DARC is co-hosting two events on April 16th with guests from the UK. As part of our on-going collaboration and development of collaborative research, colleagues from Winchester School of Art (University of Southampton) and London South Bank University’s Centre for the Study of the Networked Image join us for a workshop and a public seminar of talks on image politics.

Ben Grosser gave this great talk introducing his work when he was guest professor at DARC and AU in the autumn of 2023. The talk (re)frames his art practice and artworks as establishing and encacting an aesthetics of degrowth. He examines the growth aesthetics in today's big tech platforms, showing how their designs reshape our conceptions of life as limitless in order to convert our time and attention into endless profit. Then he walks us through a series of his projects that counter, subvert,…

Aarhus University supported Climate Engines/Motores del Clima curatorial research project has been featured on Spanish television in the cultural program Metropolis.

We are pleased to announce the next call for our workshop, entitled "content/form". Relating to transmediale's 2024 festival theme, the annual Research Workshop in collaboration between Aarhus University, London South Bank University, and transmediale festival (Berlin) is now hosting an open call for workshop participants for its next edition content/form – in particular, individuals who are interested in exploring our relation to content and the forms through which it is made public.

We are excited to announce Olia Lialina as the first Digital Aesthetics Distinguished Speaker.  Lialina is a renowned international pioneer of net.art whose work has had a major impact on the creative and critical discussions of digital culture since the 1990s. Lialina will talk in Aarhus about "Beautiful Zeros and Ugly Ones" reflecting on questions of automation and new media design & art. After Lialina’s talk we will celebrate at the Kunsthal Aarhus with the traditional Fredagsbar.