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Urban Escapism – Part 2. Sound Lens, Rhabdomancy By Toshio Iwai

Mauro Arrighi
As we had seen in the first part of this essay, published on the last month issue - Digimag 69, the work of Toshio Iwai lies beneath two major worldviews: holism and reductionism; Allison on this regard writes: 'Whereas other scholars such as Max Weber argued that modernity brought rationalization, Benjamin thought that under the surface of rationality the urban-industrial world had become reenchanted on an unconscious level... READ MORE...
ArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 70, December 2011 / January 2012

No Puns Intended. A Conversation With Filippo Minelli

Silvia Scaravaggi
A first acquaintance of the works of Filippo Minelli leads us - through the images and visions that he is proposing - to the common denominator that brings them either close together or far from each other, though always making them interact with each other: the watershed word / silence, is a mode of examination chosen to explore and create, not to attribute a meaning to existence.... READ MORE...
ArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 70, December 2011 / January 2012

Chiara Guidi: Mantica Festival. Pratica Vocale Molecolare

Marco Mancuso
Performance, concerti, laboratori, installazioni, ascolti guidati, proiezioni. Un'affascinante staffetta di eventi scandisce il calendario di Mˆntica, festival cesenate tenutosi dal 26 novembre al 4 dicembre, che anche nell'edizione 2011 - la quarta - ha conservato intatto il suo cromosoma sonico, rilevato per˜ da un'angolazione diversa rispetto a quella adottata negli anni precedenti: l'istante che crea. ... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 70, December 2011 / January 2012Sound

Manuel Vason. Performing With The Camera

Giulia Tonucci
Inscrivere in una cornice predefinita il lavoro poliedrico e in costante ridefinizione di Manuel Vason, appare un tentativo tanto arduo quanto fallimentare. Nei numerosi e diversificati progetti che questo giovane fotografo/performer può già vantare, ciò che si riscontra con evidenza  soprattutto un impulso, una tensione comune, contemporaneamente multiforme ma definita, all'azione e alla riformulazione di s e del processo creativo, che porta dritta alla realizzazione dell'opera... READ MORE...
ArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 70, December 2011 / January 2012

Invideo XXI. Shifting Distances Of An In-motion Look

Giulia Simi
At nine o'clock on the morning of November 18th 2011, the lecture theatre of the European Design Institute of Milan was crammed with students. Eyes were on spectacular images; hands raised to book questions; ears pricked up to carefully listen every detail describing a rigorous, scientific and almost obsessive practice, but not less visionary. 'Lectio magistralis' by François Vogel, video-artist and French filmmaker, opened the exhibition dedicated to him during the XXI° Invideo Edition, entitled Shifting Distances (16-20 November), festival of 'video e cinema oltre' (video and cinema beyond), directed by Sandra Lischi and Romano Fattorossi.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 70, December 2011 / January 2012

Explorations Of The Invisibles. Freedom & Power In The Electromagnetic

Barbara Sansone
The exploration of this landscape is indeed what the exhibition Invisible Fields -Geographies of radio waves, proposes. Opened on 15th October 2011 at the Arts Santa Monica in Barcelona, it will run until the 4th March 2012. Curated by José Luis de Vicente and Honor Harger, from the digital culture agency Lighthouse (Brighton, UK), it has been realised in collaboration with the British Council, the Bureau du Québec in Barcelona / Le Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Quebec, the LABoral Centro de Arte y Creacion Industrial of Gijón and the B˜lit-Centre d'Art Contemporani of B˜lit-Girona.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 70, December 2011 / January 2012Sound

Kunstradio And Stefano Perna. A Short Guide To Becoming-bat

Pasquale Napolitano
A short guide to becoming-bat is a radio piece focusing on sounds produced by bats, some kind of FM-creatures, able to modulate a system of echoes and resonances that define a non-visual space, within which they fulfil their bodily functions. Immersed in complete darkness, bats build an undulatory space made of signals, of frequencies and amplitudes, 'a pulsating space that constantly changes, evolves, expands and contracts. Bats inhabit a radiophonic-world.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 70, December 2011 / January 2012Sound

