Serena Cangiano

Interactive Ethology. An Interview With Andre’ Goncalves

Serena Cangiano
This reflection came after a meeting with Andre Goncalves, Portuguese artist (year 1979), skilled in performance and sound, video and interactive installations. The works of Andre, presented in various festivals and in important digital culture centers in the world, have strange names and seem to be the result of experiments and natural, social or technological phenomena analysis. All made with the clever use of Do It Yourself electronics.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 57, September 2010

Aaron Koblin: Aesthetic Evolution Of Data Visualization

Serena Cangiano
A couple of years ago Lev Manovich, famous guru of new media, was introducing the concept of Information Aesthetics, referring to the ways of visualizing emerging information and based on the creativity and alternative representations. On the basis of this concept, quantitive and qualitative data have become the main interest and desire of artists and designers, who have already begun to experiment new techniques and ways to generate shapes and fabulous software... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 54, May 2010

Mechatronic Art And Diy. Marc Dusseiller: The Artistic Soldering

Serena Cangiano
There are practices in the use of artistic and creative technology that can be compared to a sort of undergrowth because rich in rare and unexplored things. In the shadow of spheres and consolidated languages, characterized by codes and aesthetics, almost all supported by theories both by the public and by the market. These practices are hard to interpret through the framework of digital art because they are generated by s remix of ideas and subjects, that, on one hand have to do with the history of experimentation of electronics in the artistic field and on the other hand they regard the hacker culture, electronic art and technological design.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 53, April 2010Science

Mindful Technologies. Aware Objects And Eco-visualizations

Serena Cangiano
Visual voltage is the travelling exhibition promoted by the Swedish Institute and the Interactive Institute whose Berlin version Visual Voltage Amplified had its opening on January 7th at the Felleshuset, one of the buildings of Scandinavian Embassies complex in Berlin.. The exhibition, supervised by Susanne Jaschko shows projects, concepts, and experimental works from artists and designers who critically deal with of energy production and consumption in an age of global sensibility to the environmental issues.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDesignDigimag - Issue 51, February 2010

Stelarc’s Extrabody: The Technologic Chimera

Serena Cangiano
Art concepts and techniques should always be avant-garde, and serve as an approach to men's comprehension as well as an anticipation of what they will be and how they will behave. In light of that assumption, Stelarc, who is a pioneer of extreme performances and of performances helped by interactive robotic systems and virtual reality, represents without a doubt an important reference point for all those who want to deal with an artistic project which uses technology as a means of expression.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 49, November 2009Science