Alfredo Cramerotti

Blending aesthetic form and technical function. Interview with Michael Takeo Magruder

Alfredo CramerottiDecember 13, 2017

Michael Takeo Magruder is a visual artist and researcher who works with new media and makes work in and around the Internet. His practice explores concepts ranging from media criticism and aesthetic journalism to digital formalism and computational aesthetics, deploying Information Age technologies and systems to examine our networked, media-rich world.... READ MORE...

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The Transformation: Of Curating: Three Terms

Alfredo CramerottiFebruary 10, 2012

The text is a revised version of an essay published on switch, an event, project, and book that archives the first three years of an artist-led project by Triona Ryan & Harald Turek in Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, Ireland. It began in 2008 as a ground up approach to showing contemporary works of moving images in a small town located in a rural context, a conversation between artists, audiences and artworks taking place outside of the big city and adapting to the rhythm of smaller places... READ MORE...

ArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 71, February 2012

The Truth Of Experience. Notes Of Expanded Photography

Alfredo CramerottiJuly 5, 2011

The idea of expanded photography is an attempt (one among many) to make sense of photography 'in excess', that is, how it transcends its established definition. It takes on board the fact that photography may no longer be subdivided and talked about according to genres but, rather, is a sort of visual alphabet and a visual database.... READ MORE...

ArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 66, July / August 2011

The Production Of Truth. The Aesthetics Of Journalism

Alfredo CramerottiMay 30, 2011

At first glance the premise, and promise, of the exhibition All That Fits: The Aesthetics of Journalism might seem contradictory and unlikely, even unfeasible: what on earth could be meant by the aesthetics of journalism? Surely journalism is something to be thought of and discussed in terms of ethics not aesthetics?... READ MORE...

ArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 65, June 2011