. Applications are open until March 1, 2021. Full Spectrum Curatorship is a programme from IMPAKT that aims to bridge the gap between theoretical knowledge and the practical and... READ MORE...

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CTM 2021 Festival, the 22nd edition: Transformation

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CTM 2021 Festival: “Transformation” aims to respond to some of the challenges facing arts and culture in these exceptional times. This 100% online edition is an attempt to experiment with new digital formats, see how CTM can continue to support ongoing artistic work, and find moments of interaction and togetherness as a remote music community and audience.... READ MORE...

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Rethinking Our Futures: Molior international symposium

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Molior is celebrating its 20th anniversary in February 2021 with the presentation of an international symposium on collaborative curating practices in the digital age. Titled Rethinking Our Futures: Art and Collaboration, the symposium invites Canadian and international curators to share experiences virtually and to collectively reflect on issues related to their practice in a context shaped by an increasing use of digital technologies.... READ MORE...

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Biophilia: A handful of earth – 2020 ACC_R Residency Exhibition

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The experimental platform ACC_R Residency has been expanding fields: it has been inviting creators and researchers from Asia and other parts of the world to reflect on the challenges the humanity is facing and create contemporary discourse, of which Biophilia is the main theme. Three programs were run in close connection, organically supplementing each other.... READ MORE...

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HeK Net Works: IOCOSE, Moving Tasks Forward

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Founded in 2006 by four artists (Matteo Cremonesi, Filippo Cuttica, Davide Prati, Paolo Ruffino), IOCOSE investigate how the narratives surrounding the future of society and technology leave traces on the present. Moving Tasks Forward, available from 10.11 to 8.12.2020, is a script that can solve the long list of tasks that flood our daily to do lists.... READ MORE...

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“Mutations”, Interdisciplinary Thematic Residency 2020–2021

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Since October 2020, international artists and creative thinkers have been engaging, both locally and digitally, with the topic of "Mutations" through immersive group labs. The thematic focus group "Mutations" is a cooperation between the Akademie Schloss Solitude, an artists’ residence based in Stuttgart, and the KfW Stiftung, an independent non-profit foundation.... READ MORE...

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Brainstorming and AI for a visionary future

Giada Totaro

On Saturday 21st of November 2020, from the Sala Fucine OGR in Turin, in live in streaming on Zoom and Youtube, 2500 under 35s met in a digital event lasting 10 hours in the form of a collective brainstorming around to the topic “Which Borders in the New World?”. The objective of the Visionary Days project-event, now in its fourth edition, is to concretize the ideas... READ MORE...

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Para Site hosts two new exhibitions about AI

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Para Site is proud to present two new exhibitions dedicated to AI and virtual world: Glitch in the Matrix, a solo exhibition by Hong Kong-based artist Luke Ching Chin Wai, featuring newly commissioned works and re-enactments and adaptations of Ching’s earlier works, and Confidential Records: Overwrite, a solo exhibition by Hong Kong-based artist Vvzela Kook.... READ MORE...

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NUB PROJECT SPACE: LICHENI

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Nub, associazione culturale fondata nel 2010, inaugura LICHENI, una piattaforma online e un laboratorio virtuale di ricerca, uno spazio trasversale dove artist* e non-artist* possano confrontarsi e intrecciarsi. Il progetto sarà inaugurato da due residenze che si svolgeranno negli spazi del Nub Project Space, tra ottobre e novembre, e da 5 interventi pensati e realizzati esclusivamente online.... READ MORE...

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“Hum”: the radical forms of collective and sonic agency

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For her upcoming solo exhibition at Portikus, Hajra Waheed realises an indoor, site-specific iteration of "Hum" (2020), a large-scale multi-channel musical composition and sound installation that employs the ubiquitous yet overlooked medium of humming as a means to explore radical forms of collective and sonic agency.... READ MORE...

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“We=Link: Ten Easy Pieces”: network native works exploring mobile technologies

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The project is presented online by Chronus Art Center, in collaboration with a network of other hosting institutions: an open call to the international media art community to initiate a special online exhibition as a response to the current uncertainty and a time of anxiety.... READ MORE...

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Fusion Art selected Lollie Ortiz as 3-Dimensional Artist Spotlight: the exhibition on website

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Lollie Ortiz is the 3-Dimensional Artist Spotlight winning artist for the month of January 2020. She is an award-winning artist based in San Francisco, California, USA.... READ MORE...

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We are all entrepreneurs. Nobody is safe. Interview with Silvio Lorusso

Filippo Lorenzin

Nowadays, says Silvio Lorusso, everything seems to work as a startup - not just companies and institutions but first of all the individuals. Silvio recently published Entreprecariat - Siamo tutti imprenditori. Nessuno è al sicuro ("We are all entrepreneurs. Nobody is safe”) with Krisis Publishing, a book that explores the many ways corporate logics shape our behaviour.... READ MORE...

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Digital Demagogue. Authoritarian Capitalism in the Age of Trump and Twitter

Silvia Bertolotti

In his latest work, Digital Demagogue. Authoritarian Capitalism in the Age of Trump and Twitter, published by Pluto Press, Christian Fuchs - critical theorist of communication and society, as well as Professor at the University of Westminster - provides an excellent critical analysis of the current US President, Donald Trump, his social media strategy and the raise of right-wing authoritarianism within the social media era.... READ MORE...

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

Anna Gorchakovskaya

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...

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