JAN | FEB | MAR | APR | MAY | JUN | JUL/AUG | SEP | OCT | NOV | DEC 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010
Clubbing Lunchmeat Festival - 09-14/03/10 - Prague
Conception of multimedia Lunchmeat festival is obvious: a musician and a visual artist drawn together, the sound and the image as equal parts of one corpus. Clubbing - Vjing - Electronica
New Media Futurologia / russian utopias - 05/03-23/05/10 - Moscow
Futurologia explores the legacy of the avant-garde movement of the early 20th century, showing how the work of pioneering artist Kazimir Malevich continues to influence Russian artists today New Media
Virtual Worlds Remap Berlin - 05-21/03/10 - Twinity
The exhibition hall “Altes Museum” in the virtual world Twinity will open the exhibition: Remap Berlin by the Italian artist and photographer Marco “Manray” Cadioli Virtual Worlds - Software Art - Networking
Art+Science Tomas Saraceno - until 20/06/10 - Stockholm
Bonniers Konsthall is proud to present the first major presentation of the renowned artist Tomás Saraceno's work in Europe, with new works shown for the first time Art+science - Hyper Architecture - Design
Audiovideo AV festival 10 - 05-14/03/10 - Many Cities
AV Festival 10 the biennial international festival of electronic arts returns from 5-14 March 2010. This year the curatorial theme is energy, explored as a universal force that connects, transforms and renews life. Audiovideo - New Media - Design
Audiovideo Sonic Acts 2010 - 25-28/02/10 - Amsterdam
Sonic Acts is one of the most important festival in Europe on audiovisual art and practices. It took place out of different venues in Amsterdam, from De Balie to Paradiso and NIMK Audiovideo - Live Media - Electronica - Live Cinema
Video Art Arrested Time - 26/02-03/04/10 - Adams (MA)
Arrested Time is an exhibition of works combining contemporary technologies with traditional drawing and printmaking methods. Curated by Jo-Anne Green Virtual Worlds - Video Art - New Media
Interaction Design Vectoral Elevation winter olympics - until 28/02/10 - Vancouver
“Vectorial Elevation” is an interactive artwork that allows you to direct powerful light beams and transform Vancouver’s skyline between February 4 - 28, 2010. Net Art - Interaction Design - Public Art
Sound Art Madrid Abierto 2010 - until 28/02/10 - Madrid
The first edition of MADRID ABIERTO as a biennial event and the theme for this edition is collaboration. The open call for works announced its openness for proposals that spans across disciplines Sound Art - Public Art
Sound Art Florian Hecker Exhibition - 12/02-28/03/10 - London
Chisenhale Gallery is pleased to announce a major solo exhibition by Florian Hecker, his first in a UK public institution, comprising a new installation of sound pieces Sound Art - Experimental
New Media Art Market Expanded Box - 17-21/02/10 - Madrid
Once again, ARCOmadrid is opening up its own particular “black box” to provide room for renowned international artists using new media in their works. Curated by Domenico Quaranta New Media Art Market - New Media Art - Net Art
Graphic Animation Theorizing Animation: Content & Context
In consideration of what seems like an explosion of online and museum exhibitions celebrating animation, we would like to spend the month considering the intersection between art, animation, and theory Video Art - Graphic Animation
Audiovideo Sonic Acts XIII - 25-28/02/2010 - Amsterdam
The opening event Deep Spaces presents a selection of audiovisual adventures in spaces defined by sound, light, smoke and lasers. The Expanded Space programme revisits the heyday of Expanded Cinema Audiovideo - Live Media - Video Art
New Media Lovebytes 2010 - Sheffield
Lovebytes is a cultural festival for the digital age. A season of extraordinary events taking place at some of Sheffield's landmark venues and public spaces, from February to June 2010 New Media - Software Art - Interaction Design
Performing Art Digital Incarnate - 08/02-02/04/2010 - Chicago
Digital Incarnate: The Body, Identity, and Interactive Media, is an investigation through multiple lenses to explore the body and identity as they are transformed through technological evolution Performing Art - Interaction Design - Video Art
New Media Artefact Festival - 09-14/02/2010 - Leuven
In On Gaps and Silent Documents international artists question the absence of documents and data in archives, data banks and memory. What is missing? Has it never been there or has it been removed? New Media - Networking
New Media Kinetica Art Fair 2010 - 04-07/02/2010 - London
Robots Drawing Humans, Light Beings, World Pioneering Kinetic Masters, Work from Cybernetic Serendipity and a Giant Orchestral Milk Float, All Part of Kinetica Art Fair 2010, developed by Kinetica Museum New Media - Technology - Audiovideo
New Media transmediale.10 - 02-07/02/2010 - Berlin
The transmediale 2010 festival kicks off at Berlin's House of World Cultures with a welcome address by Computer Art pioneer Herbert W. Franke and a special live concert featuring Charlemagne Palestine New Media - Audiovisual - Video Art - Software Art
Networking The Wave Opus 1 - 19-20/02/10 - Berlin
WAVE Berlin Panel Discussion « Innovative Artistic and Economic Practices » and WJ-SPOTS Berlin « 15 Years of Artistic Creation on the Internet » will be part of the program of transmediale 2010 New Media - Networking - Net Art
