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Digital Art Works The challnges of conservation

Redazione Digicult
The exhibition Digital Art Works. The Challenges of Conservation aims to shed light on the variety of questions that art institutions and artists themselves are faced with in trying to guarantee the continuity of these particularly fragile works of art. While the core of computer-based artworks lies in their digital code, the particular challenge in preserving digital artworks has much more to do with the hardware and software required for their production and presentation.... READ MORE...
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Phillip Stearns: Subliminal Machines

Redazione Digicult
Phillip Stearns creates at the intersection of art, philosophy, and science, drawing upon a variety of disciplines including installation, audio-video, circuit sculpture, writing, performance art and musical composition. Deconstruction, dissection, and reconfiguration are methods he commonly employs in the interrogation of materials ranging from electronic objects, biological systems, images, light, video, and sound. His process is that of reduction aimed at revealing hidden macrocosms of potential, new materials for expression, and new paths for inquiries into understanding the state of things.... READ MORE...
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Claudia Hart When a rose is not a rose

Redazione Digicult
bitforms gallery is pleased to announce a second solo exhibition with the Chicago-based artist Claudia Hart. When A Rose is Not a Rose, Hart's reflection on the ubiquitous Gertrude Stein poem from 1913, presents the artist's recent explorations on her own denial of death. The exhibition's muted wall text , "When this you see remember me", also quotes the title of W.G. Roger's biography on Stein, functioning as a cold reminder of mortality, a memento mori.... READ MORE...
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None Stands For Us. The Occupation Of Teatro Valle

Marco Mancuso
The Teatro Valle Occupato has drifted away from its initial route and is now heading to Piramide. It's about 6 PM of 10/15, and this is the Twittered message you can find following ashtag #15o, the personal and global reference point of this crazy day. I just escaped from two indiscriminate charges of the security forces (I should use the word guard, as it is better suitable for their manners, but I use the official term out of politeness), which, as usual, do not know and do not care to make any distinction between peaceful and not peaceful demonstrators... READ MORE...
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A.i. And Landform Studies. The Rediscovery Of The Ontological Need

Simone Broglia
The philosophical twentieth century was characterized by an explosion of science and scientific nature which highlighted an idea of progress and progression of the human thought and evolution as something which does not need further questions. The idea that functionality and applicability of a theory can be applied to praxis, which executes and finalizes such theory, comes full circle... READ MORE...
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Anything I Love Goes Into My Brain. An Interview With Rafael Rozendaal

Mathias Jansson
In the year 2000, Miltos Manetas published the famous Neen Manifesto in which he describes a new unidentified generation of artists who glorifies computers, artificially simulation and who use the web as their gallery. Two years later, Manetas and Peter Lunenfeld manifested the Neen concept in a spectacular 'hijacking' of the Whitney biennals domain name... READ MORE...
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Urban Escapism – Part 1. The Thousand Lights Of Tokyo’s Streets

Mauro Arrighi
Toshio Iwai, born in Japan in 1962, has been internationally defined as a new-media artist. In the following pages, I will address one of his experiments, Sound-Lens , which he made in 2001, when he was 39. Following this piece, a couple of Japanese contemporary authors are offering a totally new point of view of Tokyo through the everyday's unseen: Iwai is one of these explorers.... READ MORE...
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Ricci/forte. A Mash-up Of Uneasiness And Perversion

Marco Mancuso
The epigraph introducing the article is taken from the cover notes of the above book, a volume containing the first publication of the Macadamia Nut Brittle text, related to the homonymous show that made its debut at the Festival Garofano Verde in Rome in 2009, inspired by Dennis Cooper, written by Ricci/Forte and directed by Stefano Ricci, which also contains an interview to the artists and a critical introduction by the author, retracing the main characteristics of the work by the Roman duo... READ MORE...
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A New Documentation. An Interview To Joao Vasco Paiva

Robin Peckham
João Vasco Paiva (n. 1979) is a Portuguese artist based in Hong Kong since 2006. He has taught at the City University of Hong Kong School of Creative Media and Hong Kong Art School/ RMIT University. With a background in painting and advanced training in media technology, his work is characterized by the appropriation of observed phenomena, mapping apparently random situations and presenting them in an aesthetically organized framework through video, audiovisual performance, recording, and installation... READ MORE...
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Robotic Identity. Multimedia Fashion Shows By Hussein Chalayan

Alexandra Purcaru
From July 5 to December 11, the Parisian Muse des Arts Decoratifs hosted the exhibition Récits de mode of designer Hussein Chalayan. The visitors of this exhibition don't belong to the category of female followers who follow the latest trends and haute couture and move around in groups of cutting-edge young designers sketching clothes on their Moleskin... READ MORE...
ArticlesDesignDigimag - Issue 69, November 2011

Mischer’traxler. Naturally Combined Design

Pasquale Napolitano
Katharina Mischer and Thomas Traxler (Mischer'Traxler) design and develop collections of objects and conduct experimental research into design , by adopting a conceptual approach. These two designers love experimenting, analyzing and creating in a fully autonomous way, by devising concepts, systems and views, rather than single and simple products. Their works, by becoming part of a sustainable perspective of needs, ask us to pay greater attention to ethics.... READ MORE...
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Designing Complexity. Remarks About Design Modeling Symposium

Sabina Barcucci
The consequences of Information Technology for big architectural systems have to cross huge amounts of digital data with new design methodologies and revolutionary techniques of material production. The third edition of Design Modelling Symposium, held in Berlin at the Universität der Künste Berlin (UDK) from 7th to 12th October, turned into a privileged observatory of the challenge that researchers and designers from disparate fields are facing in the attempt to control these complex systems... READ MORE...
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Light Spectrum Glasses. Looking Beyond White Light

Thomas Schielke
Spectral glasses enable a pragmatic approach to evaluate the colour rendering of light. This technique could help architects, interior and lighting designers to analyse quickly how light reproduces colours on objects. The film by Thomas Schielke covers vivid impressions of our architectural and urban environment with a variety of light sources ranging from sunlight to modern LEDs. The images reveal a fascinating look beyond white light to search for inherent light colours.... READ MORE...
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Bozar Electronic Weekend. Electtronic Music In The Heart Of Europe

Silvia Bertolotti
The heart of Europe beats at the rate of electronic music. The proof of that is Brussels, the city that hosted, on October 28th and 29th, the Bozar Electronic Weekend, one of the not-to-miss events for lovers of electronic music and experimentation applied to it. More than thirty, among digital artists, musicians, DJs and VJs, took part to it... READ MORE...
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