When art meets digital technology

Technology. You can’t avoid it. We at Dazed can't help but get excited by artists playing with tech-infused concepts, methods and materials. To coincide with Lauren Cornell and Ryan Trecartin’s New Museum Triennial Surround Audience, it felt like time to visit the tech-infused art symposiums, biennials, and exhibitions on and offline that are getting us hot over our phablets this week.

MARCO BRAMBILLA AT MCCABE FINE ART

Brambilla’s collage video works are not normally seen within a tech context – but these incredible moving image pieces could only have emerged from digital processes. His latest work Apollo (made with archives from NASA) was originally played across the billboards of Times Square earlier this month. The multi screen video installation of the rocket lift off gets a proper gallery outing at Stockholm space McCabe Fine Art.

Runs until May 30, 6-8pm

STRP AT KLOKGEBOUW

This year’s STRP biennial in Eindhoven is based around the idea of the screen, with an exhibition, an electronic music programme, and a symposium on the topic on March 26 (including a keynote lecture by yours truly…). Artists included in the project are BLPRNT, Kimchi & Chips and Rafael Rozendaal – whose show at nearby MU runs until May.

Runs until Mar 29

FAKE AT EXILE

With a Wikipedia style release defining Fake as everything from a 80s synthpop band to a new Mac OS X browser, this exhibition at Exile has over 25 artists and includes work from Anonymous, Kazuko Miyamoto and Hanne Lippard. Its hard to imagine the full content of this über group show, but there’s bound to be some tech references.

Runs until Apr 18

JONATHAN MONAGHAN AT BITFORMS

Bitforms is presenting artist Monghan’s debut show in NYC opening on the 22nd. Escape Pod is an exhibition comprising of video installation and computer collage prints, inspired by Greek and Nordic mythology. The result is a future pop expression of “luxury riot” consumer culture, a giant photographic take on a fictionalised Starbucks, and USB stick Faberge eggs.

Runs until May 3

X IS Y AT SANDY BROWN

West Berlin space Sandy Brown has brought together some brilliant artists (who happen to be all women) for this show, including Juliette Bonneviot, Kirsten Pieroth, Anna Uddenberg and Daphne Ahlers, for a fusion of feminism and emerging visual language.

Runs until April 18

DIGITAL CONDITIONS AT THE KUNSTVEREIN HANNOVER

The Kunstverein Hannover's latest show is all about digital technology. To coincide with the CeBIT trade fair on IT innovations held in the city, this exhibition includes amazing tech-interested artists like Katja Novitskova, Avery Singer, Camille Henrot and Thomas Ruff. 

Runs until May 25

EMILY JONES AT COSMOS CARL

Online space Cosmos Carl’s is a South East London hub and residency space that provides a distribution space online for artists. Shows come and go fast up here. The latest project is a hyperlink from artist Emily Jones (who has been profiled on Rhizome and shown at Lima Zulu) on the draining of the Mesopotamian marshes of Iraq. Chew on that. 

MORPHING OVERNIGHT AT THE SEVENTEEN GALLERY

Seventeen Gallery’s latest show is a great exhibition from curator Attilia Fattori Franchini with video installations, deconstructed computers, and other digital oddities. Of special note is Yuri Pattison’s online FTP project http://81.136.155.84/, which is a brilliant wander around the weirdness of the web.

Runs until April 18

SERIOUS TRACTION AT OPENING TIMES

The grown up big online sibling to the influential Bubblebyte.org is starting an amazing archive of commissioned art projects and texts. The latest project is Heather Philipson’s Serious Traction, a beat driven, text video work about the nerves and horror of having a vaginal exam. Two words you don't use often in an art preview.

INHUMAN AT THE FRIDERICAIANUM

Ex Kunst Werke curator Susanne Pfeiffer continues her impressive curation of the Fridericaianum in Kassel with a show about the evolving, monstrous bio-tech future of the physical body. The line-up is top notch with Oliver Laric, David Douard, Julieta Aranda, Cecile B Evans, and Anicka Yi among the artists. 

Opening Mar 28 5-9pm, runs until Jun 14