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New Giant Joystick

Redazione Digicult
Imagine a joystick that is bigger than most basketball players...and requires at least two people to operate it. That's the challenging, quirky and ultimately fun concept behind "An 8-bit Moment in Gameplay: [giantJoystick]", an art-meets-technology exhibition opening February 4 in the Gallery at Calit2, a small space with big ambitions.... READ MORE...
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Tafkav And A Flower Called Vanda

Teresa De Feo
Communication between different entities, in an age of deep anthropologic changes, is the topic on which the complex research of TAFKAV , 'The Artist Formerly Kwon As Vanda' , develops. That is a fully Italian installation which brilliantly deals with uncertain and controversial questions that still have to be discussed, thus succeeding in giving a glimpse on digital arts' next future and more.... READ MORE...
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Lab (au): Meta Design. Liquid Spaces And The Cities Of Tomorrow

Marco Mancuso
There are people living in cities who are careful observers of the slow changes which are taking place around them. Such people are not inclined to complaining about new telecameras controlling the access to the old town centre, about the prevailing traffic and polluted air, or the advertising billboards covering the facades of the old buildings in boulevards.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDesignDigimag - Issue 29, November 2007

Offf Festival 2007

Redazione Digicult
The inaugural OFFF Festival New York will not strictly be a visual festival, but complementing this explosion of digital art will be an array of musical artists such as Takagi Masakatsu and Frank Bretschneider performing and divulging their innovative tricks of the trade.... READ MORE...
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Atom: Floating Audiovisual Design

Bertram Niessen
Sometimes things happen, a bit by chance. It is true, though, that in some cities by chance things happen easier than somewhere else. So it may happen to go for a walk to the Tesla Culture Centre in Berlin on a Friday rainy evening, maybe feeling a bit bored, just to take a look around at the installations, not all of them interesting, and then to come across the rehearsal of one of the best performances/audiovisual installations one have seen long since.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDesignDigimag - Issue 28, October 2007

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Relational Architecture

Monica Ponzini
Mexico, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's homeland, made its debut at the 52nd edition of the Venice Biennale with the artist's work exhibition. Rafael Lozano-Hemmer is well-known for his big installations used by the most various media and for his custom-made interfaces. In other words this artist loves the active interaction of the public. Robot installations, computers, video projections, sensors, lights (and shadows) and sounds, these are the means used for the creation of works. His works are famous because all around the world they can temporarily change space perceptions and their relations with people living there. Or they can draw attention to important issues such as the continuous control we are subjected.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDesignDigimag - Issue 28, October 2007

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...
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Media Acrhitecture

Redazione Digicult
Organised by Media
Architecture Group in Vienna, the conference Media Architecture will bring together international speakers from the architecture, planning and media communities for the first time to address the increasing integration of new display technologies for building construction... READ MORE...
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