Category: digital art
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From Dada to Data: What Contemporary Generative Design Can Learn
At first glance, the experimental collages of Dada and today’s generative design systems seem to share a common logic: fragmentation, recombination, and the use of existing material. Yet their cultural intentions could hardly be more different. While artists such as Raoul Hausmann, Hannah Höch, and Kurt Schwitters used disruption and contradiction to challenge established systems…
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The Loss of Distance: Real-Time Systems, Perception, and the Digital Present
Contemporary digital systems increasingly eliminate temporal, spatial, and cognitive distance. Drawing on Paul Virilio and Vilém Flusser, this essay examines how real-time interfaces, AI, and platform logics transform perception into an operational process of immediacy, prediction, and behavioral stabilization. In contrast to media artists of the 1960s and 70s who used technology to expose interruption,…
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Vilém Flusser, Technical Images, and the Aesthetics of Coded Systems
Contemporary digital design increasingly operates through systems, interfaces, and algorithmic processes rather than fixed visual objects. Revisiting Vilém Flusser’s theory of technical images, this essay examines how contemporary practices by artists and studios such as Defasten, Refik Anadol, Ryoji Ikeda, and Casey Reas reveal a profound cultural shift: from images as representations to images as…
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Six N. Five’s Le Monde Des Images
Directed by Ezequiel Pini, the soul of Six N. Five is bridging design together with art in a distinctive fashion. Since being founded in 2014, the design studio has been transforming perceptions of what digital design can be through their minimal, surreal, and tranquil creations. From their professional work for the likes of Samsung to…
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Pour la culture avec Murmure!
Based in Caen and Paris, Murmure is a French creative communication agency specializing in the strong visual identity. The agency is directed by two artistic directors (Julien Alirol and Paul Ressencourt) and aspires to produce and develop singular creative and aesthetic projects adapted to its clients’ desires. Murmure is a multiple faceted platform able to…