Mattia Casalegno, Author at Digicult | Digital Art, Design and Culture

The Eco-Media of YOHA: power, art and media in a globalized world

Mattia CasalegnoOctober 3, 2013

YoHa is Graham Harwood and Matsuko Yokokoji. Formerly part of the seminal media art collective Mongrel, since 2008 Graham and Matsuko have conducted a fructuous artistic exploration at the intersection of power and media, and their effects globalized economies.... READ MORE...

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The “speculative” Exhibition. May Fiction Redefine Reality?

Mattia CasalegnoOctober 3, 2011

Speculative, a collective exhibition organized at LACE - Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions - on display from last June 16th to August 28th, finely resonate with the uncertain and psychotic times we are living in, shaken by financial breakdowns, massive firings, and environmental disasters.... READ MORE...

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Tracing Experiences. Design’s Fiction: The “made Up” Exhibition

Mattia CasalegnoApril 1, 2011

This winter the Media Design Program at Pasadena's Art Center College of Design hosted 'Made Up', an exhibition and series of events devoted to the most innovative productions at the borders of science fiction, speculative design, and fictional storytelling, united for the occasion under the umbrella term 'design's fiction.'... READ MORE...

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A Taste Of Illusion. The Art Of Loris Greaud

Mattia CasalegnoNovember 2, 2010

A candy with no taste, a fiction without images, a solo without guitar, a movie screen that goes blank as you get close to it. Loris Gréaud's work is a captivating voyage in a world of reversed perceptions, where it's possible to hear a color, see a sound, realize a score as an architecture and an architecture as music.... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 59, November 2010

I Am Open Cv. The Augmented Art Of Jeremy Bailey

Mattia CasalegnoSeptember 3, 2010

A native of Toronto, 'funny man' Jeremy Bailey is a visual artist working primarily in electronic media who has been described by Filmmaker magazine as 'a one-man revolution on the way we use video, computers and our bodies to create art' and as often confidently self-deprecating in offering hilarious parodies of new media vocabularies (Marisa Olson, Rhizome). His work has been featured internationally in numerous exhibitions and festivals, and he received his MFA in Art Media Studies from Syracuse University in 2006. Currently his work can be viewed, rented and acquired through the independent on-line label Vtape.... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 57, September 2010

The Art Of Stealing Art. Interview To Jiacong “jay” Yan

Mattia CasalegnoMay 3, 2010

Jay Yan is a young artist based in Los Angeles who, after graduating from the UCLA's Design | Media Art department, in few years managed to have a discreet international reputation and impress one of the most influential chinese contemporary art collector in the world.... READ MORE...

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The Research Of Knifeandwork. In Between Technology And Partecipation

Mattia CasalegnoMarch 1, 2010

Even if the Knifeandfork were not raised in Los Angeles (Brian House is from Denver and based in NY, Sue Huang currently lives in LA but was born in Saudi Arabia) their art seems to me quintessential to such odd place. They designed an user-oriented fictional narrative inspired to Kurosawa's film Rashomoon based on the algorithm of the /Prisoner's Dilemma /game theory model (5 'til 12, 2006); transformed a contemporary art museum in a golf club (Emptiness is Form (golf and donuts) at MOCA, 2009), and staged a public continuous reenactment of the infamous Maradona's goal that leaded Argentina to victory at the 1986 World Cup (Trying the Hand of God, 2009).... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 52, March 2010