Immersive screenings: MIRA.mov by MIRA Festival in Barcelona
MIRA Festival in Barcelona is another of the festivals reinventing themselves in this transitional (hopefully) year. The impossibility of big gatherings is pushing curators, programmers…
Exhibition: Jeremy Shaw’s ‘Quantification Trilogy’ at JSC in Berlin
In her insightful book Video Art (Phaidon Press, 2020), renowned curator and founder of the video exhibition and collection programmes at MoMA Barbara London recalls…
Online exhibition: Silicon Valet x New Art City present Dismal Sessions 001-021
Silicon Valet, the virtual parking lot for expanded internet practice, has joined forces with New Art City, a virtual exhibition platform for new media art…
Online event: ‘Black Womxn Time Camp (004)’ by Black Quantum Futurism
Taking place on Sunday 20 and 27th of September, as a part of Black Quantum Futurism‘s Black Womxn Temporal Portal project, Black Womxn Time Camp is…
Curators, Digital Culture, Interviews
ZAIBA JABBAR, the mind behind the multidisciplinary platform HERVISIONS
Zaiba Jabbar is an award-winning director, independent curator and founder of HERVISIONS (est. 2015). With over a decade of experience in the film and media…
‘Editorial perspectives on digital identities and alternative realities’ by Lula Criado & Meritxell Rosell
In his seminal 1964 work Understanding Media, philosopher and media theorist Marshall McLuhan claimed that the medium through which a message was transmitted was so…
Multimedia project: Oscar Powell’s ‘a ƒolder’
Oscar Powell, L’Enfant terrible of the industrial/noise-techno and one-half of Diagonal records, is back with a whole new conceptual multimedia project. Known for his tracks…
Contributors, Digital Culture, Op & Ed
‘Why Cookie Monster is the mascot of Big Tech – and has been since the 1960s’ by Lucy Hunter
Before he trained his appetite to edible fare, Cookie Monster devoured computers. In 1967, two years before Sesame Street hit the PBS airwaves, the woolly…
Exhibition: ‘HYUNDAI X ELEKTRA: METAMORPHOSIS’ at Hyundai Motorstudio Seoul
What kind of individual or societal transformations will follow the global pandemic? HYUNDAI X ELEKTRA: METAMORPHOSIS refers to the classic Book of Changes (I Ching)…
Insight: Video art meets architectural politics, Rob Heppell’s short film for Nazar’s ‘Bunker’
In recent years contemporary political art seems to be experiencing a substantial upturn, contemporary artists are deeply concerned with the current social and political issues…
Contributors, Digital Culture, Interviews
PAOLO CIRIO, political aesthetics of the art market
Paolo Cirio launches a new artwork and intervention in the art market called Art Derivatives [1], a website, financial instrument and campaign. Known for his…
Insight: ‘VR Para Llevar’ brings Latin American virtual realities to the fore
Like many precarious workers in the creative industry, Carla Serrano Pesquera found herself unemployed when COVID-19 hit. Determined to find some balance and opportunity amongst…
Exhibition: D MUSEUM presents SOUNDMUSEUM
SOUNDMUSEUM is a large scale group exhibition filling the entire museum with sound and multi-sensory experiences. The exhibition features works from sound installation, audience-driven performance,…
Online exhibition: ‘Uh everything looks so fresh – Oh everything is so rotten!’ by Eva Papamargariti
London-based Greek artist Eva Papamargariti presents Uh everything looks so fresh – Oh everything is so rotten!, a new VR exhibition at NICOLETTI digital. Papamargariti’s…
Online events: MUTANT PROMISE, a new platform creating artist-led workshops
MUTANT PROMISE is a programming, producing and artist booking platform supporting the work of musicians who combine a DIY and workshop practice with their performance,…
Online exhibition: ‘R / V’ on Culturush website
The online exhibition R / V presents the works of five female artists that are investigating how nowadays humans inhabit social media, revealing the dynamics…
Moving image festival: DEMO
The Finnish Cultural and Academic Institutes’ Together Alone project are launching today DEMO contagion, a commissioned online moving image festival, whose aim is to address…
Online exhibition: ‘Keep Yourself Clean’ by VOLNA art collective
Behind VOLNA, the art collective from St Petersburg whose visual art installations revolve around the interplay of light and darkness, are Nikita Golyshev & Snezhana…
Insight: Cybersex versus virus, a digital night at Klub Verboten
Viruses have always been attracted to sex. Cases of viral transmissions or contractions have been haunting the most indulgent erotic fantasies since the ancient times,…
Degree Show: ‘The Degree Show on Mars’ by LJMU BA Fine Art
When on May 30 SpaceX sent NASA astronauts toward the International Space Station we all thought that that was a very good choice Congratulations to…