Articles

The Chinese Nightmare?

The Chinese Dream is book of more than 700 pages about the urbanization in China, published by the Dutch editor NAI Publishers. This project of colossal dimensions is on the shoulders of an architect Neville Mars, and a researcher Adrian Hornsby and the Dynamic City Foundation. The disproportionate growth of the agglomerations in China is at the centre of this publication... READ MORE...

Green Platforms, Making Ecological World

When I got into the hall of Palazzo Strozzi for the opening of 'Green Platform, the latest exhibition organized by Centro di Cultura Contemporanea di Firenze (Centre for Contemporary Culture in Florence), the cue waiting to get in was unexpectedly long. I am not used to it. Contemporary art, outside the certain circuits and without high-sounding names, can hardly attract the big crowds.... READ MORE...

Already Reality

They are four young artistic realities from 'our nursery': fortunately they always keep up with the times and they are very creative and original, an inexorable and continuing but well-selected and creamed-off mine of talented people. The performing art, able to contaminate and represent all kinds of visual arts, dances and dramaturgies, sounds and special effects, installations and showings, has become the daily bread of the young contemporary people.... READ MORE...

IMC expo

The 2nd Annual IMC (Interactive Multimedia Culture) Expo will be held at Chelsea Art Museum from April 14 – 23. The first event of its kind in New York City , the IMC Expo is a hybrid technology tradeshow, art exhibition, and educational symposium focused on the niche of immersive new media with applications in the arts, entertainment, and retail.... READ MORE...

Image International Festival

Caldas University will be hosting the Eighth Image International Festival in Manizales, Colombia, April 21-25, 2009. The festival is focusing on the role that art has on the development of the information society at a time when new technologies are essential for economic development and knowledge transfer.... READ MORE...

In Video Collaboration

Towards the end of the '90s, long before the whole world found out about web 2.0, social networking and co-creation online, Furthernoise/Furtherfield, a collective of activists and radical artists that was founded in the UK by Marc Garret and Ruth Catlow, focused their activity on concepts such as horizontal collaboration, sharing, involvement, openness, co-creation. In short they were turning the culture of individualism and D.I.Y. (do it yourself) into a culture of community and D.I.W.O. (do it with others), and artistic collaboration from contextual into relational.... READ MORE...

Exploding Cave

With a double reference both to the existentialist caves of 1950's Milan and the experimentation of Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable, Exploding Cave is a 2-days event that will be held in Milan on April 17 and 18, in the spaces of Cox18, structured in a series of meetings, workshops and performances that investigate the relationship and the least common denominator that ties cinema, sound, video and digital arts... READ MORE...

Alain Thibault: Elektra From Past To The Future

Hereafter we will carry on an approach analysis on Elektra 2009, with the tenth edition of the festival of the Audiovisual Art research and the New Media Art, which is the most interesting and complete in the entire North American territory. And in general one of the finest on the international scene, as well as one of the most appreciated by the artists. This should never be underestimated, in my opinion.... READ MORE...

Material Hybridization

The important progresses made by the science of materials in the last decades, have offered to the artifacts' projecting new and unusual opportunities to interpret the traditional concepts of materials' family, characteristics and sphere of application that in the past were typical of the materials selection for designers, architects and artists.... READ MORE...

The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button

They ask me what does Benjamin Button have to do with the Future Film Festival, what a question!' bursts out Oscar Cosulich, the art director of the kermes which presents the Italian Premiere of the film of David Fincher. Justifiably disappointed, because the special effects' always make you think of something heavily-noisy like travel to the centre of the earth' or King Kong, 20 meters tall'. - Young as in Kalifornia.... READ MORE...