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Live Architecture Network. The Net As A Design Project

Sabina Barcucci
The parametric or associative design is based on the use of integrated systems of CAD/CAM (Computer-Aided Design/Computer-Aided Manufacturing) which allow a direct dialogue between the machine that models and the machine that makes the constructive elements and assembly pieces, generating a new process of ideation/production. The traditional relationships between the actors of this process change: every project can be planned out in an super-customized way and the variables which can be immense enlarge exponentially... READ MORE...
ArticlesDesignDigimag - Issue 56, July / August 2010

Landscape And Interaction. Matteo Pennese, The Sound Within Space

Simone Broglia
Systems of interaction between acoustic and electronic music are the base on which the Twentieth century's musical performance developed and grew. It is possible to find live electronic, namely performative, tracks, since the very beginning of experimental-contemporary music. In some cases even some of the very early works of electronic music, as Maderna's Musica su due dimensioni (Music on two dimensions, 1958), are filed among the so-called live-electronic compositions, marking by using this term the performance aspect that used to conciliate the writing for an acoustic instrument with the magnetic tape during the live execution.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDesignDigimag - Issue 56, July / August 2010

Brandon Labelle. Where Do Sounds Come From And Where Do They Go?

Elena Biserna
Where do sounds come from and where do they go? From this fundamental and central question different paths branch out that make up Acoustic Territories. Sound Culture and Everyday Life, the new book by Brandon LaBelle - artist, theorist and editor who, through a particularly coherent research, has constantly devoted himself to the exploration of sound and audio culture from multiple points of view and different levels, giving birth to a large body of work, tests and projects.... READ MORE...
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The Silences Of Biosphere. Neo Baroque And Aware Intimacy

Pasquale Napolitano
Geir Jenssen, also known as Biosphere, is one of the most important figures in the field of contemporary electronic composition. Norwegian origins, from Tromsø, a town immersed in icy silence, 500 miles away from the Arctic Circle. Atypical personality, friendly and quiet, he always prefers to communicate through sound, like the sound of his records, of the many installations he designed in the last years, even of the performances.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 56, July / August 2010

Gmaybe: Be Free, Be Public! What Future For Privacy?

Loretta Borrelli
You may have happened to witness the presentation of a new online service. Two young men wearing a t-shirt with the Gmaybe? logo show the exciting benefits of the new frontier of social networks. All the rhetorical promises related to technology are there: they tend to fall into four main categories: democracy, freedom, efficiency and progress. Democracy looks like what everyone will enjoy using the new technologies, thus increasing its own influence on the social environment [...] Freedom is usually presented as the absence of socially restrictive elements (Critical Art Ensemble, The Molecular Invasion. Biotech theory and practices of resistance, Eleuthera, Milano, 2006, pp38-39).... READ MORE...
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Technesexual Interface. Erotic Mixed Reality Performance

Micha Cardenas
Biometric sensors, made cheaply available by do-it-yourself (DIY) prototyping platforms such as Arduino, allow a shift away from visual interfaces to proprioceptive interfaces, away from the touch of a finger and towards a more internal, embodied form of sensing. One possible effect of this shift is away from the command-control methodology which was a historical basis for cybernetics, and towards a form of modulation and cooperation akin to intersubjectivity.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 56, July / August 2010Science

Athanasius Kircher. Arca Musarithmica And Many Sound Devices

Claudia Maina
Researching possible origins and theoretical roots of Sound Sculpture and Sound Art it isn't rare to get to face the oeuvre of Jesuit priest Athanasius Kircher, an intriguing character who has been a point of reference for the work of many artists. We will here attempt to get closer to his poetics and understand which are the elements in his research that foremost might have influenced aforementioned fields.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 55, June 2010ScienceSound

Fair Trade Social Networks. Solidariety As Key Factor

Gigi Ghezzi
Renewed discovery of forgotten knowledge, sharing and deepening of hobbies, new friends and relationships, exhibitionism, amusements, etc. The list of private ways to use social networks, and of course the social networks themselves, is constantly widening. There are many cases in which the profiles are refearable to collective or professional activities based above all on promotion functions, engagement and widening of someone's personal image on the web, or rather strengthening and personalizing the relationship with customers (see for example the philosophy of social media - described in the International corporate for safety Northrop Grumman).... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 55, June 2010

The Imal Centre. Culture & Techno In The Heart Of Europe

Silvia Bertolotti
IMAL is an association created in 1999. From 2007 IMAL (Interactive Media Art Laboratory) has inaugurated its' new Center for digital and technological culture; a space that reaches 600 mq situated in what used to be an industrial shed in the heart of Brussels, becoming a place of encounter between artistic, scientific and industrial experimentation. A space, dedicated to research, digital culture and new media.... READ MORE...
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When Archive Becomes Art. Megaloop: Thirty Years Of Tam

Annamaria Monteverdi
The Tam Teatromusica, the well-known theatrical and video-theatre Italian company, has reached thirty years of artistic activity and celebrates this achievement with a truly memorable retrospective exhibition in Padua. It was 1980 when Michael Sambin, Pierangela Allegro and Laurent Dupont combined their expertise in the field of performing arts, music and experimental video art and gave life to the company, based in Padova.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 55, June 2010

Chora Platonica And Digital Matrix

Eugenia Fratzeskou
As can be seen in Plato's Timaeus, space plays a significant role in cosmology. Alongside Models/Ideals and their imitations, Plato uses Χώρα (Chôra), that is, an invisible and formless receptacle... of all becoming' where Forms are materialised, in a sense close to space (1). Despite the hermeneutic difficulties in fully defining it, Chora has set the foundations of the concept of spatiality, place and placing, while the influence of Plato's cosmology is evident even in contemporary science.... READ MORE...
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Sonarcinema 2010. Music For Eyes And Brains

Giulia Baldi
For those like us (Italians, if you were wondering) who come from places where national TV programs are superficial and squalid, and completely detached from both our real and our imaginary worlds, one of the most interesting experiences at Sonar Festival is offered by the chance to discover quality music videos and documentaries. No way the proposal can be exhaustive, of course, but it is definitely the result of a careful selection.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 55, June 2010

Lookat Festival. Between Interactivity And Contemplation

Giulia Simi
It is more and more evident that contemporary culture and art are able to communicate to a public which goes beyond the simple niche of professionals. It is also difficult to ignore the fact that the new media offer a great contribution to this phenomenon. Lastly, it is a matter of fact that the vernissages of exhibitions, events and theme festivals are more and more crowded. However, when this happens in small towns, often accused to be unable to satisfy the requests and practices of electronic and digital art, it means that the 'long queue' has already created a positive effect which is impossible to ignore.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 55, June 2010

Radiography Of The Matter. Herman Kolgen And The Sound Perception

Enrico Pitozzi
Among the interesting figures of the artistic panorama, Herman Kolgen lives in Montreal (Quebec, Canada). Audiokinetic sculptor, he works starting from the relationship between sound and image creating, from their divergence, works presented as installations, performances, sound sculptures, videos and cinematographic works - for example Silent Room (2005), film, installation and live performance created with the collaboration of the video artist and photographer Dominique [t] Skoltz with whom he founded in 1996 the multi-discipline cell Skoltz_Kolgen (followed by DigiMag several times in the past).... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 55, June 2010

Vjing For Lights And Colors. The Sketch Projector Of Shantell Martin

Silvia Bianchi
Shantell Martin is an illustrator and an English Vj who has fused the latest technology and traditional media in a new and unique style through which she creates performances using her drawings. She began her journey as a traditional illustrator, until she discovered that she could draw with the graphic tablet and project what she was doing during concerts, happening and performances... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 55, June 2010