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Networked Nature: Nature And Electronic Art

Teresa De Feo
This is Networked Nature , a collective exhibition of artists that work in a network and reflect on the importance of a definition between the human and the nature. They mix politic and commitment, new technologies and the collaborative and unanimous spirit of the Net. They are guest from the 11 th January to the 18 th February at the New Museum of Contemporary Art of New York . The show is realized by Rhizome . The artists are C5, Futurefarmers, Shih-Chieh Huang, Philip Ross, Stephen Vitiello and Gail Wight. Let's know all of them and all of their works.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 21, February 2007

Interactive Pictures By Nicolas Clauss

Giulia Simi
I didn't know Nicolas Clauss until a few months ago, when I occasionally read the communicate of the Bananram Festival that announced the purchase of one of his work Scalpe for 15.000 euros. Maria Rita Silvestri , director and curator of the festival, defines the work as 'characterized by a strong European identity' and states that 'he contaminates with poetry the digital instrument'. My curiosity was already going sky-high and in less than one sec I was on his site. I there discover a complex work, educated but involving at the same time, where analogical dialogues with digital openly, creating evocative, poetic, challenging images.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 21, February 2007

Arcangel Costantini, Hacking As Art And Life

Luigi Pagliarini
Arcangel Costantini is a volcanic artist that works in Mexico City. From the last 90's his works have been oriented to the realization of projects later defined as Net Art, whose he's one of the most representive international exponent. He's now taking distances from this kind of definition, as he wants his work to have a larger and more complete collocation.... READ MORE...
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Nuovi Media E Museo: Un Caso Italiano?

Domenico Quaranta
Dal 16 dicembre 2006 al 16 gennaio 2007, il Casoria Contemporary Art Museum ha proposto una colossale mostra itinerante progettata e curata da Agricola de Cologne e da Antonio Manfredi. Ma il piccolo e intraprendente museo napoletano non si  fermato l', accogliendo questa ampia scelta di opere - 260 opere multimediali, audio, video e fotografiche pi 100 testi di scrittura creativa e poesia visiva, per un totale di 360 artisti - nella sua collezione permanente. ... READ MORE...
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Avit C23, Pixels Want To Be Trusted

Silvia Bianchi
The second edition of Avit C23 took place in Berlin from the 27 th to the 30 of January together with the 23 rd annual hacking conference: Computer Chaos Conference. The event, organised by the new association Visual Berlin, gathering from less than a year, video artists active locally, configured as an exchange moment between European realities (and not only) active within visual experimentation and as a confrontation with the wide computer addicted community gathered in Berlin on the occasion of the Chaos Conference... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 21, February 2007

Motomichi Nakamura, Japanes Hasta La Madre

Marco Mancuso
In un ambiente, artistico e professionale, in cui sempre pi spesso il riconoscimento di una precisa levatura artistica  determinato, soprattutto a livello grafico e visuale, pi dalla capacitˆ di utilizzo eclettico del software open source pi recente che da una visione estetica pi ampia e stilisticamente matura e riconoscibile, il lavoro del visual artist, vj e motion graphic designer giapponese/americano Motomichi Nakamura, riconcilia con la semplicitˆ, la dinamicitˆ e la potenza espressiva della graphic animation. ... READ MORE...
ArticlesDesignDigimag - Issue 21, February 2007

Jonas Mekas, Video Art Of Improvisation

Monica Ponzini
Jonas Mekas says about his films that they are linear and horizontal, that there's a past and a present and it deals with mostly stolen moments from his everyday life, friends, places and discussions. There's no solution of continuity between one video and another, the only link is himself who decides to switch on the video camera following the instantaneous impetus without an exact plan and then he selects them, he establishes the possible assemblage and he defines the sequence... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 21, February 2007

Piemonte Share Festival

Redazione Digicult
Piemonte Share Festival, in its 3rd year, the Festival will host an exhibition, conferences, meetings, round tables, workshops and live performances. The event will be the size of a soft-rave (a lite version of a rave) or collective party where the magic of the moment creates an atmosphere of festivity and fun, creative exchange and different types of involvement with the audience: artistic, recreational, dance, cultural and up-beat. All admission to the Festival is totally free and the conferences will be both in Italian and English.... READ MORE...
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