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“Digital Labor”. The Internet as Playground and Factory

Redazione Digicult
The book asks whether life on the internet is mostly work, or play. We tweet, we tag photos, we link, we review books, we comment on blogs, we remix media, and we upload video to create much of the content that makes up the web. And large corporations profit on our online activity by tracking our interests, affiliations, and habits—and then collecting and selling the data. What is the nature of this interactive ‘labor’ and the new forms of digital sociality that it brings into being?... READ MORE...
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DECiBEL. A melting pot to dance

Claudia Galal
Within the landscape of the international electronic music Tectonic, a label based in Bristol, has always been very careful in the selection of its artists. Pinch alias Rob Ellis, “the godfather of dubstep” and founder of this label in 2005, doesn't give all his blessings. The last going into the multicolor family is DECiBEL, dj and producer born in London (real name Jay Fontaine) grown up in the sign of the cultural contamination.... READ MORE...
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The Tanks: Art in Action. Aldo Tambellini exhibition and other events

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15 Weeks of Art in Action, the opening programme of the new Tanks at Tate Modern, reaches its final weeks in October with an electromedia installation and performance by cross-disciplinary pioneer Aldo Tambellini, a major installation and series of performances revisting the work of the Filmaktion group, a restaging of Juan Downey's 1973 experimental video performance Plato Now, and the performance series and symposium dedicated to performative projection, Playing in the Shadows.... READ MORE...
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Monolake. “Fundamental Forces” within contemporary electronic music

Silvia Bertolotti
Robert Henke is a German electronic musician and software engineer also known for being the creator of the project Monolake. Monolake is a duo born in 1995 in Berlin, together with Gerhard Behles, first, and Torsten Pröfrock (aka T++), afterwards. But Robert Henke is much more than Monolake. The artist currently manages the labels Imbalance Computer Music and Monolake/Imbalance Computer Music.... READ MORE...
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En Abime: Listening, Reading, Writing An archival fiction

Redazione Digicult
En Abime explores listening and reading as creative and critical activities driven by memory and return, reshaped into the present. It introduces an idea of aural landscape as a historically defined cultural experience, and contributes with previously unexplored references to the emerging area of listening as artistic practice, adopting an expansive approach across poetry, visual art and literature.... READ MORE...
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Yunchul Kim. “Carved Air” Exhibition at Ernst Schering Foundation

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In his exhibition CARVED AIR, the Berlin-based Korean artist Yunchul Kim presents a series of electrochemical drawings as well as his latest fluid-kinetic sculptures, coupled to a cosmic ray detector. Conceived specifically for the Project Space of the Ernst Schering Foundation, the works were created in cooperation with “Fluid Skies,” a working group consisting of Kim, the art historian Lucía Ayala and the astrophysicist Jaime Forero (http://www.fluid-skies.net). Curated by Lucía Ayala, the exhibition is the first outcome of this collaboration.... READ MORE...
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