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Mike Mills: Humans Before All!

Alessandra Migani
It is not a case that one of the diamonds of this year edition, the documentary shot by the american director Mike Mills Does your soul have cold?, investigates the depression in Japan through the history of five guys recovered for the cited illness. Mills realized numerous music videos for artists such as Yoko Ono, Moby, Air, Blonde Redhead, short films and his first real movie, Thumbsucker, is from 2005.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 30, December 2007 / January 2008

Art And Activism In The Showbusiness Era

Lucrezia Cippitelli
What if the artists suddenly stops working with the traditional means of contemporaneous art ( and with the Avant-garde's expression strategies), what if he makes a review to the existing reality through the construction of a metaphorical talk representing it, so unveiling the undergoing mechanisms? What is he makes a direct intervention on reality creating situations able to change and improve it? And if he gets engaged on a political point of view?... READ MORE...
ActivismArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 30, December 2007 / January 2008

Tafkav And A Flower Called Vanda

Teresa De Feo
Communication between different entities, in an age of deep anthropologic changes, is the topic on which the complex research of TAFKAV , 'The Artist Formerly Kwon As Vanda' , develops. That is a fully Italian installation which brilliantly deals with uncertain and controversial questions that still have to be discussed, thus succeeding in giving a glimpse on digital arts' next future and more.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDesignDigimag - Issue 30, December 2007 / January 2008Science

Andrea Marutti: Italian Experimental Underground

Bertram Niessen
Digimag readers are probably bored by my long prologues on the reasons why I chose to interview someone. I'm unfortunately convinced, and I'm getting more and more into those convictions, that explaining the reasons behind articles is definitely one of the most important part of the article itself. Well, Some weeks ago I was at Torkiera in Milan (for those who missed it, Torkiera is one of the few spaces of the metropolis that is seriously promoting musical experimentation, among all its proposals). I was resonating with Marco Mancuso about potential interviews. Suddenly, I saw the table of Afe Records and I asked myself: Is it possible that we haven't interviewed Andrea Marutti yet, one of the most interesting key character of the experimental underground of the last ten years?. Yep, it is possible. So here I apology and remediate.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 30, December 2007 / January 2008

Graffiti Research Lab: Writers As Hackers As Artists

Monica Ponzini
Real and virtual spaces, cities and new media. These are the domains of confrontation of the new semantic clashes, made of massified and pre-digested messages on one hand, and free circulation, manipulation and expression of ideas on the other. The main characters are big companies, buying ads spaces to spark the consumerism at the basis of their economies, versus individuals, sometimes gathered in little independent groups, using new technologies for realising and using expressions means and the net to communicate and join in.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 30, December 2007 / January 2008

Polymorphic Intelligence: Part 2

Luigi Pagliarini
As far as we know, the human being is the most 'intelligent' organism. Their brain includes a number of fuctions so complex and sophisticated that, when the neurologist and psychologist Howard Gardner in his Frames of Mind tries to recap its structure, he comes up with seven sub-structures: Linguistic Intelligence, Logic-Mathematical Intelligence, Musical Intelligence, Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence, Spatial Intelligence, Interpersonal Intelligence and Intrapersonal Intelligence.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 30, December 2007 / January 2008

Mutamorphosis: Challenging Arts And Science

Silvia Scaravaggi
From 8th to 11th November Prague has been protagonist of the third edition of the international festival Enter3, dedicated to the relationship between art, science and new technologies, with a series of expositions, performances, panels, workshops and the Mutamorphosis symposium, meeting and exchange point between students, artists, scientists from all over the world.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 30, December 2007 / January 2008Science

Scolpire Microscopicamente Il Suono

Massimo Schiavoni
Torna SIGNAL, dal 30 novembre al 15 dicembre. La seconda edizione di un Festival senza padri ne padroni, in una terra dove niente e tutto  possibile, dove uomini e cultura mescolano l'ospitalitˆ con i venti d'oltre mare, con passioni e forze nuove provenienti da lontano; ma a Cagliari  come ritrovarsi, un ricrearsi di energia pura e creativa, libera e mai superficiale.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 30, December 2007 / January 2008