The Cinematic Experience Of Boris Debackere
Boris Debackere is an artist and sound designer; he teaches at the Sint Lukas Academy in Brussels , where he leads the Transmedia department.... READ MORE...
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Marianne Weems: Digital Divide And Theatre
Marianne Weems is the founder of American techno-theatre ensemble The Builders Association, specialised in theatre exhibitions exploiting the richness of interactive digital technology and panoramic screens. In 2004, they brought to RomaEuropa the multi-awarded Alladeen , winner of an Obie Award, a not so much fairy-tale story about employees in a call centre in Bangalore .... READ MORE...
Offf In Lisbon: Post-digital Saudade
This year OFFF moved to the wonderful Portuguese capital. Considering its huge international public, it probably matters very little where the very loved festival of 'post-digital' culture takes place.... READ MORE...
Sonar 2008: Advanced Music & Cinema Beyond
The presence of Spain at Snar 2008 is very important, with a third of the music schedule presenting more than ninety artists including composers, DJs and producers. At the centre of the festival there is also a tribute to the creative advertising communication on the Internet, from the fake to the self-promotion through MySpace. Starting from the coordinate image of Snar 2008, conceived at first as a series of short amateur videos in which strange genetic experiments are filmed, in a mysterious place, by mixing animals and talking human heads; the anonymous broadcast of the videos on YouTube and through a false website caused an incredible response with hundreds of thousands of hits in few hours.... READ MORE...
Militant Art, Cultural Subversion
Arbeit macht kapital': this is what says the neon work by Claire Fontaine , at S.a.L.E.-Docks in Venice, a space for the promotion of contemporary art and cultural production. It was open last October and it is self-managed by a group of students and militants with a background in community centers.... READ MORE...
L’invisibile Nella Scienza
Non ancora stata scritta una storia dell''invisibile' nella scienza eppure i presupposti ci sarebbero, perlomeno per una storia culturale, se non, ancora meglio, una storia metodologica.... READ MORE...
We Are Not Alone – Part 2
Having achieved presence, the research systematically proceeded through the study of identity, following two directions: on one side the inversion of the strategy designed for 'Talker' and 'Talker Performance' and, on the other side, the creation of a totally virtual identity. Ex-novo. 'Dead on SecondLife' inverts the process created for 'Talker Performance'. The direction changes: body shifts towards virtual.... READ MORE...
Marc Garret & Ruth Catlow: Net Visions
Let's talk again about Marc Garret and Ruth Catlow, two people that don't need to be introduced in the context of networking and mailing list about new international media art. Marc Garret and Ruth Catlow promoted many on-line debates, through not only their channel, NetBehaviour, many art networking projects, and they've been working for ten years on their project Furtherfield.org. They already wrote an important text of reflections and theories about art, that was published on Digimag 33 - April 2008. And they promised us to be interviewed; let's see what they answered... READ MORE...
All Rights Reserved. All Wrongs Reversed
Being original is a vexata quaestio for all the art critics. Every art studious knows that sooner or lather the question will have to be faced, willy-nilly. And, in the majority of cases, the points on which art studious lean on are predictable: Walter Benjamin, Jean Baudrillard, Rosalind Krauss and so on... READ MORE...
Degradarte @ Lpm 2008
28th May 2008. On the eve of the fifth edition of LPM (Live Performers Meeting) , the beautiful pavilion of the former Mattatoio (Slaughterhouse) in the district Testaccio in Rome, is invaded by trolleys, cables, equipment, people quickly moving from side to side with tools and things to do, people that, arrived one day in advance, chat and laugh, meeting or meeting again, looking forward to the days of the meeting.... READ MORE...
Open Source City
A micro-festival of open source practice in the production of media art and music. Folly and SoundNetwork are kicking off the Summer with an exciting collaboration bringing a micro-festival of art and music to Liverpool, as part of the European Capital of Culture.... READ MORE...
RadarMusicVideos.com
RadarMusicVideos.com is a new social network that gives filmmakers worldwide the chance to pitch for music videos... READ MORE...
Festival Futuro Presente
E' l'arte e la creatività rapportate alle nuove tecnologie il tema della IV edizione di Futuro Presente, il Festival che trasforma Rovereto e il Trentino in palcoscenico privilegiato per osservare e avvicinarsi a personaggi, realtà e aspetti particolarmente significativi della cultura attuale... READ MORE...
Impakt
The 19th Impakt Festival will be organized from May 7 to 11 , 2008 in Theater Kikker , Filmtheater 't Hoogt and various other venues in Utrecht . The main issue will be:YourSpace: Social structures, subcultures and identities in Society 2.0 "... READ MORE...
Hack.Fem.East
The exhibition project HACK.Fem.EAST seeks to present experimental and artistic practices of artists and activists working in digital networks in Eastern Europe.... READ MORE...
Multiversity
The event "Multiversity, or the Art of Subversion" is the fruit of a joint effort between Uni.Nomade and S.a.L.E. (Signs and Lyrics Emporium), between a trans-territorial network of militants and researchers carrying out a critical analysis of the themes of contemporaneity and a self-managed space, called S.a.L.E. docks, born a few months ago in Venice so as to intervene on a practical level in the world of cultural production.... READ MORE...
My [Public] Space
The exhibition My [public] space is opening at Netherlands Media Art Institute – Montevideo/Time Based Arts in Amsterdam on the 23rd of May 2008, running until the 21st of June, featuring several international artists... READ MORE...
New Brave World
NewBraveWorld, a series of workshops around Internet of Things, Ubicomp and Locative Media it's now opening the Workshop 2: Hybrid Scrapyard with Jonah Brucker-Cohen and Katherine Moriwaki, from 19 to 24 May 2008 at Imal, for a maximum of 15 participants.... READ MORE...