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The Influencers

Redazione Digicult
The 4th edition of The Influencers, festival of media action and radical entertainment, explores controversial forms of art and communication guerrilla, presenting independent projects that play with global popular culture, infiltrate the mass media, and transform fashions, consumption and technological fetishism.... READ MORE...
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Art And Activism In The Showbusiness Era

Lucrezia Cippitelli
What if the artists suddenly stops working with the traditional means of contemporaneous art ( and with the Avant-garde's expression strategies), what if he makes a review to the existing reality through the construction of a metaphorical talk representing it, so unveiling the undergoing mechanisms? What is he makes a direct intervention on reality creating situations able to change and improve it? And if he gets engaged on a political point of view?... READ MORE...
ActivismArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 30, December 2007 / January 2008

The Theatre Of Electronic Surveillance

Annamaria Monteverdi
Does anyone remember Enemy of The State directed by Tony Scott and starring Will Smith and Gene Hackman? The story deals with a man targeted by closed-circuit cameras, radars, bugs, satellite indicators, high-sensitive microphones following each of his movements. This movie as many others is concerned with important issues such as control, wire-tapping, data security and satellite espionage. Among them we must mention Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation,The End of violence by the German director Wenders and The listening, shut in 2006 by the Italian director Giacomo Martelli.... READ MORE...
ActivismArticlesDigimag - Issue 29, November 2007

Steal This Film 2: Share Alike

Maresa Lippolis
n the wake of the diy-do it yourself attitude of Abbie Hoffman s book, Steal this book (1970) , in 2006 a pretended group of filmakers who gathered under the name of The league of the noble peer , produced an interesting documentary film, Steal this film , showing how the present time's pirates are causing trouble to the diffusion and production system of knowledge and information with their recreational and disenchanted habits.... READ MORE...
ActivismArticlesDigimag - Issue 29, November 2007

Artivistic

Redazione Digicult
Artivistic is an international transdisciplinary three-day gathering on the interPlay between art, information and activism, from 25th to 27th of October, at temporary headquarters at 5455 av. de Gaspé, #701, and in different venues and spaces of Montreal.... READ MORE...
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Sustainable Non-property, The Answer By Estudio Livre

Eleonora Oreggia
One of the innovations brought about by digital world is the reorganization of the process of creation/production according to an open system whose functionality is represented by the free software. The free software is the basis of the first free and widespread non-property net in history. Thanks to the overcoming of the binomial producer/consumer and the transformation of the product into process, an open and interactive relation between developer and user is created, with its potential of infinite new opportunities of production and creation.... READ MORE...
ActivismArticlesDigimag - Issue 28, October 2007

Laboratorio Occupato Morion. Stop Biennale!

Lucrezia Cippitelli
Lo so, probabilmente tendo a ripetermi parlando ancora una volta di inquinamento atmosferico da biennali d'arte contemporanea, della loro superfetazione, della vacuitˆ inutile di un sistema fintamente internazionale che invita sempre gli stessi artisti - con le stesse opere - e gli stessi curatori negli angoli pi remoti del mondo, mascherando il turismo culturale radical-chic per 'multiculturalismo'.... READ MORE...
ActivismArticlesDigimag - Issue 27, September 2007

New Ecovention

Redazione Digicult
The term ecovention describes an artist-initiated project that employs an inventive strategy to intervene in or transform a local ecology. Ecoventions usually involve collaborations between artists, community members and local specialists such as ecologists, botanists, landscape architects or urban planners.... READ MORE...
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