Tiziana Gemin

Thirty Years Of Ars Electronica: The Future Of Man And Nature

Tiziana Gemin
The 2009 Ars Electronica will surely be an edition to remember. The festival, which takes place in Linz the first week of September, celebrated its 30th year. Much attention was focused on the little Austrian town for the fact that Linz was chosen as European Culture Capital for 2009, and so it has experienced an intense year, dense with launches and cultural events... READ MORE...
ArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 48, October 2009Science

Ars Electronica 2008: A New Cultural Economy

Tiziana Gemin
Ridisegnare le leggi che regolano i flussi di informazioni, con una nuova economia dello sharing, diventa necessario; e nel corso dell'edizione 2008 del festival Ars Electronica, celebre manifestazione di arte e cultura digitale di Linz, cittˆ austriaca che si prepara a diventare nel 2009 capitale europea della cultura, sin dal titolo della manifestazione A New Cultural Economy - The Limits of Intellectual Property, si  cercato di delineare alcuni dei possibili tratti di base di una nuova societˆ basata sulla conoscenza.... READ MORE...
ArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 38, October 2008Science

Ars Electronica 2007: Goodby Privacy?

Tiziana Gemin
As every September, the 2007 edition of Ars Electronica took punctually place in Linz. Since 1979 the Austrian festival dedicated to digital art and new media has tried to draw the lines that link art, technology and society together. The event has surely always been an appointment that cannot be missed as well as a firm reference point in international digital culture scene.... READ MORE...
ArtArticlesDesignDigimag - Issue 28, October 2007

Light Bulb And Surreal Art

Tiziana Gemin
During 2007 edition of Sonar festival which ended a few days ago in Barcelona, a project by Jeff Lieberman, entitled Light Bulb, was presented at Sonarmatica , a show which takes place together with the usual festival. This year Sonarmatica presented a selection of works dealing with the magic' side of technology, showing processes which cannot be understood merely with intuition and trigger our wonder.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 26, July / August 2007

Warren Neidich, Between Brain And Culture

Tiziana Gemin
The emerging of new technologies implies mutations which have a deep influence both on our physical and on our psychic existence. With new technologies the environment changes, as well as and the stimuli we are exposed to. And the way we imagine changes too, letting new meanings emerge within a complex relation net between social, historical, economic and cultural conditions.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 24, May 2007Science

Simply Ars Electronica

Tiziana Gemin
The contemporaneity is irremediable influenced, in its various domains, by the use of the technologies, which should be used to simplify our life and to make the sharing of our experiences more direct. But the new technologies influence us and persuade us to not always spontaneously behaviours in order to permit the interaction between the mankind and the machine... READ MORE...
ArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 18, October 2006

Softwares Sensoriali E Materiali Digitali

Tiziana Gemin
There is an exhibition of some works created by the artists Alessandro Capozzo and Katja Noppes in Venice , at the Ex Cantieri Navali. The collaboration between these two protagonist is really interesting, considering the possibility of a dialogue between conventional art and new tecnologies. The two artists have different technical competence and way of representation... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 16, July / August 2006

L’arsenale Mediatico Di Davide Grassi

Tiziana Gemin
Le strategie di guerriglia militare partono da situazioni di visibilitˆ limitata, per il guerrigliero la pubblicitˆ  controproducente. L'opposto avviene nelle strategie terroristiche: il terrorismo senza media non avrebbe quasi ragione d'essere. Ma si pu˜ pensare di usare certe strategie in ambito artistico? Davide Grassi, artista multimediale italo-sloveno, durante la sua visita in Italia lo scorso maggio per presentare il suo ultimo lavoro DemoKino, ha fatto una panoramica sui suoi lavori che dimostrano la loro grande duttilitˆ, unitamente alla lucida pianificazione di una produzione decisamente poliedrica... READ MORE...
ActivismArticlesDigimag - Issue 07, September 2005

Genesis P-orrige: Tenebra Inafferabile

Tiziana Gemin
Genesis P-Orrige  una figura controversa nell'ambito delle avanguardie culturali degli ultimi 30/40 anni. Ha influenzato generazioni di musicisti e artisti, anche se  stato pi volte frainteso, essendo il suo lavoro cos" difficile da definire. L'iter artistico di Genesis comincia nel 1969 con la fondazione di un collettivo di performer chiamato COUM Transmissions, che promosse azioni anti-establishment di scardinamento dei meccanismi sociali in una dimensione ludica... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 06, July / August 2005