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• Gorillaz Release Anti-Trump Video 'Hallelujah Money' on Inauguration Day digital

  On January 20, 2017, the virtual band Gorillaz broke a six-year silence since their album 'The Fall' by releasing the single 'Hallelujah Money' on the day of Donald Trump's…

• Project Marta: New Startup for Contemporary Art Conservation digital

  Project Marta – Monitoring Art Archive, a startup for contemporary art conservation, was founded in Turin and launched at Arte Fiera in Bologna on January 29. The initiative was…

• MANN Napoli launches world's first archaeological museum videogame digital

  The National Archaeological Museum of Naples (MANN) has announced Father and Son, the world's first videogame produced by an archaeological museum. The project was conceived by…

• Macro Roma Reopens Past Exhibition in VR for One Day digital

  On January 24, 2017, the Macro museum in Rome will host a one-day virtual reality reprise of the exhibition "Dall'oggi al domani. 24 ore nell'arte contemporanea," which physically…

• Detroit Institute of Arts first museum to adopt Google Tango AR digital

  The Detroit Institute of Arts has become the first museum worldwide to adopt Google Tango, an augmented reality technology for smartphones. The system overlays digital images onto…

• Gualtiero Marchesi's Art-Inspired Dishes on Sky Arte HD digital

  The series 'Piatti e cocktail d’arte' premieres Thursday, January 19 on Sky Arte HD, exploring dishes created by renowned chef Gualtiero Marchesi that were inspired by…

• Olafur Eliasson Launches 'Your Uncertain Archive' Digital Platform digital

  Olafur Eliasson (Copenhagen, 1967) has launched 'Your uncertain archive', an interactive digital platform developed over four years using WebGL and three.js 3D technologies. The…

• Louisiana Museum video features eight artists on water digital

  The Louisiana Museum of Copenhagen has produced a video in which eight contemporary artists explore the theme of water from diverse creative and philosophical perspectives.…

• Digital Art's Online Presence and Maurice Benayoun's Pioneering Works digital

  Despite the internet's potential to promote digital art, Italy's art system remains largely impermeable to digital media, with exceptions like festivals and the Strozzina center…

• Edward Hopper's Creative Process Revealed in Walker Art Center Video digital

  A video produced by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis in 2014, in conjunction with the exhibition 'Hopper Drawing: A Painter’s Process,' features Edward Hopper (1882-1967)…

• Sky Arte HD launches Artbox series with Francesco Bonami digital

  Sky Arte HD premieres Artbox, a new magazine series dedicated to Italian and international exhibitions, on Wednesday, January 11. The first episode, set in Paris, features guest…

• Eduflix Italia: la prima piattaforma streaming culturale italiana digital

  Eduflix Italia, la prima piattaforma di streaming italiana dedicata alla cultura, ha fatto il suo ingresso nel mercato a settembre 2017. Questa iniziativa, registrata da Digital E…

• Mat Collishaw's VR Project Recreates 1839 Photography Exhibition digital

  Mat Collishaw is crowdfunding on Kickstarter for 'Thresholds', a virtual reality installation that recreates the world's first photography exhibition from 1839. Visitors wear a…

• Milan's house museums launch chatbot game via Telegram and Facebook Messenger digital

  Four house museums in Milan—Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Museo Bagatti Valsecchi, Villa Necchi Campiglio, and Casa-Museo Boschi Di Stefano—are launching a digital adventure game…

• Alejandro Iñárritu's VR Project Funded by Fondazione Prada digital

  Fondazione Prada is financing a new experimental virtual reality short film by two-time Oscar-winning director Alejandro G. Iñárritu, following his 2016 film series 'Flesh, Mind…

• Montreux Jazz Heritage Lab 2: Immersive Installation at EPFL's ArtLab digital

  The Montreux Jazz Heritage Lab 2, a permanent immersive installation, has opened at the new Montreux Jazz Café within Kengo Kuma's ArtLab at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de…

• Poetry Apps Bring Verse to Mobile Devices digital

  Three iOS apps aim to make poetry creation accessible on smartphones. Portapoet.com offers a free app with in-app purchases for advanced features, including a rhyme dictionary,…

• Jonas Lund's Fair Warning Questions Art Valuation by Algorithm digital

  Jonas Lund's web-based artwork 'Fair Warning' critiques the application of big data analytics to art valuation. Commissioned by Whitechapel Gallery and Phillips, the piece…

• NONE collective's immersive cloud opens at Fiumicino Airport digital

  NONE collective, following their earlier work Universo Elegante at the 69th Cannes Film Festival, has created The Human Cloud, a large-scale immersive installation opening on…

• Virtual exhibition reconstructs Leonardo da Vinci's unrealized bronze horse monument digital

  A virtual exhibition on Europeana, the European digital library, reconstructs Leonardo da Vinci's unrealized bronze equestrian monument to Francesco Sforza (1401-1466). The…

