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The Chinese Nightmare?

Lucrezia Cippitelli
The Chinese Dream is book of more than 700 pages about the urbanization in China, published by the Dutch editor NAI Publishers. This project of colossal dimensions is on the shoulders of an architect Neville Mars, and a researcher Adrian Hornsby and the Dynamic City Foundation. The disproportionate growth of the agglomerations in China is at the centre of this publication... READ MORE...
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Green Platforms, Making Ecological World

Giulia Simi
When I got into the hall of Palazzo Strozzi for the opening of 'Green Platform, the latest exhibition organized by Centro di Cultura Contemporanea di Firenze (Centre for Contemporary Culture in Florence), the cue waiting to get in was unexpectedly long. I am not used to it. Contemporary art, outside the certain circuits and without high-sounding names, can hardly attract the big crowds.... READ MORE...
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Darwin From The Microscope

Gigi Ghezzi
Darwin is turning 200 years old and we must admit that if we consider this period of time by the topicality of his scientific work, he doesn't look his age at all. Although Italy is not celebrating him except for small events (a Country with a catholic scientific freedom) there's someone like the National Research Council that with a number of Almanacco Science thought at least about mentioning the anniversary... READ MORE...
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Pathosformel fever

Massimo Schiavoni
26 January 2009. Pathosformel received the special prize UBU 2008 with the following award : 'young company aiming at an abstract and physical theatre to be pursued with an already distinct and layered sign, by which the research on material and form is the starting point to evoke a fragmented and deconstructed visionary theatricality of great charm, which exploded in the national and international scene, achieving a significant relationship between conceptual art and theatre.'... READ MORE...
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Psybody Design

Otherehto
Questo testo presenta il background teorico che ha ispirato la nascita del psybody design, un work-in-progress formulato per la prima volta all'inizio del 2008. Psybody design verrˆ presentato pubblicamente a novembre 2009 alle conferenze Multiple Ways to Design Research (Lugano, CH) e Consciousness Reframed X - Experiencing Design, behaving media (Monaco di Baviera, D)... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 43, April 2009

In Video Collaboration

Giulia Baldi
Towards the end of the '90s, long before the whole world found out about web 2.0, social networking and co-creation online, Furthernoise/Furtherfield, a collective of activists and radical artists that was founded in the UK by Marc Garret and Ruth Catlow, focused their activity on concepts such as horizontal collaboration, sharing, involvement, openness, co-creation. In short they were turning the culture of individualism and D.I.Y. (do it yourself) into a culture of community and D.I.W.O. (do it with others), and artistic collaboration from contextual into relational.... READ MORE...
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Exploding Cave

Marco Mancuso
With a double reference both to the existentialist caves of 1950's Milan and the experimentation of Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable, Exploding Cave is a 2-days event that will be held in Milan on April 17 and 18, in the spaces of Cox18, structured in a series of meetings, workshops and performances that investigate the relationship and the least common denominator that ties cinema, sound, video and digital arts... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 43, April 2009

Alain Thibault: Elektra From Past To The Future

Marco Mancuso
Hereafter we will carry on an approach analysis on Elektra 2009, with the tenth edition of the festival of the Audiovisual Art research and the New Media Art, which is the most interesting and complete in the entire North American territory. And in general one of the finest on the international scene, as well as one of the most appreciated by the artists. This should never be underestimated, in my opinion.... READ MORE...
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Material Hybridization

Motor
The important progresses made by the science of materials in the last decades, have offered to the artifacts' projecting new and unusual opportunities to interpret the traditional concepts of materials' family, characteristics and sphere of application that in the past were typical of the materials selection for designers, architects and artists.... READ MORE...
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The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button

Marco Riciputi
They ask me what does Benjamin Button have to do with the Future Film Festival, what a question!' bursts out Oscar Cosulich, the art director of the kermes which presents the Italian Premiere of the film of David Fincher. Justifiably disappointed, because the special effects' always make you think of something heavily-noisy like travel to the centre of the earth' or King Kong, 20 meters tall'. - Young as in Kalifornia.... READ MORE...
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Esther Manas & Arash Moori: Sound & Sculpture

Marco Mancuso
Last month Digimag devoted a section to Domenico Quaranta, curator of one of the two parts of the section Expanded Box at Arco Madrid 2009. Among the very heterogeneous works on show, encompassing different languages and media, one in particular represents in my opinion one of the exhibition's highlights: the work Every Man and Woman is a Star, by the two artists Esther Manas and Arash Moori... READ MORE...
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Giacomo Verde: Action Beyond Representation

Clemente Pestelli
Many people will already know Giacomo Verde's name and activity: a video maker, performer and, as he likes to define himself, techno artist. For those who do not know Giacomo's work, perhaps it's sufficient to say that he represents one of the ideal bridges between the first pioneer season of video and multimedia experimentation in Italy and the current experimental phase.... READ MORE...
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Marc Didou: Resonances

Silvia Casini
Marble, bronze and wood coexist with reflected images: what firstly appears as an abstract monolith, sudden reveals another face thanks to concave or convex mirrors. Marc Didou's original way of assembling the ancient art of anamorphosis with a cutting edge medical imaging technique is constitutes a remarkable encounter between art and science, where Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), set free from the scientific laboratori, is made available to the public as sculptures to interact with... READ MORE...
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