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Noord, Pars Pro Toto

Redazione Digicult
Noord is an international art project concerning Amsterdam-Noord. This peripheral borough serves as a pars pro toto for The Netherlands. It is conflicting and heterogeneous, but at the same time has a strong sense of solidarity and camaraderie. It is also one of the most undiscovered, and therefore exciting locations of The Netherlands. Together with local and international artists, Mediamatic is mapping Noord. The result will be the first Arabic travel guide to The Netherlands, launched on September 4 at Mediamatic Bank.... READ MORE...
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Media City Seoul 2010

Redazione Digicult
To connect with the rest of the world, we invest a certain amount of trust in various relations. Trust is by default an ambiguous notion, it is one grounded in good faith as much as in doubt. As individuals we not only have these relations to our fellow citizens, but also increasingly with modes of connection. With proliferating forms of media, information comes to us in many guises, and the message is more and more opaque; marketing poses as friendship, solitude as community, populism as democracy.... READ MORE...
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Tecarteco Festival 01 – Germinations

Redazione Digicult
Art, technological innovation, communica­tion and environmental sustainability are the focus of Tec-Art-Eco art and technology for the environment, promoted by Ariella Vidach – AiEP Association (MILAN) and Avventure in Eli­cottero Prodotti (LUGANO) with the support of the P.O. di Cooperazione Transfrontaliera Italia – Svizzera / FESR – Fondo Europeo di Sviluppo Regionale.... READ MORE...
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Braunschweig Light Trail 2010

Redazione Digicult
Seven artists will sharpen the awareness of the urban space and the municipal surroundings with their fascinating interventions of light art on the Oker River moat at night. With its Light Trail 2010, Braunschweig offers for the third time a unique blend of contemporary art and public space.... READ MORE...
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Hacking the city

Redazione Digicult
Hacking the City è un progetto innovativo che reagisce alle strutture in continuo cambiamento dello spazio pubblico , della mobilità e della comunicazione in città. Il progetto si focalizza principalmente su Essen, European Capital of Culture Ruhr.2010.... READ MORE...
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Aaajiao’s Software. Data Matter Conversion

Robin Peckham
Xu Wenkai, who uses the name Aaajiao in most exhibition and other public contexts, was born in Xi'an in 1984 and currently resides in Shanghai. His name is widely known within both art and tech circles in China, though mostly for his efforts at organizing and sharing information rather than as an artist per se. New media artist and computer visual programmer, he created in 2003 the online sound art platform: cornersound.com and in 2006 the english version of the we-make-money-not-art blog We Need Money Not Art. Without forgetting his collaborations with the Dorkbot network and with the 3S Media Center, center for academic research in art, media and technologies.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 57, September 2010

The Poetics Of The Intangible. A Conversation With Jaume Plensa

Barbara Sansone
In 2007, during the ArtFutura festival, I witnessed a brief conference by Jaume Plensa and it was love at first sight. His art, his thinking and his way of presenting them to me seemed something able to accompany the viewer into a higher dimension, to transmit an almost mystical energy. This artist joined the small circle of my idols and so, without realizing it, I ended up convinced that he was a superhuman being who was not really living on earth like us ordinary mortals.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDesignDigimag - Issue 57, September 2010

Organic Resonances. On Ginette Laurin

Enrico Pitozzi
As one of the most relevant figures in the international scene, choreographer Ginette Laurin - founder of Canadian group O Vertigo, based in Montreal - is committed since the eighties to a radical research on movement, which she combines with an investigation on the stage mechanism both sound and chromatically-wise. Influenced by an extensive research on physicality, Laurin created a very specific language for 'writing' movement, which tends to deconstruct its features by working on dynamics of slowness and speed in the spacial organization of the scene.... READ MORE...
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Interactive Ethology. An Interview With Andre’ Goncalves

Serena Cangiano
This reflection came after a meeting with Andre Goncalves, Portuguese artist (year 1979), skilled in performance and sound, video and interactive installations. The works of Andre, presented in various festivals and in important digital culture centers in the world, have strange names and seem to be the result of experiments and natural, social or technological phenomena analysis. All made with the clever use of Do It Yourself electronics.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 57, September 2010

On Facebook Again. Public And Private Spaces

Loretta Borrelli
It has lately become common to hear the name Facebook being used as a synonym for Internet. Magazines, radio and TV broadcast news on curiosities, updates and weaknesses of the platform that has at this stage achieved a position of dominance in social networks environment. We are not anymore referring to this as to the latest technologic fashion: Facebook is now a part of the daily routine for about five-hundred million web-users all over the world, a consistent majority of whom are American-based. The online service CheckFacebook provides realtime statistics on the number of logged-in users, men/women percentage, nationality and age groups going from 13-years-olds up to 65-years-olds.... READ MORE...
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Sintomatologie Estive. Procreazioni Di Performing Dance

Massimo Schiavoni
L'estate porta con sé una 'fornitura invadente' ed un' elevata concentrazione di spettacoli dal vivo quasi imbarazzante, tanto che bisognerebbe avere quasi il dono dell'ubiquitˆ per non sentirsi incompleti ed impotenti, per non perdere il treno della contemporaneitˆ, e per avvertire ad ogni festival - da Santarcangelo a Drodesera, passando per il Festival d'Avignon ed ImPulsTanz, fino a Transito Firenze, Inteatro e Contemporanea di Prato - quella meravigliosa sintomatologia patologica inevitabile per un buongustaio ed amante della scena performativa all'avanguardia.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 57, September 2010

Humanity Of 3d. Billy Cowie’s Research

Silvia Scaravaggi
The fourth edition of Teatro a Corte International Festival, which toke place in Turin and in eight Savoy residences in Piedmont from July 8 until the 25th, presented a wide selection of contemporary and experimental productions in the fields of theatre, dance, nouveau cirque, video-dance and performance, hosting 31 groups from eight different nations. The event schedule comprehended 38 shows, 5 site specific projects and two creations commissioned for the Festival.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 57, September 2010

Generative Practice. The State Of The Art

Jeremy Levine
Generative art is often misunderstood and mischaracterized, but it has always played an important role in digital aesthetics. The following is a conversation about the state of generative art with three generative artists and theorists, Leonardo Solaas, Marius Watz, and Mitchell Whitelaw and the author. Is there a generative aethetics which can be separate from the generative process?... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 57, September 2010