Hack Art The Influencers - 04-06/02/10 - Barcelona
Art, communication guerrilla, radical entertainment presentations, screenings, workshops, actions. The Influcencers is a project by Bani Brusadin, Eva & Franco Mattes: 0100101110101101.ORG Hacktivism - Net Art - Hack Art
Hack Art Foodpower performance - 02/02/10 - Milan
At 5.30PM Dissapore presents Beggar’s Food-I’m Hungry / Are You Hungry?, a performance developed by the artist Franca Formenti and created in collaboration with the director of Dissapore, Massimo Bernardi Hack Art
Design The Storyteller - 29/01-09/04/10 - New York
The Sheila C. Johnson Design Center presents The Storyteller, an exhibition exploring how contemporary artists use narrative as a way to understand the social and political events of our time New Media - Design
Networkign Around Simulation: Yasmin Discussion
A Yasmin discussion for January / February titled Around Simulation. Moderated by Pier Luigi Capucci and Jennifer Kanary Nikolov. it wish to answer to some questions. What is simulation? How does it work? Technology - Artificial Intelligence - Networking
Video Art ...On the Eastern Front - 22-01/07/03/2010 - Budapest
The exhibition examines the effects of the changes taking place on the area of the former "Soviet block" on the individual and the different groups of society from the aspect of socio - psychology Video Art
Audiovideo Netmage 10 - 21-23/01/2010 - Bologna
The tenth edition of the Netmage festival presents an unpredictable scenario of contemporary audiovisual research featuring live media, live cinema, concerts, performances, sound and visual installations Live Media - Audiovideo - Electronica - Video Art
Audiovideo Sonic Acts XIII - 21-23/02/2010 - Amsterdam
The XIII Sonic Acts Festival is entirely dedicated to the exploration of space in performative and audiovisual art, film, music and architecture. It examines the importance of physical space in times Live Media - Audiovideo - Electronica - Video Art
Hack Art Beggar's Food: Foodpower performance - 02/02/2010 - Milan
Dissapore presents Beggar’s Food | I’m Hungry / Are You Hungry?, a performance developed by the artist Franca Formenti and created in collaboration with the director of Dissapore, Massimo Bernardi Hack Art
Art + Science Cloud Core Scanner - 15/01-27/02/2010 - Berlin
Artist Agnes Meyer-Brandis, was invited by the German Aerospace Center to participate in one of its zero-g flights and to work under conditions of weightlessness on her art project Cloud Core Scanner Art + Science
Technology The Artwork Between Technology & Nature 21-23/01/2010 - Aarhus
Aarhus University and the national art museum in Copenhagen, Statens Museum for Kunst, are organizing an international conference entitled The Artwork between Technology and Nature Technology - Hacktivism - Art & Science
Software Art Iannis Xenakis - 15/01-08/04/2010 - New York
Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary explores the fundamental role of drawing in the work of avant-garde composer Iannis Xenakis (1922–2001), one of the most important figures in twentieth-century music Experimental - Electronica
Software Art Livecoding @ Anatomy Museum - 14/01/2010 - London
The purpose of this event is to let people know about a new development in computer music research, livecoding. Several London-based researchers will perform a short piece using livecoding techniques Software Art - Electronica - Live Media - Free Software
Art+Science The Universe Resounds - 12/01/2010 - New York
An interdisciplinary examination of painting, synesthesia and abstraction from modern to contemporary times, including from the perspectives of art history, neuroscience, music, film, physics & performance Audiovisual - Art+science
Software Art Venus 2.0 - until 27/01/2010 - Berlin
The [DAM]Berlin contemporart art gallery will for the first time in Europe exhibit new software works by Mark Napier in the form of objects, life-size and smaller prints and a projection Software Art - Net Art - New Media Art Market
Graphic Design Decode: Digital Design Sensation - 08/12/09-11/04/2010 - London
Decode: Digital Design Sensations showcases, at Royal Albert Museum, the latest developments in digital and interactive design, from small, screen-based, graphics to large-scale interactive installations Graphic Design - Software Art - Generative Art - Interaction Design
Slideshow Digicult Flickr account. It makes a collection of pictures and moments from events that professionally involved Digicult in the last years. But also exhibitions, reviews and cultural events that we simply visited. Created with flickr slideshow.
PIET ZWART INSTITUTE: call for applications
MASTER OF MEDIA DESIGN & COMUNICATION
A Master programme focused on a critical engagement with the
culture of the Internet and computer media, their artistic design,
technology and theory; a small (20 students in total), English-taught,
two-year full-time Master course with a multidisciplinary community of
students and teachers, and a strong emphasis on personal contact and
collaboration. A challenging programme with trimestrial thematic
projects, theory sessions and a technical course. Students receive
strong tutorial support with weekly individual meetings with both staff
and guests.
