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II Endless Variations
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II Another Perspective
II The Fusion of Possibilities
II Persistence & Exploration
II Image 3.0
II BioMedia
II 59th Venice Biennale
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II Ars Electronica 2021
II Art & NFT
II Metamorphosis
II A Particular Year
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II From Combinatorics to the Work
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II Sound Art @ ZKM, MAC & 104
II Ars Electronica 2012
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II International Digital Arts Biennial
II ZKM, Transmediale, Ikeda & Bartholl
II The Gaîté Lyrique — A Year Already
II TodaysArt, Almost Cinema & STRP
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II 54th Venice Biennale
II Elektra, Montreal, 2011
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II Transmediale, Berlin, 2011
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II Ars Electronica Repairs the World
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Los Restos
61ST VENICE BIENNALE
The soothing intentions of the Swiss-Cameroonian curator Koyo Kouoh for the 61st Venice Biennale, who passed away last year, were carried forward by her team until the opening, which was disrupted by the international geopolitical context. The jury resigned before the inauguration, traditional golden lion awards were postponed, and a public prize was created.
Oriol Vilanova, Los restos, 2026.
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Hard Times – Soft Sounds
OSOSPHÈRE
Born from the electronic nights initiated in the late 1990s in Strasbourg's station district, the Ososphère festival brings together some fifty creations this year. At the inaugural speech at La Laiterie, artistic director Thierry Daney outlined the 2026 edition's goal: to invite us to "converse with the future."
Moritz Simon Geist, Hard Times – Soft Sounds, 2021-2025.
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Study after Man Ray
PARIS PHOTO
For its third consecutive edition, the Paris Photo fair devotes a sector to the digital in photography and more broadly in art. Once again, Nina Roehrs curates the section, coordinating the proposals of the thirteen participating galleries.
Brodbeck & de Barbuat, Study after Man Ray, Black and White, 1926-2022.
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La Quatrième Mémoire
ART, TECHNOLOGY AND AI
Three exhibitions simultaneously consecrate the use of technologies — including digital and AI — in art within French museum institutions: two at the Musée d'Art Contemporain de Lyon and one at the Jeu de Paume in Paris.
Grégory Chatonsky, La Quatrième Mémoire, 2025.
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Infinity Mirrored Room
IMMERSIVE ART
Immersive art is a trend that describes the audience's situation rather than the nature of the artwork itself. It interests institutions such as the Guggenheim in Bilbao or MoMA in New York as well as dedicated centres like Superblue Miami.
Yayoi Kusama, Infinity Mirrored Room - Let's survive forever, 2017.
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Speculum
CHRONIQUES BIENNIAL
The fourth Chroniques Biennial of Digital Imaginaries unfolds across various venues in Marseille, Aix-en-Provence and Avignon, gathering numerous works around this year's theme of pleasure.
Smack, Speculum, 2019.
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Organism & Excitable Chaos
7TH ELEKTRA BIENNIAL
The 7th Elektra International Digital Art Biennial in Montreal revolves around Arsenal Art contemporain, where curator Alain Thibault has brought together the works of some thirty artists around the theme of Illusion.
Navid Navab, Organism & Excitable Chaos, 2024, with Garnet Willis.
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Light of Nations
60TH VENICE BIENNALE
Under the general curatorship of Adriano Pedrosa, the 60th Venice Biennale is more political than ever. From the Giardini pavilions to the Venetian palaces, one discovers forms as contemporary as the causes they champion.
Yael Bartana, Light of Nations, 2023.
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The Prophets
ENDLESS VARIATIONS
The world accelerates to the rhythm of successive industrial revolutions producing as many societal and aesthetic mutations. It was in the 19th century that painting a subject as a series became widespread, the better to grasp all its facets. In the era of the unbridled use of AI algorithms…
Nicolas Sassoon, The Prophets, 2019.
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360° Illusion IV
MULTITUDE & SINGULARITY
Two notions gained traction at the turn of the millennium: that of the multitude that beings form in networks; and that of the technological singularity, which holds that machines will one day surpass human beings. These notions of multitude and singularity apply as much to beings as to technologies.
