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Andy Campbell

Redazione Digicult
The IOCT Salon is a regular event that highlights practice and practitioners in the digital arts. It takes place at the Institute of Creative Technologies, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. The next event at IOCT Salon presents Andy Campbell: Dreaming Methods - Digital Fiction, on Thursday 31st January 2008... READ MORE...
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Video Vortex 2

Redazione Digicult
Video Vortex.2 is a sequel to the Video Vortex exhibition that responded to the Web2.0 phenomenon. Web2.0 stands for power to the user and democracy for everyone. It has led to innovative forms of media use in which open and friendly cooperation stimulates critical reflection and new ideas.... READ MORE...
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Mike Mills: Humans Before All!

Alessandra Migani
It is not a case that one of the diamonds of this year edition, the documentary shot by the american director Mike Mills Does your soul have cold?, investigates the depression in Japan through the history of five guys recovered for the cited illness. Mills realized numerous music videos for artists such as Yoko Ono, Moby, Air, Blonde Redhead, short films and his first real movie, Thumbsucker, is from 2005.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 30, December 2007 / January 2008

Art And Activism In The Showbusiness Era

Lucrezia Cippitelli
What if the artists suddenly stops working with the traditional means of contemporaneous art ( and with the Avant-garde's expression strategies), what if he makes a review to the existing reality through the construction of a metaphorical talk representing it, so unveiling the undergoing mechanisms? What is he makes a direct intervention on reality creating situations able to change and improve it? And if he gets engaged on a political point of view?... READ MORE...
ActivismArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 30, December 2007 / January 2008

Sex Is A Pain In The Ass

Loredana Menghi
Sex is a pain in the ass: this was the title of the event on body art that was held at porn cinema Avorio in Rome from November 30 th to December 1 st , featuring the works of artists of the likes of Matthew Barney , Joseph Beuys and Chris Burden. The title suits the mood of the Roman public perfectly, as it was denied access to a cultural event that was previously promised funding from the institutions.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 30, December 2007 / January 2008

Graffiti Research Lab: Writers As Hackers As Artists

Monica Ponzini
Real and virtual spaces, cities and new media. These are the domains of confrontation of the new semantic clashes, made of massified and pre-digested messages on one hand, and free circulation, manipulation and expression of ideas on the other. The main characters are big companies, buying ads spaces to spark the consumerism at the basis of their economies, versus individuals, sometimes gathered in little independent groups, using new technologies for realising and using expressions means and the net to communicate and join in.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 30, December 2007 / January 2008

Polymorphic Intelligence: Part 2

Luigi Pagliarini
As far as we know, the human being is the most 'intelligent' organism. Their brain includes a number of fuctions so complex and sophisticated that, when the neurologist and psychologist Howard Gardner in his Frames of Mind tries to recap its structure, he comes up with seven sub-structures: Linguistic Intelligence, Logic-Mathematical Intelligence, Musical Intelligence, Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence, Spatial Intelligence, Interpersonal Intelligence and Intrapersonal Intelligence.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 30, December 2007 / January 2008

Mutamorphosis: Challenging Arts And Science

Silvia Scaravaggi
From 8th to 11th November Prague has been protagonist of the third edition of the international festival Enter3, dedicated to the relationship between art, science and new technologies, with a series of expositions, performances, panels, workshops and the Mutamorphosis symposium, meeting and exchange point between students, artists, scientists from all over the world.... READ MORE...
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