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Open Call – Driving the Human: Eco-Social Renewal

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From February 10 to April 9, 2021, Driving the Human invites designers, artists, scientists, initiatives, and agents from any fields of expertise from anywhere in the world, to join us in shaping sustainable and collective futures that combine science, technology, and the arts in a transdisciplinary and collaborative approach.... READ MORE...
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Not all biennials are the same: “Le Biennali Invisibili”

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Le Biennali Invisibili is an online project that provides a non-linear form of storytelling through a series of 11 "invisible biennials," each based on a fictional scenario created by the authors of the project, and accompanied by a critical response from an external contributor. The 11 short texts are inspired by Italo Calvino’s novel Invisible Cities and depicted... 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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Call for Papers: HyMEx, Hybrid Museum Experience Symposium

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Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art organizes on May 6-7, 2021 the HyMEx // Hybrid Museum Experience Symposium, a two-day symposium to bring together leading researchers, scholars in digital and experimental museology, as well as researchers to exchange views on challenging situations and latest innovations in the field of hybrid museum experiences, with a focus on... READ MORE...
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Negapedia: the battle behind the research.

Simone Broglia
Internet lists among its highest purposes the collaborative utopia and the sharing, but it also shows in itself the exact opposite: battles, polemics, contrasts, that are nothing more than a reflection of today's society, interests and positions. This is the idea behind the project Negapedia Italia, a website that quantifies and measures the contrasts hidden behind each Wikipedia page.... READ MORE...
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Dreams and Nightmares in the Application of Blockchain Technology in Music Industry

Paolo Magaudda
The present essay considers the emergence of the so-called blockchain technology in the context of the music industry: while the emerging crowd-based infrastructures based on it offer the dream of an alternative to the exploitation of music creativity displaced by digital companies, they can however become actual nightmares, in which music will result into an increasingly integrated and automated form of financial investments.... READ MORE...
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Digimag Journal: Digital Identities, Self Narratives. Out Now

Redazione Digicult
Curated by Silvia Bertolotti and Marco Mancuso, Digimag Journal | Issue 75 "Digital Identities and Self Narratives" gathers 13 contributions from artists, researchers, theorists and curators from all over the world, who suggest critical insights about the role of digital art and technology in the shaping of identity. Digimag Journal new issue is available for free download in PDF, ePUB, MOBI and PRINT ON DEMAND on Digicult Editions.... READ MORE...
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@ is for Activism: Dissent, Resistance and Rebellion in a Digital Culture. Joss Hands, Pluto Press

Silvia Bertolotti
@ is for Activism, published by Pluto Press represents a remarkable and valuable contribution to media, communication and politics studies, The author, Joss Hands, is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at the Newcastle University and with this text he provides a critical overview about the reshaping of the political landscape by new media and digital communication tools through a multidisciplinary approach.... READ MORE...
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Exploring the Deep Web: a “knowledge vs comfort” dilemma

Ludovico Ristori
Many internet posts haven’t any doubt: the so-called Deep Web (DW) is definitely a bad place. Would you like your checking account to become empty? Aren’t you afraid that someone could spy on you? Or, from bad to worse that the police burst into your flat and arrest you like in American crime movie? If you aren’t chasing things like that, you’d rather stay in your daily sandbox made of Google, Facebook and so on... READ MORE...
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Immune Nations – The Vaccine Project

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Artists, researchers and policymakers highlight complexities surrounding global vaccination in . It is a speculative exhibition about the constructive role that art can play in global political discourse around life-saving vaccines. The exhibit will travel to UNAIDS headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, to coincide with the World Health Assembly.... READ MORE...
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Affect and Social Media #3 | Deadline: 28/02/2017

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The organizers of A&SM#3 welcome proposals for 15min presentations and artworks that interpret and explore the affective, feely and emotional encounters with social media grasped through the following themes: Experience; Engagement; Entanglement. Presentations and artworks can widely interpret each theme, but preference will be given to proposals that respond to all subjects.... READ MORE...
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