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Facebook’s Slackers

Loretta Borrelli
Imagine you have a Facebook account. It isn't difficult at all. Imagine you are Danish and live in Copenhagen and someone asks you to share a cause aiming to defend the Stork Fountain, the city symbol, which is going to be knocked down. If you were a citizien who belives in the historical identity of the city where you live, you would probably share the cause without problems and maybe you would also widespread the idea among your friends. There is only one thing: this piece of news is totally false. Nobody has ever thought to knock down the most important sightseing of the Danish capital.... READ MORE...
ActivismArticlesDigimag - Issue 48, October 2009

Eclectic Tech Carnival

Redazione Digicult
The Eclectic Tech Carnival is a gathering of women & trans with a critical interest in Free Information and Open Standards technology. The event has been held annually since 2002 and creates an opportunity for women & trans to share their experiences, knowledge, skills, and network, thus: have fun!... READ MORE...
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Art, Activism, Subjectivity, Sabotage

Antonio Caronia
Who said that books dealing with the proceeding of a congress are boring? First of all it depends on the congress and the speakers, secondly on the way the book is conceived. The reading of L'arte della sovversione. Multiversity: pratiche artistiche contemporanee e attivismo politico (The art of overthrow. Multiversity: artistic contemporary practices and political activism) edited by Marco Baravalle for 'Manifestolibri/Uninomade', once you get over the title -a bit over the top- it is very enjoyable because it is composed of many keen and necessary statements (not all of them of course) on a group of quite current issues, that though complicated, are fascinating for those who deal with cultural production in general, and with a political/social tone in particular.... READ MORE...
ActivismArticlesDigimag - Issue 47, September 2009

Pirates At The Parliament: The Big Dream?!

Marco Mancuso
In just 24 months we have witnessed an amazing increase in consensus toward our ideals across the globe. Renowned worldwide for being one of the most defiant and cheeky online centres for Peer to Peer and exchange of audio and video files, fresh from their success in the European Elections which took one of their representatives flying from the meshes of the Net straight into a political seat in Brussels, the board of Pirate Party International, the political branch of The Pirate Bay project, is euphoric.... READ MORE...
ActivismArticlesDigimag - Issue 46, July / August 2009

Hacker Space Festival

Redazione Digicult
The second Hacker Space Festival (HSF) will be held at the /tmp/lab in Paris, on the 26-30 June 2009. The goal of the Hacker Space Festival is to bring together people from many cultural and technological backgrounds and from different Hacker Spaces and Autonomous zones in France and Europe (and from beyond, if they can attend) to share and show what's going on... READ MORE...
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From Cfu To Funen: Interview With Jakob Jakobsen

Loretta Borrelli
In April of this year a group of students from the Funen Art Academy , an independent academy in Copenhagen , did a tour of Italy with the objective of coming into contact with certain activist and underground Italian groups. Among the teachers who accompanied them was Jakob Jakobsen, a Danish artivist, who for some time has been involved and has elaborated practices for the liberation of artistic knowledge. In 2001, together with the artist Henrietta Heise, he founded the Copenhagen Free University, establishing it in his own apartment. This experience lasted 6 years and is what they themselves describe as being 'self-teaching'. In this interview Jakob tells us about his present and past experiences as an activist and teacher.... READ MORE...
ActivismArticlesDigimag - Issue 45, June 2009

A_ctivism

Otherehto
In this article I would like to introduce some of my thoughts on the forms of protest in art. My statements were conceived on occasion of the round table 'Out of the fiction of protest - Art and political activism' that took place on 24 May 2009 in Milan. In order to synthesize my thoughts I have decided to divide the article into three hypothesis aiming at eliciting the development of topics that either deny or confirm a given stance.... READ MORE...
ActivismArticlesDigimag - Issue 45, June 2009

The Aware And Creative Technology Of Goto10

Giulia Simi
The collective GOTO10 (the answers of this interview were elaborated with the name GOTO10 by Karsten Gebbert, Claude Heiland-Allen, Aymeric Mansoux, Marloes de Valk and Thomas Vriet), active internationally for years in the technological activist environment, is a good example of how a group of programmer-artists manages to face and win against the swamps of our time through a creative, aware and thought-out use of technology. I interviewed them so that they could tell us about some aspects of their complex project.... READ MORE...
ActivismArticlesDigimag - Issue 45, June 2009

Giacomo Verde: Action Beyond Representation

Clemente Pestelli
Many people will already know Giacomo Verde's name and activity: a video maker, performer and, as he likes to define himself, techno artist. For those who do not know Giacomo's work, perhaps it's sufficient to say that he represents one of the ideal bridges between the first pioneer season of video and multimedia experimentation in Italy and the current experimental phase.... READ MORE...
ActivismArticlesDigimag - Issue 43, April 2009

Climate for Change

Redazione Digicult
For its first new exhibition of 2009, its UNsustainable year, FACT is proud to present "Climate for Change", a unique experiment in activism, engagement and networking, examining the multiple crises affecting the planet – ecological, financial, food and housing... READ MORE...
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