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Blender And 3dwithin Nearly…everybody’s Reach

Marco Riciputi
Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License'. Dietro questa sintetica definizione che apre il sito ufficiale del software free e open source Blender, non si cela solo un programma per la modellazione 3D, ma un'autentica filosofia di lavoro, oltre che una comunitˆ di utenti sviluppata lungo le direttrici partecipative che le nuove tecnologie aprono in diversi settori. Blender, che sarˆ protagonista di un interessantissimo workshop nel periodo di warm up del prossimo Hackmeeting di Milano di Giugno, presso l'Universitˆ Statale Bicocca ... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 45, June 2009

_augmentology 1[l]0[l]1_:interface Between Two Worlds

Mark Hancock
The _Augmentology 1[L]0[L]1_ project reaches out into a multitude of networked environments, like a multi-tendrilled creature, it explores and reports back information to a central hub, located at the _Augmentology 1[L]0[L]1_ blog. Existing in the virtual, the task is to explore other synthetic worlds and attempt to reflect back something of the nature of living within them and our own world. The resultant collection of projects and ideas can be considered a 'Synthetic Reality Manual' as Mez Breeze, who initiated the project, describes it.... READ MORE...
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Raster Noton Shopping Style

Monica Ponzini
Experimentation. Carsten Nicolai's (aka alva noto) artistic production, (one of the few artists in the digital art who does not need any presentation) has always been characterized by an element of constant research: thinking about sound frequencies and visuals, digital and minimal aesthetics, where noise and glitch are bound to mathematics and geometric shapes, has gone through an evolution that made him one of the most important, long-established and famous artists in the international electronic scene.... READ MORE...
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Cinemahacking: Interview To Paolo Gioli

Claudia D'Alonzo
Paolo Gioli is one of the reference Auteurs of Underground Italian Cinema. He has experimented in his research on images and vision, painting, photography and cinema, deconstructing and often inventing techniques, reproduction and shooting methods ex-novo. The 45th 'Mostra del Nuovo Cinema' (New Cinema Exhibition) in Pesaro, which is held between the 21 st and 29 th of June 2009, with a great homage dedicated to the Auteur with a film exhibition and a photographic exhibition, held in Palazzo Gradari in Pesaro, and the publication of a volume, curated by the Fondazione Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (Centre for Experimental Cinema Foundation), are among the most recent celebrations of his work.... READ MORE...
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Mapping Festival

Silvia Bianchi
The last Mapping Festival edition took place from the 8th to the 17th of May in the fervent city of Geneva . Focussing above all on visual aspects, this festival is different from the many others of electronic music which animate the Swiss city. Also this year it confirmed to be not only an incredibile showcase fot the vjing international scenery, but also an evidence of the real Swiss style in regard of technical organization and rich program.... READ MORE...
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The Science And Art Of Complex Systems

Jeremy Levine
Within quantum mechanics, reality is an evolving state that includes the interaction of the observer as a component of the system under observation. The same thing can be said of any interactive work of media art. Human behavior contributes complexity to any interactive system of which it is a component, whether it reside in quantum space or cyberspace. Sword of the Stranger di Masahiro Ando.... READ MORE...
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Walking In The City With Christina Kubisch

Matteo Milani
Christina Kubisch, one of the most important sound artists on the European scene, began to work in 2003 on a project calleD Electrical Walks This project uses custom-built headphones which transduce electromagnetic fields into audio signals, through an interaction between force fields which allow the audience to listen to a concert of ambient sounds in public spaces specifically projected.... READ MORE...
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The Sound Ecosystems Of Agostino Di Scipio

Marco Mancuso
Those who know me and my interests can imagine my reaction when I was asked to write the catalog of the exhibition Digital Direct di Modena, curated by Caleffi Gilberto. One of the artists I was most interested in was Agostino di Scipio, and this is evident in any analysis of the texts chosen for the catalogue: where the interview, as a reflection on the content exposed to direct contact with the author, becomes a moment of openness and honesty between artist and critic.... READ MORE...
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From Cfu To Funen: Interview With Jakob Jakobsen

Loretta Borrelli
In April of this year a group of students from the Funen Art Academy , an independent academy in Copenhagen , did a tour of Italy with the objective of coming into contact with certain activist and underground Italian groups. Among the teachers who accompanied them was Jakob Jakobsen, a Danish artivist, who for some time has been involved and has elaborated practices for the liberation of artistic knowledge. In 2001, together with the artist Henrietta Heise, he founded the Copenhagen Free University, establishing it in his own apartment. This experience lasted 6 years and is what they themselves describe as being 'self-teaching'. In this interview Jakob tells us about his present and past experiences as an activist and teacher.... READ MORE...
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A_ctivism

Otherehto
In this article I would like to introduce some of my thoughts on the forms of protest in art. My statements were conceived on occasion of the round table 'Out of the fiction of protest - Art and political activism' that took place on 24 May 2009 in Milan. In order to synthesize my thoughts I have decided to divide the article into three hypothesis aiming at eliciting the development of topics that either deny or confirm a given stance.... READ MORE...
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The Aware And Creative Technology Of Goto10

Giulia Simi
The collective GOTO10 (the answers of this interview were elaborated with the name GOTO10 by Karsten Gebbert, Claude Heiland-Allen, Aymeric Mansoux, Marloes de Valk and Thomas Vriet), active internationally for years in the technological activist environment, is a good example of how a group of programmer-artists manages to face and win against the swamps of our time through a creative, aware and thought-out use of technology. I interviewed them so that they could tell us about some aspects of their complex project.... READ MORE...
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The Digital Market Of Elektra

Donata Marletta
Last 6th and 7th of May Montreal's Cinémathque Québécoise has hosted for the third consecutive year the International Marketplace for Digital Arts (IMDA), event organized within Elektra, new media and audiovisual art festival. The International Marketplace for Digital Arts is a meeting for professional networking among those active in the field of production, creation and diffusion of digital arts.... READ MORE...
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