Miriam Petruzzelli, Author at Digicult | Digital Art, Design and Culture

Icra 07, Ubiquitous Robotics

Miriam PetruzzelliApril 29, 2007

From April 10 and 14 and happening for the first time in Italy , the 24 th ICRA's conference was set in Rome . ICRA is the International Conference on Robotics and Automation supported by IEEE , Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, an international association aggregating over 370,000 members in 160 countries and gathering the major experts and high-tech specialists. This association is considered as an authority in a variety of sectors such as aerospace systems, computers and telecommunications, control systems, consumption energy and electronics.... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 24, May 2007

Nulife, Digital And Emotional Environment

Miriam PetruzzelliApril 1, 2007

Per Milano aprile significa Salone del Mobile, una manifestazione che ormai da anni propone il meglio (e il peggio) del design nazionale e internazionale, in tutte le sue forme ed astrazioni. Ed proprio in occasione della nuova edizione del Salone Internazionale del Mobile che Studio Canali sceglie di aprire al pubblico la sua nuova sede con Nulife, una settimana di incontri, eventi, emozioni.... READ MORE...

ArticlesDesignDigimag - Issue 23, April 2007

No Signal: Overseas Music

Miriam PetruzzelliJanuary 31, 2007

What will Fellini's movies be without Nino Rota's soundtracks? Chaplin's silent movies without its music counterpoint he composed even after sound advent? Chaplin, who believed that cinema's essence was its silence, has taught us that sound isn't composed of words, but notes.... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 21, February 2007Sound

Eco-sustainable? Off-corso

Miriam PetruzzelliDecember 6, 2006

Nowadays eco-sustainability is a very important and concerning subject. Everyday we are kept on alert by the media and their worrying news about dangers deriving from the traditional exploitation of our ecosystem that in 2050 will become unsustainable.... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 20, December 2006 / January 2007

Interfacce, Interactive Comunication

Miriam PetruzzelliNovember 1, 2006

Dynamic and provokative, but also strong and sober. This is the Interfacce style, Roman show about mediated communication languages, this year at its sixth edition. Photography, video, movie and special effects, electro music, modelling and 3D animation, the Net and man-machine interation are the principal discussed themes... READ MORE...

ArticlesDesignDigimag - Issue 19, November 2006

Light Up Y(our) Contemporary

Miriam PetruzzelliOctober 4, 2006

If, as De Kerkhove states, we are in the electric era, it is then allowed to consider the forms of digital culture to be a sort of Diogenes' lantern with which illuminate our humanity. Light up your contemporary , that is to say Transart, at its sixth edition between Trento and Bolzano, seems to boost this vision through a hectic schedule of events and performances... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 18, October 2006

Traces Of Identity And Memory Of The Present

Miriam PetruzzelliSeptember 6, 2006

Bunker Art Division with scientific consulting of NOT gallery has presented at the end of last June in Naples an inedited work by Ruben Coen Cagli and IABO , two decidedly distant artists with two apparently incompatible projects, both of them born from an attentive observation of the insecurity that pervades modern manhood... READ MORE...

ArticlesDesignDigimag - Issue 17, September 2006

No Brand’s World

Miriam PetruzzelliJuly 3, 2006

From 15 to 17 June the first floor of CCCB in Barcelona gave hospitality to Sonarmatica , section of digital culture and projects of critical and creative use of the new media from Sonar festival, that this year had as subtitle Always On... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 16, July / August 2006

Meet Jaron Lanier

Miriam PetruzzelliJune 1, 2006

After Geert Lovink, Meet the media Guru meets Jaron Lanier, eclectic personality and specialised scholar in exploring and bringing the their extreme the frontiers of virtual reality. Lanier, authentic computer genius, is one of the pioneers of Virtual reality, ossimoro that he himself coined in the early 80's, and co-inventor of the famous DataGlove, the interactive glove used to get into virtual reality... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 15, June 2006

Briand Feat. Philip K. Dick

Miriam PetruzzelliMay 2, 2006

Mathieu Briand s first US solo show recently opened at L.A.'s REDCAT gallery. Briand, who was seen last November on the occasion of the lap of Emergency Biennale in Chechnya at the Stecca degli Artigiani in Milan, works at interactive installations where computer, electro music, robot, video etc., make up situations, environments and atmospheres... READ MORE...

ArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 14, May 2006

Rld, La Republique Libre Du Design

Miriam PetruzzelliMarch 29, 2006

Also this year Milan is speaking about design again in the liveliest and most gossiped about week of the season, Il Salone del Mobile. Here design is extended over a closed public to awaken wider curiosity and consensus, but still waiting to know if also this year the Salone del mobile will be a sort of collective relay race between aperitifs and parties or if instead everything will be reduced to a more authentic and introspective social and cultural dimension... READ MORE...

ArticlesDesignDigimag - Issue 13, April 2006

Art . Exe

Miriam PetruzzelliMarch 2, 2006

Promoted by the town hall of Monza and the province of Milan, in collaboration with Teche 05. The archipelago of Ulisse, journey with interactive installations by Mario Canali will be inaugurated at Monza march 15 th... READ MORE...

ArticlesDesignDigimag - Issue 12, March 2006

Transmodal Intuition

Miriam PetruzzelliMarch 2, 2006

An ever increasing number of artists shift through cultural interfaces, means and genres evoking both science and mythology, both technology and tradition. Postmodernism's heritage has changed into transmodal transit; today the human being is modulated by images, hyperlinks, processors, and nets... READ MORE...

ArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 12, March 2006

Sound Identities

Miriam PetruzzelliJanuary 25, 2006

That technology changes the perception of reality or reality itself, that it is becoming more than an instrument of approach, we have already discussed, faced and established it; the means through which all of this happens are not static and unchangeable, if anything they are quicker, more changeable, and more unpredictable... READ MORE...

ArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 11, February 2006

You, Robot

Miriam PetruzzelliDecember 1, 2005

What is natural and what is artificial? What characteristic does this distinction take on today, if there be one possible? What can Man do facing a nature that is escaping the reductionism model and in which Man appears more and more of an exception... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 10, December 2005 / January 2006

Techne 05, Border Poetic

Miriam PetruzzelliOctober 31, 2005

The space of choice of the art choosing new technologies and technology innovation becoming linguistic change is one of the most waited for events of this autumn in Milan : Techne 05 third edition of an international biennial exhibition promoted by the Province of Milan... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 09, November 2005

Culture Tv, New Media Cult

Miriam PetruzzelliAugust 31, 2005

Che nonostante tutto non sia pi la TV a farla da padrona nel panorama mediatico contemporaneo ce l'aveva gi insegnato la guerra del golfo. Da allora, l'uso di internet cresciuto in maniera esponenziale alla ricerca di contro-informazioni in risposta alla ben nota passivit del tubo catodico e di cose da allora ne sono successe un bel po'. Nel mondo dell'arte si moltiplicano siti, blog e servizi online d'ogni genere. La rete ormai offre ogni tipo d'informazione e di intrattenimento a costo zero o quasi... READ MORE...

ArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 07, September 2005

Arte, Complessita’ E …

Miriam PetruzzelliJune 30, 2005

Due gli eventi da segnalare nella primavera appena trascorsa, due le occasioni per discutere di complessit e per riflettere sul ruolo dell'arte oggi. Universit della Calabria, Cosenza: dal 19 al 21 maggio a Cetraro si tenuto il Convegno Nazionale Matematica, Arte e Industria Culturale. Organizzata dal Dipartimento di Matematica e dal Dipartimento di Linguistica e articolata in relazioni, comunicazioni spontanee, poster session e presentazioni multimediali, la densissima tre giorni calabrese si conclusa con una tavola rotonda sugli argomenti e le prospettive future del settore... READ MORE...

ArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 06, July / August 2005