Silvia Bianchi, Author at Digicult | Digital Art, Design and Culture

Sonar+D and Sonar Planta: chronicles from International Conference for Creativity & Technology

Silvia BianchiJuly 19, 2016

Sónar+D, the 4th International Conference for Creativity, Technology and Business, took place during Sónar by Day and this year brought together more than 4700 professionals belonging to more than 2.600 companies active in the the fields of culture, technology, science, education, and business.... READ MORE...

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Lindsay Howard: 319 Scholes And Online Curating

Silvia BianchiOctober 3, 2011

Lindsay Howard is Director of 319 Scholes of Brooklyn, an hyperactive space dealing with promotion and diffussion of digital arts, trough exhibitions, workshops and live shows. The center working philosophy is based on the use a non-disciplinary approach to examine technology and its effects on our communities, relationships, and the body.... READ MORE...

ArtArticlesDesignDigimag - Issue 68, October 2011

Byob. Bring Your Own Beamer

Silvia BianchiMay 30, 2011

In our case BYOB means Bring Your Own Beamer. It is a new format of itinerant exhibition in which space is transformed for one day in a digital version of a nineteenth-century picture gallery. By using a projector local artists are invited to show everything that could fall within the definition of image motion: from a Skype video call to a photoshop screen to a performance with Finder.... READ MORE...

ArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 65, June 2011

Realities: United Featuring. Light As Gazes Conveyor

Silvia BianchiMarch 1, 2011

Realities: United is a Berlin based studio founded in 2000 by brothers Jan and Tim Edler, dealing with the contiunuous experimentation of the ephemeral boundaries between digital art and architecture. The studio, by now very renowned, has received in the last few years lots of international recognitions for the design and production of some architectural works and artistic projects, a lot of which are part of art centers collections of worldwide importance such as Moma and the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Reid.... READ MORE...

ArticlesDesignDigimag - Issue 62, March 2011

Vjing For Lights And Colors. The Sketch Projector Of Shantell Martin

Silvia BianchiJune 1, 2010

Shantell Martin is an illustrator and an English Vj who has fused the latest technology and traditional media in a new and unique style through which she creates performances using her drawings. She began her journey as a traditional illustrator, until she discovered that she could draw with the graphic tablet and project what she was doing during concerts, happening and performances... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 55, June 2010

Carlos Casas At Netmage 2010. The Audiovisual Cemetery

Silvia BianchiFebruary 1, 2010

The latest edition, the tenth, of the International Festival Netmage took place last week. This edition investigated rarefied and dreamlike territories, through the choice of a deconstructive approach to music and video.... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 51, February 2010

Sonar 2009: The Queen Mary Anne Hobbs

Silvia BianchiJuly 3, 2009

Mary Anne Hobbs is the undisputed queen of BBC Radio 1. Every Tuesday night from 2:00 to 4:00 in the morning, during her 'Experimental Shows' Mary Anne proposes a selection among the best new releases, ranging from dubstep to grim, from drum&bass to hip-hop up to techno and dark dancefloor... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 46, July / August 2009

Mapping Festival

Silvia BianchiJune 3, 2009

The last Mapping Festival edition took place from the 8th to the 17th of May in the fervent city of Geneva . Focussing above all on visual aspects, this festival is different from the many others of electronic music which animate the Swiss city. Also this year it confirmed to be not only an incredibile showcase fot the vjing international scenery, but also an evidence of the real Swiss style in regard of technical organization and rich program.... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 45, June 2009

Graphic Design With Momomaker

Silvia BianchiFebruary 2, 2009

MOMO is an artist whose work is not easy to catalogue. Defining it as a street artist would be boring and reduced. His life and his adventures are surprising as his experiments and they don't deserve being limited within no definition.... READ MORE...

ArticlesDesignDigimag - Issue 41, February 2009

Avlab1.0: Laboratorio Audiovisivo Aperto

Silvia BianchiNovember 3, 2008

Il MediaLab-Prado un centro dedicato alla produzione, ricerca e diffusione della cultura digitale e delle sue confluenze con arte, scienza, tecnologia e societ dall'Area de Las Artes dell'Ayuntamento de Madrid.... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 39, November 2008

Three Days With Sonar!

Silvia BianchiJuly 2, 2008

It's time to celebrate Sonar 's 15 th birthday, the annual and unique festival of electronic music and new multimedia arts, that doesn't need to be introduced.... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 36, July / August 2008

Olyvetty: Processing Sound And Images

Silvia BianchiMay 3, 2008

Olyvetty is an audio visual environment project that started in Berlin in 2006 when the musician Claudio Rocchetti and the visual artist Riccardo Benassi met .... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 34, May 2008

Play & Lafoxe: Cinema En Directo

Silvia BianchiMarch 31, 2008

Play un festival che La Casa Encendida, centro policulturale ubicato nel centro di Madrid, dedica da due anni a questa parte alle sperimentazioni del linguaggio audio video. La seconda edizione si tenuta nel centro dell'Opera sociale Caja Madrid dal 29 febbraio al 2 dello scorso Marzo.... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 33, April 2008

Dafne Boggeri: Zigzagging Between Images And Sound

Silvia BianchiMarch 3, 2008

Dafne Boggeri is undoubtedly one of the most interesting and many-sided artistic personalities who have emerged in Italy in the last years. In her approach to art she has dealt with photography, videos, installations and performances, developing a kind of work where shape and meaning continuously cross media borderlines.... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 32, March 2008

The Lab Style By Modeselektor

Silvia BianchiSeptember 6, 2007

The Modeselektor, namely Sebastian Szary and Gernot Bronsert , first met in Berlin in the early 90s in the illegal parties of the city's outskirts. Five years later they met again in a recording studio and realized their musical taste was similar. That's how they started producing music under the name of Fundamental Knowledge.... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 27, September 2007

Missil, Miss Mash Up

Silvia BianchiSeptember 6, 2007

Between the beautiful surprises brought to us by last ElettroWave, I surely flag the young Missil, one of the new international djing promising, guest for the first time during an Italian festival.... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 27, September 2007

Synken: Audiovisual Transformations

Silvia BianchiJuly 2, 2007

Synken is an experimental project, imaginative and ambitious, born by the collaboration of the visual artists Transforma and the composer O.S.T. Transforma are Baris Hasselbach, Luke Bennet and Simon Krahl , a collective of vj, experimental video-artists and graphics from Berlin , collaborator of Apparat and Funkstoerung as well... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 26, July / August 2007

Vjtheory: Another Point Of View

Silvia BianchiMay 31, 2007

A research which starts from the more and more widespread need to think upon how sense is generated and the visual impact Vjing has, which is far more than the technical approach to the discipline.... READ MORE...

ArticlesDigimag - Issue 25, June 2007