Francesca Valsecchi, Author at Digicult | Digital Art, Design and Culture

Hackmeeting 2007: Ten Years Nerdcore

Francesca ValsecchiOctober 3, 2007

Right this weekend it took place the 10th edition of Hackmeeting. This is a very important appointment for the Italian digital community because of its love for free software, of its computer nerds, of its technology freaks, regardless of hardware, software or reality manipulation. Hackmeeting is an independent initiative dating back to 1998. Every year a different Italian city is chosen as seat of the event, hosted by free and public spaces. For this edition the seat was the social centre Rebeldia' in Pisa, Tuscany.... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 28, October 2007

Web Fights: Blocking Ads, Exposing Art

Francesca ValsecchiMay 31, 2007

Let's go surfing the Internet. How do we surf? It's like when you leave home in the morning, do you jump on your bike and zigzag your way across city traffic or rather you get bored queuing up on the ring road?... READ MORE...

ActivismArticlesDigimag - Issue 25, June 2007

Biodoll: Women And Manipulated Technoinfos

Francesca ValsecchiMarch 1, 2007

Milan , Historical centre, Monday afternoon. Outside the tube the evening edition and the remainder of the free press. In and out people in their routine. This Monday outside the metro you'll be approached by three (beautiful) girls wearing coloured coats, accompanied by drum rhythm. They're distributing a particular free press: a cut-up of four pages, paints and photos in which is hidden an artistic operation at the borders of technologies. The free press is called Bloki/Angel_f. and it's the last artefact of Franca Formenti.... READ MORE...

ActivismArticlesDigimag - Issue 22, March 2007

Networking, The Net Like Art

Francesca ValsecchiJanuary 31, 2007

Tatiana Bazzichelli, known online as T_Bazz, presents her book Networking. La Rete come arte , edited by Costa&Nolan, a new point of view on the technological and cultural panorama which takes shape in Italy and involves the movements and the experimentations of the underground, of the digital nets and of the auto-organized experiences of the computer communities.... READ MORE...

ActivismArticlesDigimag - Issue 21, February 2007

Mixed Media: S’alzi Il Sipario Sul Digitale

Francesca ValsecchiJune 1, 2006

L'occasione per Milano ghiotta: la location spettacolare su cui tutto gi stato detto e scritto, un programma dal respiro internazionale e convincente nel percorso trasversale a cui ambiva, sugli schermi i contenuti dell'arte digitale ed elettronica, disciplina che raramente trova spazio nella programmazione culturale della nostra citt... READ MORE...

ArtArticlesDesignDigimag - Issue 15, June 2006

Meeting The Media Guru: Geert Lovink

Francesca ValsecchiMarch 29, 2006

The official and awaited moments before meeting our mind myths are never the proper occasions for a fruitful exchange, as the conditions for a necessary concentration and participation do not occur easily... READ MORE...

ActivismArticlesDigimag - Issue 13, April 2006