Studio Cratere

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STUDIO CRATERE Teleonomia website Instagram “[…] one of the fundamental properties characteristic of all living things, without exception: that of being objects endowed with a project, represented in their structures and at the same time realized through their performances […]” Jacques Monod, Chance and necessity Our eye acquired its shape in less than 100 million […]

David Cossini

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DAVID COSSINI Grande Bruto website Instagram ‘Grande Bruto’ is an intimate, poignant and fascinating project documenting my father Leo’s recent life events. It traces the events and relationships that unfolded for Leo during the turmoil of the past 2 years. Following a series of ill-fated events, a mental breakdown and fresh out of a psychiatric […]

Bruno Silva

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BRUNO SILVA Coimbra – B website Instagram “Coimbra, October 12, 1938 – A street in Coimbra at two in the morning makes you shiver. We are not sure if we are alive or if we are dead. Everything is covered with such an air of unreality, that the houses, the sky, the trees and two […]

Sijia Ma

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SIJIA MA A Hundred Stories   websiteInstagram “I must study politics and war that my child has sons have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, to give their child a right to study art, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, […]

Sara Scanderebech

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SARA SCANDEREBECH website instagram Everyday life and common objects are the pretext for telling a possible magical realism: I am interested in finding meanings and connections in everyday actions that refer to a symbolic reality. I am interested in investigating the intangible relationship between things, between people and between things and people; discovering the other […]

Elisa Moro

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ELISA MORO Existence Is Not an Individual Affair   websiteInstagram Following a posthumanist perspective that implies the dissolution of boundaries between entities, the body of work is connected by the same invisible thread of a progressive questioning of the idea of identity as something merely personal. Investigating concepts from familiar constellations, heritage of memories and […]

Sofia Crespo

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SOFIA CRESPO Neural Zoo   websiteInstagram Selected from GETXOPHOTO → info   The Argentinian artist Sofia Crespo uses neural networks (artificial intelligence algorithms) to explore hypothetical forms of a speculative nature.The synthetic images that make up Neural Zoo resemble certain animals and ecosystems. It is possible to recognise textures, colours and contours in them that human […]

Rosa Menkman & Ted Davis

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ROSA MENKMAN & TED DAVIS DCT Encryption Station website Instagram website instagram Selected from GETXOPHOTO  → info Rosa Menkman and Ted Davis have created a tool that allows you to hide messages between the pixels of photographs using the errors generated by the compression of a JPEG file. These artists investigate the processes of creating […]

Takashi Homma

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TAKASHI HOMMA Mushrooms for the Forest Instagram Selected from GETXOPHOTO → info   On March 11, 2011, a tsunami brought on by a severe earthquake caused a nuclear accident in Fukushima. More than 100,000 people had to leave their homes by order of the Japanese government, which also prohibited the collection and consumption of mushrooms in […]

Jake Elwes

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JAKE ELWES The Zizi Show website instagram Selected from GETXOPHOTO  → info The Zizi Show is an interactive drag cabaret that uses deepfake, an artificial intelligence technique that can generate synthetic images. The project explores the intersection between performance drag, queer identities and the ways in which artistic practices can demystify artificial intelligence. The show […]

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