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Babilonia Teatri, Society Of Spectacle

Massimo Schiavoni
Debord writes in 1967 in his masterpiece La Société du Spectacle: 'le avanguardie hanno un unico tempo e la fortuna pi grande che possono avere , nel senso pieno del termine, quella di fare il loro tempo.' Babilonia Teatri, winners of the Premio Scenario 2007 with their latest theatre performance 'Made in Italy', enter the Italian performance scene from the northeast and rightfully occupy the post-vanguard scene. This young group from Verona emerges from a concept of performance that speaks about the war in Iraq , and it conceives of a different type of theatre that looks at the contemporary.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 32, March 2008

Geert Lovink: Free Cooperations In P2p Networks

Maresa Lippolis
During the latest Video Vortex meeting organized by the Institute for Network Culture in Amsterdam at Club 11, the large networker's community met to analyze how video and other materials are shared through the net. In substance the questions that were addressed were how video and audiovisual information is used and shared through the net, how platforms like Vlog and podcast are developing and what tomorrow's television will look like in terms of clustering of information and free construction of programs with independent content.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 32, March 2008

Share Festival 2008: Manufacturing

Luca Barbeni
Cos" inizia il testo introduttivo di Vladimir Archpov, che ha pazientemente raccolto 220 invenzioni nate dall'estro di una popolazione russa colpita dalle ristrettezze economiche generate dalla fine dell'impero sovietico. Tra gli oggetti la " gabbia antivandali per lampione ', una " stufetta con lampada al quarzo ' e un " distillatore casalingo ': cosa centra tutto ci˜ con Share Festival? Manufacturing, tema della quarta edizione del festival, che si tiene a Torino dall' 11 al 16 marzo 2008,  stato scelto per due ragioni. ... READ MORE...
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Generator X 2.0, Objects That Don’t Exist (yet)

Fabio Franchino
During the presentation of GeneratorX 2.0, which took place in Berlin's DAM in collaboration with Club Transmediale 2008 and Hyperwerk, Marius Watz, the one who organized and curated the event, concluded his introductory speech inviting the audience to go and visit the generatorX exhibition, soon to open its doors. An exhibition of objects which are yet to exist.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 32, March 2008

Ken Jacobs: The Demiurgo Of The Moving Image

Alessio Galbiati
Mentre scrivo questo 'pezzo' la dodicesima edizione del Sonic Acts volge al termine e come ogni evento che si appresta alla conclusione lascia nell'animo di chi era presente, come pure di chi non c'era, l'enorme ansia della perdita che non  solo lo scivolare via d'un momento presente che si vorrebbe eterno, ma il timore dell'essersi lasciati sfuggire qualcosa da sotto il naso: un'intuizione, un momento, un bagliore irripetibile per sempre andato.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 32, March 2008

The Darwinian Composer

Luigi Pagliarini
As my activity in the theoretical and academic field often involved introductions to Polymorphic Intelligence, I have been developing a series of paradigms and examples to help the reader or the listener understand (if not feel) the deep link between psyche and the cognitive styles of individuals on one side and the simple/advanced technological functions of modern computer science on the other. Among the many models one of the most popular - probably because it manages to approach the different kinds of sensitiveness among the audience - is what I call the Darwinian Composer.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 32, March 2008

Test_lab, Live_coding

Silvia Scaravaggi
V2_Institute for the Unstable Media in Rotterdam is internationally recognized like one of the main centres for research and practice for what concerns new media art and technological and artistic experimentation. It has recourses of several events and workshops to give life to wide discussions about modern age and to propose the most interesting matters of the world creative scene.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 31, February 2008

Tonewheels: Sound Optical Synthesis

Claudia D'Alonzo
The history of cinema and of visual arts is rich with moments in which visionary directors take their work into hybrid directions where physics, science, technology and music intersect. Chromatic futurist music, the abstract animations of people like Ruttman, Eggelin and Fischinger, the many visual music experiments of the beginning of the nineteenth century can be seen as the forerunners of contemporary forms of digital audio-visual interaction.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 31, February 2008