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Laboral SummerLab 2010

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For the third year running, LABoral has organised SummerLAB, an annual event conceived to bring young digital creators and developers together with the purpose of working on collaborative projects. After an open international call, eight projects were chosen to be developed over a period of ten days during the month of July at Plataforma 0_LABoral Centro de Producción.... READ MORE...
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The root of the root

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This exhibition showcases three artists working with generative code to create abstract and reactive works. Marius Watz and Paul Prudence have been contributing to the dialogue for computational art since 2005 with seminal essays, some of the foremost blogs and ground-breaking software. As a seminal member of the processing community, Marius Watz has, in many ways, defined part of the aesthetic associated with code-based art. Paul Prudence works with VVVV and with visual feedback systems to create audio-visual performances. Aaron Meyers is an artist and programmer using generative strategies in the creation of software and moving image. He is currently a fellow at the Eyebeam Art & Technology center where he recently led the Visual Music Collaborative workshop in collaboration with Ghostly International.... READ MORE...
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Gillo Dorfles. Aesthetics, Electronics And Textuality

Pasquale Napolitano
Artist, designer, art critic and philosopher; Gillo Dorfles shows to be an indeed versatile figure, who binds his own name to the commitment of constantly explore and analyze aesthetic and cultural phenomena. Achieving to become interpreter and witness of the developing dialectics between artistic expressions and industrial production, Dorfles has been nurturing leading edge groups and movements, the most well-known of which are the MAC- Movimento di Arte Concreta (the Concrete Art Movement) , founded in Milan in 1948 together with Atanasio Soldati, Bruno Munari e Gianni Monnet, the aim being to promote a type of abstractionism freed from any process of mimesis - and the ADI (Industrial Design Association), the creation of which will see Dorfles himself as protagonist, 12 years later.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDesignDigimag - Issue 59, November 2010

Susa Pop: Connecting Cities. New Formats Of Urban Communication

Silvia Bertolotti
In September and October 2010 the first edition of MFFE (Media Facade Festival) began, a European pilot project featuring the participation of different digital artists and designers. The festival is organised by the Berlin Public Art Lab, in collaboration with the artistic centers of other six European cities: Liverpool, Brussels, Helsinki, Linz, Madrid and Budapest.... READ MORE...
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Daniel Dendra And Open Simsim. Open Source And Architectural Practice

Elena Biserna
Though the twelfth Venice Biennial Architecture is concluded, this year's theme - People Meet in Architecture - has left everyone wanting for more and returning for a long tem project, beyond the present exhibition. Our idea is to help people and society relate with architecture, to help architecture relate with people and society, and to help people and society relate with each other, as states Kazuyo Sejima, this year's director.... READ MORE...
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The Charm Of Precariousness. A Conversation With Jose’ Luis De Vicente

Barbara Sansone
A few years ago, there was an omnipresent personality to be seen at any digital art event organized in Barcelona (amongst other places). This personality was José Luis de Vicente, a writer, theorist, curator, and researcher actively involved in events like Sónar (http://www.sonar.es), OFFF (http://www.offf.ws) and ArtFutura (http://www.artfutura.org).... READ MORE...
ArtArticlesDesignDigimag - Issue 59, November 2010

Lucio Costa La città per l’uomo

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Il 21 aprile 1960 Brasília veniva inaugurata dal presidente Juscelino Kubitscheck. Cinquant'anni dopo il Brasile celebra la sua capitale, dichiarata dall'Unesco patrimonio dell'umanità, con una grande mostra al Museu Nacional da República e con l'impegno del suo padiglione alla Biennale veneziana di Architettura. Raro caso di città di fondazione in età contemporanea, Brasília rappresenta un esperimento urbanistico di straordinario e controverso interesse, che ribadisce l'universalità del dibattito fra esigenze degli abitanti e responsabilità politiche e progettuali.... READ MORE...
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Antonio Barrese. Mutation, Imagine, Dimension

Marco Mancuso
Amongst the several protagonists of that unique period, the MID Group, founded in 1964 in Milan by Antonio Barrese, Alfonso Grassi, Gianfranco Laminarca and Alberto Marangoni, whose activity came to an end in 1992, represented one of the most important groups of that wonderful period. It was the first in Italy to expand its field of research beyond the narrow disciplinary borders of art. It worked between technological research and educational intent and conceived visual communication as a language including the most various expression forms: film, graphics, environment, object, architecture, photography.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDesignDigimag - Issue 58, October 2010

Between: Borders

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John Palmesino and Florian Schneider, advising researchers Design at the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht (NL), will discuss how in the presence– as well as in the absence – of a scandal, new forms of participation, neutralization and caretaking become the constitutive elements of a border regime that operates beyond the patterns of inclusion and... READ MORE...
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The Gate of Milan The final exposition

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The next 30th of September, at the Urban Center Milano within Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan, the exhibition of the international architecture competition "The Gate of Milan" winning project and finalists, will open. The exposition, sponsored by Urban Centre Milano, will remain active from the 1st to 25th of October 2010, from Monday to Friday, from 09.00 to 18.00 and free admission.... READ MORE...
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Tecarteco Festival 01 – Germinations

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Art, technological innovation, communica­tion and environmental sustainability are the focus of Tec-Art-Eco art and technology for the environment, promoted by Ariella Vidach – AiEP Association (MILAN) and Avventure in Eli­cottero Prodotti (LUGANO) with the support of the P.O. di Cooperazione Transfrontaliera Italia – Svizzera / FESR – Fondo Europeo di Sviluppo Regionale.... READ MORE...
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Braunschweig Light Trail 2010

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Seven artists will sharpen the awareness of the urban space and the municipal surroundings with their fascinating interventions of light art on the Oker River moat at night. With its Light Trail 2010, Braunschweig offers for the third time a unique blend of contemporary art and public space.... READ MORE...
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The Poetics Of The Intangible. A Conversation With Jaume Plensa

Barbara Sansone
In 2007, during the ArtFutura festival, I witnessed a brief conference by Jaume Plensa and it was love at first sight. His art, his thinking and his way of presenting them to me seemed something able to accompany the viewer into a higher dimension, to transmit an almost mystical energy. This artist joined the small circle of my idols and so, without realizing it, I ended up convinced that he was a superhuman being who was not really living on earth like us ordinary mortals.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDesignDigimag - Issue 57, September 2010

Smart Urban Stage Intervista a Lorenzo Imbesi

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Dallo scorso 26 giugno fino al prossimo 31 luglio, all'interno di un'avveniristica struttura gonfiabile di 200 mq presso l'Auditorium Parco della Musica di Roma, verrà presentata smart future minds exhibition. Articolata attraverso dodici progetti sul tema "Il futuro della città", la mostra promette di essere un momento di riflessione critica e divulgazione artistica all'interno del più ampio smart urban stage, innovativo road show che toccherà Zurigo, Parigi, Madrid e Londra dopo essere passata già a Berlino.... READ MORE...
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Jenny Holzer

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For more than thirty years, Jenny Holzer's work has paired text and installation to examine personal and social realities. In this exhibition, which centers on her work from the mid-1990s to the present, Holzer fuses political comment with formal beauty.... READ MORE...
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