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The Immersive Kind: A Space for Emerging Interdisciplinary Digital Artists with an X-factor
Many have tried to create an artistic community that welcomes non-binary and emerging artists. UK-based, global collective The Immersive [...]
Our Consumption of Sound Art is, in Itself, a Creative Process
As our mind processes a sound to make it relevant to us, this sound may be interpreted as music [...]
Claudia Hart Talk: How Her Latest Digital Art Exhibition Got Meta
While today’s reality is bound to four walls for most of us, digital art offers us endless ways to [...]
Lilia Ziamou Creates Fragmented Bodies by Scanning Bones
Would you dare to use human bones as the basis for your next artwork? That’s what Lilia Ziamou has [...]
What’s the future of the museum?
Virtual Reality is one of the technologies with the highest projected potential for growth. Whereas everyone speculates about the [...]
Re-materialisation of Digital Art in Mexico
Art has always faced the struggles of medium, technique, place and context. An art’s outcome has always been unsure [...]
Dystopia of the Mind: Seeking Perfection in Imperfection
The mark of what determines ‘perfection’ is one that is constantly changing, particularly regarding the female body. Isabella [...]
Magic Realism and Afrabia
"Sudan is not really a country at all, but many. A composite of layers, like a genetic fingerprint of [...]
Digital Art across Borders
With all of us staying at home more to limit the spread of Covid-19, many have settled into a [...]
Can Digital Art helps you to Fall in Love?
Can Digital Art, and most specifically virtual reality, help us to understand each other? And, therefore help us to [...]
The Liminality in the Digital Art
As part of this edition of the Agora Talk, our guest Snow Yunxue invites us to discover and learn [...]
Scroll > Swipe > Zoom > Tap > Scroll > Scroll > Scroll
Gabriella Warren-Smith captures this constant ‘automatic ingrained behaviour’ with our digital devices perfectly, revealing that the average person checks [...]
(M)otherhood: Online, Offline and in Lockdown
Benigson uses the terms “Fattening” and “flattening” are words that we can physically feel on our fingertips. As something [...]
Immersive Digital Approach to Space
Agora digital is proud to present as our speakers Rebecca Van Beek a scenographer and artist, alongside Architects and [...]
How women subvert the art world using digital art
Can women artists beat men with their own tools? That's what we going to discover with Gretchen Andrew and [...]
Art Market
Ophelia Fu Showcases New Crypto Art in Virtual World
UK-based mixed media and digital artist Ophelia Fu has a new digital art show that you and anyone else [...]
Leading Auction House Christie’s Listing Bitcoin Art for the First Time
The world’s largest auction house, Christie’s, will be presenting Bitcoin artwork for the first time. Block 21 of “Portraits [...]
About the net with Wade Wallerstein from Silicon Valet
From anthropology to digitalogy, there is only one jump that Wade Wallerstein did brilliantly with his project: Silicon Valet. [...]
Crypto Art Fraud on Rarible Sparks Governance Discussion
On Feb. 8, artist Karan Singh notified via Twitter, the blockchain-based art platform Rarible that some of his work [...]
Curator’s Radar Podcast: Discover Sian Fan the Multi-talented Artist
Agora Digital Arts is proud to present the first episode of Curator's Radar with Adrian StClair. Our first mark on the radar is with the talented artist Sian Fan. Tune in to learn about [...]
Here Are 25 Inspiring Women in the Art World Who Overcame Obstacles to Accomplish Incredible Things in This Surreal Year
These museum directors, artists, curators, and dealers stepped up to the plate in 2020. Artnet News | 24 November 2020 Sumayya Vally, Artnet © [...]
Female.AI: The Intersection Between Gender and Contemporary Artificial Intelligence
When most tech companies today (ab)use the term “AI” what they refer to are statistical models used to analyze large quantities of data (“Machine Learning”), sometimes using multi-layer architectures of neural networks (“Deep Learning”). [...]
Research: A Feminist Approach to Right to Privacy, Data Protection and AI
New research by Mozilla Fellow Chenai Chair explores how, without sufficient safeguards in data protection in place, AI systems in South Africa can disproportionately harm women, girls, and non-gender-conforming individuals. It also provides recommendations [...]
Pioneers
Where Science Meets Art, Immerse Yourself in Helga Griffiths’ Multi-sensory Worlds
Euan McPherson | Ed Kiran Sajan | 22 November 2020 © Courtesy of the [...]
