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Inspiration, Stories, Writings

Su Noema la prima parte del mio saggio su Eduardo Kac / On Noema the first part of my essay on Eduardo Kac

Italiano [English below]   Su Noema figura la prima parte del saggio che ho scritto su Eduardo Kac “The Deep Meaning of Poetry. Eduardo Kac’s Art of the Fundamental Processes”, pubblicato, insieme a un’intervista all’artista, nel volume A. Sgamellotti, B. G. Brunetti, C. Miliani (eds.), Science and Art. The Contemporary…

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Inspiration, Meetings, Travel, Writings

“The Evolving Human Inheritance. From Symbols to Life”: il testo della mia conferenza pubblicato in un libro / the text of my lecture published in a book

Italiano [English below]   Alla fine di Novembre 2015 sono stato invitato a Mosca, al National Center for Contemporary Arts, per partecipare al simposio “Limits of the Human: Human, Inhuman, Overhuman, Antihuman”, curato da Dmitry Bulatov e Madina Tlostanova, che ha visto intervenire, oltre ai curatori, Richard Doyle, Victor Vakhshtain, Jens Hauser,…

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Stories, Teaching, Writings

Dialogismi e biopoetiche

[ITA] È uscito da poco per i tipi di CLUEB, nella collana <mediaversi> coprodotta da Noema, il volume di Eduardo Kac, Telepresenza e Bioarte. Interconnessioni in rete tra conigli, umani e robot, l’edizione italiana di quello che può essere considerato il suo libro più celebre, Telepresence & Bioart. Ho avuto il piacere di…

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Writings

Bio-Arts. Les arts de l’essence de la vie

[ITA] Ho partecipato, con il testo “Bio-Arts. Les arts de l’essence de la vie”, al dossier tematico “Arts&Sciences” del magazine mcd – Magazine des Cultures Digitales, n. 81, Marzo / Aprile / Maggio 2016, numero realizzato grazie al sostegno del ministero della Cultura e della Comunicazione francese, invitato dalla curatrice Annick Bureaud. [FRA] J’ai participé avec…

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Meetings

The evolving human inheritance. From symbols to life

On November 27-28, 2015, at the National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA) in Moscow I participated, with a presentation entitled “The evolving human inheritance. From symbols to life”, to the symposium “Limits of the Human: Human, Inhuman, Overhuman, Antihuman”, curated by Dmitry Bulatov and Madina Tlostanova (here the brochure). The symposium was…

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NeoLife SLSA 2015 Conference, UWA, Perth – New Evolving Lifeforms. The Third Life

[ITA] All’inizio di Ottobre ho presentato il paper “New Evolving Lifeforms. The Third Life” a “NeoLife SLSA 2015” (1-3 October 2015), Conferenza Internazionale a cura di Oron Catts e Symbiotica, che si è tenuta nel bellissimo Crawley campus dell’Università dell’Australia Occidentale (UWA) a Perth e che ha visto un’ampia partecipazione internazionale. [ENG] Early October…

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Writings

Evolution Haute Couture: Art and Science in the Post-Biological Age

It has just been published, both in Russian and English, the book edited and curated by Dmitry Bulatov Evolution Haute Couture: Art and Science in the Post-Biological Age. Part 2: Theory, Kaliningrad, BB NCCA, 2013. The volume, that contains an essay of mine, is a wide attempt to represent the contemporary theoretical panorama about the influence that the “new sciences”…

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Art, Science and the Technological Unconscious

I have been invited to give a lecture at “Kibla 2012, Soft Control: Art, Science and the Technological Unconscious“, an exhibition and a symposium curated by Dmitry Bulatov that will take place in next November in Maribor, Slovenia, European Capital of Culture 2012. As the website states, “the exhibition showcases…

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The Technological Herbarium (German edition)

I’m proud to announce that Gianna Maria Gatti’s book L’Erbario Tecnologico (Bologna, Clueb, 2005) has been translated into German (Das Technologische Herbarium, Berlin, Avinus Press, 2012), after being translated into English (The Technological Herbarium, Berlin, Avinus Press, 2010). Gianna Maria was one of my best alumni and I was the…

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Ars Electronica 2011 – Origin

This year’s Ars Electronica events took place again in its historical place, the Brucknerhaus, while the last year they were at the Tabakfabrik. “How does innovation come about? The 2011 Ars Electronica Festival  – ORIGIN – How It All Begins – delves into this elementary question, scrutinizing both science and…

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SEAFair 2010 – The Apparatus of Life & Death

I was invited to deliver a lecture at the International Conference SEAFair (Skopje Electronic Arts Fair) 2010 – “The Apparatus of Life & Death”, October 4-20, Skopje, organized by the Visual and Cultural Research Center at the Institute for Social sciences and Humanities of the Euro-Balkan Institute and curated by…

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Transbiotics 2010

Roberta Buiani attended in Riga two joint events: “Textures,” the sixth European meeting of the society for literature, science and the arts, as well as Art + Communication, the 12th International Festival of New Media Culture Riga, June 15 – 20. The events  culminated in the major exhibition “Transbiotics. Temporal…

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