Jeppe Hein, 360° Illusion IV, 2008.
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Image objects
ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE
With the successive arrival of personal computers and the Internet, artists began deconstructing representation systems, continuing what Cubist and abstract painters of the early last century had initiated. But haven't we all been affected by this change of perspective?
Artie Vierkant, Image objects Friday 7 june 2013 4.23pm, 2013.
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Double Negative
THE FUSION OF POSSIBILITIES
Yesterday's possibilities are today's realities that we continually fuse to improve further. Over the past sixty years, many artists with a strong appetite for the technologies of their time have anticipated our environments and uses with their creations.
Michele Spanghero, Double Negative, 2020.
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Mondes Persistants & Pratiques Exploratoires
PERSISTENCE & EXPLORATION
This year, the art [ ] collector prize, founded by Evelyne and Jacques Deret, was awarded to Thibault Brunet, leading to an exhibition entitled Mondes persistants & Pratiques exploratoires at 24 Beaubourg.
Mondes Persistants & Pratiques Exploratoires, 24Beaubourg, 2022.
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La Cybernétique, le vivant et la ville
IMAGE 3.0
The IMAGE 3.0 exhibition at the Cellier de Reims, curated by Quentin Bajac and Pascal Beausse, resulted from a photographic commission jointly issued by the Centre national des arts plastiques and the Jeu de Paume. The practices gathered question representation and the gaze in the digital era.
Donatien Auber, La Cybernétique, le vivant et la ville, 2021.
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CUSP
BIOMEDIA
The imposing BioMedia exhibition at the ZKM in Karlsruhe, directed by Peter Weibel, questions "life-like media." The installations of some fifteen artists shown in Germany are also presented at the Centre des Arts d'Enghien-les-Bains.
Jake Elwes, CUSP, 2019.
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Disco Beast
ARS ELECTRONICA 2017
Ars Electronica is one of the most inspiring festivals around. And if one returns year after year to Linz in Austria, it is precisely to identify the trends of the moment — those that emerge from the uses and diversions of the techniques and technologies of our time by artists with innovative practices.
Jonathan Monaghan, "Disco Beast", 2016.
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57th Venice Biennale
57TH VENICE BIENNALE
The 57th Venice Biennale is open until next November. With, this year, a French chief curator, Christine Macel, and Golden Lions for Anne Imhof at the German Pavilion in the Giardini and Franz Erhard Walther at the Corderie dell'Arsenale.
Julien Prévieux, "What Shall We Do Next? (Sequence #2)", 2014.
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Oil
ARS ELECTRONICA 2015
The Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria, has focused since 1979 on the relationship between arts and technologies. For this 2015 edition, many researchers imagined together the habitat of tomorrow, while artists presented works rooted in contemporary societies.
::Vtol::, "Oil", 2014.
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Révolutions
THE 56TH VENICE BIENNALE
The President of the Venice Biennale Paolo Baratta called on Okwui Enwezor to orchestrate the 2015 edition with an exhibition addressing "All the World's Futures." 89 countries are represented through their national pavilions.
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, "Révolutions", 2015, Courtesy Xippas Gallery, Source Laurent Lecat.
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Walking City
ARS ELECTRONICA 2014
The artistic directors of the Ars Electronica festival Christine Schöpf and Gerfried Stocker opted this year for change, both in terms of how they invested the city of Linz and in their choice of theme. Considering art as a catalyst, they once again invite us to reconsider the world the better to envision its future.
Universal Everything, "Walking City", 2014.
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Sirens
INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL ARTS BIENNIAL
The first International Digital Arts Biennial began in April 2012 in various locations around Montreal including the Museum of Fine Arts, the Contemporary Art Museum, the DHC and the SAT. Alain Thibault, its founder, is also the artistic director of the Elektra Festival and the instigator of the International Digital Art Market.
Ryoichi Kurokawa & Novi_Sad, "Sirens", 2012.
