Marco Mancuso
Sara Tirelli and the VR Pavilion at 2020 Resilienze festival
Hera Immersive Area is a space within Resilienze 2020 festival dedicated to new technologies in relation to art and scientific research and aimed at exploring environmental issues through innovation. This interview focuses on the VR Pavilion, both because of the long-lasting acquaintance and the deep esteem towards Sara Tirelli and her artistic and research path that has been going on for a very long time in Italy and internationally.... READ MORE...
“J3RR1”: empathy with the machine. Interview with NONE collective
NONE collective – the Rome-based artistic group that moves on the border between art, design and technological research – in conversation with Marco Mancuso tell us about their new work J3RR1. Programmed Torture: a computer programmed to carry out a constant stress test using technology to reflect on the daily condition of human beings in a non-anthropocentric vision.... READ MORE...
Data are not just numbers. Some “dear questions” to Giorgia Lupi
At seven and a half in the evening, BASE Milano main room is overwhelmed by people. And it continues to arrive. Everyone is here to see a lecture about data vis... READ MORE...
Jeroen Van Loon: the future is almost all temporary
With a degree in digital media design and a relatively short career which began no later than 2010, Jeroen Van Loon has shortly become one of the most interesting media artist internationally. His research is able to surprisingly and ironically integrate a critical approach to the use of technological tools - in particular the Internet, with a solid theoretical and conceptual framework. Such an approach results in the production of objects and installations that enter the exhibition space with disarming immediacy.
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Josè Luis de Vicente: Sónar+D and convergence among art, innovation and technology
Sónar +D is the international conference (running even this year in Barcelona from 16 to 18 of June) that brings together a combination of activities with a common theme: the relationship between creativity and technology, and the digital transformation of the cultural industries involved.... READ MORE...
Tempo Reale e il Progetto Primavera 2016: intervista a Francesco Giomi
Il Progetto Primavera 2016 di Tempo Reale è una rassegna concertistica dal 21 al 28 Maggio organizzata nella Limonaia di Villa Strozzi, che prevede una serie di eventi che mettono in relazione suono, nuova musica ed elettronica: prime assolute e prime nazionali, giovani autori e interpreti di fama mondiale della musica sperimentale ed elettronica... READ MORE...
The Art of Difference. New self narratives in Expo 2015 Italy
This is the curatorial text written by Marco Mancuso and Filippo Lorenzin for the Streaming Egos project by Goethe Institut, to reflect on the representations of the Self on the Net in Italy in the ‘10s of the new millennium ‒ which for the country is a time of severe economic crisis and deep changes in the political, cultural, economic and work sectors.... READ MORE...
Stephen Kovats and r0g_agency: Open Culture and post-conflict transformation
r0g_agency is a collaborative enterprise for open culture and critical transformation initiated in 2012 and founded as a non-profit company in September 2013 by Stephen Kovats and Susanne Bellinghausen... READ MORE...
Sedition. The platform that is changing the contemporary art market
A new online platform for contemporary and media artists, have been displaing and selling their artworks in digital format from about 3 years. For those who don't know it, its called Sedition... READ MORE...
On the Bride’s side. The civil disobedience on stage at 71st Venice Film Festival
On the bride's side has been selected at 71st Venice Film Festival. The movie is the true story of a fake bridal procession made of 23 people. Among them, 5 illegal immigrants... READ MORE...
Ceramic Futures 2: where tradition meets innovation
Ceramic Futures: From Poetry to Science Fiction links ceramic, social networks, design and creativity by students coming from four international schools... READ MORE...
Claudio Sinatti. In ricordo di un artista gentile…
E alla fine è successo quello che non doveva succedere. E’ arrivata quella notizia che non doveva arrivare, che non ha mai un modo gentile per arrivare. Claudio Sinatti, artista, docente, attivo sulla scena undeground milanese e italiana fin dagli anni Novanta, ci ha lasciato al termine di una battaglia che sembrava aver vinto contro la leucemia... READ MORE...
ST InnovationCUP: experimenting new artistic and cultural productive processes
ST InnovationCUP è uno dei processi di incubazione e ricerca nel rapporto arte, cultura e innovazione più interessanti presenti oggi sul territorio nazionale. Anche se forse, sarebbe più corretto dire che ciò che ha intercettato il mio interesse è che si tratti di uno dei pochissimi progetti (non si offenda nessuno) che lavorano in modo efficace e fattivo sul concetto di Open Research e su dinamiche di produzione culturale moderne e competenti.... READ MORE...
“My open source cure”. Salvatore Iaconesi hits the Net at the heart
At this point, Salvatore Iaconesi does not need any introduction. With the launch of its latest web project My open source cure, he broke any balance in the relationship between net culture and mainstream media. Of course, talking about "project" leaves a bit confused, mostly because the causes and motivations are among the most tragic: the story is familiar to many, Salvatore Iaconesi has recently discovered to have a brain cancer.... READ MORE...
Digicult launches the new Digimag Journal
Digicult announces its new Digimag Journal. Our magazine has changed its nature, after 72 monthly issues. A new hybrid instrument is born, open to international call for papers. We wait for you... READ MORE...
Transmediale: The Exhibition. Uneasy energies in Technological Times
"Dark Drives. Uneasy Energies in Technological Times" curated by Jacob Lillemose, has largely complied with these resolutions, which I perceived as a pretty interesting purpose, and brave in their way, for a festival like the Transmediale, an event deeply rooted in the media culture, on an European and international level.... READ MORE...
Kristoffer Gansing. Talking about transmediale 2012
transmediale is just finished. The 2k+12 edition of the media art, design and culture Berliner festival took place rom 31 January until 5 February at the wonderful Haus der Kulturen der Welt, one of the most important European leading centre for the contemporary arts in Tiergarten.... READ MORE...