• Sky Arte Documentary Explores Bellotto, Canaletto and Vedutismo digital

  A documentary on Bellotto, Canaletto, and the vedutismo movement will air Thursday, December 22 on Sky Arte HD. The film translates the spirit of the exhibition "Bellotto e…

• Maurizio Cattelan's gold toilet 'America' reviewed by luxury bathroom web series digital

  Maurizio Cattelan's 18-karat gold toilet 'America', installed at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in September 2016, is the subject of an episode of 'Golden Thrones', a web…

• Guido Segni's Bot Maps Sahara on Tumblr Over 50 Years digital

  Guido Segni's artwork "A Quiet Desert Failure" debuted at the latest edition of The Wrong, a digital art biennial. The piece consists of a bot that scrapes images of the Sahara…

• Jack Sachs animates Tate Britain with giant heads and flying pencils digital

  Illustrator and animator Jack Sachs created SHHH!, a short video featuring surreal animated elements like a giant suspended head, a flying pencil, a cascade of cabbages, and a…

• Louisiana Museum video: six artists on family and art digital

  The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Copenhagen has released a video on its YouTube channel featuring six artists discussing how their relationships with their parents influenced…

• Three augmented reality apps for art and culture digital

  Three augmented reality apps are transforming how audiences engage with art and culture. ArtBeamer targets galleries, allowing collectors to visualize artworks in their own homes…

• The Last Guardian: Fumito Ueda's Poetic Video Game Launches on PS4 digital

  After over a decade of development, the video game The Last Guardian has finally been released for PlayStation 4. Created by Japanese designer Fumito Ueda, known for Ico and…

• Lil Buck dances through Matisse and Picasso at Fondation Louis Vuitton digital

  American dancer Lil Buck and British director Andrew Margetson have created a video in which Buck performs a graceful dance through the galleries of the Fondation Louis Vuitton in…

• Montesanto Foodwalk: augmented reality app explores Naples' gastronomic traditions digital

  Montesanto Foodwalk, an augmented reality soundwalk app, launches on December 18, 2016, focusing on the gastronomic traditions of Naples' Montesanto district. The app uses…

• Diffusion Choir: kinetic sculpture mimics bird flocking with custom software digital

  Diffusion Choir, a kinetic sculpture commissioned by Biomed Realty for the atrium of its Cambridge, Massachusetts headquarters, mimics the flight of bird flocks through 400 paper…

• Modus Operandi: New Online Platform Explores Artistic Process digital

  Modus Operandi is a new online platform launched by curators Matilde Scaramellini and Elena Vaninetti to document and analyze the creative process behind artworks. Using photos,…

• Dream Online Art Fair Launches During Miami Art Week digital

  During Miami Art Week, a new digital art fair named Dream has been introduced, coinciding with Art Basel Miami Beach. This fully virtual event will be accessible until December 4.…

• Unsatisfying: Animated Short on Life's Minor Annoyances Goes Viral digital

  The French studio Parallel created an animated short titled 'Unsatisfying' last summer, depicting everyday frustrations like a can stuck in a vending machine, a golf ball missing…

• Collective Reality: VR Installation at Faena Art Dome for Miami Art Week digital

  Elena Soboleva, curator of special projects at Artsy, has organized a virtual reality installation titled Collective Reality for Miami Art Week. The event will take place on…

• The Expats on Air: Documentaries on Afro-Italian Creative Migrants digital

  Johanne Affricot, founder of GRIOTmag, launches a web documentary series titled The Expats on Air, starting November 21 on the series website and GRIOT Italia's Facebook page. The…

• Sky Arte usa la psicanalisi per interpretare van Gogh digital

  Il 24 novembre Sky Arte HD trasmette una serata dedicata a Vincent van Gogh, inaugurando la serie "L'inconscio dell'opera" con Massimo Recalcati. Il ciclo di sei episodi analizza…

• Roberto D'Agostino returns with new season of 'Dago In The Sky' on Sky Arte digital

  Roberto D'Agostino returns to Sky Arte with seven new episodes of 'Dago In The Sky', completing the first cycle of the series. The show, which aired three episodes last spring,…

• Video Data Bank Chicago opens archive for 40th anniversary with VDB TV streaming series digital

  In 1976, the Video Data Bank was established and is now overseen by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. To commemorate its 40th anniversary, it has introduced VDB TV, a…

• Museomix debuts in four Italian museums for first time digital

  Museomix, a three-day hackathon-style event for museums, arrives in Italy for the first time, taking place simultaneously at four Italian museums and 13 other locations worldwide…

• Marshmallow Laser Feast's VR Forest Experience from Animal Perspectives digital

  Marshmallow Laser Feast, a collective, created 'In the Eyes of the Animal', a virtual reality installation set in Grizedale Forest, UK. The VR headset, designed as a moss-covered…