Artissima 2023

ARTISSIMA 2023: PREPARE FOR YOUR VISIT TO THE FAIR Less than 10 days to the opening of Artissima 2023! Italy’s most contemporary art fair reopens its doors to the public at the OVAL in Torino, welcoming visitors from 3 to 5 November with 181 galleries from all over the world, 3 curated sections to discover, […]

The Piedmontese “il food” industry arranges a festival

*This has really gotten systematized and intense. Imagine going out for a breakfast coffee-tasting with a “coffelier” on duty. https://buonissimatorino.it/en/program-23/ BUONISSIMA | PROGRAM EDITION 2023 BUONISSIMA 2023 PREVIEW October 24, 8:30 p.m. | Ristorante Del Cambio – Piazza Carignano 2, Turin MATTEO BARONETTO WITH NIKO ROMITO – REALE With the participation of Michelangelo Pistoletto For […]

Filippo d’Aglie overwhelmed by architecture

*These huge baroque brick piles were his ultimate stage sets. *One gets the feeling that he was imprisoned by them. Literally imprisoned — for a while, in France — but these megastructures seemed to accumulate around him wherever he went. The huge d’Aglie castle, that he built for his family out in the countryside, doesn’t […]

That’s a lot of craft knives

*I was using three different craft knives while working at the desk today, and I was beginning to think that maybe the blade use was getting excessive. PS:

Maker Faire Rome 2023 is under way

https://makerfairerome.eu/it/le-nuove-frontiere-dellai-di-sony-csl-a-maker-faire-rome-2023-il-progetto-artis/

Marc Andreesen: “Techno-Optimist Manifesto”

*We like a manifesto here on the Artmaker blog. https://a16z.com/the-techno-optimist-manifesto/ Lies We are being lied to. We are told that technology takes our jobs, reduces our wages, increases inequality, threatens our health, ruins the environment, degrades our society, corrupts our children, impairs our humanity, threatens our future, and is ever on the verge of ruining […]

Meanwhile, at Serpentine Arts Technologies

Dear Friends, We are immensely excited to announce that we are joining forces with Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst on an R&D and exhibition project that will open at Serpentine in the autumn of 2024. Herndon’s and Dryhurst’s expansive practice encompasses pioneering work in music, machine learning, software development and organisational experimentation. In their third […]

The climate-wrecked Murazzi in Torino, via Carlo Ratti Associati

*It’s a press release. FLOATING ABOVE THE FLOODS CRA redesigns the historic embankments of Turin, Italy, called “Murazzi del Po”. The project aims to address the Po River’s recurring floods — forecast to become increasingly disruptive with climate crisis. It develops innovative floating structures that rise above the water, providing a blueprint for urban climate […]

JUPITER, the first European exascale supercomputer

https://eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/procurement-contract-jupiter-first-european-exascale-supercomputer-signed-2023-10-03_en https://www.fz-juelich.de/en/ias/jsc/jupiter JUPITER is set to achieve a significant milestone for European High Performance Computing (HPC) as the first European system capable of one exaflop, or one billion billion calculations per second. To put this into perspective, it means that if each person on Earth completed one calculation per second, it would take more than […]