Today, about sixty years into the digital revolution, a substantial share of our society is fully digitized. The digital domain has come to be our new habitat, seamlessly intertwined with ourselves and our surrounding nature. The undergrowth of new technologies and their practical implementations is immense. This digital wilderness develops and expands at an exponentially accelerating pace. Our perceptions of life are challenged, we have become architects of artificial ecologies, of new and hybrid worlds. Artistic and scientific research continuously challenge our perspectives on life with philosophical and existential questions, and the artist plays as never before a crucial role as conveyor and interpreter of new knowledge and research. [Read more...]