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Tony Oursler: Round-nosed Whistiling-jack-off-dumb-fuck

Tony Oursler is one of the most internationally renowned multimedia artists, born in 1957 in New York City, where he lives and works. In the eighties he began to make short videos, and later he began to design installations where he set sound and video. Since the nineties the use of mannequins became a constant feature of his work, puppets and dolls were the stars of his installations.... READ MORE...

Voom, By Robert Wilson:the Surface Of A Myth

There is a figure which seems to stop the time, move with care along its borders, fly above it, go through it but then sit outside it. It is a man who wears only his slips and stand in front of us, fixing us. Above us the rain begins to fall. The light is steered by a blinding intense blue which looks like a chemical color lent by Klein's imagination or by the fluorescent lamp of a sleazy club.... READ MORE...

Seismographs Of Time. A Conversation With Roberto Paci Dalo’

Among the main figures of contemporary experimentation, Roberto Paci Dal˜ is a director, multimedia artist and composer/performer. He is director and creator of the Giardini Pensili group. His research develops within an area that goes from the development of radio interventions to sound installations; from the development of plays to the building of virtual stages like the Itaca project commissioned by the Teatro di Roma and directed by Mario Martone (1999-2000), passing through the development of the film that, as in the case of Petr˜leo México (2004) was presented at the Locarno International film festival... READ MORE...

Sonar, Enduring Research. Interview With Giorgia Taglietti

This is the beginning of a new season of night music in clubs. This means that the day music festivals have just come to an end. And peace, of course. At the least we must accept life cycles, at the most we may even learn to love them. Yet, although an elaboration and an analysis on the experience that is being lived are possible thanks to the prolonged times of the clubs, we cannot forget that the profound elaboration and the analysis of the festivals represent the explosion and the synthesis of it...... READ MORE...

Sommercamp + Workstation. Temporary Autonomous Culture

On the 16th of August Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin hosted the presentation of works created during the course of six days of intensive workshops within the Sommercamp Workstation project, an event conceived as a mobile laboratory for art and media, which came about from the very important experience of the ex-research centre Tesla Medialab (www.tesla-berlin.de), a project that lasted four months and was situated in various places in the heart of Berlin.... READ MORE...

Losing Yourself In The Whitetree. Lippok Brothers & Ludovico Einaudi

The first time I heard Cloudland, the first album from Whitetree, I thought about one of my friends traveling, sitting in front of a waterfall at the foot of the Himalayas, in contemplation of the height and depth of the universe. The song was Mercury sand. Whitetree is a collaboration between the Italian pianist and composer Ludovico Einaudi, and brothers Robert Lippok (software) and Ronald Lippok (drums), formerly part of German post-rock trio, To Rococo Rot, along with Stefan Schneider on bass... READ MORE...

Balint Boligo’ And The Magical Machines

Bálint Bolygó, born in 1976, of Hungarian origin but a London resident, appears to be an artist who works with science. His family history confirms this: both his parents are scientists, and Bolig˜ himself declares that this field was his initial means of inspiration for his own experiments and his own cultural growth. But when talking with Balint you realise that, despite maths, Physics and chemistry being significant reference points for the development of a personal poetical scheme, during the course of his artistic activity he does not want to create objects and sculptures that are scientifically significant, but instead wants to explore that thought-provoking space that brings art and science close together and has always made them unique and united.... READ MORE...

Architectures, Visions And Apparati Effimeri

Long gone are the times when the first Vjs entered the scene in the clubs brightening up the dance-floor. Over the last few years live video has stretched its borders merging with parallel visual and artistic disciplines to become an out-and-out communication tool that allows to range from artistic projects, mainly performances and video installations, to purely commercial projects, down to the world of advertising with creative and innovating ideas.... READ MORE...

The Sensible Scene

Alessandro Sciarroni from San Benedetto del Tronto already has a long-lasting and refined artistic history, and above all is appreciated in the European panorama of experimental theatre, and he turned out to be a sensitive interpreter of the contemporary artistic scene. This young actor and director from the Marche region, grew as an intense and impeccable actor with the Compagnia Lenz Rifrazioni from Parma, and then went back to his native region, where he conceived the idea of the Corpoceleste laboratory, and organized seminars and theatric productions. His first artistic creation, If I was your girlfriend - inspired by La Bovary c'est moi, collection of poetry by Giovanni Giudici, and Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert - was showed in the athletic track in Porto d'Ascoli, a non-conventional place and a demanding adaptation.... READ MORE...

Marina Abramovich Presents: Experiments And Tension

For about 2 weeks, between last July 3 & 19, the Manchester International Festival commissioned and produced the performance Marina Abramovic presents..., created by the Serbian artists especially for the festival. For the performance, the spaces of Whitworth Gallery in Manchester were completely emptied of all arts pieces, and put at the performance artist's disposal, event almost unique in the contemporary art's world.... READ MORE...

Our Right To Internet: Interview With Alessandro Gilioli

I would say that it was almost inevitable. To live and work in a country, as democratic as it seems, where the interdependent rapport between politics and mass media is much tighter than in any other country in the world (excluding those openly totalitarian regimes that we mentioned for example in last month's Persepolis 2.0 article, of course) and does not allow for libertarian utopias of any sort if they discuss any subject that is a fundamental part of democracy, like the freedom of the Press, the right to an opinion, the freedom of thought.... READ MORE...

E-partecipation: Paradoxes And New Ways To Discover

The Directorate of Youth and Sport of the Council of Europe organized in March 2009 a seminary reserved to young researcher, policy-makers, youth organizations and young people coming from 47 European countries. This seminary had as topic the new partecipation methods based on Information and Communication Technology (e-participation). The results were collected in a document, which can be consulted online (http://www.coe.int/t) and fitness an open structure of encounter, where all partecipants had the opportunity to live a practical experience of cooperation in an important field within the Council of Europe.... READ MORE...

Non-locality: Myths And Metaphors In Networked Art And Quantum Systems

Quantum particle systems seem to possess the ability to communicate instantaneously with each other, defying our classical understanding of space and distance. This feature of the quantum world, known as non-locality, is often used to describe the World Wide Web, and particularly interactive networked art, which seems to collapses space into mouse clicks and links. But is it really applicable?... READ MORE...