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Landscape And Interaction. Matteo Pennese, The Sound Within Space

Simone Broglia
Systems of interaction between acoustic and electronic music are the base on which the Twentieth century's musical performance developed and grew. It is possible to find live electronic, namely performative, tracks, since the very beginning of experimental-contemporary music. In some cases even some of the very early works of electronic music, as Maderna's Musica su due dimensioni (Music on two dimensions, 1958), are filed among the so-called live-electronic compositions, marking by using this term the performance aspect that used to conciliate the writing for an acoustic instrument with the magnetic tape during the live execution.... READ MORE...
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Brandon Labelle. Where Do Sounds Come From And Where Do They Go?

Elena Biserna
Where do sounds come from and where do they go? From this fundamental and central question different paths branch out that make up Acoustic Territories. Sound Culture and Everyday Life, the new book by Brandon LaBelle - artist, theorist and editor who, through a particularly coherent research, has constantly devoted himself to the exploration of sound and audio culture from multiple points of view and different levels, giving birth to a large body of work, tests and projects.... READ MORE...
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The Silences Of Biosphere. Neo Baroque And Aware Intimacy

Pasquale Napolitano
Geir Jenssen, also known as Biosphere, is one of the most important figures in the field of contemporary electronic composition. Norwegian origins, from Tromsø, a town immersed in icy silence, 500 miles away from the Arctic Circle. Atypical personality, friendly and quiet, he always prefers to communicate through sound, like the sound of his records, of the many installations he designed in the last years, even of the performances.... READ MORE...
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Gmaybe: Be Free, Be Public! What Future For Privacy?

Loretta Borrelli
You may have happened to witness the presentation of a new online service. Two young men wearing a t-shirt with the Gmaybe? logo show the exciting benefits of the new frontier of social networks. All the rhetorical promises related to technology are there: they tend to fall into four main categories: democracy, freedom, efficiency and progress. Democracy looks like what everyone will enjoy using the new technologies, thus increasing its own influence on the social environment [...] Freedom is usually presented as the absence of socially restrictive elements (Critical Art Ensemble, The Molecular Invasion. Biotech theory and practices of resistance, Eleuthera, Milano, 2006, pp38-39).... READ MORE...
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Technesexual Interface. Erotic Mixed Reality Performance

Micha Cardenas
Biometric sensors, made cheaply available by do-it-yourself (DIY) prototyping platforms such as Arduino, allow a shift away from visual interfaces to proprioceptive interfaces, away from the touch of a finger and towards a more internal, embodied form of sensing. One possible effect of this shift is away from the command-control methodology which was a historical basis for cybernetics, and towards a form of modulation and cooperation akin to intersubjectivity.... READ MORE...
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Habemus Data. Digital Culture And Free Information

Teresa De Feo
A close step far from the counter-reformation of the 'gag law', stirred by the fear of our politicians who are frightened of losing control on the information flow or of a excessive overexposure of privacy and details, we caught the opportunity to go back on the matter of Open Data. But what has Open data got to do with the 'problem' of interceptions and 'bugs' of public and private world?... READ MORE...
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Human, Water And Environment. Between Multimedia And Sustainability

Silvia Scaravaggi
The topic of water in the multimedia, electronic and digital field is huge since the beginning of electronic art and works of art of famous artists such as Bill Viola and Fabrizio Plessi, only to mention a few. Water has been compared to the electron flow and video, exactly for its liquid and mobile nature, is par excellence the mean which is the most linked and compared to this element essence.... READ MORE...
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The Explosion Of The Arts. Sineglossa Live Performances

Massimo Schiavoni
Sineglossa is an artistic collective residing in the Marche region in Italy, comprising personalities from different disciplines but with the same intent and the same sensitivity. Created in 2006 by director Federico Bomba, the painter Luca Poncetta and performer Barbara Hall, the theatrical debut happened in 2007 with Camera Verde, to which followed in 2008 Pleura e Pneuma. In 2009 are among the companies winning the contract ETI New creativity, working on Undo and Remember me.... READ MORE...
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Smart Urban Stage Intervista ad Alberto Abruzzese

Redazione Digicult
Dallo scorso 26 giugno fino al prossimo 31 luglio, all'interno di un'avveniristica struttura gonfiabile di 200 mq presso l'Auditorium Parco della Musica di Roma, verrà presentata smart future minds exhibition. Articolata attraverso dodici progetti sul tema "Il futuro della città", la mostra promette di essere un momento di riflessione critica e divulgazione artistica all'interno del più ampio smart urban stage, innovativo road show che toccherà Zurigo, Parigi, Madrid e Londra dopo essere passata già a Berlino.... READ MORE...
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Sonarmatica 2010

Redazione Digicult
SonarMàtica splits itself in two this year for Sonar 2010 Barcelona and Sonar 2010 Galicia, two different exhibitions which can be seen in Barcelona and A Coruña on 17th, 18th and 19th June. The Sónar 2010 Barcelona exhibition displays interesting artistic work produced using and based around the world of robotics.... READ MORE...
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Persistence of Vision

Redazione Digicult
How does memory influence what we see? What part does technology play in shaping both how we see and what we remember? Informed by scientific research and inspired by historical developments in media technology, FACT presents a new exhibition exploring the relationship between vision, memory and media.... READ MORE...
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When Archive Becomes Art. Megaloop: Thirty Years Of Tam

Annamaria Monteverdi
The Tam Teatromusica, the well-known theatrical and video-theatre Italian company, has reached thirty years of artistic activity and celebrates this achievement with a truly memorable retrospective exhibition in Padua. It was 1980 when Michael Sambin, Pierangela Allegro and Laurent Dupont combined their expertise in the field of performing arts, music and experimental video art and gave life to the company, based in Padova.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 55, June 2010