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Cam Girls And Sex On Second Life: A Report

Marco Riciputi
Rocco Siffredi sounded the alarm: You Porn is killing the porn industry. A cry of starlets like Eve Laurence withdraws from the business main stream to provide its community of fans tailored services, without passing by production houses, in perfect style participatory pornography. The magazine Focus goes on sale with a dossier on MP3 players that are vibrators to the music, equipment wii remote to masturbate with your partner and kiss-phone prototype that simulates the kisses. The Orgasmatron in Woody Allen's comparison of all this affection. While waiting to be able to have fun with the wii with my favorite cam girl who sends me in 3D, take the technological revolution of sex very seriously and I do a tour in the Red Light District in Second Life.... READ MORE...
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Sosolimited: Deconstruction Time Again

Marco Mancuso
Eric Gunther, Justin Manor and John Rothenberg are three thirty-something ironic and ingenious, since 2003 the project Sosolimited youth group at the intersection of art and design specializing in the deployment of interactive installations, audiovisual performances, live remixes and immersive environments, all strictly based self-designing software and technologies and on a technical level / achieved very, very high. With a solid background in physics, computer science, architecture and music and a master's degree at MIT in Boston in the drawer, jumped to hit the crononaca (and the glory of international art) with a momentum that only a country like the United States' America could make practical and effective.... READ MORE...
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Almost Cinema 2009. Looking For The Kinematic Effect

Lucrezia Cippitelli
Almost Cinema celebrate this year its fourth birthday and also this year he accompanied the Film Festival of Gent, an exhibition organized by Eva de Groote, curator of the media area at the Center for Art and Culture Vooruit. As for the last editions (I visited and described it in a critical text published exactly one year ago on https://digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1324) the exhibition is hosted in the wonderful art Nouveau rooms of the Vooruit center itself.... READ MORE...
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Happy Birthday Artfutura

Barbara Sansone
Artfutura has just turned 20 (a really venerable age for a festival on such a topic). It celebrated its birthday at the IMAGINA building in Barcelona.For people thinking they were going to miss the traditional Mercat de le Flors (in fact this would have surely been a more adequate location for it) it has in fact turned out to be amusing to attend this festival in the famous catch@22, the district of innovation which has been the subject of a series of debates, an area still gutted due to never-ending work-in-progress but already with a futuristic stamp.... READ MORE...
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Kenneth Anger And The New American Cinema

Francesco Bertocco
The New American Cinema - NAC, represents one of the most meaningful artistic experience within the indipendent cinematography of the 60s, free from Hollywoodian empires and a mythopoetic all-engaging Star System. A group of directors - whose patroness and inspirer was Maya Deren - which included i.a. Jonas Mekas, Stan Brakhage and Michael Snow - began to meet at the margins of the official cinematography, deteriorating the visual monopoly of great producers. Through poor means which seemed to be a stylistic manifesto, they created a series of experimental films on the wave of the first vanguards, by then still half-asleep in the story of the audiovisual world.... READ MORE...
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New Educational Models: The Amazing Ciid Institute

Elena Gianni
I have been in Copenhagen for two months and I haven't seen anything yet: no museums nor exhibitions. It's not that Copenhagen is that big, nor that public transport is inefficient, we are talking about the extremely well-run capital of Denmark; the reason why is that I spend all my time at school. The Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design (CIID) is a project recently set up by Simona Maschi and Heather Martin. In collaboration with the Danish Design school (DKDS), the CIID offers a year long, intensive master in Interaction Design to a very limited number of students. The educational activity is now in its second year and it is supported by a research laboratory and a consultancy which has contacts with private companies. The program has links with various companies which cooperate with the students and provide research briefs based on the reality of the market.... READ MORE...
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Joy Ito: On Freedom Of Choice, Namely Creative Commons

Giulia Baldi
It is the talk of the moment. At meetings on the future of music (but also of publishing, cinema, television and visual arts) there is a prevailing topic: the search for new business models for creativity in the age of the digital dematerialization and world wide net; hence the meditation on the necessary changes both in the theoretical and practical approach to copyrights and reproduction... READ MORE...
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The Recycled Sound Of Teatrino Elettrico Pigreco

Marco Mancuso
Signal is an international avant-garde electronic and experimental music festival, which will take place from the 6th til the 14th of November in its third edition in Cagliari; the idea was produced by TiConZero, an cultural association that for years has been dealing with research in the music, theatrical and artistic fields. The artists involved represent the emerging levers in research on the border between sound and visual dimensions. The combination of music and video art in an inspired choice made by the frequent connections between various artistic languages, especially for those that regard avant-garde and research productions, which Signal dedicates its interest to.... READ MORE...
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Second International Conference for Image Science

Redazione Digicult
The increasing number of new technical and social possibilities to produce and distribute visual material - from YouTube, Flickr to other virtual spaces - demonstrates more and more the demand for strengthening visual competencies. On that basis the credo of the conference Gazing into the 21st Century, which brought together American experts on image science like Felice Frankel, Barbara Stafford or Michael Naimark with German representatives like Marie-Luise Angerer, Oliver Grau or Nikolaj van der Meulen et al., was dedicated to the inventory, classification and historiography of the latest worlds of images in the domains of publicity, art, entertainment and science.... READ MORE...
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International Forum on free culture and knowledge

Redazione Digicult
There is in motion the celebration of an International Forum on free culture and knowledge from October 29 to November 1st2009 at Barcelona. This is the opportunity to join under the same roof and from a critical perspective, the main organizations and active voices in the free culture and knowledge world; a meeting point to sit down, dance and work together setting common agendas, strategies and address disagreements.... READ MORE...
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The other shadow of the city

Redazione Digicult
The Other Shadow of the City is an international visual arts exhibition programme that draws inspiration from the city of Jerusalem and its changing urban structure. The exhibition takes the viewer to places outside the spiritual and holy Old City to urban locations that, despite their importance in shaping the contemporary urban city, have been rarely referenced or addressed in literature and art.... READ MORE...
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European Conference

Redazione Digicult
The European Conference "Creativity, Innovation, Digital Culture & Citizens Participation in the Construction of Europe" it responds to the expectations generated in previous conferences and forums organized by the Association ARTECHMEDIA for the impulse of a stable alliance of mutual interest between Art, Science, Innovation, Technology, Enterprise and Institutions that will contribute to a real Society of Knowledge based on the culture of creativity and innovation as well as on civic participation... READ MORE...
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Imagining Media @ Zkm

Redazione Digicult
The future is the declared objective of the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. On the occasion of its jubilee, twenty years after its foundation in 1989 the institution now casts back to its past with the opening of an exhibition, which brings the history of the ZKM to life: in a large-scale overview presentation commencing on the 10 October, the best of media art works produced by international artists at the ZKM will be presented.... READ MORE...
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