Yiannis Melanitis between painting and artificial intelligence
Yiannis Melanitis (Athens, 1967) is an artist and assistant professor at the Sculpture Department of the Athens School of Fine Arts.... READ MORE...
Silvia Scaravaggi
HIDEBEHIND. L’ESPERIENZA AUMENTATA DELLE OPERE DI MATTEO GIUNTINI.
La mostra Hidebehind di Matteo Giuntini è una esperienza nuova di visualizzazione delle opere in digitale. Non esiste più uno spazio fittizio, ricreato come galleria, sala o stand, in questo caso le opere si scelgono con il proprio device mobile nella sezione augmented reality di un sito web.... READ MORE...
Francesca Marconi: i confini e le comunità come arte
Francesca Marconi ha approfondito con noi il metodo dei suoi progetti e alcuni temi trasversali della sua ricerca, che si muove tra partecipazione, arte e attivazione di comunità. Intervista di Silvia Scaravaggi... READ MORE...
Innovation is inclusive. A conversation with Corey Timpson
Corey Timpson, guest for Meet the Media Guru at Triennale Design Museum in Milan the 16th of May 2018, gave an intense lecture on keywords such as cultural innovation and inclusive design. We asked Timpson what is the meaning of cultural innovation, what does being inclusive means for an institution, even a very small one, and what is “the storytelling responsibility”.... READ MORE...
Epicenter Projects. An interview with Cristopher Cichocki
There is a brand new platform which lives a nomadic life: the Epicenter Projects. Its core is giving artists both the opportunity to live a residency programme in the Californian desert and the chance to create a new time-based and site-specific production alongside the San Andreas Fault Line... READ MORE...
Art is relationality: an interview with Marinella Senatore
Labor was a central theme at the art division of Ipercorpo, a festival organized in Forlì in May 2013 by Città di Ebla and Iagostudio eventi e comunicazione. The three nights of the festival featured a roundtable dedicated to the Forlì collection Verzocchi and more specifically to the topic of collecting organized by curator Davide Ferri. This initiative was combined with the presentation of three artworks that interpreted labor from three different perspectives: video Nui Simu by Marinella Senatore; Il Capo by Yuri Ancarani (see his previous interview for Digicult[1]) and the performance Dove si racconta di profondi sospiri e lunghi pensieri (“place for deep sighs and long thoughts”) by Stefania Galegati Shines.... READ MORE...
MutaMorphosis 2012: Tribute to Uncertainty. Interview to Roberta Buiani
From 5th to 8th December 2012 in Prague was held MutaMorphosis, an international conference organized by CIANT | International Centre for Art and New Technologies, which has chosen "Tribute to Uncertainty" as its theme.... READ MORE...
Ou’ Va La Video? Notes For Future Consideration
On 25th February 2012, Boccanera Gallery of Trento, in partnership with VisualContainer, presented the event “ON VIDEOS for Hours and Hours”: a day in which it was possible to watch and talk about the Italian Video-Art of the last two decades.... READ MORE...
No Puns Intended. A Conversation With Filippo Minelli
A first acquaintance of the works of Filippo Minelli leads us - through the images and visions that he is proposing - to the common denominator that brings them either close together or far from each other, though always making them interact with each other: the watershed word / silence, is a mode of examination chosen to explore and create, not to attribute a meaning to existence.... READ MORE...
Sound, Body, Volume. Performativity According To Nico Vascellari
Nico Vascellari is an italian artist born in Vittorio Veneto (TV) in 1976. His artworks have been exhibited at the Monitor Gallery in Rome, one of the most interesting galleries and also one of the most interested in the research in the contemporary art field.... READ MORE...
City Portraits. Teatro A Corte: Interview With Berlin
We interviewed Berlin before their participation to Teatro a Corte 2011. Berlin is a Belgium-based collective, built around Bart Baele and Yves Degryse. It started in 2003, when the group from Anversa was formed together with the actress Caroline Rochlitz, with the aim to develop a project dedicated to cities or regions able to tell stories of important and universal identities and humanities.... READ MORE...
Ulrich Vogl. Harmony And Worlds In Balance
Ulrich Vogl (Kaufbeuren, 1973) grew up in southern Germany. He studied in Monaco, Berlin and at the School of Visual Arts in New York. He says he inherited his artistic streak from his grandfather, who was a researcher and inventor. This familiar and romantic world belongs to Ulrich Vogl as to his works, which are a mix of invention and idyllic evocation, purified by clear and defined forms, minimal colour choices that simper away every affectation and confers the work a concise and intriguing aspect.... READ MORE...
Humanity Of 3d. Billy Cowie’s Research
The fourth edition of Teatro a Corte International Festival, which toke place in Turin and in eight Savoy residences in Piedmont from July 8 until the 25th, presented a wide selection of contemporary and experimental productions in the fields of theatre, dance, nouveau cirque, video-dance and performance, hosting 31 groups from eight different nations. The event schedule comprehended 38 shows, 5 site specific projects and two creations commissioned for the Festival.... READ MORE...
Human, Water And Environment. Between Multimedia And Sustainability
The topic of water in the multimedia, electronic and digital field is huge since the beginning of electronic art and works of art of famous artists such as Bill Viola and Fabrizio Plessi, only to mention a few. Water has been compared to the electron flow and video, exactly for its liquid and mobile nature, is par excellence the mean which is the most linked and compared to this element essence.... READ MORE...
Joost Rekveld’s Study And Research Lines
At the beginning of 2009 for the first time the exceptional screens of IFFF - International Film Festival Rotterdam presented the film #37, the new experimental creation of the Dutch author Joost Rekveld (1970, Terneuzen, Netherlands), which achived a great success both from the public and the critics point of view thank to his poetic intensity and visual beauty.... READ MORE...
Balint Boligo’ And The Magical Machines
Bálint Bolygó, born in 1976, of Hungarian origin but a London resident, appears to be an artist who works with science. His family history confirms this: both his parents are scientists, and Bolig himself declares that this field was his initial means of inspiration for his own experiments and his own cultural growth. But when talking with Balint you realise that, despite maths, Physics and chemistry being significant reference points for the development of a personal poetical scheme, during the course of his artistic activity he does not want to create objects and sculptures that are scientifically significant, but instead wants to explore that thought-provoking space that brings art and science close together and has always made them unique and united.... READ MORE...
Carlo Bernardini: Balance Of Light
Light is the key to the source of life and in its most immediate and vital nature it is in the sun and in electricity. Light is an extremely malleable medium: it is the key component of any work that can be ascribed in the category of new media, from video to net art, from generative art to multimedia installations.... READ MORE...
Chiara Passa: Suoni E Immagini Nello Spazio
Nell'ambito della new media art ha gi sperimentato molto: animazione, videoinstallazioni, internet-art, progetti site-specific di architettura digitale legati al suono ed alla performativit. é Chiara Passa (Roma, 1973) l'artista italianissima, con una carriera per ben avviata a livello internazionale, che abbiamo voluto intervistare per questo doppio numero di Digimag, a cavallo tra il vecchio ed il nuovo anno... READ MORE...
