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Arcangel Costantini, Hacking As Art And Life

Arcangel Costantini is a volcanic artist that works in Mexico City. From the last 90's his works have been oriented to the realization of projects later defined as Net Art, whose he's one of the most representive international exponent. He's now taking distances from this kind of definition, as he wants his work to have a larger and more complete collocation.... READ MORE...

Networked Nature: Nature And Electronic Art

This is Networked Nature , a collective exhibition of artists that work in a network and reflect on the importance of a definition between the human and the nature. They mix politic and commitment, new technologies and the collaborative and unanimous spirit of the Net. They are guest from the 11 th January to the 18 th February at the New Museum of Contemporary Art of New York . The show is realized by Rhizome . The artists are C5, Futurefarmers, Shih-Chieh Huang, Philip Ross, Stephen Vitiello and Gail Wight. Let's know all of them and all of their works.... READ MORE...

Interactive Pictures By Nicolas Clauss

I didn't know Nicolas Clauss until a few months ago, when I occasionally read the communicate of the Bananram Festival that announced the purchase of one of his work Scalpe for 15.000 euros. Maria Rita Silvestri , director and curator of the festival, defines the work as 'characterized by a strong European identity' and states that 'he contaminates with poetry the digital instrument'. My curiosity was already going sky-high and in less than one sec I was on his site. I there discover a complex work, educated but involving at the same time, where analogical dialogues with digital openly, creating evocative, poetic, challenging images.... READ MORE...

Arcangel Costantini, Hacking As Art And Life

Arcangel Costantini is a volcanic artist that works in Mexico City. From the last 90's his works have been oriented to the realization of projects later defined as Net Art, whose he's one of the most representive international exponent. He's now taking distances from this kind of definition, as he wants his work to have a larger and more complete collocation.... READ MORE...

Nuovi Media E Museo: Un Caso Italiano?

Dal 16 dicembre 2006 al 16 gennaio 2007, il Casoria Contemporary Art Museum ha proposto una colossale mostra itinerante progettata e curata da Agricola de Cologne e da Antonio Manfredi. Ma il piccolo e intraprendente museo napoletano non si  fermato l', accogliendo questa ampia scelta di opere - 260 opere multimediali, audio, video e fotografiche pi 100 testi di scrittura creativa e poesia visiva, per un totale di 360 artisti - nella sua collezione permanente. ... READ MORE...

Avit C23, Pixels Want To Be Trusted

The second edition of Avit C23 took place in Berlin from the 27 th to the 30 of January together with the 23 rd annual hacking conference: Computer Chaos Conference. The event, organised by the new association Visual Berlin, gathering from less than a year, video artists active locally, configured as an exchange moment between European realities (and not only) active within visual experimentation and as a confrontation with the wide computer addicted community gathered in Berlin on the occasion of the Chaos Conference... READ MORE...

Alterated States Of Perception

The show managed by Richard Castelli called Sensi Sotto Sopra have been present at the Palladium in Rome since last 20 th October and included in the 2006 program of the Romaeuropa Festival. Through interactive and immersive works, Richard offered an experimentation of perceptive modalities with whom everyone rapports to art, movies and communications means, but also underline the distortion of the relationship work-spectator triggered by the use of digital, classic theme of the mix art-technology.... READ MORE...

Debackere: Electronic Live Cinema

Rotor is a young creature that enchanted thousands of people since its born a year ago. The show treaded the boards of the most important new media festivals in the whole Europe - from the debut to V2 going through Netmage , Sonic Acts , STRP! citing some examples. The two Belgian authors of Rotor, Boris and Brecht Debackere , came back to Italy to participate at ScreenMusic, curated by Digicult .... READ MORE...