Focus
Ars Electronica Garden Paros. Random Rhetoric. Christiana Kazakou's interview with Yiannis Melanitis
26-08-2020 Hits:941
Interdisciplinary curator and researcher Christiana Kazakou in conversation with Ioannis Melanitis on his work for Ars Electronica 2020, Random Rhetoric, Garden PAROS (GR), curated by MADE Group for STARTS (Science...
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Svenja Kratz, Self-portrait #2: Site of Infection
29-07-2020 Hits:914
Self-portrait #2: Site of Infection consists of a wax cast of the artist’s bust rendered in a style reminiscent of classical depictions of female gods that emits vapour containing the artist’s...
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Simon Weckert. Google Maps Hacks
04-02-2020 Hits:4988
99 second hand smartphones are transported in a handcart to generate virtual traffic jam in Google Maps. Through this activity, it is possible to turn a green street red which...
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Events
Letterkenny, Regional Cultural Centre. PLASTIC: Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It
22-08-2020 Hits:851
PLASTIC, a touring exhibition, features the work of over thirty national and international artists, designers and scientists, as well as a newly commissioned work by Donegal based sound artist Ed Devane...
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Helsinki, SOLU / Bioart Society. Living Images, Johanna Rotko
12-08-2020 Hits:602
Visual artist Johanna Rotko works with living materials, mainly different yeasts. The Living Images exhibition consists of yeastograms - images made with living yeast cells - photographs taken between 2014–2020, and a video of...
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Helsinki, Annantalo Arts Centre. Criss-Crossing Ecologies
10-08-2020 Hits:950
The exhibition presents works that combine artistic observations of phenomena and the search of poetry in the factual through the lenses of art, science and design. The participating artists devise strategies to...
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Tokyo, Museum of Contemporary Art. Olafur Eliasson, Sometimes the river is the bridge
28-07-2020 Hits:752
Olafur Eliasson is highly regarded for his efforts to advance sustainable development through his art, and this is reflected in the exhibition title. “Sometimes the river is the bridge is about a fundamental...
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Venice, Science Gallery. Illusion: nothing is as it seems
07-02-2020 Hits:2575
Should we always believe what we see right in front of us? Can you trust your senses? Has technology made things clearer or muddied the waters between reality and fiction?...
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Dallas, Nasher Sculpture Center. Barry X Ball. Remaking Sculpture
30-01-2020 Hits:1537
Barry X Ball reimagines and transforms historical artworks with the help of 3D-printing and stone-cutting technology. by Jeremy Strick* Six years ago, together with a group of Nasher patrons, I visited the...
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Books
Sita Popat, Sarah Whatley (Edited by), Error, Ambiguity, and Creativity: A Multidisciplinary Reader. Palgrave Macmillan
03-08-2020 Hits:628
This book offers a set of eleven discipline-specific chapters from across the arts, humanities, psychology, and medicine. Each contributor considers the creative potential of error and/or ambiguity, defining these terms...
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Lev Manovich, Cultural Analytics. The MIT Press
27-07-2020 Hits:912
A book at the intersection of data science and media studies, presenting concepts and methods for computational analysis of cultural data. How can we see a billion images? What analytical methods...
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Ariane Koek (ed.), Entangle: Physics and the Artistic Imagination. Edition Hatje Cantz
06-02-2020 Hits:1470
Black holes, dark matter, gravity, time, motion - these phenomena fascinate physicists and artists alike. Both strive to discover how they shape our world. The connection between art and science...
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Pocketnews
Call for papers. Perth, International Conference on the Arts in Society. Deadline March 16, 2021
08-08-2020 Hits:884
The Arts in Society Research Network offers an interdisciplinary forum for discussion of the role of the arts in society. It is a place for critical engagement, examination and experimentation, developing ideas...
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Call for papers. Athens, Annual International Conference on Visual and Performing Arts (ATINER 2021). Deadline November 9, 2020
08-08-2020 Hits:1959
The Arts & Culture Unit of ATINER is organizing its 12th Annual International Conference on Visual and Performing Arts, 7-10 June 2021, Athens, Greece sponsored by the Athens Journal of Humanities & Arts.The aim of the conference...
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Call for papers. Kitakyushu, Nishinippon Institute of Technology. International Conference on Linguistics, Literature and Arts (ICLLA 2021). Deadline September 30…
30-07-2020 Hits:5316
The 2021 8th International Conference on Linguistics, Literature and Arts (ICLLA 2021) will be held in Nishinippon Institute of Technology, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan during January 29-31, 2021. Language is at a nexus of interrelationships...
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