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  • Our board member Fiona McDermott, curator at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia

    Our board member Fiona McDermott, curator at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia

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    Our everyday lives are becoming increasingly entangled with data technologies. The Irish Pavilion addresses the utopian fantasy of the Cloud, as a romantic metaphor: The cloud is material. By foregrounding the physicality of data infrastructure and its impact on the environment the pavilion hopes to both reframe how we understand data production and its impact…

  • Launching a new collaboration: ✨ SET

    Launching a new collaboration: ✨ SET

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    SET is a new collaboration between Catch – Center For Art, Design And Technology and Art+Tech Lab. SET is founded for social and ecological integration. We want to overcome the digital gorge and challenge the dominant commercial narrative of technology by exploring and reconsider new technologies for our society through aesthetic methods and theory. *…

  • Framework for Resilience now on Podcast

    Framework for Resilience now on Podcast

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    In the past weeks the Artsformation Consortium has been progressing its work on research, public discussions, and preparing for our upcoming workshops. In case you missed something, here is what we’ve been up to: Online Conversations: Framework for Resilience now on Podcast Our partners from FACT UK have launched on podcast format the 3-part series of talks in…

  • Science Fiction Workshops: Registrations open for the third session “The Future Composer”

    Science Fiction Workshops: Registrations open for the third session “The Future Composer”

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    Artsformation launched last month in cooperation with CATCH, the first online series of workshops on the topic of science fiction. The third session of the series, entitled The Future Composer, is now open for registrations. The Future Composer In the science fiction story Outsider by An Owomoyela, we meet historic researcher “Mota” and the artificial…

  • Launching “Artsformation meets…” our new talk show for IGTV

    Launching “Artsformation meets…” our new talk show for IGTV

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    Next week with Artsformation we will launch a new talk show for Instagram TV. The new show is a remotely-shot interview video series where the Artsformation’s host will engage in timely and intimate discussions with today’s foremost art and tech makers. What is the role of arts in digital transformation? What are some of the methods employed…

  • Science Fiction Workshops: Registrations open for the second session “When Things Speak: Giving Voice to Objects”

    Science Fiction Workshops: Registrations open for the second session “When Things Speak: Giving Voice to Objects”

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    ***WORKSHOP REGISTRATIONS ARE CLOSED*** Artsformation launched this month in cooperation with CATCH, the first online series of workshops on the topic of science fiction. The second session When Things Speak: Giving Voice to Objects is now open for registrations. When Things Speak: Giving Voice to Objects Ryo Hanmura’s short story Cardboard Box is told from the…

  • Science Fiction Workshops: Registrations  open for the first Hackathon!

    Science Fiction Workshops: Registrations open for the first Hackathon!

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    Artsformation is happy to launch the first online series of workshops on the topic of science fiction, including one Hackathon. Artsformation will organize in total five science fiction workshops. The first three sessions, including the first Hackathon, are organised in collaboration with Catch, a practice-based and open-door approach to learning, offering year-round workshops, institutional and…

  • Online Conversations: Framework for Resilience

    Online Conversations: Framework for Resilience

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    Our partners from FACT UK are launching a 3-part series of talks in collaboration with Artsformation, bringing together artists, researchers, educators and activists to discuss the future of our planet. Framework for Resilience is a three-part series of online conversations which bring together activists, artists, researchers and educators to think about the world we are…

  • Transmediale opens this month in Berlin under the theme “for refusal”

    Transmediale opens this month in Berlin under the theme “for refusal”

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    With an exhibition across two venues in Berlin, and an extended film programme at transmediale studio, the year-long festival begins on 23 January 2021. Challenging systems of control and exerting new socio-political pressures, the first part of the programme brings together a collection of artistic positions that offer possibilities and hope through tactics for refusal.…

  • Time to heal: the pharmacological effects of the arts

    Time to heal: the pharmacological effects of the arts

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    Arts-based therapies in the form of arts therapy, bibliotherapy and creative writing have long been recognised by medical professionals as providing beneficial healing effects. Like much of the digital transformation we are currently experiencing, not everyone benefits from working remotely under Covid-19 restrictions. For anyone yet to establish a foothold in employment, those in traditional…