The Art of Breaking Boundaries: Digital Art at the Cutting Edge.
While many digital artists have embraced technology in the internet age, technologists have also embraced art, blurring the boundaries [...]
Video visionary: the life and works of Nam June Paik
By normalising the use of modern visual technologies as fine art forms, Nam June Paik earned his reputation as [...]
Technology
The Serpentine published “Future Art Ecosystems 1: Art and Advanced Technologies”
When Hans Ulrich Obrist said " It's time for Art and Technology", he meant it. Artnews | Brian [...]
Visions of the Future: Art, Genetics and Artificial Intelligence
Art and Science are coming closer to each others. Here is a documentary of interest ... Arte [...]
Trending
Who is Miquela Sousa?
The 19-year-old is a singer, a model and an Influencer who is worth $6m. What is the Miquela's phenomenon? [...]
What is the Digital Sublime: The Awe & Terror of New Media Landscapes
What upsets our sense of harmony, self-preservation and spatiotemporality but, at the same time, fascinates us with a chaotic [...]
Webtoon series
New Media Artist Siyu Cao Connects East and West in Webcomic Series
Francesca Miller | Ed Cristina Brooks | 2 November 2020 Artist Siyu Cao talks [...]
Webcomic Series: Female Artists Rise to the Top – Introduction
This is the first of a series of articles on female webcomic artists from around the world, telling how [...]
Uncover Digital Art Hidden Along the Thames Riverbank in London’s Biggest AR Show
You can bring an invisible exhibition of Digital Art to life using just your smartphone in the capital’s first [...]
What is the Relationship between Digital Art and Memory?
How do we store and process painful memories? What’s more, who really decides what memories to keep — whose [...]
The arts electric: Digital Art is what you can do not how you did it
Do you agree with Tom Uglow, Creative Lab Director of Google in this essay for AEON? Tom Uglow [...]
Magical Thinking and Digital Art along the Thames Path
We modern consumers of digital art tend to think we’re different from, say, the kinds of neolithic tribespeople that [...]
Meet James Turrell, the New Media Artist Who Lightens the Way for Immersive Installations
Pasadena-born digital artist James Turrell, who at the age of 77 continues to be one of America’s most prominent [...]
Tabita Rezaire is Afloat Amongst Stormy Seas
The internet is the new ocean. As with the high seas in the late fifteenth century, today humans have [...]
Time Travel and Digital Art: How Nicole Welch’s Time-lapse Video Art Collapses Time
Australian new media artist Nicole Welch explores the passage of time in her moving image works, immersing viewers in [...]
Balancing Technologies and Thoughts
When you first see Chloë Cheuk’s works, new media art may not be the first thing coming to mind. [...]
Black Blossoms School of Art and Culture: Decolonising the Physical and Digital Art World
The Black Blossoms artists’ group was established in 2015 by Bolanle Tajudeen. The original aim still holds true today: [...]
Conflict in My Outlook_We Met Online (2020) – Xanthe Dobbie
Can a Buzzfeed-style quiz capture your online sexual persona? Would you want your results to be public? Queer Australian [...]
Lethabo Huma: Painting Without a Brush
Lethabo Huma’s artwork highlights how the medium of painting is no longer just for physical paint, but also digital [...]
Under Surveillance with Trevor Paglen’s New Exhibition at Pace Gallery London
Trevor Paglen's complex and pioneering work examines the systems and technologies that shape society. Computing systems that collect, interpret [...]
Sound and Motion: Arash Akbari Bridges Worlds
Iranian artist Arash Akbari’s newest work Sonomotion blends hypnotic visuals with experimental tracks to examine the ways that sound [...]
Composer Samm Anga Explores Digital Music and Multimedia Channels
If you’ve ever joined one of our Agora Talks, you’ve most probably experienced the work of Samm Anga in [...]
With Love, From Nowhere: The Places of The Non-Yet – Ellie Niblock and Alaa Tarabzouni
What’s the value of non-places that we can’t visit and aren’t real? “With Love, From Nowhere: The Places of [...]
What is CGI?
When you hear the term CGI you may suddenly be catapulted to the bright lights of Hollywood and the [...]
Hyper-linking away from loneliness with Amrita Hepi
Can a chatbot help us find deeper human connection? In Hyper-linked at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, [...]
