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Kengo Kuma: “Time Flows, and So Should The Architect”. The new Time-Space-Existence video

Redazione Digicult
Produced by PLANE—SITE, the video has been commissioned by the GAA Foundation and funded by the ECC in the run-up to the Time-Space-Existence exhibition during La Biennale di Venezia Architettura, this new short video features one of Japan’s most significant living architects Kengo Kuma, meditating on how a financial crash became an opportunity for learning.... READ MORE...
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Detached from yourself. Therefore Under Control – Part 2

Mauro Arrighi
One peculiar aspect concerning the use of technology formulated by Japanese artists it is shown by the constant interplay between the oneiric (relating to dreams) and science-fiction alike worlds depicted both by Japanese and American novelists and the content and/or the technique deployed in the artworks. The fictional, technological-empowered and otherworldly novels are taken as a main reference in Electronic Art; or are it true the other way round?... READ MORE...
ArticlesDesignDigimag - Issue 72, March 2012

A Taste of Sonar. South Africa Deals with Avant Guard

Ludovica Amoroso
Sonar of Barcelona, an International festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Art, landed for its 19th Indaba Design edition (from 29th February to 4th March) in Cape Town, by using a completely new special format. In order to know more about that, we asked Georgia Taglietti, Head of the International Media Department of Avanced Music (the organization which, every year, arranges Sonar event), to describe this new partnership.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 72, March 2012

Heath Bunting: Identity Bureau. Against Residual Self-Image

Ida Hirsenfelder
Identity Bureau was established by Heath Bunting to construct a custom-made physical person for the user, who would be able to function freely in society. The activities of the bureau extend also to instructions for other users to construct their own new identities. It undermines the habitual ways of climbing the social ladder and offers an alternative system to the dictate of there being a one and only "official" identity allocated to the individual by the state authorities.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 72, March 2012

Post Internet and Post Galleries. Conor Backman and The Reference Gallery

Robin Peckham
One of the founders of Reference Gallery, which could reasonably be called one of the best small-town galleries in the world, Conor Backman also happens to be a BFA student at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA. Open since the fall of 2009, Reference has come to define the growing inertia in post-internet art with a constant flux between physical exhibitions, digital circulation, and distributed networks of attention.... READ MORE...
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Can Digital Be Art? Its Time For Analysis

Lorenzo Taiuti
Periodically, as it happens in all expressive art forms, we need to ask ourselves about where we come from and which our own shapes and contents are. All that goes also for the ever-changing field affected by New Media’s “hyper-speed”. For more than two decades I’ve been trying to trace the relationships between Digital Art and Video Art on the one hand, and those established between Digital and the most specific field of Contemporary Art, on the other.... READ MORE...
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Virtuality. Aesthetic Experience and Curatorial Design

Lucrezia Cippitelli
Vince Dziekan is an artist, art historian, and curator who has dedicated his research and practice to explore of the concept of “Virtuality”. Specifically, Dziekan has been working on the space (intended as exhibition space and the one where artworks can be enjoyed and experienced) and influence that new digital technologies have had on its transformation and organization.... READ MORE...
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Transmediale 2012: Screening. Unusual Pictures For Unusual Times

Claudia D'Alonzo
Satellite stories is the title of the video program. It consists of eight different screenings, curated by Marcel Schwierin. A very successful aspect of Schwierin’s curatorial work was the capacity to transcend the division between language and distribution channels, by mixing works conceived for the net and works anchored to the cinema tradition, video art, and other performative and audiovisual works... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 72, March 2012

Israeli Center For Digital Arts. The Middle-Eastern Side Of Art

Silvia Bertolotti
Our journey leads us to Israel, not far from Tel Aviv, its capital city. Specifically, to Halon where the Israeli Center for Digital Art is based. It is the one and only center dedicated to digital arts and new media. The Center was founded in 2001 with the purpose to promote digital arts and other artforms in Israel. It is also focused on encouraging dialogue between artists and audience, and among (Israeli and international) artists... READ MORE...
ArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 71, February 2012

The Transformation: Of Curating: Three Terms

Alfredo Cramerotti
The text is a revised version of an essay published on switch, an event, project, and book that archives the first three years of an artist-led project by Triona Ryan & Harald Turek in Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, Ireland. It began in 2008 as a ground up approach to showing contemporary works of moving images in a small town located in a rural context, a conversation between artists, audiences and artworks taking place outside of the big city and adapting to the rhythm of smaller places... READ MORE...
ArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 71, February 2012