Silvia Scaravaggi

La Democrazia Di Tina B.

A Praga per il terzo anno consecutivo, dal 25 settembre al 15 ottobre 2008, si  svolto il Festival dell'Arte Contemporanea che ha fatto della 'sottrazione' il proprio cavallo di battaglia. Questa non  un'altra Biennale;, parafrasi dell'acronimo che ne compone il titolo, Tina B (This is not Another Biennial) si propone come progetto artistico internazionale che tenta di far convergere l'attuale scena creativa del centro-est Europa con la produzione di giovani talenti emergenti provenienti da tutto il mondo... READ MORE...

La Vulnerabilita’ Video Di Tina Gonsalves

Che cosa succede quando si guarda un video? Quali cambiamenti avvengono nel corpo e nell'emotivitˆ del partecipante quando prende parte ad un'installazione interattiva? Le reazioni fisiche e psichiche del fruitore sono una componente fondamentale della vita dell'opera d'arte e diventano addirittura necessarie per la riuscita di un pezzo che racchiuda in sé tecnologia, creativitˆ ed interazione. Sull'indagine delle sensazioni, delle emozioni e della consapevolezza del corpo, che il pubblico sperimenta ed acquisisce entrando in relazione con l'opera, Tina Gonsalves (Sydney, 1972) ha basato una ricerca decennale, passando dall'uso dell'animazione, al video, fino all'interaction design.... READ MORE...

Test_lab, Live_coding

V2_Institute for the Unstable Media in Rotterdam is internationally recognized like one of the main centres for research and practice for what concerns new media art and technological and artistic experimentation. It has recourses of several events and workshops to give life to wide discussions about modern age and to propose the most interesting matters of the world creative scene.... READ MORE...

Mutamorphosis: Challenging Arts And Science

From 8th to 11th November Prague has been protagonist of the third edition of the international festival Enter3, dedicated to the relationship between art, science and new technologies, with a series of expositions, performances, panels, workshops and the Mutamorphosis symposium, meeting and exchange point between students, artists, scientists from all over the world.... READ MORE...

Vinz Beschi: Media Don’t Eat Children

I casually discovered the media, digital, A/V world at school, actually during my first year of university. Before that moment, I didn't even know its meaning. I watched television, I went to cinema, I looked to music videos, I wrote emails, and I listened to music on CDs without an education about that. I never learned to understand the mechanism behind and inside the instruments I used, their history. And I didn't even know anything about their evolutions and implications for the future... READ MORE...

Alvarez-fernandez: Sound Amateur

Miguel Alvarez-Fernandez, young sound artist and designer ( Madrid , 1979), defines his background as a conventional one. Composition studies at the San Lorenzo de El Escorial Conservatory, composer in residence at the Madrid 'Residencia de Estudiantes' from 2002 to 2005, improvement in Germany at the Internationale Ferienkurse fur Neue Musik of Darmstadt, at the Stockhausen Stiftung of Kurten, at the Elektronische Studio-Technische Universitat of Berlin.... READ MORE...

Sonia Cillari: Body As Interface

If you are close to me , created in 2006, is requested by many. Festivals, digital art and new media exhibitions try to obtain it, though it is not always easy. Sonia Cillari , the author, says this interactive installation/performance is so unique and expensive that its duplication in order to have it in different places at the same time is not advisable l'autrice. A sensitive platform on which the visitors place themselves to become actors, performers and audience of their own actions at the same time. The actions turn into geometric shapes and lines around their bodies and movements and can be seen thanks to the huge projections on the surrounding walls.... READ MORE...

Raquel Paricio. Res-qualia: Evolvable Art

Deepening dynamics and relationships between art, science and technology, it's amazing finding Res-Qualia.net, the website born in the 2005 from the Spanish researcher Raquel Paricio, which inquires the infinite world that links art to science, using a typical digital world's approach. A precious database that encloses in itself some of the most innovative works and researches of the last years in artistic field, always tied to science and to the idea of evolution of the conscience.... READ MORE...

Maria Roussou, Immersive Interactive Experience

Maria Roussou worked for years (1993 - 1997) at the CAVE of Electronic Visualization Laboratory in Chicago . From 1998 till 2002 she directed the Virtual Reality Department of the Foundation of the Hellenic World in Athene. She cooperated with several museums, such as the Minneapolis Walker Art Center , where she was in charge of online art education. She studied Electronic Media and Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at Illinois University in Chicago , she is PhD in Computer Science at London University and teaches New Technologies & Museums for Master of Arts program in Museum Studies at Athene University .... READ MORE...

Actuating Consciousness Of Cybernetic Future

The importance of science and art relationship is internationally discussed and it is at the basis of important academicals and experimental institutions programmes, daily exploring borders and links between art, mathematics, physics, electronics, chemistry, widen possibilities of knowledge and creativity, reflecting the structure of the nature itself, made by many layers and differences.... READ MORE...