We will be seen – visibility in the works of Martine Syms
Immerse into a digital realm, where stories are told through the eyes of an artist committed to depicting real [...]
Delving into the Liminoid – Snow Yunxue Fu
Exploring how one artist uses digital and new media art to play with our sense of reality and immersion, [...]
Scenographer, Architect and Artist: Rebecca van Beeck defies artistic labels
South African artist Rebecca van Beeck talks with our Editor about her migration online during lockdown and her participation [...]
‘Existence as Protest’: The Necessity of Osinachi’s Character Explorations
Prince Jacon Osinachi Igwe, known as Osinachi, is a Nigerian born artist who explores cultural, sexual and racial identity [...]
Cinopticon (2020) – Giselle Stanborough
Conceptual artist, Giselle Stanborough considers the boundary between the public and private spheres in the context of online life. [...]
Four Diverse Female Artists Redefining The Digital Art Scene
Four women artists to watch using Digital Art in various disciplines. Sophia Harris | Ed Francesca Gransden | 27 [...]
What is digital art and why does it matter?
What about digital art makes it “art”, and what makes it a worthy component of the 21st art landscape? [...]
Procreate and be a mother … – Helen Benigson and Paola Lucente
What does it mean to become a mother in the 21st Century? Alexandra Busila | Ed YoungMi Lamine [...]
The New Media Sculpture and Performance of Colette Bernard
Looking at how technology is enhancing pre-existing artistic practises. Elspeth Walker | Ed Francesca Gransden | 10 July 2020 [...]
Hans Op de Beeck and the Exploration of Time and Space
Visual artist Hans Op de Beeck is somewhat of a master of all mediums, but it’s with his digitally-led [...]
Speaking through screens, the spatial imagination of Sondra Perry
Technology is the chosen vocabulary of artist Sondra Perry, whose body of works form an unapologetic discourse on race, [...]
Blue Prints (2020) – Cao Fei
Explore Cao Fei’s physical and virtual worlds as Blueprints re-opens at Serpentine Gallery Robert Perry | Ed Francesca Gransden | [...]
How architecture enhances digital experiences?
Over the past few months, nostalgia has been omnipresent in our hyperconnected memory culture. Alexandra Busila | Ed [...]
How Digital Art subverts the gender imbalance in the arts
Women Artists Teaching Machines How To Dream ... Alexandra Busila | Ed Clare Deal | 14 June 2020 [...]
NIRIN: 22nd Biennale of Sydney (2020) – Lisa Reihana
Drawing attention to often sidelined and disenfranchised art and creators, Sydney’s 22nd Biennale curated by indigenous artist, Brook Andrew, [...]
It’s Not Easy Being Green: Maria Mahfooz’s first solo exhibition delves into the digital and green screen.
It’s Not Easy Being Green, sang Kermit the Frog. Elspeth Walker | Ed: Clare Deal | 5 June [...]
Any Means Necessary: The Interdisciplinary World of Jamilah Sabur
Journeying home in the works of Jamilah Sabur Lauren Gee | Ed Clare Deal | 29 May 2020 [...]
Ellen Pau: video art pioneer and self-taught woman artist
Get to know Hong Kong-born, media artist Ellen Pau and her unique journey to becoming one of the world’s [...]
Art is Still Here: A Hypothetical Show for a Closed Museum (2020) – Lu Yang
M WOODS gallery in Shanghai has released an incongruous online group show. Elizabeth Harris | Ed Francesca Gransden [...]
Tara Marynowsky, Coming Attractions at The National: New Australian Art 2019
Films such as Pretty Woman, watched and re-watched over time, can become like familiar friends. Elizabeth Harris | [...]
Opera Calling (2007) – !Mediengruppe Bitnik
What do you think about this playful performance? YoungMi Lamine | 28 April 2020 [...]
Refik Anadol is the Houdini of data art
Refik Anadol's algorithmic art is a merging of man and machine. Robert Perry | Ed Francesca Gransden | [...]
Companionship in the Age of Loneliness (2020) – KAWS
What a perfect title in Covid19 times ... Elizabeth Harris | Ed: Francesca Gransden | 4 April 2020 [...]
Quarantine Chat!
Talk on the phone with someone else stuck at home. YoungMi Lamine | 12 March 2020 [...]
Terminus (2020) – Jess Johnson and Simon Ward
Choose your own adventure or fated quest? Jess Johnson and Simon Ward’s cybernetic world captures the unease of reality. [...]