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Vinz Beschi: Media Don’t Eat Children

Silvia Scaravaggi
I casually discovered the media, digital, A/V world at school, actually during my first year of university. Before that moment, I didn't even know its meaning. I watched television, I went to cinema, I looked to music videos, I wrote emails, and I listened to music on CDs without an education about that. I never learned to understand the mechanism behind and inside the instruments I used, their history. And I didn't even know anything about their evolutions and implications for the future... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 29, November 2007

Fe/male: Il Festival Dei Nuovi Generi

Loredana Menghi
Un invito all'estasi dell'insurrezione, al desiderio del gioco, al sublime piacere dell'abbandono, perpetrato da bans, djs, filmakers, performers, case editrici, visual artists; ma anche una critica graffiante all'eterocrazia che ingabbia inclinazioni e corpo all'out .. out d'identitˆ vincolanti e prestabilite, alle discriminazione misogene e sessiste che venano di contraddizione pure lo stesso movimeto gay e lesbico.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 29, November 2007

Duprass Duo, New Audiovisual Politics

Domenico Sciajno
I had the chance to know part of the interesting work of the Israeli artists Liora Belford e Ido Govrin on the occasion of the Experimental Intermedia Festival in New York. What aroused my curiosity was their approach which, though experimental in its nature, tends to create more relaxed and less aggressive atmospheres than those of other Israeli artists I knew before.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 29, November 2007

Beijing, World Researches Politics

Gigi Ghezzi
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the China Association for Science and Technology (Cast) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) were the protagonist of Beijing meeting of 24 th -29 th September. It deserves an in-depth examination of its contiguous and symbolic meaning. It is impossible to disregard this kind of initiatives to understand how the future developing and technology geopolitical relationship will evolve.... READ MORE...
ArtArticlesDigimag - Issue 29, November 2007

Lab (au): Meta Design. Liquid Spaces And The Cities Of Tomorrow

Marco Mancuso
There are people living in cities who are careful observers of the slow changes which are taking place around them. Such people are not inclined to complaining about new telecameras controlling the access to the old town centre, about the prevailing traffic and polluted air, or the advertising billboards covering the facades of the old buildings in boulevards.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDesignDigimag - Issue 29, November 2007

The Sensitive State Of The World To The World

Alessio Chierico
Between the several Italian reality that are entering the electronic and contemporary art world, this year Perugia hosted some events that deserve particular attention. Performance, workshop, interactive environment, exhibitions, competitions, concerts, meetings, festivals: this was 'Le arti in cittˆ', that showed between its protagonists Saul Saguatti, Murcof, Giovanni Sollima and Isabella Bordoni.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 29, November 2007

The Theatre Of Electronic Surveillance

Annamaria Monteverdi
Does anyone remember Enemy of The State directed by Tony Scott and starring Will Smith and Gene Hackman? The story deals with a man targeted by closed-circuit cameras, radars, bugs, satellite indicators, high-sensitive microphones following each of his movements. This movie as many others is concerned with important issues such as control, wire-tapping, data security and satellite espionage. Among them we must mention Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation,The End of violence by the German director Wenders and The listening, shut in 2006 by the Italian director Giacomo Martelli.... READ MORE...
ActivismArticlesDigimag - Issue 29, November 2007

Steal This Film 2: Share Alike

Maresa Lippolis
n the wake of the diy-do it yourself attitude of Abbie Hoffman s book, Steal this book (1970) , in 2006 a pretended group of filmakers who gathered under the name of The league of the noble peer , produced an interesting documentary film, Steal this film , showing how the present time's pirates are causing trouble to the diffusion and production system of knowledge and information with their recreational and disenchanted habits.... READ MORE...
ActivismArticlesDigimag - Issue 29, November 2007

The Gate: Open Considerations – Part 1

Domenico Quaranta
The Gate (or Hole in Space , Reloaded ) is an installation realized for the opening exhibition of the iMAL Center for Digital Cultures and Technology in Brussels (4 th -10 th October). Come up in Yves Bernhard's mind, manager of the iMAL Center , the installation was created to handle a only apparently simple question: how to build a bridge between real space and virtual worlds. The objective in mind was the enjoyment of virtual spaces and the interaction with their inhabitants in the physical space without the interaction of a graphic interface.... READ MORE...
ArticlesDigimag - Issue 29, November 2007