Marco Mancuso

Software Art Space. Software Art ?!?

Marco Mancuso
You can bet on it. As soon as the news gets around through reference mailing-lists, word of mouth, international festivals, interviews by the most acclaimed critic or curator of the moment, infinite will be the praises raised to Software Art Space ( www.softwareartspace.com ), the second operation performed by Steven Sacks, founder of the phantomatic Bitforms gallery: digital in conception, but with a physical (micro) headquarter in New York. In that same city and neighborhood, Chelsea, in which an apparently infinite army of galleries and exhibition spaces devoted to contemporary arts seem to be struggling to be part of the quadrangle between 4th and 5th streets, determining the destinies of the international art market.... READ MORE...
ArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 26, July / August 2007

Elektra, Festival Arts Numeriques

Marco Mancuso
It is now at its eight edition one of the first and most important festival of the world, in the ambit of digital art and audio-visual expression: the Elektra Festival of Montreal . One of the first international festival that focalized on experimental artistic audio-video forms with a wise and clever approach able to analyze the evolution of these years on the borders between art, experimentation, technologic research and communication.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 24, May 2007

Andreas Broeckmann, Contemporary New Media Art

Marco Mancuso
The last edition of Transmediale represented for us a change edition and after gathering many opinions and impressions during the festival we can say that, according to many, it was an edition of difficult comprehension. Despite it, as point of reference for all who deal with new media, Transmediale is on everybody's lips, even after its end. And as each important appointment it is always under floodlights, giving confirmations and wrong-footing with its changes.... READ MORE...
ArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 23, April 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

Ladytron, E’ Di Nuovo L’ora Delle Streghe

Marco Mancuso
é questo il caso, decisamente, dei Ladytron, fenomeno pop degli ultimi anni grazie alla pubblicazione nel 2001 e nel 2002 di due album folgoranti per gli amanti del genere come 604 e Light and Magic nonché di alcune vere e proprie hit come Playgirl o Seventeen o True Mathematics. Il quartetto di Liverpool (Daniel Hunt, Reuben Wu, e le vocalist Helen Marnie e la bellissima Mira Aroyo) ha appena dato alle stampe il suo terzo album, Witching Hour, dopo una lunghissima assenza durata quasi 4 anni, dovuta prima a una interminabile attivitˆ live in giro per il mondo e poi a problemi contrattuali con relativo cambio di etichetta.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 21, February 2007