Alessandra Saviotti, Author at Digicult | Digital Art, Design and Culture

Orange between orange and Orange. Michael Joaquine Grey at Carroll/Fletcher

Alessandra SaviottiApril 5, 2013

Michael Joaquin Grey (born 1961 in Los Angeles, CA) is an artist with degrees in genetics, art and sculpture. That being said, we can understand why by entering the space of the Carroll/Fletcher gallery in London, we feel like being in a sort of scientific laboratory or an anthropological museum.... READ MORE...

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Preserving memories for the future. The project “Archive for change”

Alessandra SaviottiMarch 28, 2013

Archive for Change is a project initiated by the artists and filmmakers Julie Ballands, Taryn Edmonds and Laura Maragoudaki in 2010, which had the aim to explore urban and social changes in Newcastle upon Tyne (UK). The project is actively supported by the local community and its organizations, because it investigates directly the constant process of transformation of the city, taking Newcastle’s West End as a case study.... READ MORE...

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The new explorers guide to Dutch digital culture, by Virtueel Platform

Alessandra SaviottiMarch 4, 2013

Virtueel Platform, part of The New Institute in Rotterdam, whose mission is to" stimulate and strengthen cultural innovation by sharing knowledge about e-culture and increasing its visibility and scope startingpoint if you want to explore and work together with innovative media art organisations in The Netherlands", published its final Guide the last December 2012.... READ MORE...

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The strength of the imperceptible. Interview to Alberto Tadiello

Alessandra SaviottiFebruary 20, 2013

Alberto Tadiello (1983, Montecchio Maggiore, VI) is one of the few artists who have managed to break down the wall that separates the traditional contemporary art practice and that stream related to media art, which is close to scientific and technologic experimentation and the idea of "Do It Yourself"... READ MORE...

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Italian Conversations. Discovering contemporary art in Italy

Alessandra SaviottiFebruary 5, 2013

By daily following this path, after visiting and analysing Rotterdam, Munich, Berlin, Dresden, Copenaghen, Riga, Switzerland and Bruxelles, this year Rob e Nienke, encouraged by Nomas Foundation’s curators Cecilia Canziani and Ilaria Gianni, have published their investigation of Italy, “Fucking good Art: Italia. Issue #28, Italian Conversation – Art in the age of Berlusconi”, the result of an almost one-year-long itinerant residence.... READ MORE...

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A travelling artist. Interview with Riccardo Benassi

Alessandra SaviottiDecember 5, 2012

Riccardo Benassi is an artist who can be considered halfway between a musician, a performer, a writer and a designer of experiences. His works are always the result of an intensive exchange with another individual, be it a curator, another artist or the publisher of one of his numerous publications.... READ MORE...

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Mapping the electomagnetism. Detektors by Martin Howse and Shintaro Miyazaki

Alessandra SaviottiDecember 3, 2012

Detektors is an open and collaborative project which consists in devices capable of recording hidden electromagnetic emissions produced by common electronic tools such as mobile phones, laptops, cameras etc. In addition, Detektors can also capture the high frequency bands: modulation of WiFi, Bluetooth, GSM, UMTS and GPS networks, as well as any other transmission system between 100 Mhz and 5Ghz.... READ MORE...

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Schwebung. When Stephan Mathieu started his own label

Alessandra SaviottiOctober 1, 2012

Schwebung is Mathieu's own label, dedicated to release solo and collaborative work on vinyl and as high-resolution files. As he said: "Although I'm feeling very previleged to work with some great labels from around the world since the mid 90s, I thought it was the right moment to do it myself".... READ MORE...

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Art is open source. A new world created by Salvatore Iaconesi and Oriana Persico

Alessandra SaviottiSeptember 4, 2012

It is hard to define the personality of Salvatore Iaconesi. If you google him, several projects are coming on the screen and probably you are going to get lost among them. Is he a hacker, an activist, an engineer, an artist, a teacher or a skateboarder? We can say that every definition is right for his multiple identity... READ MORE...

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AND Festival, a place for new digital culture

Alessandra SaviottiAugust 23, 2012

AND Festival has been taking place every year since 2009 in Northwest of UK. The programme is developed by Cornerhouse, FACT and folly to present the last tendencies in new cinema, digital culture and art.... READ MORE...

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The deep of the modern. Manifesta 9 report

Alessandra SaviottiJuly 25, 2012

Given the current economical situation it is not easy to agree with the Manifesta statement, reminded by Viktor Misiano in this year publication: “the present is better than the past, and with the hope that the future would be better than the present”.... READ MORE...

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René Daniëls. An Exhibition is always part of a Greater Whole

Alessandra SaviottiJuly 24, 2012

René Daniëls (Eindhoven 1950), is considered as one of the most important Dutch artists of his generation. His new show at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven... READ MORE...

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Contamination and experimentation. An art-science workshop series

Alessandra SaviottiJuly 23, 2012

Eindhoven is a perfect city for the interaction between art and science. One of the main organizations which works on the boundaries between the two fields is Baltan Laboratories... READ MORE...

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“What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars”. Onomatopee Project Space

Alessandra SaviottiJune 29, 2012

This is the statement made by Mikhail Gorbachev in November 1986 during an official visit to India, with which he wanted to highlight the arrogance of Americ... READ MORE...

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Gabriel Shalom. At the Edge of Reality

Alessandra SaviottiApril 2, 2012

Gabriel Shalom likes to describe himself as a "videomusician", or an audiovisual artist working on manipulation of moving images to reach a rhythmic composition... READ MORE...

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It’s All Thanks To Capitalism. A Re-reading Of Partecipation Practices

Alessandra SaviottiDecember 5, 2011

In times of economic, political and cultural crisis, with a succession of natural and man-made disasters, and real or evoked doomsday scenarios, how have we reacted? Did We take a clear position? Did We participate to violent riots or peaceful movements occupying our streets? And how did our cultural system behave?... READ MORE...

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The Image Of Sound. Yuri Ancarani’s Stomach

Alessandra SaviottiJuly 5, 2011

Yuri Ancarani (Ravenna, 1972) likes to define himself a visual artist/film maker. He developed his research by starting studying his territory, the land where he was born: the Riviera Romagnola. As for his music video Vicino al Cuore (2003), work that he claims to love the most, or Kras (Bora, 2011) or Carrara caves (Il Capo, 2010), he always succeeds to catch the invisible aspect that transmits to the public the meaning of those places.... READ MORE...

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Francesca Grilli. Searching For The Daily Miracle

Alessandra SaviottiApril 1, 2011

Francesca Grilli, who was born in Bologna and now lives in the Netherlands has developed her research on the human figure realizing works inspired by her personal memories which are linked to her family and her daily life. Her work recently focused on the obsessive search for the daily miracle, through the manipulation of reality and adding an unexpected variable that produces a sense of familiarity that can also be shocking. As she herself explains, the daily miracle is a minimal invisible action which often transforms reality into magic, daily actions and tasks into something fabulous.... READ MORE...

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