It’s All Thanks To Capitalism. A Re-reading Of Partecipation Practices

Alessandra Saviotti
In times of economic, political and cultural crisis, with a succession of natural and man-made disasters, and real or evoked doomsday scenarios, how have we reacted? Did We take a clear position? Did We participate to violent riots or peaceful movements occupying our streets? And how did our cultural system behave?... READ MORE...
ActivismArticlesDigimag - Issue 70, December 2011 / January 2012

Notes on Realtime Tahrir. The Revolution Will Not Be Twitted

Mitra Azar
The light in Cairo is sandy and stratiform like the beige and grey nuances of its decadent buildings along each side of the wide streets, between bridges, underpasses, and railroads. The rays of sunshine penetrating the thin vapor surface bounce on the rusty air conditioners spotting the stochastic and implacable turmoil of the square, and intensify the amber nuance of the afternoon light... READ MORE...
ActivismArticlesDigimag - Issue 70, December 2011 / January 2012

Light Spectrum Glasses. Looking Beyond White Light

Thomas Schielke
Spectral glasses enable a pragmatic approach to evaluate the colour rendering of light. This technique could help architects, interior and lighting designers to analyse quickly how light reproduces colours on objects. The film by Thomas Schielke covers vivid impressions of our architectural and urban environment with a variety of light sources ranging from sunlight to modern LEDs. The images reveal a fascinating look beyond white light to search for inherent light colours.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDesignDigimag - Issue 69, November 2011

Bozar Electronic Weekend. Electtronic Music In The Heart Of Europe

Silvia Bertolotti
The heart of Europe beats at the rate of electronic music. The proof of that is Brussels, the city that hosted, on October 28th and 29th, the Bozar Electronic Weekend, one of the not-to-miss events for lovers of electronic music and experimentation applied to it. More than thirty, among digital artists, musicians, DJs and VJs, took part to it... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 69, November 2011

Intermundo & Systema Solar: Militant Sounds, Socio-cultural Projects

Lucrezia Cippitelli
In 2007 the first edition of MDE Encuentros de Medellín (the International Contemporary Art Festival of Medellín, Colombia), was opened with a band performance. A well-blended group composed by visual artists, sound experimenters, rappers and activists, who just a few months before - in 2006 - had joined their forces to work together in self-production field. This band mixes digital sounds with Afro-Colombian music tradition.... READ MORE...
ActivismArticlesDigimag - Issue 69, November 2011

None Stands For Us. The Occupation Of Teatro Valle

Marco Mancuso
The Teatro Valle Occupato has drifted away from its initial route and is now heading to Piramide. It's about 6 PM of 10/15, and this is the Twittered message you can find following ashtag #15o, the personal and global reference point of this crazy day. I just escaped from two indiscriminate charges of the security forces (I should use the word guard, as it is better suitable for their manners, but I use the official term out of politeness), which, as usual, do not know and do not care to make any distinction between peaceful and not peaceful demonstrators... READ MORE...
ActivismArticlesDigimag - Issue 69, November 2011

A.i. And Landform Studies. The Rediscovery Of The Ontological Need

Simone Broglia
The philosophical twentieth century was characterized by an explosion of science and scientific nature which highlighted an idea of progress and progression of the human thought and evolution as something which does not need further questions. The idea that functionality and applicability of a theory can be applied to praxis, which executes and finalizes such theory, comes full circle... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 69, November 2011Science

Anything I Love Goes Into My Brain. An Interview With Rafael Rozendaal

Mathias Jansson
In the year 2000, Miltos Manetas published the famous Neen Manifesto in which he describes a new unidentified generation of artists who glorifies computers, artificially simulation and who use the web as their gallery. Two years later, Manetas and Peter Lunenfeld manifested the Neen concept in a spectacular 'hijacking' of the Whitney biennals domain name... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 69, November 2011