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Videozoom Japan. Re-framing The Daily

Lorenzo Taiuti
From December 7th to January 10th, Kenichi Kondo, curator of the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, presented a series of young Japanese artists at the Sala 1 - International Center for Contemporary Art in Rome, as part of the review Videozoom Japan. It was an overview of selected and formally interesting artistic production coming from the Rising Sun realized over the past decade, which focused on issues related to the re-framing of daily life (as suggested by the subtitle of this review).... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 62, March 2011

The “OVNI” Project. Video As A Critical Experience

Herman Mendolicchio
The 2011 edition of OVNI (Observatory de V'deo no Identificat: Unidentified Video Observatory) is dedicated to the concept of dis-reality. In an age where the show business, too many times mistaken for the culture world, has risen as model of real life, where fiction and reality melt into one solution and where physic and mental solidity dissolve into a constant flow of images and appearances, in this intricate and complex mutation of reality the OVNI work shows itself as an antidote to the poison of contemporary information and communication... READ MORE...
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Urban Transcripts 2010. Over The Skin Of The City

Eugenia Fratzeskou
The launch of the first Urban Transcripts international and interdisciplinary exhibition took place on 16th December 2010 at Booze Cooperativa gallery at the historical center of Athens. Housed in a three-floored neoclassical building, this is one of the most lively, ground-breaking and influential platforms for the contemporary art scene in the capital, which facilitates diverse kinds of exchange and dialogue between various art forms, ideologies and philosophies, forming a framework for collaboration and creativity that encompasses all fields of expression.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDesignDigimag - Issue 62, March 2011

Realities: United Featuring. Light As Gazes Conveyor

Silvia Bianchi
Realities: United is a Berlin based studio founded in 2000 by brothers Jan and Tim Edler, dealing with the contiunuous experimentation of the ephemeral boundaries between digital art and architecture. The studio, by now very renowned, has received in the last few years lots of international recognitions for the design and production of some architectural works and artistic projects, a lot of which are part of art centers collections of worldwide importance such as Moma and the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Reid.... READ MORE...
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Ulrich Vogl. Harmony And Worlds In Balance

Silvia Scaravaggi
Ulrich Vogl (Kaufbeuren, 1973) grew up in southern Germany. He studied in Monaco, Berlin and at the School of Visual Arts in New York. He says he inherited his artistic streak from his grandfather, who was a researcher and inventor. This familiar and romantic world belongs to Ulrich Vogl as to his works, which are a mix of invention and idyllic evocation, purified by clear and defined forms, minimal colour choices that simper away every affectation and confers the work a concise and intriguing aspect.... READ MORE...
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Costellations And Fragments. The Sound By Stephan Mathieu

Pia Bolognesi
Recently reading again the essay by Nicolas Bourriaud, Post Production. The culture comme scénario: comment l'art reprogramme le monde contemporain, I have found this excerpt of Mode d'emploi du détournement by Guy Debord, which to the detriment of his fiftyfive years - the text was published back in '56 - picks an extremely contemporary aspect of the artistic practise.... READ MORE...
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No Borders Struggles The Electronic Disturbance Theatre 2.0

Micha Cardenas
We are Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0 - EDT2.0. As a collective, we are already many. As a multiplicity, our goals, hopes and intentions are multiple. Our shared goals include the disturbance of borders: national, gender, genre, disciplinary, fiction/non, through the exploitation and re/performance of technology, poetry and the imaginaries of each.... READ MORE...
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Mischa Kuball Platon’s Mirror

Redazione Digicult
Düsseldorf-based media artist Mischa Kuball is among the few artists who has consistently understood light's (socio-)political dimensions and used the media accordingly in numerous works and installations. In his new exhibition project Platon's mirror, two additional aspects are included: a perception-aesthetics component, as well as the possibility of a novel type of image generation through computer tomography.... READ MORE...
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Mapping Maciunas & Exercise

Redazione Digicult
Stendhal Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of two exhibitions, Mapping Maciunas and Exercise on February 3, 2011. Both exhibitions examine the work of Fluxus artist, George Maciunas, who blended his education in architecture, graphic design and musicology to produce new ways of thinking about the state of contemporary society.... READ MORE...
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Freedom of creation Kickstarter

Redazione Digicult
Freedom Of Creation, Dutch design editor and pioneer in 3D printing, and FreshFiber, electronics accessories brand, are inviting visionary people, design addicts and pioneers to help fund the world's first online customization tool for 3D products. On www.kickstarter.com, everybody believing in the future of mass-customization, a true potential of 3D printing, can contribute, with low or big budgets, to this ambitious and futuristic project. Deadline for pledging is 27 February 2011.... READ MORE...
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Artefact Festival

Redazione Digicult
The Emergence of Things brings together some 20 artists who investigate the fundamental components or "elementary particles" of media, technology and their production processes. Like anatomical surgeons or archaeologists, they dissect our everyday instruments and image production. Some artists approach the theme from the social or political implications of certain 'tools' and the power structures that are interwoven with them.... READ MORE...
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Kim Asendorf. Censored Censored Chinese News

Mark Hancock
At a time when the Propaganda Department of the Chinese government has even more power than Prime Minister Wen Jiabao himself, it is worth considering exactly how powerful spin and government propaganda can be in the contemporary world. Of course, the Chinese censorship debate has been argued in many arenas. Certainly, everyone is familiar with the debate's around Google's enforcing of the government's strict censorship laws and then their about-face.... READ MORE...
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