There is perhaps no state of being so elusive as happiness. Still, it finds itself the subject of perpetual phenomenological prospection: art, philosophy, science, media and advertising, etc., have (and often in corroboration) all but depicted, discussed, distilled and, ultimately, distributed happiness in and for...
There is perhaps no state of b...
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Intervening on the Hexagon Pavillion designed by José Antonio Corrales and Ramón Vázquez Molezún, Alvaro Urbano both explores notions dreams & memory and reanimates Spanish histories in the construction of his own dreamscape: The Awakening [El Despertar]. The space exists within a kind of stasis...
Intervening on the Hexagon Pav...
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In a collaboration between photographer Joshua Gordon, Aries and Havana Club, comes Butterfly – a photography book delving into the queer subculture of Havana, Cuba. The project, produced over the period of a month, initially sought to document the drag scene within Havana, yet as...
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Following last year´s section on Latin America, Art Paris' Southern Stars is set to present the art scenes of the Iberian cities Madrid, Barcelona, Lisbon and Porto. Curating this section is independent exhibition curator, Carolina Grau. Carolina has worked as a curator for the last...
Following last year´s section...
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In our attempts to understand that which has come and gone before us, we have always looked to the cultural artefacts and heirlooms that have remained after the processes of time have enacted upon them.Yet, upon examining these artefacts; a terracotta vase, a papyrus scripture,...
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Umbigo Magazine spoke to Francisca Aires Mateus about her work, Musica Humana, for which she was selected as a finalist of the 2019 edition of the Sonae Media Art Award.Inspired in part by the Proust Questionnaire, Musica Humana was produced by the formulation of code...
Umbigo Magazine spoke to Franc...
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Diogo Tudela, finalist of this year´s Sonae Media Art Prize, spoke to Umbigo Magazine about his work Collisions & Render Engines currently on show at Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea do Chiado.In Collisions & Render Engines Tudela seeks to discuss the intersections between media, entertainment and military complexes and the...
Diogo Tudela, finalist of this...
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Selected as one of five finalists for this year’s edition of the Sonae Media Art prize for his work Keystone I, II, III, IV, V, Rudolfo Quintas discusses our data mediated culture and the history, philosophy and applications of Artificial Intelligence within this digital era.The...
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Within the last few decades, societies, and specifically the entities that govern them, have propagated an intense culture of surveillance; our continued proximity to technology has not only become usual but serves to maintain watch on us at all times and all corners.Umbigo spoke to...
Within the last few decades, s...
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The Berru Collective is a Porto based collective comprised of artists Bernardo Bordalo, Mariana Vilanova, Rui Nó and Sérgio Coutinho whose work centres around anthropological, philosophical, social and ethical concerns, looking primarily at the ever-present relationship between humanity and technology. The collective has begun to...
The Berru Collective is a Port...
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