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CONNECTED. Patchlab Digital Art Festival

The 9th edition of the Patchlab Festival CONNECTED held from 23rd to 25th October will present the artworks of over 35 contemporary audiovisual artists from around the world. Today we are connected mainly via the Internet, but we also find ourselves all sharing a new situation with restrictions caused by a pandemic, compelling us to think about the future facing an accelerated digital revolution.... READ MORE...

VRE20: VRE – Virtual Reality Experience Extended Edition

From the 16th to the 18th of October 2020, these are the dates of the second edition of VRE – Virtual Reality Experience, festival dedicated to VR Cinema and to the vast world of Immersive Technologies and their impact on our present and near future.... READ MORE...

Donato Tranquillo Minerva | Lycosa tarantula

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

Resilienze Festival 2020 – Arte Resiliente

Resilienze Festival è un progetto ideato e prodotto da Kilowatt, che si svolgerà a Bologna presso gli spazi di Kilowatt all’interno dei Giardini Margherita dal 10 al 13 Settembre 2020. La rassegna vuole parlare di grandi trasformazioni planetarie mostrando le interazioni, i legami e le connessioni tra ambiente, società, economia e cultura, interrogando i linguaggi dell’arte per esplorare punti di vista alternativi.... READ MORE...

The second chapter of INBTWN “In Between” – A programme curated by Claudia D’Alonzo

XL was and will be the new format of Centrale Fies, originally conceived for the 40th anniversary of Drodesera and the 20th of Fies. Today it finds a new correlation in the analysis of an "oversize" that breaks the summer one shot , weaving together all the annual events of Centrale Fies.... READ MORE...

Machine and Mind, Rethinking Affect

We live in a world where technologies are increasingly blurring the boundaries of affect, between man and machine. As technology becomes more integrated into our lives, will we become more integrated into technology? Article by Claire Burke... READ MORE...

“Come Behind Me, So Good!”, new computer animation music video

In this video for Kazu Makino, a combination of photogrammetry, which Rhizomatiks has cultivated in various past projects, and cutting-edge software and hardware are used to collect abundant data to realize seamless mixed reality work on a large scale.... READ MORE...

A virtual ecosystem for creativity: new synthesis’ online project “Walkthroughs – A Further Look

Walkthroughs - A Further Look is synthesis’ response to the current challenging times. Now more than ever, synthesis thinks it is important to stay connected, creative and get inspired. Walkthroughs of VR artistic experiences is what synthesis has envisioned.... READ MORE...

Swiss Media Art: knowbotiq, Alan Bogana, Félicien Goguey

The exhibition Swiss Media Art: knowbotiq, Alan Bogana, Félicien Goguey can finally take place. HeK would like to invite you to an online vernissage on May 27th 2020.... READ MORE...

“Catharsis”, Jakob Kudsk Steensen’s new digital simulation

The Serpentine presented "Catharsis" by Danish artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen as part of a global public art project, "CONNECT, BTS", a series of major art projects open free to the public in five cities on four continents initiated by South Korean pop group BTS.... READ MORE...

Suzanne Treister: realities, knowledges and networks through psychedelic speculation

Utilising various media, including video, the internet, interactive technologies, photography, drawing, painting and watercolour, Suzanne Treister explores emerging technologies, alternative belief systems and potential human futures through a newly commissioned book and web-based augmented reality work.... READ MORE...

“Dancing in other space”: dematerialized body in cyber-dance

Espacio Byte, digital art museum, starts the 2020 program with a group exhibition dedicated to cyberdance. “Dancing in other space” gathers a variety of works that articulate the art of dance with the creative possibilities of digital languages.... 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...

What is work in the globalized digital age? “Algotaylorism” replies

Algotaylorism brings together thirteen artists and collectives who all operate at the human-machine interface and have taken this interaction as a subject of research and as a production tool.... READ MORE...

Liisa Lounila in “Shadow Zone”, from artist’s travels to nature experiences

In her art, Finnish artist Liisa Lounila examines contemporary life through the experiences of ordinary and recording of time. The new solo exhibition Shadow Zone in Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma features videos, sound installations, assemblages, neon work and a VR piece.... READ MORE...

Cao Fei: the exhibition “Blueprints” and her new installation “The Eternal Wave”

At the centre of exhibition "Blueprints" will be a new Virtual Reality artwork "The Eternal Wave", produced in collaboration with Acute Art. Based on the exact scale and scanned models of the artist’s studio, Cao Fei seeks to re-explore and re-imagine the past, reflecting the changing nature of humanity.... 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...