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The Ethics Of Gaze: Raymond Depardon & William Kentridge

Silvia Casini
A photographer and a filmmaker, Raymond Depardon, author of what can be described as documentary fiction, was awarded the Pulitzer prize. He is the author of several reportages in countries such as Biafra, Chad, Venezuela. He is also renowned because he spent some time in 1976 at the former psychiatric hospital in San Servolo, Venice. In 1996 he shot a sort of documentary-fiction on a trip in Africa that lasted three years and on the filmmaking profession. William Kentridge was born in South Africa, an artist, whose artistic matrix is drawing, but who ranges from sculptures to animation and video installation and constantly interrogates himself on the social role of art and the responsibility of the artist.... READ MORE...
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Soundclusters: Robotic Electronica

Giulia Baldi
Soundclusters is 'an ensemble of four robots (violin, viola, cello and percussion) created by the multidisciplinary artist Roland Olbeter, that you 'play' through a midi controller. Through a commission by the festival Faster than Sound (UK) and Sonar (ES), the two 'sonic adventurers' Tim Exile (Warp) and Jon Hopkins (Domino) have collaborated with Olbeter (already active in the past as a set designer for some works of interactive theater for an important performance by Marcel Antúnez Roca, including aphasia from which the instrumentation of Soundclaster was created). Together the group have made a new work for this mechanical band, creating the conditions for a unique experience of co-operation between live music, man and machine, and for an exciting spectacle... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 46, July / August 2009

Future Sounds Like Past Toys: Interview To Ape5 & Eraser

Claudia D'Alonzo
Ape5 is an old digimag acquaintance that we were pleased to 'meet' in various moments during the past few years so that he could tell us about his videomaking and his VJing (Interview 'Ape5 and Miki Ry', by Bertram Niessen, Digimag 02), as well as his research as a producer with the netlabel Vidaux, that contains many of the more interesting names of the live media scene in Italy ('Vidaux, Netlabels for watching and listening', by Bertram Niessen, Digimag 08... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 46, July / August 2009

Speed Limits

Redazione Digicult
The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) presents Speed Limits, an exhibition devoted to the inescapable presence of speed in modern life, in art, architecture and urbanism, and in the graphic arts, economics, and the material culture of the industrial age and our own age of information... READ MORE...
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Hacker Space Festival

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The second Hacker Space Festival (HSF) will be held at the /tmp/lab in Paris, on the 26-30 June 2009. The goal of the Hacker Space Festival is to bring together people from many cultural and technological backgrounds and from different Hacker Spaces and Autonomous zones in France and Europe (and from beyond, if they can attend) to share and show what's going on... READ MORE...
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Bitform Exhibition Art and electronic media

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bitforms gallery annaunces is currently group exhibition that celebrates art and ideas in a new publication by art historian Edward Shanken, Art and Electronic Media . Highlighting work by more than a dozen groundbreaking artists, the exhibit "Art and Electronic Media" embraces a wide range of creative practices in the last four decades.... READ MORE...
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The Arts Catalyst Eye of the storm

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From esoteric arguments over the structure of the universe to highly charged public controversies around the use of stem cells, Eye of the Storm brings together artists whose work playfully and provocatively intervenes in science, scientists at the heart of scientific disputes and other experts to discuss the nature and process of controversy, touching on brilliance and ego, dissent and obsession, big science, high finance, deviant science, the reliability of knowledge and the legislation of uncertainty... READ MORE...
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