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Urban Escapism – Part 1. The Thousand Lights Of Tokyo’s Streets

Mauro Arrighi
Toshio Iwai, born in Japan in 1962, has been internationally defined as a new-media artist. In the following pages, I will address one of his experiments, Sound-Lens , which he made in 2001, when he was 39. Following this piece, a couple of Japanese contemporary authors are offering a totally new point of view of Tokyo through the everyday's unseen: Iwai is one of these explorers.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 69, November 2011

Ricci/forte. A Mash-up Of Uneasiness And Perversion

Marco Mancuso
The epigraph introducing the article is taken from the cover notes of the above book, a volume containing the first publication of the Macadamia Nut Brittle text, related to the homonymous show that made its debut at the Festival Garofano Verde in Rome in 2009, inspired by Dennis Cooper, written by Ricci/Forte and directed by Stefano Ricci, which also contains an interview to the artists and a critical introduction by the author, retracing the main characteristics of the work by the Roman duo... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 69, November 2011

A New Documentation. An Interview To Joao Vasco Paiva

Robin Peckham
João Vasco Paiva (n. 1979) is a Portuguese artist based in Hong Kong since 2006. He has taught at the City University of Hong Kong School of Creative Media and Hong Kong Art School/ RMIT University. With a background in painting and advanced training in media technology, his work is characterized by the appropriation of observed phenomena, mapping apparently random situations and presenting them in an aesthetically organized framework through video, audiovisual performance, recording, and installation... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 69, November 2011

Robotic Identity. Multimedia Fashion Shows By Hussein Chalayan

Alexandra Purcaru
From July 5 to December 11, the Parisian Muse des Arts Decoratifs hosted the exhibition Récits de mode of designer Hussein Chalayan. The visitors of this exhibition don't belong to the category of female followers who follow the latest trends and haute couture and move around in groups of cutting-edge young designers sketching clothes on their Moleskin... READ MORE...
ArticlesDesignDigimag - Issue 69, November 2011

Mischer’traxler. Naturally Combined Design

Pasquale Napolitano
Katharina Mischer and Thomas Traxler (Mischer'Traxler) design and develop collections of objects and conduct experimental research into design , by adopting a conceptual approach. These two designers love experimenting, analyzing and creating in a fully autonomous way, by devising concepts, systems and views, rather than single and simple products. Their works, by becoming part of a sustainable perspective of needs, ask us to pay greater attention to ethics.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDesignDigimag - Issue 69, November 2011

Designing Complexity. Remarks About Design Modeling Symposium

Sabina Barcucci
The consequences of Information Technology for big architectural systems have to cross huge amounts of digital data with new design methodologies and revolutionary techniques of material production. The third edition of Design Modelling Symposium, held in Berlin at the Universität der Künste Berlin (UDK) from 7th to 12th October, turned into a privileged observatory of the challenge that researchers and designers from disparate fields are facing in the attempt to control these complex systems... READ MORE...
ArticlesDesignDigimag - Issue 69, November 2011

You’re Doing What? Make A Living Inventing Your Job

Zoe Romano
The (long) way heading (by subway) to the New York Science Hall, hosting the World Maker Faire in Queens, gives me time to read some free presses and resume an article of the sunday NYTimes I haven't finished yet. It's a long piece about the twilight of the US manufacturing sector, started from the 50's to nowadays [1], and about the definite takeover of China.... READ MORE...
ActivismArticlesDigimag - Issue 68, October 2011

Isea 2011 Istanbul: A Report. Art At The Crossroads

Eugenia Fratzeskou
The 17th edition of the ISEA - International Symposium on Electronic Art, the leading world conference and exhibition event for art, media and technology, took place in Istanbul from 14 to 21 September 2011. The Symposium was the outcome of the synergy that was developed between the Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the Sabanci University of Istanbul, under the direction of the ISEA2011 Istanbul Artistic Director and Conference Chair Prof. Lanfranco Aceti (Goldsmiths College, London, Sabanci University, Istanbul, LEA Editor in Chief, Kasa Gallery Director) and the Conference and Programme Director Özden Sahin (LEA Editorial Manager, Kasa Gallery Vice Director & In-house Curator).... READ MORE...
ArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 68, October 2011