Art
Humanities Studies
DesireThrough the prism of imagination
The curator of the 59th Venice Biennale discusses the impressive conversion of the time-honored event into an overarching transhistorical show. By forging new links between past and present, it addresses contemporary issues and reflects our dreams, desires, and visions
by Eleonora Raspi
Relations & Society
IntelligenceLike drops on the screen
Maria Mavropoulou has captured a series of overlaps: vibrant colors from screens in the background, organic fluids like saliva, and tears in the foreground
Relations & Society
DesireAs wise as the body
Martina Matencio’s work is an intimate celebration of love, desire, and touch — where nostalgia and melancholy coexist among a light and emotive atmosphere
Relations & Society
IdentityThe eyes beyond the lens
Witnessing a war can be a horrific experience, but it can be soberingly teaching. For who is on the field, and for the lucky ones to relive those stories through their images
by Matteo Scanni
Relations & Society
IdentityMe vs Others
A photographic experiment that explores the curation of one’s “self” image
by Laurence Philomene
Relations & Society
IdentityYou I Everything Else
The chronicle of a correspondence, articulating post-digital romance as an ecstasy of communication
by Linn Phyllis Seeger
Humanities Studies
IdentityThe view through sound
Music has been everywhere since the dawn of time, but not everyone listens to it. Yet, it has shaped us for the longest time in many ways
by Edoardo Maggio
Humanities Studies
EvolutionThe alchemy of biofiction
Artist Anicka Yi takes us through her exploration—a realm with olfaction, microbial and artificial intelligence as its primary ingredients.
by Eleonora Raspi
Humanities Studies
DoubtCan cyber art show the unseen inside us?
The artworks by Heather Dewey-Hagborg often lack legal precedent, because the use of personal data in the age of surveillance does too
by Eleonora Raspi
Humanities Studies
FailureTop of the flops
The Museum of Failure, a collection of commercial mistakes.
by MAIZE
Humanities Studies
FailureBig in Japan
The disastrously epic story of Anvil
by Andrea Dusio
Humanities Studies
FailureThe vanquished who wrote history
Celebrating the beauty of catastrophe through poetic lyrics.
by Alessandro Portelli
Humanities Studies
UtopiaPaolo Cirio
Investigating social fields impacted by the internet, through art, as technology changes how we perceive the world.
by Eleonora Raspi
Humanities Studies
UtopiaA road to paradise
From an avant-garde noise album to a non-school, eight ideas to think beyond the limits of our realities.
by MAIZE
Humanities Studies
AnthropoceneThe aesthetics of catastrophe
Reshaping what we depict, and how, through the Anthropocene.
by Mauro Ceolin
Humanities Studies
Collective empathy and vibrations
Jeffrey Ernstoff, creative director at TWIN Global, explains how improvisation separates us from other species.
by Jeffrey Ernstoff
Humanities Studies
Inside a vulnerable network
An artist, hacktivist, and theorist explores an interconnected network, which exists not only in cyberspace, but also among humans.
by Paolo Cirio
Humanities Studies
What grounds us?
An art historian and poet invites us to reflect on how our perceptions challenge our reality as we hold on to what grounds us.
by Sonia Coman