Data Meditations: New rituals for new possible worlds (part 1)
A lot has happened in 2020. In the pandemic world of covid19, the small HER research center, started by artists / hacktivists / researchers Salvatore Iaconesi a... READ MORE...
Software Art
“Transient”, an audiovisual concert as part of Romaeuropa Festival
"Transient", an audiovisual concert for two motorised pianos and two conductors in collaboration with generative algorithms, aiming at rethinking the traditional artistic techniques in the context of human-machine relationship.... READ MORE...
Sara Tirelli e il VR Pavilion. Arte e ambiente al festival Resilienze 2020
Questa intervista concentra la sua attenzione sul VR Pavilion, sia per la duratura conoscenza e la profonda stima verso Sara Tirelli e il suo percorso artistico e di ricerca ormai di lunghissima data in Italia e a livello internazionale, sia per la qualità del suo più recente percorso espressivo che indaga le potenzialità della realtà virtuale, che ancora per la evidente appartenenza della Tirelli a un contesto di sperimentazione (espressiva, linguistica, estetica, tecnica) più ampio, fatto di un numero crescente di artisti e progetti, che il padiglione ha l’ambizione di raccontare e mostrare.... READ MORE...
The exhibition “The Question of Intelligence – AI and the Future of Humanity”
The New School’s Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery presents The Question of Intelligence — AI and the Future of Humanity, an exhibition focused on artificial intelligence and featuring works created by more than a dozen artists on view from February 7-April 8, 2020.... READ MORE...
Raised By Google
arebyte Gallery have announced "Raised By Google", a new body of work by Bristol based artist Sarah Selby. Sarah was the final selected artist for hotel generation 2019, arebyte Gallery’s annual young artist development programme.... READ MORE...
Artistic Intelligence
The Kunstverein Hannover exhibition Artistic Intelligence is exploring the extent to which artists avail artificial intelligence in their artistic practice.... READ MORE...
RE:HUMANISM Art Prize.1st Edition awarded artists on view
"RE:HUMANISM" will open on Tuesday, April 16th at 6:30 pm at AlbumArte, in Rome. The exhibition is the first edition of the award dedicated to the relationship between art and artificial intelligence and is promoted by Alan Advantage.... READ MORE...
ID. ART:TECH EXHIBITION – CYFEST/12: The International Media Art Festival
CYLAND MediaArtLab in collaboration with Center for the Studies of Russian Art CSAR presents the exhibition ID. ART:TECH. ART:TECH EXHIBITION is dedicated to the ID as a phenomenon with wide scatter of meanings – from the term in psychoanalysis (id) to the document that certifies one’s identity (ID)... READ MORE...
“Synthetic Folklore”: Janek Simon’s first retrospective in Poland
The exhibition Synthetic Folklore by Janek Simon maps and decodes fifteen years of the artist’s work, organizing his various and almost too many, as he claims himself, preoccupations: from political geography, through artificial intelligence, financial speculations, DIY strategies, to post-colonial theory.... READ MORE...
Pröspect: A Bot* that reassembles images from the McCord Museum’s Photography Collection
Pröspect, is another step in Isabelle Gagné’s work as a geologist-artist of digital images, as she questions our relation to online historical archives. As various institutions – museums, libraries, etc. – are increasingly making their archives available online to make them more accessible, the “general” catalogue of online images is constantly growing.... READ MORE...
“Between and Beyond”: a survey of Dieter Jung’s body of work
With the exhibition Dieter Jung. Between and Beyond, the ZKM honors the extensive work of the Berlin-based artist Dieter Jung, who has been closely associated with the ZKM since its foundation. In addition to holograms, holographic mobiles and holographic light spaces, the exhibition includes the artist's paintings, drawings and prints.... READ MORE...
Between Creative Coding and Society. Interview with Fabian van Sluijs
Creative Coding Utrecht (CCU) is an interdisciplinary and open community of musicians, designers, programmers and visual artists investigating the influence of technologies on our daily life through a playful and explorative approach. In this interview by Costanza Tagliaferri, Fabian van Sluijs, one of the founders of CCU, talks about the creative community in Utrecht, CCU’s activities and the impact of how creative coding can put new perspectives on the impact of technology on society.... READ MORE...
snap+share: transmitting photographs from mail art to social networks
Technology has escalated—and accelerated—the creation, distribution and consumption of photographic imagery, and as a result, millions of images are now sent across the Internet each day. On view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) snap+share: transmitting photographs from mail art to social networks will explore the outward gesture of sharing pictures, instead of the more traditional, inward act of taking photographs, throughout the history of the medium.... READ MORE...
How would you touch an image? Interview with Lucy Hardcastle
Are we sure that we are still able to distinguish what is “real” from what is purely digital? Federica Fontana interviews Lucy Hardcastle, a 26 years old interdisciplinary designer and artist – but she prefers to think of herself more as a digital craftsman – who runs a studio in London specialized in creating original unique visual experiences by using CGI, digital rendering and glass blowing.... READ MORE...
We Need A Much Bigger Impakt
Why are people losing confidence in traditional sources of information? What are the consequences of social media & new online platforms becoming the prime source of information & interpretation of world events? These urgent questions concerning our post-truth era, spoken by Impakt Festival founder Arjon Dunnewind, resonated through the Theaterzaal at Het Huis in Utrecht (NL) and introduced the theme of the Impakt Festival 2018. The questions as described by Dunnewind are further investigated by curators Luba Elliott, Yasemin Keskintepe & Alex Anikina.... READ MORE...
Unexpected Growth by Tamiko Thiel at Whitney Museum of American Art
The Whitney Museum of American Art is currently presenting Programmed: Rules, Codes and Choreographies in Art, 1965 - 2018, an exhibition featuring 39 artworks, divided into two parts with several thematic groupings that define the curatorial premise for the seemingly diverse range of works presented. Co-organized by the Whitney's Adjunt Curator of Digital Art Christian Paul, and Carol Mancusi-Ungaro, the exhibition has been in development since 2016 and will be on view until April 14, 2019.... READ MORE...
Future Humanity – Our Shared Planet
With Future Humanity – Our Shared Planet, Hyundai Motor Company, Central Academy of Fine Arts Beijing and Ars Electronica present their first joint exhibition project. The show focuses on the social and cultural dimensions of technological progress and will be on display almost simultaneously, but divided among the Hyundai Motorstudio Beijing, Seoul and Moscow.... READ MORE...
ARTFUTURA – Humanized Technology
ArtFutura reaches its twenty-ninth edition in more than twenty cities including: Alicante, Buenos Aires, London, Madrid, México, Montevideo and Shanghai. The festival opens on November 22, with special activities in London (StourSpace), Madrid (EspacioFundaciónTelefónica) and Alicante (Museum of Contemporary Art).... READ MORE...