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Videosculptures / Videoplanets. Art And Science In Katja Loher’s Practice

Giulia Simi
A survey between the real and the virtual, one which inhabits the intermedia territories, is spreading across museum exhibition spaces, housing works of artists who also develop their repertoire outside the Internet. This could describe curator Elena Giulia Rossi's latest exhibition at Maxxi, Rome: NetinSpace adds to the long conversation on Net Art and its complex relationship with a museum which has housed many such works previous to archistar Zaha Hadid's fascinating exhibition.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 57, September 2010

Aaajiao’s Software. Data Matter Conversion

Robin Peckham
Xu Wenkai, who uses the name Aaajiao in most exhibition and other public contexts, was born in Xi'an in 1984 and currently resides in Shanghai. His name is widely known within both art and tech circles in China, though mostly for his efforts at organizing and sharing information rather than as an artist per se. New media artist and computer visual programmer, he created in 2003 the online sound art platform: cornersound.com and in 2006 the english version of the we-make-money-not-art blog We Need Money Not Art. Without forgetting his collaborations with the Dorkbot network and with the 3S Media Center, center for academic research in art, media and technologies.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 57, September 2010

The Poetics Of The Intangible. A Conversation With Jaume Plensa

Barbara Sansone
In 2007, during the ArtFutura festival, I witnessed a brief conference by Jaume Plensa and it was love at first sight. His art, his thinking and his way of presenting them to me seemed something able to accompany the viewer into a higher dimension, to transmit an almost mystical energy. This artist joined the small circle of my idols and so, without realizing it, I ended up convinced that he was a superhuman being who was not really living on earth like us ordinary mortals.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDesignDigimag - Issue 57, September 2010

Organic Resonances. On Ginette Laurin

Enrico Pitozzi
As one of the most relevant figures in the international scene, choreographer Ginette Laurin - founder of Canadian group O Vertigo, based in Montreal - is committed since the eighties to a radical research on movement, which she combines with an investigation on the stage mechanism both sound and chromatically-wise. Influenced by an extensive research on physicality, Laurin created a very specific language for 'writing' movement, which tends to deconstruct its features by working on dynamics of slowness and speed in the spacial organization of the scene.... READ MORE...
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Interactive Ethology. An Interview With Andre’ Goncalves

Serena Cangiano
This reflection came after a meeting with Andre Goncalves, Portuguese artist (year 1979), skilled in performance and sound, video and interactive installations. The works of Andre, presented in various festivals and in important digital culture centers in the world, have strange names and seem to be the result of experiments and natural, social or technological phenomena analysis. All made with the clever use of Do It Yourself electronics.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 57, September 2010

On Facebook Again. Public And Private Spaces

Loretta Borrelli
It has lately become common to hear the name Facebook being used as a synonym for Internet. Magazines, radio and TV broadcast news on curiosities, updates and weaknesses of the platform that has at this stage achieved a position of dominance in social networks environment. We are not anymore referring to this as to the latest technologic fashion: Facebook is now a part of the daily routine for about five-hundred million web-users all over the world, a consistent majority of whom are American-based. The online service CheckFacebook provides realtime statistics on the number of logged-in users, men/women percentage, nationality and age groups going from 13-years-olds up to 65-years-olds.... READ MORE...
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Sintomatologie Estive. Procreazioni Di Performing Dance

Massimo Schiavoni
L'estate porta con sé una 'fornitura invadente' ed un' elevata concentrazione di spettacoli dal vivo quasi imbarazzante, tanto che bisognerebbe avere quasi il dono dell'ubiquitˆ per non sentirsi incompleti ed impotenti, per non perdere il treno della contemporaneitˆ, e per avvertire ad ogni festival - da Santarcangelo a Drodesera, passando per il Festival d'Avignon ed ImPulsTanz, fino a Transito Firenze, Inteatro e Contemporanea di Prato - quella meravigliosa sintomatologia patologica inevitabile per un buongustaio ed amante della scena performativa all'avanguardia.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 57, September 2010

Humanity Of 3d. Billy Cowie’s Research

Silvia Scaravaggi
The fourth edition of Teatro a Corte International Festival, which toke place in Turin and in eight Savoy residences in Piedmont from July 8 until the 25th, presented a wide selection of contemporary and experimental productions in the fields of theatre, dance, nouveau cirque, video-dance and performance, hosting 31 groups from eight different nations. The event schedule comprehended 38 shows, 5 site specific projects and two creations commissioned for the Festival.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 57, September 2010

Habemus Data. Digital Culture And Free Information

Teresa De Feo
A close step far from the counter-reformation of the 'gag law', stirred by the fear of our politicians who are frightened of losing control on the information flow or of a excessive overexposure of privacy and details, we caught the opportunity to go back on the matter of Open Data. But what has Open data got to do with the 'problem' of interceptions and 'bugs' of public and private world?... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 56, July / August 2010

Human, Water And Environment. Between Multimedia And Sustainability

Silvia Scaravaggi
The topic of water in the multimedia, electronic and digital field is huge since the beginning of electronic art and works of art of famous artists such as Bill Viola and Fabrizio Plessi, only to mention a few. Water has been compared to the electron flow and video, exactly for its liquid and mobile nature, is par excellence the mean which is the most linked and compared to this element essence.... READ MORE...
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The Explosion Of The Arts. Sineglossa Live Performances

Massimo Schiavoni
Sineglossa is an artistic collective residing in the Marche region in Italy, comprising personalities from different disciplines but with the same intent and the same sensitivity. Created in 2006 by director Federico Bomba, the painter Luca Poncetta and performer Barbara Hall, the theatrical debut happened in 2007 with Camera Verde, to which followed in 2008 Pleura e Pneuma. In 2009 are among the companies winning the contract ETI New creativity, working on Undo and Remember me.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 56, July / August 2010

Informational Realism. Quantum Bit In The Cyber Space

Jeremy Levine
It may very well be said that information is the irreducible kernel from which everything else flows, hence the question why nature appears quantized is simply a consequence of the fact that information itself is quantized by necessity. (p.3) Anton Zeilinger, Why the Quantum? It from Bit? A Participatory Universe?, (The Global Spiral, Metanexus Online, March 25, 2002).... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 56, July / August 2010

Loop Barcelona. Transversal Video Art

Herman Mendolicchio
Once upon a time there was a peripheral artistic practice scarcely considered called video art. This could probably be the incipit of any dissertation on artistical practices tied to technology developments. As we know, the world of arts shares since ever a long common boundary with the world of technologies, but nowadays video art - though maintaining some innovative features - has departed from this frontier positioning itself among the artistic disciplines currently most demanded, valued and practiced.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 56, July / August 2010

Smart Urban Stage – The Media In The Future City. Meeting Alberto Abruzzese

Marco Mancuso
Since the past 26th of June until July the 31st, inside a 200 square meters inflatable futuristic structure at Rome's Music Parc Auditorium ( Auditorium Parco della Musica di Roma, ndt.) the smart future minds exhibition will be presented. Articulating the theme the future of the city through twelve different projects, the exhibition is guaranteed to constitute a moment of critical reflection and artistic divulging within the wider scenario of the smart urban stage, cutting-edge road show that is going to hit Zurich, Paris, Madrid and London and has already been in Berlin.... READ MORE...
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