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Conjuring artifice and dark humour in the face of extraction, financial fantasies, and the illusions of techno-solutionism, abandon all hope ye who enter here explores the limits of refusal in a computationally ordered and altered world. Bringing together nine artists and collectives, the works in the exhibition materialise the strange realities and cruel attachments that…

28-29 January, Symposium What possibilities can refusal open up? What limitations does it impose? As crises across economic and environmental spheres produce contradictions and gaps, what role might refusal play in negotiating and opening up new values of calculation and computation? Reflecting on the frictions that emerge between practices of refusal, This is Not Anarchy,…

Palermo, a city with a history dating back to at least the Phoenicians, has adapted to conquerors, colonisers and waves of migration. Four hundred years ago, the Muslim call to prayer, the Adhan, was called by the main mosques of the city alongside the sound of church bells. For the audio installation Emerald City, in…

Future Ages Will Wonder presents an “alternative museum” of artworks that use science and technology to question our past and offer new ways of understanding who we are and where we belong. The artworks on display bring together traditional mediums such as textiles, sculpture, and photography with virtual reality, computer algorithms and synthetic DNA to…

THE MINT, in collaboration with Artsformation, is organising a workshop in Palermo with a heterogeneous groups of artists, market sellers, activists, writers, filmmakers, professors and artisans to experiment on how art, technology, shared knowledges and political imaginary can offer tools for conviviality and exchange across the Mediterranean, in particular between Sicily and Tunisia. With the…

Last week we celebrated our Transformer Summit, in cooperation with FACT Liverpool, Transmediale Berlin and Waag Amsterdam, who collaboratively curated a series of conversations, discussions and workshops that look at arts-based practices that deal with the societal challenges of digital transformation. As part of the Summit, FACT launched Framework for Trust, a collection of resources…

FACT Liverpool, Transmediale Berlin and Waag Amsterdam are collaboratively launching the Transformer Summit after the Summer. The Summit will take place online, in Liverpool and Amsterdam next 23-26 September, as a series of conversations, discussions and workshops that look at arts-based practices that deal with the societal challenges of digital transformation. REGISTER HERE DOWNLOAD THE…

In cooperation with our partners from CATCH, we would like to invite you to our summer camp in August. The camp is a co-creation event, where we invite artists, art educators, museums, educational and cultural institutions, designers, tech professionals, researchers and practitioners to take part in building a new school of aesthetics and technology. WHY…

Six months after launching Artsformation, our team of researchers are publishing this week two new publications that offer an overview of the existing socially engaged Arts in Europe and one about the integration of the arts within the enterprise. Mapping the Socially Engaged Arts in Europe The artworks included in this indexing are illustrative of…

In 2011, Arty Farty launched the European Lab project with the support of the European Union. The ambition of this new platform is to bring together, at the European level, a new generation of emerging and innovative cultural actors, around a shared reflection on and commitment to the future of culture. 10 years during which…