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Vns By David Rokeby. Seeking For An Harmonics Of Interaction

Claudia Maina
When aboarding the subject of interactive sound installation it is natural to turn to David Rokeby's work (1960, Tillsonburg, Ontario). If one thinks back to the line of research that was based upon the Sound Sculpture study in order to find a definition for Sound Art, knowledge of Rokeby's Very Nervous System (1986-1990) and his theory of harmonics of interaction' is fundamental for an understanding on the relationship between sound, movement, space and technology.... READ MORE...
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Stefano Tedesco. Radical Improvisation

Annamaria Monteverdi
The little and typical town of Casté in La Spezia's countryside, within the municipality of Ricc˜ del Golfo, after the Foce pass, counts 23 inhabitants (someone more during the summer) and was completely rebuilt and restored thanks to the European Union's funds. This summer the town has become scenario of a series of very particular initiatives divided into theatre, videos and music. It is a wonderful landscape in the Vara Valley with old houses made of squared stones and cement, 'piazoet" (i.e. balconies used to make products dry), and a single family-owned restaurant, which is difficult to abandon once sitting on the balcony with a great view on the valley rich of chestnut groves.... READ MORE...
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Urban Mashup. Changing A Slum In A Cultural Heritage

Neva Pedrazzini
From the end of July to the beginning of August Instanbul hosted the third edition of Urban Mashup, a particular international workshop organized by URBz, i.e. an association acting above all in India but which was also able to create a deep net of international relationships. URBz promotes all over the world a review activity of cities and therefore their new planning aimed at valorize the interpretation of societies living there. The first edition took place in Tokyo in July 2009 and the second one in Mumbai in November 2009.... READ MORE...
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In.fondo.al.mar (under.the.sea). Mediactivism And Infoviz.

Motor
There's no time for warnings. That was the opening statement of 2010 Festival Ars Electronica edition:Repair - ready to pull the lifeline, which has focused on advocating, as only way of conserving humanity and natural environment, direct action, as well as repairing and planning of achievable solutions, instead of merely analyzing problems we are well familiar with since decades.... READ MORE...
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Annie Abrahams. Allergic To Utopias

Maria Chatzichristodoulou
Annie Abrahams, born in the Netherlands, has been based in France since 1985. She holds a doctorate in biology from the University of Utrecht and is a graduate in fine arts from the Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten, Arnhem. Abrahams's work most often employs networking technologies: she produces networked performances, net.art pieces, collective writing projects, videos, as well as installations and performances in physical space. She started using technology for her artistic practice around 1991, and her first telepresence piece took place in 1996, in a gallery in Nijmegen, Holland.... READ MORE...
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Mark Grimes. Maker Faire Africa: The Net Doing

Bertram Niessen
The last years are witnessing the rise of a new phenomenon generally defined as Makers movement. Its pillar is the network grown around Make Magazine and Maker Faire. Make Magazine is a publication born in 2006 that connects a wide range of DIY projects related with technology. Makers Faire is a meeting held around the USA aiming at the connection of backyard inventors, artists and high-tech crafters. Behind this boom is O'Reilley Media, the publisher worldwide known for its software manuals and for the support to many initiatives related to technological innovation, social entrepreneurship and high-tech startups.... READ MORE...
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Ars Electronica 2010. Art And Technology For A Better Future

Barbara Sansone
Talking about an event like Ars Electronica is far from easy, first of all due do its sheer size, Size about the multiplicity of possible activities (attending exhibitions, conferences, laboratories, performances, projections; resting and exchanging views at the meeting points; participating to a variety of parallel activities,), the creative sites whose boundaries fade one into another (video, cinema, dance, music, ininstallations, handcrafting, animation, sustainability, architecture, games, science, medicine, biology and the wide extension of spaces across which the festival is articulated.... READ MORE...
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Expecting Expectations. An Interview With Isaac Mao

Robin Peckham
Isaac Mao has been called the ultimate Chinese digital guru, maintaining interests in commerce, electronic communication, and, increasingly, network politics. He is broadly labelled a venture capitalist, blogger, software architect, entrepreneur, and researcher in learning and social technology, dividing his time between research, social work, business, and technology.... READ MORE...
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Human Screens. An Interview With Chris O’shea

Silvia Bertolotti
Chris O'Shea is one of the most popular international graphic and interaction designer, based in London, whose work focuses on the possible interaction mechanisms between man and machine, as well as on the design of artistic works, often by dimension of play and irony, that bring into question our sense perceptions and common experiences of the outside world.... READ MORE...
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Machfeld Conceptual Media Art

Redazione Digicult
MACHFELD is an entity that practices media art and is defined conceptually. As such, it introduces autonomy into the art space and acts independently from its creators. Condition for the MACHFELD is the conceptual work of its operators (Sabine Maier and Michael Mastrototaro) which is obliged to the process-oriented interacitve systems in traditional art from which it has grown.... READ MORE...
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Hacking the city

Redazione Digicult
Hacking the City is an innovative project which reacts to changing structures of public space, mobility, and communication in the city. The project is mainly focussed on Essen, European Capital of Culture Ruhr.2010. Participants are artists, web designers, practitioners of guerrilla communication, street artists, performers, and musicians.... READ MORE...
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Media Facade Festival Europe 2010

Redazione Digicult
From 27 August to 02 October 2010, seven European cities will be connected through the medium of urban screens and media facades. Media Facades Festival Europe 2010 (MFF 2010) is a pilot project for artists and media designers. It will employ the networked urban screens infrastructures in 'Joint Broadcasting Events' throughout Europe for transnational circulation of artistic and cultural exchange.... READ MORE...
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Between: Borders

Redazione Digicult
John Palmesino and Florian Schneider, advising researchers Design at the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht (NL), will discuss how in the presence– as well as in the absence – of a scandal, new forms of participation, neutralization and caretaking become the constitutive elements of a border regime that operates beyond the patterns of inclusion and... READ MORE...
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Antoni Muntadas Political Advertisement

Redazione Digicult
With each presidential election since 1984, Antoni Muntadas and Marshall Reese have compiled a new edition of Political Advertisement, a historical survey of television campaign spots from 1952 to the present. This compelling anthology, updated to include advertisements from this year's presidential campaign, charts of selling of the American presidency in the media age... READ MORE...
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The Gate of Milan The final exposition

Redazione Digicult
The next 30th of September, at the Urban Center Milano within Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan, the exhibition of the international architecture competition "The Gate of Milan" winning project and finalists, will open. The exposition, sponsored by Urban Centre Milano, will remain active from the 1st to 25th of October 2010, from Monday to Friday, from 09.00 to 18.00 and free admission.... READ MORE...
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01SJ Biennial

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Il prossimo 16-19 settembre a Silicon Valley, California, ZER01: L'Art and Technology Network inaugurerà la terza Biennale 01SJ. Festival d'arte contemporanea medio-agnostico, la Biennale 01SJ si concentra sul legame tra arte, tecnologia e cultura digitale.... READ MORE...
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