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db
ZKM, TRANSMEDIALE, IKEDA AND BARTHOLL
At ZKM in Karlsruhe, the exhibition "The Global Contemporary" recently analysed the effects of globalisation on the world of art while the Transmediale Festival in Berlin celebrated its twenty-fifth year. Not to forget Aram Bartholl at the Dam Gallery and Ryoji Ikeda at the Hamburger Bahnhof.
Ryoji Ikeda, "db", 2012, source Uwe Walter, courtesy Freunde Guter Musik Berlin.
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Apostasis
THE GAÎTÉ LYRIQUE — A YEAR ALREADY
We dreamed of it and then waited for it to happen until finally, it opened its doors, as proud in its past history as it was in its renovation. The Gaîté Lyrique is now a year old. And yet, it now seems like it was always there, right in the centre of Paris, "exploring digital cultures in all their forms."
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, "Apostasis", 2008, source Maxime Dufour.
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Piano Migrations
TODAYSART, ALMOST CINEMA AND STRP
This year, the TodaysArt of The Hague and Cimatics of Brussels festivals fused and so last September, TodaysArt Brussels set itself up in several places around the city. The Almost Cinema and STRP festivals on the other hand remained in their regular spots: the Vooruit Theatre in Ghent and the Eindhoven Strijp quarter.
Kathy Hinde, "Piano Migrations", 2008-2010.
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May the Horse Live in Me
THE ARS ELECTRONICA FESTIVAL IN LINZ
The oldest of digital festivals has returned to its preferred sites at the Ars Electronica Center, the Brucknerhaus, the Lentos and OK Centrum after a very brief turn at the Tabakfabrik. Meanwhile, the symposium for this 2011 edition, entitled Origin, was organised in collaboration with the CERN.
Art Orienté Objet, "May the Horse Live in Me", 2011, Source Miha Fras.
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Chance
54TH VENICE BIENNALE
Going to the Venice Biennale implicitly means accepting that you will miss artworks, as there are so many national exhibitions and collateral events. So one must make choices, without omitting the Arsenal and the ILLUMInazioni exhibition organised by Brice Curiger, the artistic director of this 54th edition.
Christian Boltanski, "Chance", 2011.
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EXP
ELEKTRA, MONTREAL, 2011
The last edition of Elektra was mainly focused on the visualisation of sound through performances given in Usine C. A few partner exhibition spaces, like the Darling Foundry, are associated with this Montreal event. Alain Thibault, the festival's artistic director, is also the initiator of the International Market for Digital Arts.
Frank Bretschneider, "EXP", 2009, Source Camil Scorteanu.
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Artificial Smile
PIXELACHE, HELSINKI, 2011
Juha Huuskonen founded Pixelache in Helsinki in 2002. Since then, a truly international network has emerged around it. The curator Mathieu Marguerin along with Kevin Bartoli have prepared the French version, Mal au Pixel, which takes place in Paris each June.
Andreas Schmelas & Stefan Stubbe, "Artificial Smile", 2009-2010.
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Face Visualizer
TRANSMEDIALE, BERLIN, 2011
The Transmediale Festival focuses on the role of digital technologies in our society, while Club Transmediale is devoted to "adventurous" music and related visual arts. This year, the Schering Foundation and the [DAM] Gallery were associated with these two events in Berlin.
Daito Manabe & Ei Wada, "Face Visualizer", 2008. Source Jonathan Gröger.
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Boreas
THE STRP FESTIVAL OF EINDHOVEN
The fourth edition of the STRP festival, devoted to bringing together music and artistic and technological practices, drew more than 30,000 visitors to its many concerts, performances, exhibitions, conferences and workshops in November 2010.
Lawrence Malstaf, "Boreas", 2007, Courtesy Fortlaan 17 Gallery.
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Chapter I : The Discovery
ARS ELECTRONICA REPAIRS THE WORLD
The most recent edition of the Ars Electronica Festival, dedicated to art, technology and society, mainly took place in a former tobacco processing plant in Linz. Theoreticians, researchers and artists from around the world met there to participate in a think-tank aimed at "repairing" what is still possible, starting with the environment.
Félix Luque Sánchez, "Chapter I : The Discovery", 2009.
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Design and development Dominique Moulon