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Carlo Zanni at CAM in New York

Redazione Digicult
The Chelsea Art Museum is proud to announce the debut of Carlo Zanni's installation Flying False Colors (The Sixth Day). Presented by The Project Room for New Media at CAM from October 1 to October 31, this multimedia project loosely refers to the 1975 espionage film Three Days of the Condor, directed by Sydney Pollack, which was one of the first films to suggest a link between covert US military operations and the control of oil production in the Middle East... READ MORE...
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Meet the media guru Steven Berlin Johnson

Redazione Digicult
Steven Berlin Johnson è giornalista e autore di numerosi libri di successo che esplorano le interrelazioni tra scienza, tecnologia, media e mondo reale. La chiave della sua notorietà sta senza dubbio nella sua capacità di interpretare e prospettare le traiettorie future di fenomeni complessi attraverso un approccio multidisciplinare che individua processi e principi trasversali.... READ MORE...
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Corpi, Automi, Robot Tra Arte, Scienza e Tecnologia

Redazione Digicult
Il Museo d'Arte, nell'ambito delle iniziative promosse dal Polo Culturale della Città di Lugano, organizza, in collaborazione con la Fondazione Antonio Mazzotta di Milano e con la partecipazione del Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia "Leonardo da Vinci" di Milano e del Museo Cantonale d'Arte di Lugano la mostra "Corpo, automi, robot. Tra arte, scienza e tecnologia", la quale affronta con un approccio interdisciplinare il rapporto tra il corpo umano e la rappresentazione che di esso è stata data da parte delle arti, della scienza e della tecnologia, soprattutto per quanto riguarda la dinamica dell'imitazione del corpo (con gli automi) e della sua sostituzione (con i robots).... READ MORE...
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The Leonor Annenberg Prize for art and social change

Redazione Digicult
Creative Time is pleased to announce the inception of a new, 25,000 USD award: The Leonore Annenberg Prize for Art and Social Change, presented by Creative Time to an artist who has committed her/his life's work to social change in powerful and productive ways. The first recipient of the prize is The Yes Men, and it will be bestowed during the opening ceremony for The Creative Time Summit: Revolutions in Public Practice, on October 23 from 6 to 8pm in the historic Stephen A. Schwarzman building of the New York Public Library... READ MORE...
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Raul Martinez: The Tenderness Of Metal

Barbara Sansone
Although Digimag deals with digital culture, this month we want to devote a well-deserved space to an artist, whose work does not exactly fall within this category, but it perfectly places itself within that field of research that our magazine carries out in the framework of (applied and reused) technology, mechanics and art. The general trend does no longer lie in the celebration of technology in itself, but aims to grant priority to the concept and the tangibility, also when, in order to obtain them, the artist uses techniques and materials that are not exactly the latest fad.... READ MORE...
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Geert Lovink: List Culture And The Art Of Moderation

Donata Marletta
Geert Lovink is one of the most influential cultures of the net worldwide. He is a critic and a theorist, he has been interested for years in texts and essays about the new media and network culture, and among his most recent projects the creation of the Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam is worth to be mentioned. This institute works on critical analysis of the Internet, and its aim is to help actively the development and the divulgation of studies and discussions on network topics, even through the organisation of conferences, and publications whose aim is to stimulate dialogue and online sharing.... READ MORE...
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Thirty Years Of Ars Electronica: The Future Of Man And Nature

Tiziana Gemin
The 2009 Ars Electronica will surely be an edition to remember. The festival, which takes place in Linz the first week of September, celebrated its 30th year. Much attention was focused on the little Austrian town for the fact that Linz was chosen as European Culture Capital for 2009, and so it has experienced an intense year, dense with launches and cultural events... READ MORE...
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Oltre La Vista Del Mondo. Message In A Bottle

Massimo Schiavoni
In occasione della prima edizione della Festa della Marineria, tenutasi a la Spezia dall'11 al 16 giugno, Xlabfactory ha presentato Oltre la vista del mondo - Message in a botle. Recital multimediale per il golfo dei poeti. Non ci poteva essere tema pi appropriato di quello affrontato nello spettacolo per celebrare il fascino incantatorio che emana dal Golfo di La Spezia: il testo drammaturgico di Andrea Balzola, che ha curato anche la regia dello spettacolo, narra di visioni estatiche, di esperienze epifaniche, ma anche tragiche, scaturite dalla frequentazione dei suggestivi luoghi che rendono unico il Golfo spezzino.... READ MORE...
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The Uncertain Human Quantum Mechanics

Jeremy Levine
Werner Heisenberg's famous 'Uncertainty Principle' articulates the idea that we cannever completely eliminate the influence of the subject from any description of quantumparticles. The reason is simple: because we are part of the very system beingdescribed. It is impossible to accurately predict exactly how an electron will behavewhen we measure it because of the sensitivity of its wave function to our presence orthe presence of a detection device, which we put into place. The act of measurement causes an uncertain change in the thing being measured.... READ MORE...
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Volavola / Fly Me. Preview Machinima In Paris

Marco Riciputi
New on YouTube: the interesting preview of VolaVola/FlyMe by Berardo Carboni. A small 3-minutes sample which mixes the machinima filming technique with a cartoon effect which got the attention of famed cyber-futurologist Bruce Sterling, who defines it on Wired blog disorienting. Let's see what it is about, with the help of its creator, machinima-operator Evo Szuyuan.... READ MORE...
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Madden 12x A Second. When The Eye Flickers In Milan

Alessio Galbiati
From the 17th to the 26th September at the DOCVA (Documentation Center for Visual Arts) in Milan, via Procaccini 4, took place the exhibition 'Quando l'occhio trema. Il flicker fra cinema, video e digitale' (When the eye shakes. A flicker between cinema, video and digital world'. It is a videoscreening created by Claudia D'Alonzo (Digicult) and Mario Gorni (Careof DOCVA) and made of15 works of art which play the so called 'flicker' effect.... READ MORE...
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Tony Oursler: Round-nosed Whistiling-jack-off-dumb-fuck

Claudia D'Alonzo
Tony Oursler is one of the most internationally renowned multimedia artists, born in 1957 in New York City, where he lives and works. In the eighties he began to make short videos, and later he began to design installations where he set sound and video. Since the nineties the use of mannequins became a constant feature of his work, puppets and dolls were the stars of his installations.... READ MORE...
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Voom, By Robert Wilson:the Surface Of A Myth

Francesco Bertocco
There is a figure which seems to stop the time, move with care along its borders, fly above it, go through it but then sit outside it. It is a man who wears only his slips and stand in front of us, fixing us. Above us the rain begins to fall. The light is steered by a blinding intense blue which looks like a chemical color lent by Klein's imagination or by the fluorescent lamp of a sleazy club.... READ MORE...
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