A worldwide mapping of projects and exhibitions on the intersection of art, science, technology and society
Enter New Babylon
Enter New Babylon explores the possibilities and limitations of the future world. Through a theatrical production and with the help of VR and mixed reality, young 'spoken word' artists and designers delve into the mysteries of Constant Nieuwenhuys’ New Babylon.
{class} – On Consequences of Algorithmic Classification
What happens if you give insight into how algorithms sort? Can a transportation optimization algorithm teach us something about our connection to other human bodies? Can an image surveillance system give new insights on animal migration?
Our Impact on Ecosystems
In “Our Impact on Ecosystems”, the hybrid and poignant projects by Richard Mosse and Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg demonstrate how technological and artistic innovations can be intertwined.
Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power, 1500-2025
“Calculating Empires” is an exhibition conceived by Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler charting our technological present by depicting how power and technology have been intertwined since 1500.
XR Camp - Extended Worlds
Extended Reality (XR) undeniably impacts the world in which we live, but we need to ask ourselves how to take the helm and consider if and how we can shape it. How can we become active co-creators of the whole plethora of new realities unfolding before us?
Digitale Welten Festival
With a program of different workshops, digital artists will take you on a search for the political dimensions, technical functionality and social consequences of our analogue-digital world.
Art Tech Fun AI Robots eGirls Manifestations
During Dutch Design Week, Manifestations shows artists who, in a funny, spectacular or controversial way, examine the (mis)matches between people and technology and ask how technology can contribute to a sweeter, more humane world.
Octobre Numérique - LES INTELLIGENCES DES MONDES
As artificial intelligence promises to be a major phenomenon of our time, this festival offers the public the opportunity to understand how the various intelligences make up our world — human, artificial, animal, plant and planetary.
Imagine: A Journey Into the New Virtual
/imagine: ("imagine") is the command that allows users to design their own architectural utopias with the Midjourney software. Based on descriptive text, an AI generates images that can be infinitely varied.
Unleashed Utopias
Unleashed Utopias rattle the cages of societal norms and the purely profit-oriented usage of new technologies. Radical speculations open new perspectives onto our existence and our coexistence. Various virtual worlds serve to question the givens of the physical environment.
VR ART PRIZE 2023: VIRTUAL UTOPIAS
The notion of a better world is closely tied to utopia as a theme. The term literally describes a wonderful place that does not exist. It means that the design for an ideal society is a criticism of the current situation. Utopias are based on questions such as: What happens if we change a couple of rules? How can we live well together? Thus, utopias also inherently have great potential for societal change and visions for a better future.
Extension of Self: An Exchange of Human and Artificial Intelligence
"Extensions of Self" explores the possibility of ultimately finding a new approach to coping with the trauma of the current Anthropocene through an exchange with artificial intelligence, thus embarking on a path of healing.
Artificial Consciousness
“Artificial Consciousness Exposing the Invisible: Data, Rendering and Code” catalogs the extensive journey of artist and researcher HyungJun Park to expose the invisible phenomena emerging from interconnected experiences between humans, machines, and other non-human agents.
Exploring the Decentralized Web - Kunst auf der Blockchain
How do politics and the economic structures of cryptocurrencies influence each other? How do Blockchain and Web3 determine our online interactions and what impact do they have on economic systems and societies in general?
DARK MATTERS
The exhibition aims to explore the fundamental essence of life and the universe, and how so much of it remains a mystery to us.
Performance Surveillance
Performance Surveillance is an interactive augmented experience made to remind you that the infrastructures and networks made to control can be co-opted and used as a powerful tool to connect us.
La Forme de L'Eau
The artworks from the exhibition «La forme de l’eau» convert tangible memories into its most poetic elements, freezing an instant and making it infinite.
Metaverse Landscapes
Metaverse Landscapes connects discourses around metaverse property, NFT ownership and digital scarcity with histories of modernist abstraction and colonial painting as property claim tools.
Mixed Feelings
In a fast changing world, progression and regression go hand in hand. Where some of the artists in this exhibition explore the endless possibilities that new technologies bring, like AI and NFT, and celebrate those progressions, others are emphasizing the flipside of these developments.
Curator Machine
Curator Machine is a contemporary group exhibition presented in a snack machine
Ulrike Rosenbach. today is tomorrow- Works since 1969
To mark her 80th birthday, the ZKM | Karlsruhe is presenting a major exhibition on the work of media artist Ulrike Rosenbach.
Sweet Protocols
The exhibition Sweet Protocols presents four projects by artists of the younger generation, created in 2021 and 2022 within the framework of the U30+ programme of the Aksioma Institute for Contemporary Art.
Test Five
An exhibition refering to pathways of remembering, made of two installations.
Pitch, Slip
pitch, slip is an exhibition of new paintings by Oshawa-raised artist, Alex Close.
Life is more important than Art
Life Is More Important Than Art is a summer-long, multidisciplinary programme of exhibitions and events. It explores the intersection of art and everyday life and the role of the contemporary art institution at a time of uncertainty and change.
Alternate Realities
A range of works that are currently leading the field of experimental documentary making, and that speak to our theme this year of ReConnection exploring how both the digital and the physical can connect us.
Emily Wardill- Identical
Wardill’s new installation draws aesthetic inspiration from ‘expanded cinema’—a multimedia form developed by artists in the 1960s and 1970s—while also engaging with the imaginary of ‘expansion’ as it relates to individual consciousness, and to territorial economic growth and domination.
SPACE10 Gallery: Design in the Age of AI
Our new exhibition explores how generative AI can help us design better futures for people and the planet.
A SOFTWARE FOR FEELING
The show explores the themes that have been ongoing in her work for several years regarding the confluences between technology, culture, and nature; the inextricable interweaving of these active forces.
Sarah Rothberg | SUPERPROMPT
SUPERPROMPT, a solo exhibition by Sarah Rothberg, inquires about the impact of technology on shared discourse.