DANUBE UNIVERSITY: call for applications
INTERNATIONAL MASTER OF MEDIA.ART.HISTORIES
The postgraduate program MediaArtHistories conveys the most important developments of contemporary art through a network of renowned international theorists, artists and curators like: Erkki Huhtamo, Lev Manovich, Christiane Paul, Paul Sermon, Edward Shanken, Jens Huaser, Sean Cubitt, Christa Sommerer, Gerfried Stocker, Knowbotic Research, Frieder Nake, Oliver Grau. Artists and programmers give new insights into the latest software, interface developments and their interdisciplinary and intercultural praxis.
JAN VAN EYCK ACADEMIE: call for applications
FINE ART, DESIGN OR THEORY RESEARCHER
Artists, designers and theoreticians are invited to submit research and production proposals to become a researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academie. Candidates can either apply with a topic of their own or for a project formulated by the institute itself. In order to realise these projects, the Jan van Eyck offers the necessary made-to-measure artistic, technical and auxiliary preconditions. Candidates are advised by a team of artists, designers and theoreticians who have won their spurs globally. The researchers can also avail themselves of facilities that support their projects
Welcome to Digicult, the online/offline cultural and editorial platform, created with the aim to spread digital art and culture. Digicult focuses on the impact of new technologies and modern sciences on art, design, culture and contemporary society. Digicult was founded and is directed by Marco Mancuso, and is now based on the active participation of 40 professional people, who represent the first wide Italian Network of journalists, curators, artists and critics in the field.
To learn more about Digicult, you can read some deep online interviews did in the last months: the one taken from Lab For Culture, the one from Elektra Blog, the one from project Vj Theory and the last one from Russian magazine Art-Manager.
Here you find all the Credits and here our rich Archive of articles, and you can contact us at:redazione@digicult.it
Created at Mutek festival
at Monument National (Montréal) in May 2009, POWEr is a performance based on high-voltage electromagnetic perturbations.
SKETCH-A-MOVE
Sketch-a-Move is a 5 weeks project by Loiuse Victoria Kinkler did with Anab Jain. The brief was set by Mattel Hotwheels to come up with a new concept for their small toycars.
BUSCANDO SR.GOODBAR
Buscando Al Sr.Goodbar from Transmediale award winning Michelle Terran, is a journey through Murcia, that involves a search for the locations and authors of various YouTube videos.
DIGITAL ZOETROPE
Troika was commissioned by onedotzero to create a custom installation and visual identity around the theme of this year’s festival 'Citystates'. Opting to create an installation and identity that integrate into each other, Troika designed a modern digital zoetrope as the cornerstone of the identity.
SILICON DREAMS
The exhibition, Silicon Dreams: Art, Science and Technology in the European Union, will take place at Tabakalera in Donostia-San Sebastián It explores the convergence of these three fields from the perspective of a group of artists
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: POLITICS OF DIGITAL MEDIA
It is an abstract submission for an edited book on the creation, interpretation, and role of digital media for political purposes in the Balkans and Middle East. The intent is to provide an overview of the spectrum of political uses of new media in these two regions.
555 KUBIK
555 KUBIK "How it would be, if a house was dreaming" The conception of this project consistently derives from its underlying architecture - the theoretic conception and visual pattern of the Hamburg Kunsthalle
CALL: CYNETARTS
TMA Hellerau hosts the international competition of Cynetart, an digital art and technology festival, that takes place in Dresden, inviting artists and art groups to present their projects. The call for entries ends bu will be extended until March 2010
INJECT BY HERMAN KOLGEN
It was in 2008 that Herman Kolgen initiated the INJECT project. The genesis of the principal visual material for this project was a shoot, in an immense cistern filled with water, which lasted six consecutive days.
LIGHT BULB
light bulb is a levitating yet powered lightbulb. It will float stably in midair and remain on for years without any physical contact, charging, or batteries. Ironically, this entire package still consumes less than half the power of an incandescent bulb.
UCLA SCI | ART NANOLAB 2010 LOS ANGELES: 21 JUNE / 2 JULY 2010
A two week summer course including lecture, required screenings, lab visits, field trips and outside study, offered through UCLA's Summer
Institute. Open to high school students. This introductory studio / lab course explores the creative aspects of scientific research and innovation. Students will gain a broad understanding of the impact of science on
contemporary art and popular culture and focus on new sciences -
bio and
nanotechnology. Emphasis will be on development of proposals and ideas
that could serve as prototypes for either an art project or a scientific
research study.
Since 2001, OFFF festival has been held in Barcelona, becoming the globally recognized and trendsetting event it is today. The three-day festival showcases this year in Paris top digital artists, web, print and interactive designers, motion graphics studios, and new music adventurous. OFFF is spreading the work of a generation of creators that are breaking all kind of limits. Those separating the commercial arena from the worlds of art and design; music from illustration, or ink and chalk from pixels. Artists that have grown with the web and receive inspiration from digital tools, even when their canvas is not the screen. OFFF festival provides insight into all culture media platforms.