Design

Alvarez-fernandez: Sound Amateur

Miguel Alvarez-Fernandez, young sound artist and designer ( Madrid , 1979), defines his background as a conventional one. Composition studies at the San Lorenzo de El Escorial Conservatory, composer in residence at the Madrid 'Residencia de Estudiantes' from 2002 to 2005, improvement in Germany at the Internationale Ferienkurse fur Neue Musik of Darmstadt, at the Stockhausen Stiftung of Kurten, at the Elektronische Studio-Technische Universitat of Berlin.... READ MORE...

Perpetual Art Machine

[PAM] is proud to present our New York museum premiere at the Chelsea Art Museum. [PAM] will be hosting a roundtable discussion on September 6th to discuss the current state and future of the medium of video art as it pertains to archiving, producing and collecting video art in the 21st century.... READ MORE...

Sonia Cillari: Body As Interface

If you are close to me , created in 2006, is requested by many. Festivals, digital art and new media exhibitions try to obtain it, though it is not always easy. Sonia Cillari , the author, says this interactive installation/performance is so unique and expensive that its duplication in order to have it in different places at the same time is not advisable l'autrice. A sensitive platform on which the visitors place themselves to become actors, performers and audience of their own actions at the same time. The actions turn into geometric shapes and lines around their bodies and movements and can be seen thanks to the huge projections on the surrounding walls.... READ MORE...

Il Design Minimale Targato Raster Noton

Di fronte all'intimo e raccolto Auditorio del CCCB di Barcellona, dove ho avuto l'occasione di suonare nel progetto audiovideo con Valentina Besegher in occasione del festival Offf 2007, si sono alternati le presentazioni e i workshop di importanti nomi e progetti di graphic e multimedia design, nel pi ampio spazio della Hall centrale. Sicuramente una delle cose pi interessanti a cui ho avuto l'occasione di assistere, ma anche una di quelle pi fuori contesto rispetto all'atmsfera generale del festival,  stata lo showcase dell'etichetta di musica elettronica e sperimentazione audiovisiva Raster-Noton .... READ MORE...

Offf Barcelona 2007

Re:Fresh, the 2007 edition, is the most ideological edition in the history of the festival, and starts with an invitation to rethink the most fundamental concepts. John Maeda, the founding figure of interaction design, visits Offf for the first time to speak about his fight for simplicity.... READ MORE...

Six Cities Design Festival

The Six Cities Design Festival is a £3 million initiative aimed at celebrating and raising awareness of the value of design and creativity in all six of Scotland's cities. Launched by Scotland's First Minister, the programme includes Business/Design and Learning programmes as well as a biennial Festival programme of public events, running for the first time from ... READ MORE...

Deaf 2007

From 10 through 29 April 2007, the eighth Dutch Electronic Art Festival (DEAF) will take place in Rotterdam. This international festival is organized every two years by V2_, Institute for the Unstable Media. It will be the first event to take place in the fully renovated Las Palmas cultural center in Rotterdam 's Kop van Zuid area. This year's theme is Interact or Die!... READ MORE...

Quayola: Visual Delicatessen

Davide Quagliola is among that group of sensible Italians who left their native shores to move to less sunny yet more hospitable places. Having moved from Rome to London, his work had been long associated with that of HFR Lab (a visual experimentation duo together with Chiara Horn), a project of sound and video, graphic and music on the border between installations and live performances which, also thanks to the good choice of moving to London, succeeded in creating a considerable professional connection net which probably would have been impossible to have living in Italy.... READ MORE...

Nulife, Digital And Emotional Environment

Per Milano aprile significa Salone del Mobile, una manifestazione che ormai da anni propone il meglio (e il peggio) del design nazionale e internazionale, in tutte le sue forme ed astrazioni. Ed  proprio in occasione della nuova edizione del Salone Internazionale del Mobile che Studio Canali sceglie di aprire al pubblico la sua nuova sede con Nulife, una settimana di incontri, eventi, emozioni.... READ MORE...

Deaf 2007: Interact Or Die

Interact or Die is the warning of the ninth edition of Dutch Electronic Art Festival (DEAF), the international art and new media biennial organized by V2_Institute of Unstable Media which will take place in Rotterdam from 10th till 29 th April. By emphazising the unavoidable process of interaction, conditio sine qua non of human behaviour, new flexible interactive models are proposed and analyzed, with their characteristics that cannot be strictly defined, but on the contrary follow ever-changing rules of relation.... READ MORE...

Jill Scott

Il 7 marzo 2007 ore 18.00 presso l'aula magna della Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti di Milano si terrà l'incontro con Jill Scott dal titolo "Can Media Art be a Catalyst to bring Science to the Public?". Può la Media Art essere un mezzo catalizzatore per avvicinare la scienza al pubblico?... READ MORE...

Marius Watz: Code, Art & Aesthetic

He is programmer, graphic, vj and experimenter. He is hedonist of the visual environment, lover of colours and organic forms. Editor of the Generator.x project (between conference, exhibitions and live concert) maybe the most known and qualified platform for the diffusion of the generation art and the sharing of the knowledge tied to the open source processing code and of Code & Form one of the most important resources for whom is interested in the computational aesthetic... READ MORE...