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Want to know how Gen Z in China cope with stress ? Check out this intriguing titbit from esteemed scientific Journal nature, picked up by the excellent Nigel Hilditch in this weeks CULTUR.ART “Online digital art exhibitions have thus emerged as a vital channel for this generation to express themselves, experience new things, and seek psychological solace in their everyday lives.” https://lnkd.in/eMaihDpx

An exploratory article examining an emerging, under-the-radar cultural movement that potentially represents a transformative shift in global artistic expression. The piece delves into how this trend challenges traditional art paradigms, blends cross-cultural influences, and might reshape creative landscapes worldwide.  #ArtTrends #GlobalCulture #CreativeInnovation #ArtisticEvolution #CulturalExchange #EmergingArt #CreativeFrontiers #ArtMovement #CulturalDisruption #GlobalArtscape

Behold the meagre imagination embarrassment in a televisual style at the enigmatic borderlands, unto itself softly scrolling a listless series of observational prose flattened into a wet pulp. An F-pattern blurred together in whitespace reflects the dispassionate user reciprocity over its unique architecture, mimicking the continuity of a cinematic montage, capturing interconnectedness, a rehabilitating one, eroded with no beginning or end. Intermezzo confessionalism is a system of voluntary disclosure to digitize footnotes that turned out to be written by different authors.  It's not so much a genre as a situation that mimics the feedback loops of social media. A voyeuristic curiosity that so much automatically displaces the bi-directional in a parasitic arrangement of the object of literary critique into a strange sense that something was missing, as performance over production turns an illusory appearance of a narcissist root into a tangled repository of independent units. Internet's immersive quality helps discover intrusive tendency and narrative convenience to be true, reenacting the alphabetic process of the paradigmatic engine over the ambiguity and fragmentation of the world and history, in a therapizing style to be gripped with both hands or in the purlieu of a computer screen.

Presenting a paper titled "Affective Attunement within Virtual Ecologies: Immersive Worlding as Posthuman Storytelling Practice" at the Politics of the Machines 2024 conference in Aachen today - reflecting on game engines as software infrastructures, worlding with reality media, speculative storytelling and alternative epistemologies 🫧 The paper sets out to explore emergent practices of ‘worlding’ with volumetric and reality media as posthuman storytelling projects that constitute modes of resistance to contemporary technological paradigms. Drawing on feminist technoscience and decolonial thought, this research calls into question the ideological relationship between narrative archetypes, volumetric assets and environmental design within the software infrastructures of game engine technologies. More at https://lnkd.in/eYz2aEBz

Art as a Reflection: Navigating Today's Global Challenges Art captures the essence of our shared experiences in tumultuous times. We explore how current market stagnation and global controversies shape artistic expression and societal reactions, emphasizing the interconnectedness of art and today's pressing issues. #ArtReflection #GlobalChallenges #MarketTrends #CulturalExpression #SocietalIssues #ContemporaryArt #ArtCommunity #WorldEvents #PoliticalArt #CreativeResponse

What does it mean to put theory into practice? Here at #XEC, the School of Cultural Technology offered students a chance to create and exhibit their projects at the Suzhou Bay #Digital #Art #Museum. Students can get a sense of the implementation of #artwork in real-world scenarios. Read more about student's artwork: https://bit.ly/3zg6aXf

At the nexus of art, culture and technology. Be in the know and join our mailing list at https://lnkd.in/gA3V2ZdG #art #culture #technology #web3 #digitalart #contemporaryart

🔎 "Our survival instinct, something we evolved to help us make sense of our surroundings, could very well lead us to mistakenly place too much trust in machines. If there is a single take away from 'Life in a Different Resolution', this is it." ICYMI: Aesthetica Magazine's review of our current exhibition illuminates the philosophies that run through 'Life in a Different Resolution' with RANDOM INTERNATIONAL, curated by Bogomir Doringer. Read more ↙️ https://lnkd.in/dyznjEJY

Today, I had the pleasure of representing the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art at a UK Research and Innovation conference, which brought together all the awarded projects within their pilot interdisciplinary initiative, designed to support emerging ideas that transcend, combine or significantly span disciplines. Back in the summer, RADA, along with our project partners UCL , University of Cambridge, and University of Portsmouth, and international partners in Italy, was awarded funding for an innovative project connecting the worlds of dramatic arts and natural hazard forecasting. (More details on the project below.) Today was a fantastic opportunity to connect with others from successful projects and to hear about the challenges and solutions in interdisciplinary work. It was clear that collaborating across teams, institutions, geographies, and cultures brings its own set of challenges. The discussions really underscored that success often comes down to a few key themes: aligning around a shared vision, avoiding silos, and actively learning from each other. I’m sure these are themes familiar to anyone aiming to collaborate and achieve success, whether it’s in a project, a business, or a broader mission. (If you have any advice or insights, I’d love to hear them!) Being involved in this project and seeing it funded is a particularly proud moment. It’s been the work of many conversations, meetings, and years of development. A huge thank you to everyone committed to making it a reality. This project is a testament to the exciting innovation that RADA is helping to forge. Now, it’s time for delivery, with our start date set for February 2025. I’ll be sure to keep you posted on our progress and (hopefully) success. Our Project Understanding volcanoes is challenging because we cannot see directly what happens underground. As a result, expert opinions during crises are often contradictory. Our project aims to apply techniques from participatory theatre to address these contradictions, using the restless Campi Flegrei volcano, near Naples, Italy, as a case study. The results will have real-world applications in forecasting eruptions. We aim to create a template for integrating interdisciplinary thinking into the evaluation of incomplete information, combining artistic and scientific creativity to build new understandings of the world around us.